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Post by Girl on Nov 16, 2004 13:34:19 GMT -5
Let's share stories of our first experiences with the Beatles' music... mine I'll never forget... I was about 6, I was away with my mom at our summer home, and when my dad came up that Friday evening, he handed me a record. The cover was that of a nursery rhyme, 3 Little Pigs or something like that. But what did I happen to find inside but the Please Mr. Postman/ Roll Over Beethoven single! I've been hooked ever since. I was done with childrens' music. Then he brought me the Beatles' second album, which he had left in the car in the sun, and it warped badly, but thank goodness... still playable.... LOL
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 16, 2004 20:34:07 GMT -5
That would be when they first broke in the US & had She Loves You & Hold Yer Hand at #1 & 2. I was in the 4th grade. The first record I bought was Introducing The Beatles on Vee-Jay.. I FINALLY got around to getting that on cd earlier in the year. But what I remember as being the big deal was when I couldn't skip sunday nite church to watch Sullivan. Even tho I was only 10, I decided right then & there on the direction my life would take..... & I've been protestin' & makin' noize & stirrin' up **** ever since!
That first beatles experience is a big deal for me, not because of getting me started on the Beatles, but because it got me started on a lifelong hobbie of enjoying & collecting music of all kinds.... And eventually getting to create & record my own. But I can very clearly remember rushing home from school every day in early 64 to catch The Beatles on the radio...And remember even more clearly bein' FORCED to attend church on that sunday evening.
My twisted-preacher-dad thought The Beatles were bad until he got a good dose of Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention a few years later!! OUCH Take THAT!!
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Post by Girl on Nov 17, 2004 8:45:19 GMT -5
Cool. Yeah, nowadays preachers everywhere admit that the Beatles music was pretty tame compared to what followed... LOL
So, you also make your own music? Can we hear some?
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Post by Doc on Nov 17, 2004 8:50:58 GMT -5
Eyesbleed has some really kewl and wonderful recordings of he and his band--------eyes--you must post some selections. I have enjoyed your CDs!
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 17, 2004 17:31:25 GMT -5
Cool. Yeah, nowadays preachers everywhere admit that the Beatles music was pretty tame compared to what followed... LOL So, you also make your own music? Can we hear some? Ya, the "good folks" negative reaction to the Beatles during the mid 60's didn't make any sense then & it makes even less now. They didn't do any negative songs, they didn't use naughty words, & the music itself was good enough to garner praise from the most elite of the music world. Some people will bitch about anything. Awww shucks, if y'all insist, I'll post a few song links. I never learned to play anything very well & I can't read music, but I've always hung out with artists & musicians. Somebody had the idea of starting a punk band back in the 70's & I was the only one who could scream & sound rough & intense. So before I knew it... I was a punk-rocker! We stayed together for 8yrs & wrote about 100 songs. After we split up, I didn't do any other music for about 15 yrs, but I'm now involved in two different projects with two former band mates. And it's turning into two very different types of music, so it's all good. I'm just glad to be able to work on new music again. These are also posted on my website along with a few others at ruddart.com, but I'll paste a few here & make it that much easier! Here's 2 sorta new songs & 2 old ones. You can either stream or download these 4. I'll also add my Cold Turkey cover, but it's download only. TUESDAYS...Uptempo rocker with an odd polka-beat & a wall of feedback. Tuesdays...... Stream 66.199.224.135/uploads/2992_tuesdays.m3uTuesdays..... Download 66.199.224.135/uploads/2992_tuesdays.mp3ENTROPY..."Strings" replace the guitars & there's no drums. Sorta goth. Entropy..... Stream 66.199.224.135/uploads/2192_entropy.m3uEntropy.... Download 66.199.224.135/uploads/2192_entropy.mp3Research Stuff (1979-1987) SPELUNKING MINDS... Avant-Post-no-wave adventure with a time signature that'll mezmorize yer brain. Spelunking Minds...... Stream 66.199.224.135/uploads/2188_Research_spelunkingminds.m3uSpelunking Minds...... Download 66.199.224.135/uploads/2188_Research_spelunkingminds.mp3BLACK HOLE TWIST... Our take on the Devo-like No-wave of the 80's. Black Hole Twist..... Stream 66.199.224.135/uploads/2144_Research_blackholetwist.m3uBlack Hole Twist..... Download 66.199.224.135/uploads/2144_Research_blackholetwist.mp3COLD TURKEY (live)... Our punky cover of the John Lennon classic Download only www.geocities.com/eyesbleed/coldturkey.index.htm.mp3
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Post by Doc on Nov 18, 2004 1:03:32 GMT -5
Bravo, eyesbleed. I am, I am....I am...well.....OK jealous. 'Cause I enjoyed you and your band's output.
