Open Thread 2-9-17: Concerning Beatles and Money
Last week was the 58th anniversay of the last Buddy Holly show. Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. 53 years! It seemed like an awfully long time from February 1959 to February 1964....
Too bad that videos for all the Beatle songs aren't available. I imagine it was some corporate decision (I'd blame McCartney and Ono) where they thought "why give this away for free? We should be recompensed!" But, of course, the thing is we all *have* bought the tunes. Like Tommy Lee Jones said in one of those Men in Black movies, "now I'll have to buy the White Album again". Come on, Paul! Don't be a miser, sitting in your vault room like Scrooge McDuck, counting your money.
I mentioned the other day that I'm reading the stories of Muriel Spark. She's funny! She's serious! She's good! I like how she writes from the viewpoints of different ages. Sometimes the main character is mid-forties, sometimes fifteen. I'm not sure how old Mamie is, in the story "Alice Long's Dachshunds". Young, though. It appeared in the New Yorker in 1967. Ms. Spark writes this about Mamie, the Catholic school student:
"Sister Monica has said that there is no harm in the Beatles, and then Mamie felt indignant because it showed Sister Monica did not properly appreciate them. She ought to lump them together with things like whisky, smoking, and sex: the Beatles are quite good enough to be forbidden."
Because we know the good things pose a problem to authority. Keep people almost happy, that's the idea. But not too happy because then we wouldn't look to anyone else for "leadership". When I was younger, all of 20 years old, I wrote a song called "Black Market Was". The idea was that if there were a drug you could take to relive your life it would be made illegal and you'd only be able to get it on the black market. Ah, the black market! I'm sure it still exists and always will.
In any case, the Beatles are not forbidden, just restricted on the internet, by their own doing. Like Bob Dylan. Then again, we've got all the Bob Dylan LPs and CDs we could want, too. So what's the point of taking down the videos?? I'd write them and ask but ....no, wait. I will! I will write. I'll let you know if I get a reply.
as always, this will publish when it's 4 am on the West Coast. See you when I get up!
First a couple of oddities...
Onie Wheeler
Jimmy Cross
and then.... The Beatles
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yeah, yeah, yeah, she said she loves you
... and that can't be bad.
Funny. I was fifteen at that time and had decided to do the science track in highschool, which made me the only girl in my all-boys highschool class. Nobody loved me, no, no, no... but I had a crush on a boy ... yeah, yeah, yeah. Awful to be fifteen... in 1963.
https://www.euronews.com/
heh, not that bad for a protest slogan ...
"like thieves in the night".
How Romamia is developing its own culture of protest
Our thieves steal even in broad daylight ...And nobody seems to care. May be we should, because ...
Romanian justice minister resigns after mass protests against corruption law
https://www.euronews.com/
Beatles Videos
There is a veritable treasure trove of Beatles videos compiled on the Number 1s Blu-ray set from at least two years ago. It contains two Blu-ray discs of early television appearances from either side of the Atlantic, including the Ed Sullivan appearances and even rarer things, plus all of their promo videos from their post-touring years. The third disc in the set is the Number 1s CD.
In 1964
I was in high school and the Beatles were the biggest thing in town. I was always sort of an odd ball among my friends and was more of a Stones fan then. As I got older, I really appreciated the Beatles far more. A number of years ago, a friend of ours was telling us how his teenage son had discovered the coolest group, the Beatles! We had to laugh that everything old had become new again, at least for one young teenage boy.
This morning's walk was an adventure. We had some heavy winds this morning which will bring in Arctic air and colder temps. When we walked into the head winds, when a gust would come up, it would knock us back. Walking back toward home was a piece of cake with the wind behind our backs.
I just saw an unusually marked squirrel in our yard. We have lots of white squirrels here. They are simply a color variant of the grey squirrel, so greys can have white babies and vice versa and often the litters can have both whites and greys in them. Occasionally we see a variation on the coat patterns. The one in my yard right now is a grey with white hind paws and a white tail with a grey stripe down it. He is a beautifully marked youngster.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I have never figured out if there was a correlation
Between staying home from my church group on that Sunday night to see the Beatles and never ( never!) going back -not to the church group, not to church. I was 14. And, I think the beginning of my life.
