Tasty lyrics. Forgot these, though.
I want a perfect baguette
I want a perfect roll
The Conversation Between Decca Records A&R Man Dick Rowe, And Beatles’ Manager Brian Epstein A Few Weeks After The Beatles Auditioned For Decca Records On January 1, 1962 :
Dick Rowe : “We want to thank you for having your boys audition for us, Mr. Epstein. To start with, we consider you and your Record shop in Liverpool a valued customer to our label, especially with the records you sell. As far as The Beatles are concerned though, not to mince words we don’t like your boys sound. Guitar groups, are on their way out. They have no future in show business. For one, it’s a proven fact that artists should not write their own music, a songwriter should, and the artist should record the song. We have also just spent twelve days in America. Not one song on charts is from a guitar group. Plus we have decided a local group instead who play guitars when we need them called “Brian Poole and the Tremeloes” will be under contract. They live close by here in London, not over 200 miles away like your boys. So there is no reason to have a second guitar band under contract.”
Brian Epstein : “I brought along a copy of Mersey Beat Magazine. It shows how popular The Beatles have become in Liverpool. All due respect, you must be out of your mind! The Beatles are going to explode. You mark my words, one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley.”
Dick Rowe : I believe we are the experts here, Mr. Epstein. You have a nice record business in Liverpool. Don’t invest any more money in this losing battle. Stick to running your record shop.
Brian Epstein : You’ll live to regret this decision. Thank you for allowing my group to audition for your label. Have a good day."
Impressed with Brian Epstein, especially his enthusiasm about his group, also most likely finding a way to get Brian off his back, Dick Rowe did give Brian the option of having former Shadows drummer Tony Meehan produce the Beatles at Decca if the Beatles manager agreed to cover the expenses of about £100, worth about $1500-$2000 in 2023 .
On February 7, 1962 Brian Epstein met Meehan who came across as a young, cocky producer. Meehan expressed condescending comments about the Beatles’ audition with the meeting not going very well and Epstein not impressed with Meehan. Brian Epstein rejected the Decca offer, because of Meehan, and the fact that he felt it was an insult to have to pay that sum of money to record.
If Decca had no faith in The Beatles, Brian wanted nothing to do with them. So yes, Decca Records did reject The Beatles. But Brian Epstein also rejected Decca.
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Those guys knew how to party.
I have nothing to add other than how much I love this thread. I always end up in (happy) tears, so thank you all!
I don’t really get the custom Epiphone LP’s. For the cost of one, you could just spend a few hundred more and get a Gibson Studio LP.
I had a 60’s Tribute Epiphone LP (made within the last 10 years or so), and I’d argue that it was as good as if not better than most American-made Gibson LPs from the same period . QC was really bad, at least for a while, not sure where things stand now. But “Epiphone quality being better than Gibson quality” is not a unique phenomenon. Of course, it didn’t say “Gibson” on the headstock.
My LP is a cheapy Epiphone Standard model made and bought in 1998 (I think I paid $450 for it brand new) and I don’t have a single complaint. The poor girl sat in a case in the basement for almost 20 years and she sounds great still, with no electronic, fret or truss rod issues. For the $1300 though, I’d just save a little longer and get that nice purple Gibson version is all I’m saying.
Totally agree with you @faydout. I’m not an Epiphone fan at all. (that said, the LP Custom on the picture I posted is a Gibson and not an Epi)
That’s true but it’s way better now, since around 2018. A lot of current Gibson’s are really good. But it’s definitly true that Gibson had almost 20 years of really bad QC, since the beginning of the 2000’s. That’s why 90’s Gibson are so expensive now. But the current production is back to a really good level since a few years.
Moonic strikes again 
