meanmistermustard on Who is The Leader?
Seems my plea in another thread went by-the-by. Without Paul George wouldn't have known what end of the guitar to strum, Ringo what a drumstick was and John how to open his mouth to sing. I love Paul,...
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meanmistermustard said Seems my plea in another thread went by-the-by. Without Paul George wouldn't have known what end of the guitar to strum, Ringo what a drumstick was and John how to open his mouth...
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Yes. It was sarcasm aimed at those who think George wasn't capable of playing even half decent guitar unless he closed his eyes and blindly threw his fingers about it the vein hope of hitting one chord...
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meanmistermustard said Erm... that was sarcasm. I thought it would have been quite obvious considering the whole sentence. It's the trouble of the internet MMM, you don't know whether somebody is...
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I altered/edited the wording in my post whilst AppleScruffJunior was posting (and watched the Mr Creosote clip) so it wouldn't come across in the wrong manner but I stand by both. Maybe I should have...
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Inner Light said Von Bontee said For pure musicianship & compositional ability, Paul McCartney stands the tallest. His bass & keyboard skills were unsurpassed, he contributed the finest guitar...
View ArticleSatanHimself on Philosophy question
It isn't what you'd call a well-thought-out theory, but rather a fanciful "what if". To expand on what I was trying to get across: Imagine if some force in the universe was some benevolent being who...
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Von Bontee said Inner Light said Von Bontee said For pure musicianship & compositional ability, Paul McCartney stands the tallest. His bass & keyboard skills were unsurpassed, he contributed...
View ArticleLinde on Songs by other bands that sound "Beatles-ish"
Hmm those songs aren't bad at all. I quite like them and he does sound a teeny tiny bit like Paul. Which isn't a bad thing. The songs themselves don't really sound Beatles-ish to me though.
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parlance said Via the Beatlefan FB - Japan tour dates have been announced for November. Wonder if any more US ones will follow? Beatlefan correspondent Gen Onoshima reports from Japan that McCartney...
View Articlefabfouremily on Questions about the Beatles
I know that Brian was very good at lot's of things but I don't really see how he could've helped John getting addicted to heroin.
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No Emily you're reading it wrong I think. Robert says he thinks Brian could've PREVENTED John from getting addicted. Which I don't agree with. John wouldn't have listened to Brian anyway and perhaps...
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I wish he'd come to Holland. Not that I could afford tickets, but hey.
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Seems to me Emily is saying exactly the same as you, Linde. She's saying that for all the positive impact he had on their lives, and despite John and Brian's friendship, she doubts any help Brian could...
View Articlefabfouremily on Questions about the Beatles
^^ You're right. Linde, we're saying the same thing. I agree with you, I think John would've took heroin had she been part of his life or not. He had plently of ''friends'' that took all kind of things...
View ArticleDrBeatle on Collection of Beatles stuff
Just dug this out for my upcoming business trip, haven't read it in years! What do you all (who have read it) think of these books?
View ArticleSatanHimself on Questions about the Beatles
And my defense of Yoko falls under the category of "we just don't know". Maybe John's contributions would have been terrible without Yoko in his life. Maybe he would have given up on the band...
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Inner Light said Von Bontee said For pure musicianship & compositional ability, Paul McCartney stands the tallest. His bass & keyboard skills were unsurpassed, he contributed the finest guitar...
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Does anyone think that Yoko was using John and that her love for him came from her need for his money to subsidize her art" dreams (which she shared with Tony Cox, her husband, even after she got...
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