Love stories like yours, Redstella. Envy you, mimi & the rest
of you who were teenagers in the thick of this cultural earthquake/conscience awakening/amazing music journey phenomenon. For sure, it was a seismic shift in consciousness through music. You can hardly get a more powerful example of the arts' impact than the Beatles' story.
I really enjoy hearing these anecdotes from you all, and would love to hear more expounding from those who wish to, about what it was like, what your teenage mindset was before/after and how it impacted the way in which you see the world to this day. Mimi's admission that it was awful to be 15 then made me laugh out loud at first, and want to understand that too, but also in relation to what was taking place culturally in that era.
My first music memory might be hearing Hey Jude as a 3 or 4 year old and standing up in the backseat of the car singing along, or that's what I've been told by my parents. I definitely remember practically my whole school bus going home in the afternoon with the windows opened in about 4th grade heartily singing early Beatles songs together. I could go on and on with little vignettes.
What I'm trying to say is that, although I didn't experience them firsthand, The Beatles indelibly imprinted on me a sense of possibility, an openness, a sense of wonder, compassion, questioning authority, framed my relationships with girls, an early adolescent pang in my loins, a desire to explore, an acceptance of others, etc. To many of us kids who were in grade school in the 70's and liked music, the Beatles were very much alive to us.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
I was lucky enough to be at the very first US performance:
The dress rehearsal for the first Ed Sullivan Show. When that was done, there was an additional set played and interview/questions for the press. The screaming was nearly continuous and the energy in the place was palpable. I still get goose bumps remembering that day,
We lived close enough to NYC to make the trip home in time to watch the "actual" show that night. My father, while driving us home, declared "In a year, no one will even remember them." We kids tried to convince him he was wrong, to no avail. We knew we had just seen and felt something very special and that the times really were a changing.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
I'd call that insanely fortunate!
I was close enough to go to various events, being in suburban New Jersey, but my parents wouldn't take me. I followed their trip across the Atlantic, thanks to AM radio. "They're now over Greenland!" or some such thing.
Every once in awhile I pull out the magazines from those early days. It seemed like there was a new one every week as publishers tried to cash in. I bought them all! They were mostly 50 cents each. In a ridiculous coincidence I was a pre-teen until mid December 1963. Then I was a teenager and boom!
But I never got to see them in person, which I regret. Those, like you, who were at the CBS theater or Carnegie Hall or the Washington concert, were part of history.
Being a Beatles freak like you, I often wonder what's up
with the dichotomy of Paul being the most successful living songwriter (of all-time perhaps?) and charging exorbitant concert ticket prices, hawking over their catalog (no iTunes for years, and still no videos), raking in more dough than he could ever spend, etc. Isn't enough, enough, as Bernie might say?
I've been lucky to have seen him many times over the past 15 or so years (including once in the very front row, which I've never been in for any show, at MSG just after 9/11 - that story involves my uncle, who is another of the world's biggest Beatles fans and used to work for the bank McCartney's MPL company had an account). But that's only because a really good friend abroad, another serious, insane Beatles fan, is a man of big means with a very generous heart and goes to see him all over the world and usually takes along a group of friends (yeah, he's done pretty well) and I've been in the group more than a handful of times.
Paul's still a marvel, a wonder, a freak of nature, from another planet. Transforms into that teenager at the Cavern Club when he straps on the Hofner to play for full stadiums all over the world. He literally appears like a kid who still loves R&R and could still have the energy to jam after playing a full show. And, of all those times seeing I have yet to see him ever reach for a glass of water during his set of usually an astonishing 30-something songs. What's with this beautiful freak? And Yoko, I have to say, pretty cool in my eyes. Supporter of OWS, still active, released a really cool record just a few years ago, as an octogenarian! She designed and had made OWS "wish" postcards in conjunction with the OWS Arts working group. I went with a friend who was involved in the group to pick up the cards fresh from a pressing plant in Chinatown and still have a bunch somewhere (If anyone wants one I will happily mail to you. Send a pm with your address).
