Haji
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O'Brien's Law: Murphy was an optimist. I miss one day of reading posts, and I come back to near 180of them. I have time to keep up, and nobody posts for over an hour. LOL!
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Thunderbird Club
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Been catching up on some reading around The Beatles after watching the Ron Howard doco - Eight Days a Week - last night.
I enjoyed that movie, I'm now on a bit of a Beatles trip ATM. Just listened to (over the last few weeks) Sgt Peppers, white Album, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, plus both compilations 1962-1966 & 1967-1970. Just about to dig out Anthology 1.
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I was chatting with one of the owners at Music Central (Hopkinsville. Ky) today, who mentioned he had seen Paul McCartney recently in Nashville. He said Paul was fantastic and played near 3 hours. I'm not a fan, but I can respect the heck out of a guy that can play that long, especially since he was born during WW II.
Especially since they played 25-30min sets in the old days.
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Highly overrated boy band.
McCartney was super pissed when the Beatles had to go on before the Kinks at the NME Poll Winners show in '65 and refused to acknowledge the teen upstarts...maybe because they referred to him as Pull MaCockoff.
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Ha! I am a Beatles dissenter in that I think that Revolver was the pinnacle of their art.
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...I think it was Rain b/w Paperback Writer
I'm a Rubber Soul advocate, and agreed about Rain.
Penny Lane, however, is one of my favorite bass sounds ever. There's your Rickie...
Penny Lane, however, is one of my favorite bass sounds ever. There's your Rickie...
Being a child of the 70's, I always connect with Paul's Wings days and not so much with the Beatles. I'm not sure if the boy band stuff was just for yucks, Carlo, but I say that all the time. The first super commercial boy band out of England. 
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I never quite connected with the Beatles...........
Thank God for Slade!
Thank God for Slade!
Never liked Sgt Peppers as a teen/20'er.
My fave was a cheap compilation album called "Rock n Roll Music" which was basically all their early covers.
As a 1962 baby I missed their heyday except for that Beatles Cartoon series that I used to watch. It's only recently I learnt that wasn't Ringo's real laugh, 'a hehe-yeahhh' . Bit disappointed really.
Re a boy band. My teenage daughter informs me that 5SOS are not a boyband because they play their instruments.
I recently heard a Ringo interview about their popularity and how lucky they were. John appealed to the intellectual girls, George to the Mums, Paul to the teens and Ringo to the children and Grandmothers. See - the whole market covered.
My fave was a cheap compilation album called "Rock n Roll Music" which was basically all their early covers.
As a 1962 baby I missed their heyday except for that Beatles Cartoon series that I used to watch. It's only recently I learnt that wasn't Ringo's real laugh, 'a hehe-yeahhh' . Bit disappointed really.
Re a boy band. My teenage daughter informs me that 5SOS are not a boyband because they play their instruments.
I recently heard a Ringo interview about their popularity and how lucky they were. John appealed to the intellectual girls, George to the Mums, Paul to the teens and Ringo to the children and Grandmothers. See - the whole market covered.
Same here. I still groan when bands I am in want to do Beatles songs and then I do them because I know resistance is futile.
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I think the Fab Four peaked in the '65 '66 time frame with the Rubber Soul and Revolver albums. By '67 they started going down a whimsical path with Sgt Pepper followed with Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine and the White Album. I think they kinda tried to revive their prime time with Abby Road and if they could have stayed together and stayed on that path it would have been cool. But I guess it just wasn't meant to be. Clearly still one of the most influential bands in the last 100 years (along with Elvis, Glenn Miller, Jolsen, Berlin etc)
I like the Beatles a lot. The white album is my favorite of theirs.
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I don't like most of the bands I'm supposed to.
