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(Some Neutral Party) Interesting Fifty years ago today, the Beatles auditioned for Decca Records--and were turned down. Flame on   (rockabillynblues.blogspot.com) divider line 82
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TravisBickle62
2012-01-01 01:19:34 PM
It was the farking haircuts
 
elffster [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 01:20:03 PM
TravisBickle62: It was the farking haircuts

You talkin' to me?
 
Maxor
2012-01-01 01:21:46 PM
Good on decca why couldn't the rest of the baby boomers shown this sort of good taste in music.
 
shokokuphoenix
2012-01-01 01:21:49 PM
This has to be up there with Netflix/the hiring of Paul Christoforo as worst business decision ever.
 
RandomExcess
2012-01-01 01:25:11 PM
Decca could always spot talent.
 
Fissile
2012-01-01 01:25:26 PM
I like the Rolling Stones better. Ugly, raw, and authentic.....just like me.
 
Kraftwerk Orange
2012-01-01 01:26:39 PM
28.media.tumblr.com
 
BalugaJoe
2012-01-01 01:27:01 PM
Better than Jesus.
 
Bob16
2012-01-01 01:29:33 PM
A lot of the Beatles early tunes were pretty mediocre. They didn't get good until Revolver which was after Dylan turned them on to pot and told them to write something a little bit deeper than "I wanna hold your hand".
 
Leishu
2012-01-01 01:29:45 PM
They obviously didn't have the Best drummer for the job at the time.
 
flagship
2012-01-01 01:32:13 PM
Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!
 
Bob16
2012-01-01 01:33:02 PM
Who was it that didn't turn down Bieber.

That farker should be beat to death with a wet noodle.
 
SaintOfKillers
2012-01-01 01:34:14 PM
flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

I must've missed it, who snubbed Jim Morrison?
 
Bob16
2012-01-01 01:35:12 PM
flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

I'll admit they were somewhat over rated. But most over rated ? Not even close.

Those guys wrote some great tunes.
 
WGJ
2012-01-01 01:35:13 PM
I wonder what became of the exec who thought guitar bands were on the way out.
 
bdub77 [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 01:36:38 PM
Let it be, people. Decca tried to sign them but something was missing. They said, we can work it out, but the Beatles wanted more money, and money can't buy you love. They couldn't come together on the deal, and it was one of those hello goodbye types of results. This was very typical in the rock scene of yesterday. Bands would play eight days a week but couldn't even get a ticket to ride the long and winding road of stardom.

Here comes the sun, I should probably get some sleep now. Carry on.
 
velvet_fog
2012-01-01 01:36:51 PM
They'll never make it.
 
sweet-daddy-2
2012-01-01 01:36:54 PM
Fissile: I like the Rolling Stones better. Ugly, raw, and authentic.....just like me.

For the record.
 
Bob16
2012-01-01 01:36:59 PM
WGJ: I wonder what became of the exec who thought guitar bands were on the way out.

Probably ended up in the Bush admin where he was consistently promoted.
 
SaintOfKillers
2012-01-01 01:38:28 PM
Bob16: Who was it that didn't turn down Bieber.

That farker should be beat to death with a wet noodle.

www.tshirthell.com
hooootlinked.
 
tb tibbles
2012-01-01 01:43:30 PM
The Beatles lost Decca and got EMI's George Martin,a producer who really knew how to work with them and credited to contributing to their success.

Sometimes you are lucky in who turns you down.
 
martid4 [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 01:43:49 PM
One of the Decca execs:
4.bp.blogspot.com
 
sweet-daddy-2
2012-01-01 01:44:53 PM
I was 17 when they hit the U.S. Thought they were the dumbest and goofiest sounding,looking band of all time. Like me,they matured and became cool and revelant and I still love their music.
( though now I listen more to Luther Allison,Buddy Guy,Susan Tedeschi )
 
The Southern Dandy
2012-01-01 01:48:49 PM
Fissile: I like the Rolling Stones better. Ugly, raw, and authentic.....just like me.