It's funny because as Paul always says about their legacy, he's proud that it was all about love. Then you look at George and he probably put together the first big-time benefit show for the people of Bangladesh, while John took up residence in NYC and became an outspoken activist/advocate leading marches, supporting Black Panthers and doing benefit shows himself for people unfairly imprisoned or facing overwrought drug charges (e.g. John Sinclair).
I'd like to see Paul get more involved politically as the elder statesman of rock/songwriting genius of all-time, but that's just not his style. I dig that Paul is a committed vegetarian and wrote a handwritten letter and spoke out in support of Pussy Riot and seems to be a good caretaker of Buddy Holly's canon. But when you see how someone like Roger Waters has used his celebrity to be an outspoken advocate for social justice you start wondering if most of our favorite rock stars aren't just like their sports star counterparts, once they got some money all their liberal values and ethics are wiped clean upon joining the Big Club and more interested in their investment portfolios than the socioeconomic conditions from which they often sprung. Liberal idealism converted to "fiscal conservative" makes me gag.
Thanks for mentioning Muriel Spark again, Shah. Will have to keep an eye out for those books.
And god, like you say, how many times will they re-issue the same records, re-mastered with some other little imperceptible perks before we all are disgusted with the feeling we're being ripped off?Seems to be the m.o. for so many of the legacy bands, such as my other favorite Led Zeppelin, who can usually be counted on attempting to make their fans salivate at the release of yet another series of re-packaged, re-mastered, re-re-re-re....whatever.
Instead of this bs, both bands should get serious as they approach their twilight years and do the right thing by their loyal fans: release all those outtakes, live shows and demos that we've all been clamoring for. Man, I've spent hundreds and hundreds of bucks on Zep bootlegs over the years, only to find almost everything I have and way more on YouTube now (which you can convert to mp3 and download to your iPod - amazing)!
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
I absolutely loved their music but I was NEVER stupid enough to
believe that All You Need Is Love. And apparently Sir Paul has moved on from that claim himself.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Well, for starters, John wrote that one
not Paul. He was merely referencing it as the song that perhaps most encompassed what he believes their overall legacy was.
As for believing in that hippie dream of love being all you need, I'm of a mind that that was the right energy to have been put out at the time and that boiled down this was the essence of what they ultimately represented. Its manifestations were powerful in what resulted in many more people, I believe, standing with the Civil Rights movement, becoming anti-materialistic, swelling the ranks of the anti-war movement, forming alternative communities, rejecting a stifling conservative status quo, questioning authority. All very good things.
The bedrock of a better, let's say, socialist society, in which the economic mechanisms provide healthcare for all, free higher education, child and maternal leave/daycare, etc., come from the concepts of empathy and compassion, which are the manifestations of love.
In their post-Beatles careers, both John and especially George took the concept even further, that the mantra of love is the answer. George's devotion to Eastern religion and philosophy was centered around the concept and was a consistent thread in his songwriting, and John, who had become radicalized by the New Left, frequently sang that love is the answer, while also being down with the revolution. Concepts committed to by MLK, Gandhi and the guy with the name responsible for Christianity.
It's ok for you to think it's stupid to believe it. Think For Yourself, as George sang. But I rather like thinking of the legacy of the Beatles, taken as a totality, as a phenomenal music entity transposed into a universally recognizable stand for love and peace at its core.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks Mark, love is all you need.
It's coming back as it always does as this is the universal truth. I like Neil Innes a lot. Here is one of his songs that while not as great as the Beatles 'Love is All You Need' says the same thing. I like it. God is love.
