Posted on 09/22/2020 11:24:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
His voice is pretty much gone now. I saw him in '89. It was entertaining enough, but I found it difficult to listen to him singing Beatles songs without Lennon's distinctive voice also being present. I haven't had much of an urge to see him since, especially given the prices. I've seen a few of the better Ringo all-star tours. The early ones were terrific. One year he had Joe Walsh, Randy Bachman, Peter Frampton and Levon Helm all with him. That was something.
He read the news today, oh boy!
He hasn’t done a bloody thing all day.
At that point I think their music will be as expired as they are.
I have a copy of an album by Anonymous 4, that is a recording of a mass by Hildegard von Bingen that was written over a thousand years ago. It is stunning, though I understand barely a word of it.
If he is admitting he deserved(s) the death penalty, why has he been up in front of the parole board 11 times?
Here's one of my favorite Beatle/Yoko story. It may be apocryphal but, if so, print the legend!
As Beatles fans know, their last actual record was Abbey Road where, after the debacle of "Let It Be" album/movie, Paul called George Martin and said they'd like to let him produce the next album like they did in the "good old days" and promised they'd be good boys.
Well the album finishes with the long medley on the second side (ask Gramps what an album side is kids!) with the amazing (in retrospect) title of "The End".
That song is famous for two things: Ringo's only drum solo in Beatles recording and the raucous three guitar riff sound off that followed.
Legend has it that the three were about to walk into the soundroom with their guitars with Yoko (as always) walking close behind John. He turned and this time told her, "Not now love, this will only take a minute". And they walked in a did the difficult riffs in one take with them in a circle and looking into each others eyes. The Champs, hitting the winning three pointer and calmly walking away. Never to play again.
BTW, for the person who said their music was past the sell date. That 50 year anniversary of Abbey Road was the top seller last year.
Don’t worry, Bernie will get his wish and Chapman will be ablew to vote... once he dies in prison. Then he will vote Democrat forever.
He said some very reasonable things at that meeting.
I do hope his heart is changed.
The other Beetles don’t seem to have evolved into Conservatives.
Paul McCartney came close when he sung a pro-American song to an audience of firefighters after 9-11 but then he issued a cringing apology for daring to stray into expressing ‘right wing’ sentiments. https://politicalvelcraft.org/2010/06/04/senile-mccartney-apologizes-for-911-song-apologizes-to-the-progressive-tyrants/
>>>You may not like them, but they certainly have not reached their expiration date and may never do so.<<<
And their music surpasses most of what claims to be music today, and they did it with antiquated equipment and a tape deck.
Paul blew away John and George on his solo.
I don't speak German and still listen to Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart.
Good point.
However Sumeria has about 6000 years on Hildegard von Bingen and about 7000 on Beethoven.
Obviously, I can’t predict the future but I suspect that all of our beloved music will eventually be lost to time. If time continues anyway.
I'm hoping that that "beetle" is autofilled typo. Otherwise...
Anyway....John moved to America. Loved the country and was able to live under our version of freedom.
The other guys stayed in England with National Health etc.and the more leftist English ways.
Paul was a polymath who could pick up just about any instrument and become proficient, if not a master, in a short time.
I have a "joke" about that 50 year release of Abbey Road last year.
On the original vinyl record the 2nd side medley was uninterrupted. Each song (or song fragment) played seamlessly until the "end" of the side*
Now with the CD I bought it was no longer seamless! Each song had a break, so if you just let it play, each song had a "click" of silence at the end and the next "song" began. How jarring!
So I ponied up $99 for the version that included a Blu Ray audio only version remastered by George Martin's son Giles who had access to the original tapes. Not only did he widen that 3 guitar riff (sit in the middle of the speakers now and you can really make out each guitar), the Blu Ray plays the medley seamlessly as it should!
So my 'joke' is it only took 50 years and $100 to equal what I got for $3.99 in 1969.
* It actually finishes with "Her Majesty" after a very long runout groove. Even the Beatles didn't know that had been tagged onto the end because an engineer was told to NEVER throw anything away, he taped to the end of the master tape.
If you look, there is no listing of "Her Majesty" on the back of the original album cover.
And so the Beatles get another "first". The first "Easter Egg" on a record.
Macca plays every instrument on his first solo album.
No slouch on the drums, neither.
No slouch on the drums, neither.
Yes...I bought that album the day it was released and so read that weird little "interview" with himself where he let slip the Beatles were no more.
I am looking forward to Peter Jackson's new version of "Let It Be" with the rooftop concert.
You can watch it on youtube and vimeo (in lesser quality, of course) and was surprised to see that John played lead guitar on the song Get Back on his Epiphone Casino guitar.
Now the Beatles inc. have allowed Don't Let Me Down from the rooftop concert on youtube (much better quality) and it's amazing how good they sound after not playing live for three years and, with a hair up their ass, they just climbed the stairs and plugged in.
You could see how John looked over at Paul when Paul hit the harmony and, for a second, they were back in Hamburg having fun. But this time as the best band in the world.
+2.
“I assassinated him .. because he was very, very, very famous and that’s the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory. Very selfish.”
Maybe he's contrite. Maybe this is his 'Hail Mary'. I can't say.
His admission of selfishness as a motive is the first I heard of this. A nobody who thought he would be a somebody.
How does someone make this leap of reasoning?
Pointless and selfish.
They broke up right at the right time, still on top of their game, right at the point music started going in a different direction.
Why they are still as popular today is ever, they left, with people wanting more.
Compare and contrast with the Rolling Stones, who haven’t made a decent album since the 70s.
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