| Author | Message | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 73 Registered: 1-2012 |
Happy 45th birthday Sgt. Pepper. | ||
| byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1361 Registered: 12-2004 |
Wait, wouldn't it be 65 years ago, then? | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 7747 Registered: 6-2000 |
Don't mess with Bradley, he's a harsh editor. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 10719 Registered: 5-2002 |
Cool! Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Within You Without You | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5160 Registered: 7-2004 |
Why do you guys feel compelled to keep reminding me that I'm getting OLD!!!!!  Bill, tgo (Message edited by lbpesq on June 02, 2012) | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1872 Registered: 9-2002 |
Bill, Esq, you ain't the only one. . . . For the benefit of our younger readers, and maybe to tickle the memory of other 'experienced' pilots like Bill and yours truly: I was 12 years old in 1967. I always say people who didn't live through the 60's just can't get it, what an upheaval this world went through in the 10 years from 1960 to 1970. When I went to 1st grade in 1960, Eisenhower was the President, and America was still like the 'nifty 50's', like an episode of 'Leave It To Beaver'. This was the time of that cool suburban angst beginning to brew that Donald Fagen has mined and expressed so richly over the years. By 1970, Kennedy was dead, VietNam, the Summer of Love, Nixon, De-segregation, Women's Rights, drugs, you name it. The whole world turned inside out. And it's a small-er world. No internet. FM radio was only played in Dentist's Offices. Three-network TV. Newspapers. Black and white TV. It was still a big deal to place a long distance call, if your 'party line' was free. So the girl I was sweet on in 6th grade (STILL think about her from time to time . . . ), her Mom had gone to Floyd's Record Shoppe and bought SPLHCB and it was waiting on us when we got off the bus, and we ran to the house to listen to it. All those people on that Peter Max cover. Opened it up and they looked . . . . very different. Put it on. All those 'found' sounds. And the songs, and the production, nothing I'd ever heard sounded anything like it before or since. That record created and owned its own time and space like nothing before or since. They owned the world leading up to it, and after it, nothing else was ever the same. Whether it was two kids in East Texas, or anyone anywhere else in the world, it rewrote the book and closed it behind itself in one shot. J o e y | ||
| byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1364 Registered: 12-2004 |
Mica, It's the truth. Bradley | ||
| jalevinemd
Senior Member Username: jalevinemd Post Number: 843 Registered: 12-2003 |
Joey, I can't tell you how wonderfully you expressed your memories of that time and that album. | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1873 Registered: 9-2002 |
Well Thanks, Doc. BTW, I'm lighter by a gall bladder today ! Am I glad THAT's over with ! J o e y | ||
| rustyg61
Senior Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 602 Registered: 2-2011 |
Glad you are doing well after the surgery Joey! | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 86 Registered: 1-2012 |
Broadcast on 25 June 1967, Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production. Creative artists, including opera singer Maria Callas, The Beatles and painter Pablo Picasso, representing nineteen different nations were invited to perform or appear in separate segments featuring their respective countries. The broadcast took place at the height of the Vietnam War, and the Beatles wanted to use the opportunity to convey a positive message expressing a philosophy of love. They gave a live performance, transmitted at 8:54 pm GMT, performing a new song, written primarily by John Lennon, entitled "All You Need Is Love", which was composed especially for the occasion. The Beatles invited many of their friends to the event to create a festive atmosphere and to join in on the song's chorus. Among the friends were members of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon and Graham Nash. The performance was preceded by just a single rehearsal.  | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 87 Registered: 1-2012 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTF_wJW7N4g | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2493 Registered: 5-2009 |
Conceptually;_____ if we embrace our existence as a huge radius in tune with the universe and congruent with its dimensional presence instead of a straight line with incremental integers with a finite start and end we can not get old, just infinitely present locked in without time, forever on our souls journey in the path of the radius. ( a dream I had ) The wheel goes around and around_____________ | ||
| rustyg61
Senior Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 603 Registered: 2-2011 |
WOW Wolf, that was deep!! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 2494 Registered: 5-2009 |
Thanks Rusty, but someone better" take me to the shallow water before it gets too deep" ____ lol | ||
| rustyg61
Senior Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 605 Registered: 2-2011 |
Oh, I think you can keep your head above water just fine! You can hold your own with the best of them! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5161 Registered: 7-2004 |
Bradley wrote: "Wait, wouldn't it be 65 years ago, then?" Actually it would be more. As we all know, Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play 20 years before the album came out. One must assume that the good Sgt. was not a newborn when he gave the guys music lessons. So if he was even only 20 years old when he taught the band to play, that would make him at least 85 today! Bill, tgo | ||
| byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1365 Registered: 12-2004 |
Bill, Considering the relative dates, he'd have probably made Sergeant during WWII; it's unlikely that he'd have made Sergeant in less than 1 year at age 19-- so he is probably at least 86. Bradley | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1874 Registered: 9-2002 |
So this thread was running around my head to day and I'm flipping through the movie channels, and wow, here's '2001', that great Sphinx of a movie. And it reminded me of another huge impact not long after Sgt Pepper's: I shall always think that those transit sequences from Earth to the Space Station, and then on to the moon, set to 'The Blue Danube' as the greatest match of music to film I'll ever see. I was watching it on the big screen, but remembering it when I saw the original theatre run, with that music and the images on a billboard-sized screen were incredibly moving for me. WWaaayyyy more than the 'light show' towards the end. The Shirl did wonder why I had the TV up that loud today, though . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpvOUnz4T7Q J o e y | ||
| jzstephan
Member Username: jzstephan Post Number: 88 Registered: 1-2012 |
June 1967: "Are You Experienced?" released in Europe. Forever changing the way electric guitar sounds, it would be two months before its release in the USA.  | ||
| notfadeaway
Junior Username: notfadeaway Post Number: 20 Registered: 5-2012 |
I play in a Hendrix/SRV cover band. This one is near and dear to my heart. |
