Good job Mang! With this new Almost Beatles thing I am starting to get immersed in I am getting beatleized all over again...and remembering how much they influenced me originally.
I was 10 in 1963 when they were sweeping the U.S. I had an 18 year old sister who was a Beatlemaniac... Her room was plastered with pictures of the Beatles,, cya Jan and Dean her previous plastering of fandom pictures
I was still not warming to these long haired weirdos... Joe Guzallo down the street decided to put on a local concert on the side of his house. He and a few of his friend put mops on their heads and brooms as guitars and lip synced she loves you yeah yeah yeah and twist and shout...I remember the fun the excitement of all the kids of the neighborhood watching these silly cats.... It only took a few more years and the Monkees and I was a Beatle fan.... Incredible the catalog they put together...and the Nagra tapes Holy shit that is a lot of diddling and fiddling around 150 hours of it...