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achilleslaststand77

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    Music: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Guns N' Roses, Van Halen, Queen, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Aerosmith

    Guitarists: Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Slash, George Harrison, Angus Young, Brian May

    TV: Frasier, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza, Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Movies: Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, National Treasure

    Books: The Bible, Lord Of The Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Star Wars EU
  1. Hi, it's nice to see another Beatles fan here. :)

  2. I love Guns N' Roses or rather what used to be Guns N' Roses..... they were the last great hard/classic rock band IMO. Appetite for Destruction is one of my favorite albums of all time. The Use Your Illusion albums I haven't listened to as much but they have some good songs off that. I'd like to get my hands on their live album sometime. I think Axl should change the name now cause he's the only original member left I only have a few Velvet Revolver songs but they really rock from what I've heard. One of my best friends got to see them play a couple years ago and he thought they were great
  3. yes I'm a huge fan nope would like to though I only have Van Halen and The Best of Both Worlds.... so I guess I go with Van Halen Panama or Hot for Teacher Eddie even though he's an idiot trying to figure out which frontman should be in his band **Eddie picking flower pedals off a flower** "I like Roth, I like Sammy, I like Roth, I like Gary, I like Sammy, I like Roth"...... In the spirit of the Roth-Hagar debate I'll say this..... I like Roth era songs the best... I like Sammy but I don't like the poppy stuff... when they rocked it was good but I don't like Why Can't This Be Love etc etc
  4. a "rare" take of Stairway to Heaven that has been posted on youtube....... the cover of IV is the "video" ...... I'm interested to see how the solo sounds Edit: upon listening to it I like the version we all know and love much better..... but if you wanna hear it go here
  5. heard this about ten minutes ago listening to this right now...... I'm listening to the second side of Led Zeppelin II on vinyl and the bass from the album is giving my ears a headache now it's Bring It On Home........ "waahh wahhhhhhh"
  6. Trampled Under Foot Classic Rock.... 106.7 THE FOX
  7. Yes I pointed that out a couple pages ago... Yoko wasn't the only one. But she's a big reason and probably bigger than the rest of them. She singlehandedly managed to turn four friends into enemies unless there was a guest there (i.e. Eric Clapton or Billy Preston... both brought by George Harrison to alleviate that hostility). Her influence on Lennon was incredible.
  8. exactly....... she even gave her own opinion on the other's songs!!!! I don't know about you but that would tick me off..... "who's this woman telling me, a Beatle, what to do on my bloody song?"
  9. I consider those sessions to be one of the most interesting times of the Beatles career... all the songs they did and stuff really interesting even if they weren't getting along
  10. Thanks! I'll have to check it out looks awesome
  11. I thought Ringo lived in the US but who knows ? Nope I don't get it completely either I think her strangeness attracted John to her partly..... as he was always loving odd things. If anything positive happened out of him becoming attached to her it was that he started writing again. I've never heard much of George's solo work outside of the two songs you always hear on the radio (My Sweet Lord and What is Life). I like some of McCartney's solo work, in fact I'm listening to his Having a Wonderful Christmastime song right now. He was easily the most talented musician in the Beatles due to sheer skill.... he can/could play pretty much anything he picks up. He played the solos in Ticket to Ride, Taxman, Good Morning Good Morning, and it's disputed whether he played Hey Bulldog and the album version of Let It Be. He also hasn't really lost his vocal range with age either which is pretty neat too.
  12. yes the solos are different the one on the Let It Be album was recorded a year later I think I forgot about bootlegs of Let It Be ..... can't you tell I'm not a collector? The ones I knew of were the single version, the one on Let It Be, I heard Led It Be...Naked had a different version, and the one on the Anthology they did a lot of songs during that time..... I remember reading they played Love Me Do.... I dunno if it's on a recording or not though
  13. ahh you got the one that has the blistering guitar solo in it then
  14. well there are a bunch of reasons. A big one was Yoko.... but it wasn't the only one contrary to popular belief (I think it just helped speed it up.) When Lennon hooked up with her it all went downhill from there. The recording sessions the Beatles had before they left for India to study transcendental meditation were productive and they were having fun recording together (go to youtube and type in Lady Madonna or Hey Bulldog and you'll see what I mean). But afterwards for the first recording session for The White Album when Yoko arrived it went downhill... destroyed the unity. And the other three went along with it and the result made everyone miserable and short tempered. There were moments where it wasn't so bad sure but I'm speaking in general. Each member thought his own songs were more important and cared only for their own. Harrison felt caged in with normal "two songs per album" that he received on each album... and increasingly hostile to McCartney who he felt was "bossy" (Hey Jude is an example.. McCartney didn't like the way he was playing guitar) Also George felt that he couldn't record until Paul had done three or four of his own songs first. Well to keep this from getting really long, these feelings never changed and after all four somehow managed to make a somewhat united effort with Abbey Road they rarely saw each other after that. Each member had started some sort of a solo effort but they hadn't officially split until McCartney came public about it. I think a factor often forgotten is that the Beatles had basically spent fourteen straight years together from their teenage years to adulthood..... they all had families when they split and were happy to stay that way You probably have the version that was released as a single. What CD did you get it off?
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