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12-05-2005, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NJ | | | Where were you 25 yrs ago today ?
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Where were you and what were you doing when you got the news. Unfortunately, today is the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's murder. It's a day/night I'll never forget.
I was playing in the 1st of a 3 band show at the Fountain Casino in NJ. It was my Southern Rock cover band, Zebra, & Twisted Sister. We had done our set and were listening to Zebra, when all of a sudden the PA went silent and the club DJ came over the house system and announced the news report. The show did go on, but there was a strange eery mood the rest of the night. Nobody enjoyed themselves after that. It still sends chills up my spine when I think about it.
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12-05-2005, 08:31 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | Actually it was the 8th wasn't it?
... and I was a 12 year old bass playing Beatles Fan. I didn't hear till the next day... and don't really remember any details other than my Mother and Aunt cried a lot that Holiday season  |
12-05-2005, 08:32 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | About three months from my parents makin' me.
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12-05-2005, 08:34 AM
|  | Looking like a born-again. Living like a heretic. Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: California | | | I was 9 years old and living in the UK at the time (Leeds).
I didn't know who John Lennon was at the time, but I felt the weirdest vibe in the air. The radio stations were playing Instant Karma NONSTOP.
In school, the british kids couldn't believe I didn't know who John Lennon was. Well, the two or three who gave others a hard time for anything. Hey, I was 9 and from Brazil, what did they expect?
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12-05-2005, 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by James Hart Actually it was the 8th wasn't it?
... and I was a 12 year old bass playing Beatles Fan. I didn't hear till the next day... and don't really remember any details other than my Mother and Aunt cried a lot that Holiday season | You may be right. They were just talking about it on the Stern show, today being the anniversary. I think Dimebag's was last year on the 8th. I'll still rmember what/where I was when I heard of it though. What a waste, on both accounts.
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12-05-2005, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Avondale Estates, GA, USA | | | Lennon's murder was 25 years ago this Thursday, December 8th.
I was in eighth grade. My homeroom teacher was a real cool guy, a former biker and big rock-n-roll fan, and I remember him being shellshocked when he walked in the morning after the shooting.
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12-05-2005, 08:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | I was in 9th grade. Didn't like Lennon or the Beatles really. |
12-05-2005, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hornell, NY | | | I was a Junior in HS and was probably doing my homework.
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12-05-2005, 09:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Fern Park, Florida | | | I was three..
..or as I would have put it back then, three dollars.. |
12-05-2005, 09:17 AM
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12-05-2005, 11:18 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | I was enjoying my vacation time after successfully finishing my 8th grade. A big picture of John Lennon appeared in all the newspapers. I knew the Beatles because one of my uncles had a copy of the American version of "A Hard Day's Night" and I loved that record when I was a kid, but that was my only knowledge about The Beatles at the time, aside from a Spanish-sung version of "Yellow Submarine" and the recent McCartney hit "Coming Up" from "McCartney II" (BTW, that tune really made me jump from my seat every time I heard it and still like it. I don't know why it seems to be so obscure nowadays). John Lennon's death coverage was what got me really interested on The Beatles. My first purchases were the "1962-1966" and "1967-1970" compilations and after that I became a true Beatles fan. |
12-05-2005, 12:17 PM
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12-05-2005, 03:27 PM
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12-05-2005, 03:38 PM
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12-05-2005, 03:44 PM
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I was at home watching Monday Night Football on TV when Howard Cosell started mentioning something about "an unspeakable tragedy." Knowing his flair for the dramatic I wondered, "oh, what is it, Howard? Toupée World is closing?" Then he said that John Lennon was shot in front of his New York apartment and was dead on arrival at the hospital. I was incredibly saddened and dumbstruck at that news. Why? Who the hell would kill John Lennon, I wondered? |
12-05-2005, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Brampton, Ontario | | | I was just wondering, on the official John Lennon site, it says that he was murdered on the 8th, not the 5th. Either or, he should be commemorated, because he was such an amazing musician. |
12-05-2005, 04:06 PM
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12-05-2005, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by FreeSpirit he was murdered on the 8th, not the 5th. | I think the confussion is the fact that it was Monday, Dec 8th 1980
today is the Monday it happened... it just fell on the 5th this year. |
12-05-2005, 04:38 PM
|  | Knowledge is Good - Emile Faber | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA | | | I was a junior in high school. I wasn't much of a Beatles fan back then, but if you had told me that Geddy Lee died under similar circumstances I would have cried like a baby.
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12-05-2005, 04:39 PM
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