Posted on 01/13/2002 9:55:09 AM PST by UnBlinkingEye
I absolutely agree!
First of all...I love the Beatle's music.
I was a dj in the 50-60's and my faves were Benny Goodman, Les Elgart, Vic Damone, Frank, Ralph Flanagan, et al.
When the "Haircuts" came over I was really pis*ed at the attention they got..........but as years went by I began to appreciate their music and even started picking a few numbers on the guitar...."When I'm Sixty-four" still breaks my wife up.
But we got sucked in by the Madison Avenue "suits" who decide who is gonna be a big seller regardless of their talent.
How many trumpeters other than Winton Marsalis (sic) have you heard about in recent years? HOw many cellists other than Yo Yo Ma. Remember Fabian? Is Britanny Spears all that hot?
Hell NO!
These media moguls sit around and decide that Vanilla Ice or whoever is the 'hot' group and then hammer the kids with the appropriate propaganda.
Teeny-boopers are not known for perspicacity.
I wish there were a way to teach kids earlier to ignore the hype and avoid the media's latest attempt to sell more CDs, etc.
As I said before, if the P.R. had been orchestrated for a non-deserving group, there'd have been empty seats at performances and albums would not have sold.
It's a little difficult to attribute record sales and sold out appearances as purely the result of hype. And it's a losing proposition to do so, as Sorbran is about to find out.
He was a little before my time, but I loved the score to White Christmas. I'm sure there are many more Irving Berlin songs I know and like, but I'm not very well educated on his music.
This isn't quite true. In fact their first big record was named My Bonnie, which is something of a folk song. Actually it was the demand for this song that brought them to the notice of the owner of the record store (NEMS). The owner's name was Brian Epstein and through him they became famous.
I still prefer the Searchers.
An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is recognized as unwelcome change by the large population group in the sights of Stanford Research Institute, was the "advent" of the BEATLES. The Beatles were brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.
When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have imagined the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a living organism which sprang From "THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No. 4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director, Professor Willis Harmon.
The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the Beatles. Words such as "rock" in relation to music sounds, "teenager," "cool," "discovered" and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the acceptance of drugs and arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they went, to be "discovered" by "teenagers." Incidentally, the word "teenagers" was never used until just before the Beatles arrived on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.
As in the case of gang wars, nothing could or would have been accomplished without the cooperation of the media, especially the electronic media and, in particular, the scurrilous Ed Sullivan who had been coached by the conspirators as to the role he was to play. Nobody would have paid much attention to the motley crew from Liverpool and the 12-atonal system of "music" that was to follow had it not been for an overabundance of press exposure. The 12-atonal system consisted of heavy, repetitive sounds, taken from the music of the cult of Dionysus and the Baal priesthood by Adorno and given a "modern" flavor by this special friend of the Queen of England and hence the Committee of 300.
Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center created trigger words which then came into general usage around "rock music" and its fans. Trigger words created a distinct new break-away largely young population group which was persuaded by social engineering and conditioning to believe that the Beatles really were their favorite group. All trigger words devised in the context of "rock music" were designed for mass control of the new targeted group, the youth of America.
The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that Tavistock and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like trained robots "with a little help from their friends"--code words for using drugs and making it "cool." The Beatles became a highly visible "new type"-- more Tavistock jargon--and as such it was not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing, hairstyles and language usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This was part of the "fragmentation-maladaptation" process worked out by Willis Harmon and his team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.
The role of the print and electronic media in our society is crucial to the success of brainwashing large population groups. Gang wars ended in Los Angeles in 1966 as the media withdrew its coverage. The same thing will happen with the current wave of gang wars in Los Angeles. Street gangs will wither on the vine once media saturation coverage is toned down and then completely withdrawn. As in 1966, the issue would become "burned out." Street gangs will have served their purpose of creating turbulence and insecurity. Exactly the same pattern will be followed in the case of "rock" music. Deprived of media attention, it will eventually take its place in history.
Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."
Tavistock and Stanford Research then embarked on the second phase of the work commissioned by the Committee of 300. This new phase turned up the heat for social change in America. As quickly as the Beatles had appeared on the American scene, so too did the "beat generation," trigger words designed to separate and fragment society. The media now focused its attention on the "beat generation." Other Tavistock-coined words came seemingly out of nowhere: "beatniks," "hippies," "flower children" became part of the vocabulary of America. It became popular to "drop out" and wear dirty jeans, go about with long unwashed hair. The "beat generation" cut itself off from main-stream America. They became just as infamous as the cleaner Beatles before them.
I haven't listened to it in a long time, my albums are all boxed up and put away in a closet. I still have a turntable though, probably be fun to pull the old albums out again.
You're correct in saying they didn't write all of the songs they recorded, but the overwhelming number of songs they recorded were their own compositions. I think they were the backup band for another singer on 'My Bonnie'.
It appears that your memory is faulty. *We* had the Beach Boys, but since Jefferson Airplane didn't release their first record until '65, and the Doors until '67, they weren't around at the time you were claiming (February 1964 was when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan.)
You're scary.
The Beatles name was due in part to a play on Beatnik a fifties counterculture group. I don't think Tavistock put the Beatles together, they were all kids from Liverpool who got together on their own.
Did you write that post with a tinfoil hat on?
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