Authentic? You talking about the Rolling Stones? The band that got famous on covers, and didn't even chart with their own song until 1965?
 
portnoyd
2012-01-01 01:48:59 PM
Good god, that site is farking horrendous. It's like you spilled toxic waste on the most poorly designed myspace page and it let it fester for 5 years.
 
The_Philosopher_King
2012-01-01 01:49:43 PM
i88.photobucket.com

Feels Decca's pain
 
davynelson
2012-01-01 01:49:43 PM
to be fair, their early songs were kinda generic crap
more or less
 
imprimere
2012-01-01 01:50:18 PM
flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

Not, sure if you're snarking out, but THIS. I've never understood the fascination with the Beatles. I've heard all about how they revolutionized the minutiae of recording and blah, blah, blah. I've never found their songs compelling and found their personalities downright repulsive. Though, I must say that I truly loved Ringo in Caveman! Now, that movie had the best music number of all time!!!
 
LordXenu
2012-01-01 01:51:55 PM
I tried to use the bathroom at a Beetles concert, but there was no John.

/yep, it's an oldie

//still makes me laugh

///fark the beetles
 
coderitr
2012-01-01 01:55:32 PM
bdub77: Let it be, people. Decca tried to sign them but something was missing. They said, we can work it out, but the Beatles wanted more money, and money can't buy you love. They couldn't come together on the deal, and it was one of those hello goodbye types of results. This was very typical in the rock scene of yesterday. Bands would play eight days a week but couldn't even get a ticket to ride the long and winding road of stardom.

Here comes the sun, I should probably get some sleep now. Carry on.

I hate the Beatles (not trolling, I really do think they're vastly overrated) and that was like shooting fish in a barrel with a yellow submarine
 
mjbok
2012-01-01 01:55:56 PM
The Beatles early stuff (where they became popular) was/is bubblegum crap, no better than a Backstreet Boys or N'Sync. There later stuff was good, but their "good" stuff is not what brought them to the forefront.
 
skinink
2012-01-01 01:58:53 PM
Subby wants a flame war over the BEATLES?!?!?
 
Clint_Torres
2012-01-01 02:00:13 PM
If only other labels had done the same.
 
The Southern Dandy
2012-01-01 02:00:59 PM
mjbok: The Beatles early stuff (where they became popular) was/is bubblegum crap, no better than a Backstreet Boys or N'Sync. There later stuff was good, but their "good" stuff is not what brought them to the forefront.

That's what made them so great. They could write great pop tunes....nobody was writing their own tunes back then...and the grew into writing masterpieces like Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road and the White Album.
 
Englebert Slaptyback
2012-01-01 02:02:53 PM

WGJ

I wonder what became of the exec who thought guitar bands were on the way out.


He's probably dead now.
 
imprimere
2012-01-01 02:03:11 PM
skinink: Subby wants a flame war over the BEATLES?!?!?

Yeah, I can say they suck and you can say they're great, but I hardly see that turning into me asking for your address so that I can pound you into your lawn with my superior LP collection.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2012-01-01 02:04:21 PM
The Beatles were amateurs.

Now The Monkees, they had talent.
 
the_chief
2012-01-01 02:08:19 PM
Your favorite band sucks.
 
Fissile
2012-01-01 02:10:25 PM
The Southern Dandy: Fissile: I like the Rolling Stones better. Ugly, raw, and authentic.....just like me.

Authentic? You talking about the Rolling Stones? The band that got famous on covers, and didn't even chart with their own song until 1965?

============

Keith Richards........by himself, after a week long heroin binge....could kick the crap out of all the Beatles put together.
 
djh0101010
2012-01-01 02:11:52 PM
Bob16: A lot of the Beatles early tunes were pretty mediocre. They didn't get good until Revolver which was after Dylan turned them on to pot and told them to write something a little bit deeper than "I wanna hold your hand".

The Decca Audition tapes are easy to find on bootlegs, and, I suppose, now on teh intarwebs. It was a pretty good performance, even Pete Best's drumming wasn't distractingly bad. But, hey, Decca signed The Tremeloes instead, so, they got their own superstars out of the deal.
 
rjakobi
2012-01-01 02:13:05 PM
WGJ: I wonder what became of the exec who thought guitar bands were on the way out.