Get ready Amanda love is coming back in all it's manifestations. I understand your anger but what else do we have other then the power to love to fight this nightmare world were living through. You might want to consider that love/compassion/ and all that jazz is sure is better then hate, bigotry fear and division. Shah found this article today from the SF Gate. Hey you know you really can't cancel love. It's here to stay and always will be.
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Free-Summer-of-Love-concert-canceled...
Free Summer of Love concert canceled by city
You don't need a permit for love.
What anger are you talking about? Read the post just below
this one. Maybe you'll be able to understand what I'm talking about. Or not.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I didn't get my 'philosophy' from pop stars
neither did the most of the counter culture hippies I knew and lived with. As I said fans are mindless and scare me en mass. Idolization of the persona's of pols, athletes, artist's, musician's preachers or celebrities of any ilk wasn't the basis of the short lived hippie era/movement that swept the world. I also did not get my philosophy from political leaders or ivory tower academics.
Artist's reflect and channel what's going on, sometimes for the light sometimes for the dark. The best artist's run the gamut and express all the aspects of the human condition. Was Picasso a too rich asshole? Of course he was. Does that invalidate his great art? What does John Lennon or any of the Beatles personal lives have to do with the content of their art or their activism for peace, love and a more equal world? Shah's bands bass player in the 80's made me a Beatles compilation tape and labeled it 'Four rich dudes and their creepy wierdness'. I used to laugh at the Imagine video where John and Yoko are wandering around their huge too big white mansion. Even if your aware that they were too rich for their own good or societies good they and other musicians and artists gave song to people who saw the possibility of light and the beauty of life.
You do seem angry to me about the counterculture movement of the 60's era. I disagree with your assessment of 'the bad'. Of course there were hippies and young people who we're just day tripping and doing the sex drugs and rock and roll dance. People all contain the good bad. I'd say Bill Clinton is a good example a total fraud of his generation's values. A sellout elitist who rode to power on his liberal cred. I have no respect for authority never have. It is a healthy instinct considering the authoritarian society we live in.
During the 60's I went to a be in a park that featured speech's by the political biggies of the time, the Yippies. The park was a former zoo and had empty cages which the yuppies got in and proceeded to chest thump and call for revolution. I thought Oh brother, I don't want this lot to get any power they would be as bad as what we all ready have. I had no starry eyed vision of a utopian movement, but I did believe that the up tight society I lived in offered nothing I had any use for. 'What so funny about peace, love and understanding'?
A broad generalization like the hippies did not 'work' is pretty weird. Shades of the people who these days shout at demonstrators 'Get a job'. All in all I'd say the hippies we're right. We could use a counter culture movement right about now.
You do seem angry to me about the counterculture movement of
"You do seem angry to me about the counterculture movement of the 60's era."
You really don't know anything about what I think about the counterculture movement of the 60s era. And trust me, you have NO idea what I did during that time either so your armchair analysis of my feelings is misguided and uncalled for. And I'm not angry, I am just speaking from experience. Not everything that came out of that time was all Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
"t's ok for you to think it's stupid to believe it."
Golly gee, thanks.
I came of age in the late 60s. I remember the time very well. Along with the good things that the Beatles brought to the world, I remember a lot of the bad that that occurred at the same time. Too many kids bought into the idea that you didn't have to work, you didn't have any responsibilities, life was an endless party. And it spawned all sorts of stupid ideas like 'never trust anyone over 30, and an absolute disrespect for authority, which if we were all angels might be feasible, but we're human beings and it was always ridiculous. (The two that are left are probably real happy that their idea about authority and people over 30 didn't catch on.) They gave kids the impression that money was evil but they sure didn't shy away from scarfing up their share. They could afford to tune in, turn on, drop out but it didn't work for those who didn't have the bank account or someone to support and pick them up if things went South. I know 2 kids that overdosed. They didn't make it to 20 years old. That's part of their legacy as well.
