The BEATLES (Official Thread)

joker1961

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Brother,I was merely asking if volume two had been issued yet.Why the laughing icon?.If you see any fault in any of my posts,DON'T laught at me................
firstly sorry you`ve take the icon the wrong way I didn't mean anything to
hurt or ????? so please take my humble, sorry for the pain it caused you..


I just spun up some Beatles....They may just be the best band ever. I think Van Morrison has the best album ever, the end of music, but The Beatles, man. Damn.

I`ll say I like the quote wisertime....
 

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Been watching a run-down of the 'Top Beatles Songs' based on the '1' album. This wasn't number one but I was astonished to find out it was a live cut. The Beatles never cease to amaze me.


 

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When George Harrison Joined John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Quarry Men

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The third part of the equation that would become the Beatles fell into place on Feb. 6, 1958. George Harrison joined the Quarry Men, the John Lennon-led group that Paul McCartney had joined as a second guitarist and singer the previous summer.

Harrison, who was a few weeks shy of his 15th birthday, had known McCartney for about a year. The two were students at the Liverpool Institute and frequently took the same bus to and from school. A friendship blossomed, and the two began jamming together, even after McCartney had moved from Speke to Allerton.

When the Quarry Men — named after the Quarry Bank High School where the band was formed three years earlier — were looking to bring in a third guitarist (they had the idea long before Lynyrd Skynyrd), McCartney suggested his friend. The audition took place, strangely enough, on the top of a double-decker bus. At McCartney’s prompt, Harrison took out his guitar and played Bill Justis’ R&B instrumental “Raunchy,” a No. 2 hit on Sun Records in 1957.

Lennon was impressed with the note-perfect rendition. But the 17-year old Lennon, who was already at Liverpool Art College, had reservations about being in a group with such a youngster. As McCartney put it in Anthology, “It seemed an awful lot at the time. If we wanted to do anything grown-up we worried about George looking young. We thought, ‘He doesn’t shave […] Can’t we get him to look like a grown-up?'”

Typically, Lennon put it more bluntly. “George looked even younger than Paul — and Paul looked about 10, with his baby face,” Lennon said, also in Anthology. But Harrison’s skill was too good to overlook for Lennon who, despite leading a band, was still very much a novice on his instrument. “We asked George to join because he knew more chords,” he conceded. “We got a lot from him. Paul had a friend at school who would discover chords, and these would be passed ’round Liverpool. Every time we learnt a new chord, we’d write a song around it.”

Another advantage to having Harrison in the group was that his mother didn’t object to the boys coming over and rehearsing. In fact, she welcomed it and would often give the teenagers small glasses of whiskey.

Three of the pieces were now in place. Over the next four years they would try out different names and bandmates, honing their musical and songwriting chops all the while, before the unstoppable force that became known as the Beatles were unleashed upon the world.


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I don't think I know a single person that hates The Beatles music and I have friends that listen to Rap and Hip Hop as well. I know what the hell am I friends with them for. :gig They just have brought us so much over the decades that anyone no matter what style of music or what age you are can like something by them. The all are pure music geniuses.
 

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I just came across this rare version of Norwegian Wood(This Bird Has Flown). Very Psychedelic with a lot more Sitar by George.

 

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Hose Head said:
I don't think I know a single person that hates The Beatles music
Ahhhh I have seen some who think they werre way over rated,etc........ (On other VBB sites I am on)

I love almost every song they did!!!!!!!!
 

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I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I saw it on Facebook the other day and thought it was really cool:
 

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