Apparently he ended up killing his landlord's wife with a shotgun then turned it on himself.

No...wait, that was Joe Meek.
 
letrole
2012-01-01 02:13:54 PM
tb tibbles: The Beatles lost Decca and got EMI's George Martin,a producer who really knew how to work with them and credited to contributing to their success actually compose the majority of the music that is credited to Lennon-McCartney.

FTFY
 
Evilsmurf
2012-01-01 02:17:11 PM
flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

Wait, someone snubbed The Grateful Dead? Must have missed it.

/What's the reaction of every Grateful Dead fan after quitting dope? Damn, this music sucks!
 
Some Bass Playing Guy [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 02:18:00 PM
letrole: tb tibbles: The Beatles lost Decca and got EMI's George Martin,a producer who really knew how to work with them and credited to contributing to their success actually compose the majority of the music that is credited to Lennon-McCartney.

FTFY

Were you born a cluess dick or did your mom drop you on your head?
 
Roquefort
2012-01-01 02:19:00 PM
imprimere: imprimere: flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

Not, sure if you're snarking out, but THIS. I've never understood the fascination with the Beatles. I've heard all about how they revolutionized the minutiae of recording and blah, blah, blah. I've never found their songs compelling and found their personalities downright repulsive. Though, I must say that I truly loved Ringo in Caveman! Now, that movie had the best music number of all time!!!

Caveman

You're right, that is genius! (new window) Especially old-man-as-percussion-instrument.
 
Nightmaretony
2012-01-01 02:20:22 PM
bdub77: Let it be, people. Decca tried to sign them but something was missing. They said, we can work it out, but the Beatles wanted more money, and money can't buy you love. They couldn't come together on the deal, and it was one of those hello goodbye types of results. This was very typical in the rock scene of yesterday. Bands would play eight days a week but couldn't even get a ticket to ride the long and winding road of stardom.

Here comes the sun, I should probably get some sleep now. Carry on.

you have channeled StopArrestingMe beautifully. Bravo!
 
Madbassist1 [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 02:21:08 PM
Fissile: The Southern Dandy: Fissile: I like the Rolling Stones better. Ugly, raw, and authentic.....just like me.

Authentic? You talking about the Rolling Stones? The band that got famous on covers, and didn't even chart with their own song until 1965?

============

Keith Richards........by himself, after a week long heroin binge....could kick the crap out of all the Beatles put together.

Keith Richards? NOW you're talking overrated!
 
imprimere
2012-01-01 02:22:33 PM
imprimere: skinink: Subby wants a flame war over the BEATLES?!?!?

Yeah, I can say they suck and you can say they're great, but I hardly see that turning into me asking for your address so that I can pound you into your lawn with my superior LP collection.


Some Bass Playing Guy: letrole: tb tibbles: The Beatles lost Decca and got EMI's George Martin,a producer who really knew how to work with them and credited to contributing to their success actually compose the majority of the music that is credited to Lennon-McCartney.

FTFY

Were you born a cluess dick or did your mom drop you on your head?


Whoops, I spoke too soon. Guess there are some people wound too tightly on FARK. Who knew?
 
imprimere
2012-01-01 02:28:21 PM
Roquefort: imprimere: imprimere: flagship: Someone snubbed the most overrated musical act of all time? For shame!

Not, sure if you're snarking out, but THIS. I've never understood the fascination with the Beatles. I've heard all about how they revolutionized the minutiae of recording and blah, blah, blah. I've never found their songs compelling and found their personalities downright repulsive. Though, I must say that I truly loved Ringo in Caveman! Now, that movie had the best music number of all time!!!

Caveman

You're right, that is genius! (new window) Especially old-man-as-percussion-instrument.

Thank you. I watched it again and it still makes me laugh. I wonder why fire never caught on as an instrument.
 
Curious [TotalFark]
2012-01-01 02:28:47 PM
djh0101010: The Decca Audition tapes are easy to find on bootlegs, and, I suppose, now on teh intarwebs. It was a pretty good performance, even Pete Best's drumming wasn't distractingly bad.

the cover of "Searchin" was god awful and the rest were ok for house bands. based on those it's not surprising Decca turned them down.
 
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