In the end they were all four rich capitalists (although they probably didn't see themselves that way) preaching about the evils of capitalism. As they were buying mansions in Hyde Park and driving psychedelic painted Rolls Royce's, they were also filling everyone's heads with the idea that 'all you need is love'. They were musical greats. But they spun a of nonsense that did a lot of harm. I was all into the message of peace and love. But during that time, I saw a lot of foolish people do a lot of foolish things because it was 'cool'. Or so they thought. Or so they heard. Or so they were told.
Of course a lot of what they 'gave' us was wonderful. Beside their music, they helped create a movement that allowed us to understand that we had rights and responsibilities to one another. That everyone was a person of value. That we should take care of each other. Although Lennon - my fave - was quite the hypocrite when it came to taking care of his own family. Not Yoko Ono and Sean but the wife and child that he dumped and deserted. They were great musicians. They started something that has endured to this day. They were four guys who came along at the right time and made wonderful music and great history. And I fully understand and acknowledge the impact of the movement they started. But it wasn't all good either.
They did do one thing that no one else could do:
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (5 videos)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRutnReEsFETYM441_GSaThxDXPelOigj
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
all you need is love
This sounds right and maybe it is right.
It is also true that we are building a tower of corpses which
will reach heaven if we last long enough.
"All you need is love" seems inadequate to me.
But these days I don't get my philosophy from pop stars.
If I did, I might wonder if love must be passive in the face of evil. Is it ever called to action?
I look at it this way, you can find intelligence and a way
to move forward in this life in the words of anyone. These guys were just lucky enough and popular enough to get away with saying and doing things no one had ever gotten away with before. Pot, LSD, resistance to the war, things that would have landed anyone else behind the proverbial eight ball, they could get in front of a camera or give an interview and promote and get away with. And they took advantage of that popularity and did and said some good things, and did and said some bad things. The world was in a very strange place at that time, young people found their nerve to stand against the draft and the killing fields of Vietnam, to fight against injustice, and to demand more than just lip service from their leaders and politicians. The Beatles were the catalyst that sparked that resistance. But you have to keep it all in perspective. They didn't exactly live what they preached.
This is not the fault of the Beatles. This is the fault of people who, like you mentioned, get their philosophy from pop stars. They were the spark that ignited a revolution. But they were also hypocrites. But it was and still is our good fortune, and the good fortune of the world, that they were brilliant and talented hypocrites.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Don't blame Paul...
He's been dead since September 1966.
What? Too soon?
(Man, I'm glad c99 doesn't have a downrate button.)
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Paul's control-freaking self evident at 3:40
especially when he shushes the crowd, haha, while nervously struggling to tell the audience to....ah jeez, what's it called because it doesn't have a name yet, oh yeah: ROCK OUT!
Meanwhile John totally feels it and cuts right to the chase exclaiming "join in!"
The foreshadowing is deep here, and I can't help but feel if John were still alive many things would be different. Or at least I'd feel more represented via his musical presence...
Thanks for sharing and happy Thursday.
Thanks, Shah. "Just give me money, It's what I wan't" versus
"Money can't buy you love". The eternal tension, especially where money can be taken as a measure of love given or received. Heh.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Beatles
Okay, hafta tell ya, me and a girlfriend took the bus (quite a distance) to see the Beatles on their first US tour - at the Cow Palace, San Francisco.
Tore my dress (yes, a dress!) trying to climb over a fence to find them after the show!
An amazing time. One of, or maybe the fondest memory of my youth. I will always love them for the happy times they gave me.
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Riding our bicycles with transistor radios hanging on the handle bars. She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah! I wanna hold your haaannd - - screaming/singing along at the top of our lungs.
OLinda, you had to!
You'd have never forgiven yourself if you hadn't tried to get to them.
Cheeky Lad's
I first heard the Beatles while hitchhiking to a friends house. I did not know how to cross the river on the bus in downtown Portland. It was a foggy evening and "I Saw Her Standing There" came on the car radio. It was a magic moment for both me and the woman who had picked me up. The Beatles sounded like nothing I'd ever heard musically. I was at that point listening to folk music, Bob Dylan, Leadbelly, as my beloved rock'n roll pop music had gone to the sucky Bobby's.