I do music and it comes out all sweet, and polite, and nice, and smoothed over. And the world yawns, and Yanni yawns.
And you and your band are visceral, edgy, gutsy. Involving. Creative. And the people dance and jump up and down. And get excited.
I enjoy your CD's a lot. OK I don't head bang in the car...except sometimes but I try to remember good traffic etiquette but we all slip....
I'll survive.
Black Hole Twist and Spelunking Minds. Yep!
Power to the Eyes!
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 18, 2004 18:06:34 GMT -5
;D Oh now come on there Dr.! I'll bet yer one hell of a good piano man. I'll betcha you get done what's gotta be done on them keyboards. That's my one big regret.... I didn't learn to play an instrument when I was a crazy young'un.... So that jealousy can go both ways here Doc!! Luckily most of my lifelong buds are excellent musicians, so I've been able to write stuff with some help from them. And you and your band are visceral, edgy, gutsy. Involving. Creative. And the people dance and jump up and down. And get excited. Ya, & sometimes ya can get the wrong crowd & get booed & yelled at & stuff too! Joan Jett hated us so much, she repeatedly pelted me with slobbery globs of bubblegum. I'd feel a big wet splat up side my head & I'd look down to see Ms.Jett giving me a go-to-hell look & chompin' on a fresh piece of gum. The crowd were all big Joan Jett fans & they didn't wanna hear us.... The more they booed, the weirder our set got... It wasn't a pretty picture.!! Thanks again for yer compliments Doc. But I think yer ignoring the thread topic! Ya didn't post yer first beatles experience yet!
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Post by Doc on Nov 19, 2004 7:18:25 GMT -5
I am in pre-school. In the cafeteria, it is lunch. The PA is blaring "I wanna hold your hand." I immediately like the melody, the rhythm, cant wait to hear it again. The other kids go nuts, singing along, cheering. New Beatle songs were recieved that way. Infectious, catchy. PLease PLease Me, Love Me do, She Loves You yeah yeah yeah, all my lovin', etc. A few months later, there they are on Ed Sullivan. To kids my age, they are like emmisaries from another planet, bringing joy and musical cheer, and a lot of energy. We were all too young to associate it to dances and dating, I was 5 or 6. They were just, like, heroes, exciting charismatic beings who made music that made you happy, music that made you want to move, sing along, feel "high" in an innocent, natural way.
They were around off and on, seen too rarely I thought, I missed all but 3 of their appearences. mom and dad discouraged listening to them, would not by me a genuine Beatle record.
Then one day, ita all got weird with the Beatles. To our way of thinkg then, as 9 or 10 year olds. They were never the same again; I had to grow up and get reacquainted to appreciate the later changes and music. It was jarring when I heard Pepper, SF, MMT and other items and saw their new "look." Very jarring to me.
Then, I loved Hey Jude, Revolution, and Let it Be. So, back I went as a young fan. Finally got a couple of 45's out of the parents. And some sheet music. In the late 60's getting sheet music for me was like the holy grail. I taught myself the organ----I was Mr. Roller Rink till I found the piano and perused classical---anyway---the Beatles, for me, stayed on the back burner till the last couple of years.
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 19, 2004 8:01:11 GMT -5
---anyway---the Beatles, for me, stayed on the back burner till the last couple of years. Ya same here. By about 69 I was off to other bands. During the highschool years, my new fave was The Mothers of Invention. Then on to lots of other stuff. But the Beatles stayed on the back burner from way back then until 2-3 years ago. And during that time, I didn't care a whole lot for the "later" Beatles. Only after I got hooked into the PID thing did the later stuff really make sense. With a new P.O.V. on those "later" lyrics, that stuff is amazing... I had no idea! So I'm a much bigger Beatles fan now than ever before.
