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[john250]

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Couldbuy cows. Whatever.

 

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ø,ø,ø

 

[chrisy]

never be another group like them, good live and in the recording studio. fantastic.

 

[john250]

never be another group like them, good live and in the recording studio. fantastic.

Did I recognize you in the front row there?

 

[Son of Butch]

Could buy cows. Whatever.

They did buy cows.
At least one member of the Beetles if not 2 were silent partners/investors in Hanover Hills Holsteins, one of the premier dairy herds of all time.

 

[Son of Butch]

never be another group like them, good live and in the recording studio. fantastic.

Never saw them live. I always heard they sucked live...that venue noise supposedly often drowned them out in live concerts,
and not even they could hear themselves play, if we can't hear ourselves how can anyone else and was a big reason they put so much effort into their recording sessions instead of touring.

Come Together [1969] is a favorite of mine. It's an example of the sum being greater than it's individual parts.
The tune started out to be a campaign song for Timothy Leary.
But in John's own words, I never got around to it and wrote 'Come Together' instead.

Here is my interpretation of the song.
John wrote it and I think each verse is John's view of each band member.
Verse 1 George Verse 2 Ringo Verse 3 Himself Verse 4 Paul

Verse 1 George
Here comes old flattop- George collected guitars, his Fender Stratacaster Flattop guitar he nicknamed Rocky.
He comes grooving up slowly- in tune, moving at his own pace, George's personality calm, collected, under control.
He got joo joo eyeball- Eyeball singular refers to the 3rd eye of spiritual awareness.
In the Voo Doo religion joo joo means magic. The mystical magical 3rd eye of Kirshna spiritual awareness.
He's one holy roller- George's spiritual awareness was not Christian. In the late 1960's Harrison embraced Hinduism.
He got hair down to his knees - When sitting in the yoga position to meditate George's hair touched his knees.
He got to be a Joker he just do what he please Not a joker in the prankster sense. Remember this is from John's point of view. John was an emotional hipster. George was cool, calm, collected. John ran hot, George ran cool. John marveled at how things that upset him, rolled of George like water off a duck. Really? Paul's antics don't upset you? You've got to be joking.
You got to be a Joker, you just take it in stride, go about your business and do what you please.

verse 2 Ringo
He wear no shoeshine - Unpolished, both personality and as a musician a what you see is what you get kind of guy.
He got monkey finger - He's kind of clumsy.
He got toe jam football - He likes soccer - the sport of the common man in England.
He shoot Coca-Cola - Ringo's favorite drink was scotch & coke. In 1969 coca-cola approached the Beetles to shoot a commercial. Ringo was more than willing to endorse coke, but John vetoed it, to his artistic sense it was selling out.
He say, I know you, you know me - sums up how and why Ringo became their drummer. They knew him and he
knew them. Peter Best was the original drummer, when Best missed gigs Ringo would fill in for him.
When Best finally quit, Ringo was his replacement because of his familiarity not his talent. At the time Ringo was not the
best drummer available, he got the job by being in the right place at the right time and unlike Peter Best he was dependable.
In John's view Ringo was a common man, a bit crude, lacking polish and clumsy, but he was reliable and got the job done.
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free - Ringo's response when others in the group talked about going solo

verse 3 John
He bag production - John bragging "I nailed it" as in a big game hunter bagging a trophy buck.
He got walrus gumboot - John was proud he wrote "I am the Walrus."
He got Ono sideboard - Yoko Ono was his wife, he was proud of her, she was his sideboard or support.
He's one spinal cracker - He was proud thinking of himself as a back breaker, a hard man.
He got feet down below his knees - Stands on his own two feet, bows a knee to no man and is proud of it.
A direct contrast to George in verse 1 sitting and meditating with bended knees.
Hold you in his arms - yeah- you can feel his disease - When holding someone who is crying you can feel them sob.
Crying is a symptom of emotional illness. In his presence you can feel his disease, those close to him can feel his pain.
John is sick and tired of all the in fighting within the group. He's being a poor me baby, playing the proud martyr.
Come together - John calling the group to unite
Right now - time is of the essence
Over Me - Subconsciously John thinks only of himself. It's all about ME.
John views himself as a self made, back backer of a man, standing on his own two feet and bends no knee, and unlike
George who was on a spiritual quest, John felt he had no need of God.
Remember his infamous quote about the Beetles being bigger than Jesus?

verse 4 Paul
He roller coaster - he has a roller coaster personality
He got early warning - I told him right from the start when we met as teenagers
He got muddy waters- he's got talent equal to the old great blues musician Muddy Waters.
He's one mojo filter - Paul's got the talent, but his buzz kill attitude interferes with the band's creative juices
He say One and One and One is Three- Paul said if he went solo, the three could carry on fine without him
Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see- Paul was known as the Cute Beetle. John is saying it's a good thing Paul is good looking because there is little inside him worth seeing. That Paul lacks depth as a human being. Paul has talent and John knows it, but he doesn't like him. After Paul had tried to take leadership of the group John said, "What good is it to follow a leader that goes in a circle?"

Clearly John liked George the best of the three. But he viewed George as his opposite not his equal.
He's dismissive of Ringo as being common or ordinary and not as advanced or evolved as himself.
Paul has as much talent as him, and John knows it, but by 1969 he doesn't like him.
That he saves his harshest criticism for Paul to the end of the song speaks volumes to me.

 

[chrisy]

never be another group like them, good live and in the recording studio. fantastic.

Did I recognize you in the front row there?

doubt it I was to young when they first came about, it was their impromptu concert I saw when they performed on the roof of the Abbey studios in Savile Row. I went to visit my Mum and Brother for lunch and sitting in my Mums office we thought someone had the radio on to loud and couldn't believe it when we saw what was happening. Fantastic afternoon.
s.o.b the reason they didn't like concerts wasn't that they couldn't play or sing it was because they were sick of all the screaming and no-one even listened to them playing and singing, as they were to busy screaming. as John I think is was said 'Just sick of the screaming and pointlessness of live performing when no-one even listened'

 

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[chrisy]

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I'd like to see the groups of now days sing and play like that live without any wah wah machines and symphasizers