The start of the British Invasion and a whole new era of music and culture. My album cover design teacher at Otis-Parson's told us that music sucks when the artists them selves are not allowed to control what they put out. He used the Beatles as an example of how great music gets when the artist's wrest control from the bean counters in the industry. He said the Beatles opened the floodgates for all the great music that came in the 60's.
I was older when I heard them, still in my teens. I had never been a hysterical fan of any musician or band. Fans scare me, they are by definition fanatical. John Lennon however was my hero in more ways then just musically. I also liked the 'dark horse' Beatle George. I never thought Paul 'the cute one' was cute he irritated me. He was to me the shallow one. His ego/head is immense. Like a bobble head. I realized after living with Shah that Paul wrote a lot of the Beatles songs I like the best. George Martin was one smart perceptive and lucky guy. We used to have a pre-Beatle LP which he made that was nothing but sound effects.
When Sargent Pepper was released it blew my mind. I had a friend who could sing the whole album starting with the first entire side in sequence and I would say turn it over and he would. Did the Beatles pick up the trippy vibes in the air or create them? I guess they just channeled the changes that came, all the pieces they needed were already in place. Isn't that what great artist's always do?
Yesterday I was listening to Cheap Trick on You Tube and came upon this video. I like John's sketches being used.
A couple of Beatles songs at least sung by a Beatle I managed to find. George
John
Paul (one of Shah's favorites)
Ringo
One more
After John Lennon's murder, there was a joke that
flew around per-innertubz: what does Yoko Ono and Ethiopia have in common? They both feed off dead bee(a)tles. By then in 1980, she and ole John were over marriage-wise. He didn't even live in New York several months out of the year. Her greatest talent was a con artist/self-promotion. She even released a picture 45 disk called "Walking On Thin Ice" immediately after the murder. The picture was Lennon's broken, bloodstained glasses. Right on, you bitch!!
I saw the Beatles in 1966 at DC Stadium. I was 13 and got my tickets 6 months in advance. They sucked. It was obvious that they were tired, jaded and burned out. It was insane. Over 30+ thousand seats sold out. You could barely hear them and forget the visuals.
It didn't matter. The thing that mattered was their tunes. Even now, especially now, those songs are living for evermore. My personal favorite has always been "Money." It was a R&B tune that ole John loved by Barrett Strong. It was his greatest singing record-wise IMO. I have seen Paul McCartney 4 times in concert, His best one was 2 years ago. The guy is incredible. And to think: he, John and George met when George was 12, Paul, 13 and John, 15. Man, just put that in your cosmik pipe and smoke it. Yeah, yeah, yeah!!
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
i'm annoyed by the disrespect that the kewl kids have
always shown for mccartney. we often hear about how the beatles weren't especially talented instrumentalists. i say, listen to mccartney's bass in Paperback Writer, and then STFU. we hear about mccartney's sappiness (or worse -- angela bowie described his music as insipid). i say, listen to Abbey Road, or for that matter, Wings Over America, and then STFU. and finally, mccartney is never mentioned in lists of great vocalists ... but ... but ... well, fuck me, i don't know what to say. great range, great dynamics, instantly recognizable voice -- if you don't think mccartney is an amazing vocalist try to sing along, with comparable power. then STFU.
i do think he's kind of a dork though.
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Abbey Road is all
one needs to know. I was more of a Stones, Beach Boys,
Tom & JerrySimon and Garfunkel fan (and had never bought a Beatles 45 or album), but I heard Abbey Road playing at a record store (remember those?) and bought it ten seconds later. It was The Best rock album to that point, and still easily in the top ten all time. I hopped on my bicycle (my beater was in the shop) and rode to my cousin's house to see if he had heard it. We put it on the turntable totally blown away. "Rock'n'Roll, I said, "is here to stay!"the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.