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Post by JoJo on Nov 19, 2004 19:16:32 GMT -5
My first real memory is hearing Penny lane on the AM radio in the car when I was five years old, although my mother tells me we watched them on Ed Sullivan, although I was only two at the time... Then later, it was always around, because my uncle spent summers with us; he was more like an older brother, around your age Eyesbleed. ;D So of course I heard Pepper elevendy billion times, haha! We had a summer "camp", which for you non New Hampshire types, is a summer cottage. No big deal, back then it was pretty cheap. Anyways, so through my uncle and his friends, I was exposed to all that 60's era music, of course the Beatles were a big part of it. A part of being a rural state is that many families take part in The Fresh Air Fund, where you take in kids from the inner city for a few weeks, so they can stay in a rural environment and get away from the big city. So we had this kid from NY visiting us, (this was in 1970 btw) and Let It Be was on the record player, and he proceded to tell us that Paul was dead and replaced by a lookalike. We were like... He said "look at the Pepper cover, the nose is different, the chin is different", etc... He then said the Let It Be Paul was the real Paul returned, weird, eh? I don't remember if there was any kind of debate, I imagine it was dismissed as being absurd, but being kinda isolated, this was the first we had heard of it.. Sorry, this was your first experience with The Beatles, not PID, whoops.. But I never forgot that conversation, wish I knew where he is today...
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Post by TotalInformation on Nov 19, 2004 19:57:36 GMT -5
DoctorPerp, you're saying Beatles records were blaring over American preschool PA systems in the fall of 1963?
That is remarkable.
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Post by Girl on Nov 19, 2004 21:42:23 GMT -5
That is remarkable, but some schools were/are hipper than others... I remember at one Christmas concert when I was very young, they had some grade 7'ers doing a lip-sync of "I should Have Known Better"... the instruments were nothing more than cardboard cutouts covered in tin foil... but the crowd went wild, anyhow.
I too had a hard time warming up to the new sound, but now it makes more sense... an "acquired" taste you might say.
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Post by Girl on Nov 19, 2004 21:46:12 GMT -5
BTW, great sound, EB...
I like Entropy.
Did you check out HS yet?
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Post by Doc on Nov 19, 2004 23:27:41 GMT -5
I think it was March 63, now I know that seems a little early. I was in a one wek preschool, I was to start first grade later that year, in the fall, and we were in anothe town then, a very small town in another state. I remember vividly where I sat at the table, and all the hubbub the song caused at the table. Nothing to alarm the faculty--but it was the big new thing for all kids I think. Now, if they realeased that song later, then I've got a bad memory circuit--------------a possibility.
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Post by xpt626 on Nov 20, 2004 6:52:26 GMT -5
;D Oh now come on there Dr.! I'll bet yer one hell of a good piano man. that he is ;D And I'm jealous of both of you guys ;D I have no musical talent whatsoever yes, I hijacked the thread and ignored the topic... 'scuse please
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 20, 2004 21:30:19 GMT -5
yes, I hijacked the thread and ignored the topic... 'scuse please Well... at least I'm not the only one to hijack a thread once in a while
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Post by eyesbleed on Nov 20, 2004 21:37:38 GMT -5
BTW, great sound, EB... I like Entropy. Did you check out HS yet? Hey that's cool. When my partner-in-crime first suggested dropping all guitars & drums for a new "orchestrated" version, I was a bit hesitant, but he was right... & I'm quite proud of my part in that. A bud has even done a video for it, but I don't have that online yet. Ya found my HS review over yonder, right?
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Post by Girl on Nov 21, 2004 16:27:21 GMT -5
I'd like to see that video when you have it...
and yes, thanks for your words on the other thread...
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Post by xpt626 on Nov 21, 2004 22:10:53 GMT -5
Well... at least I'm not the only one to hijack a thread once in a while I think Doc and I are King and Queen of the hijackings
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Post by Doc on Nov 22, 2004 0:42:02 GMT -5
I think Doc and I are King and Queen of the hijackings I can think of no one better with whom to share the throne!! Hey, but wait, diamonds, hearts, clubs, or spades?
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Dec 13, 2005 22:56:19 GMT -5
My first experience, I was so young that I didn't know how to work the record player, then called a "HI FI". I used to get my Mom to play my sister's copy over and over. I remember laying on my sister's bed listening to "Meet the Beatles". Let's see, I was not quite 3 years old. I grew up and was not addicted to LSD and didn't join some weird religious commune.
The first song I remember learning was "I Saw Her Standing There".
"sherman, set the way back machine"....
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Post by lili on Dec 14, 2005 10:14:40 GMT -5
I remember listening to them on my parents victrola in the living room. I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. I drove my parents nuts with their music ;D
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