'The Beatles: Rock Band' website honored with prestigious Webby Award
BOWL GAME: On May 6, 1977, the album "The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl" was released on LP. So where's the CD?
VOTE RINGO: We put up a poll Thursday asking which songs you'd like to see Ringo sing live on tour this summer. The very early voting brought a surprisingly strong from one of the lesser known songs on the album, "Mystery of the Night." We'll see where this goes.
YOKO LECTURE: Yoko Ono will talk about her life, show films and take questions in a free lecture Thursday at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, the final in a series of the college’s 2009-10 Convocation Series addresses. A wish tree installation is also at the college this week to coincide with her appearance. Admission is free, but tickets are required for admission. You can get them here. We saw her Stanford lecture in January, 2009. It was very enlightening.
ALL WE ARE SAYING: In the tape of a Toronto 1966 Beatles press conference set to be auctioned by Bonhams in Los Angeles, John Lennon talked about his feelings about war a couple of years before recording "Give Peace a Chance," reports the Montreal Gazette. He said he and the Beatles "just don't agree with war for any reason whatsoever. There's no reason on Earth why anybody should kill anybody else." George Harrison also supported resisting the draft. "I think anybody who doesn't feel like fighting, or feels like fighting is wrong, has a right not to go in the army. There's nobody can force you into going and killing someone," he said.
SID, MEET BRUCE: Guitar pioneer Les Paul, who was a huge influence on Paul McCartney and George Harrison, was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on Sunday. In the picture at the left, Rusty Paul, Les' son, and Beatles promoter Sid Bernstein meet Bruce Springsteen, who attended the ceremony. Rock Music Examiner Phyllis Pollack has a report. Paul McCartney guitarist Brian Ray was part of an amazing sonic tribute to Les Paul last year with Rick Nielsen and Orianthi that you can see here.
DOCTOR SUED: The doctor involved with a controversy over forcing George Harrison to autograph a guitar on his deathbed has been named in a wrongful death suit regarding a women's cancer diagnosis, reports SILive.com. The Brooklyn judge trying the case has ruled the Harrison case cannot be discussed.
MEETING OF DRUMMERS: Andy White, drummer on one of the versions of "Love Me Do," and Pete Best will both guest star at the Super Megashow July 9-11 in Boston. Also attending: Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders, Denny Laine, Billy J. Kramer and Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork of the Monkees.
SONG REVISITED: Dean Johnson's "Silence Is Its Own Reply," originally crafted with some words written by George Harrison, has been revised minus the words, but with an added interview from Johnson. The new version is available through his website.
RECORD STORE BLUES: If you've ever spent time browsing for Beatles records in independent record stores, you might be interested in "I Need That Record!," a new documentary on DVD. We reviewed it here.
CRUISIN': Seattle's Creme Tangerine will be performing about KZOK's "Breakfast With the Beatles" 10th anniversary cruise May 26 out of Seattle. For more information, www.argosycruises.com.
YOKO WITH PETE TOWNSHEND?: To close, Who Examiner Michael Petrucci reports that Pete Townshend has stated he'd love to work with Yoko Ono. "My first collaboration choice would probably be Yoko Ono, one of the first members of the Symposium for Destruction in Art of 1966. She screams better than that bloke in the Who," he told fans in an online interview. Now that would be interesting.
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Comments
Go Pete Townshend! Proves he is open to new things musically, as always, and is obviously not wearing a box over his head as far as what's going on in music.
This ought to bring the haters and the musically limited out for a few hilarious posts, especially some bending over backwards to expain what Pete REALLY means. This could be hilarious!
...or maybe he (Townshend) is wearing a box over his head. Does that make me "musically limited" 'cause I'm not into or interested in what Yoko does "musically?" I've listened to her enough over the years to know she doesn't interest me as an "artist."
Toi boat: Not sure you could be any more patronizing. Yoko is not exactly a "new thing" going on musically, anyway. And it is OK to dislike her music, you know. Liking it doesn't make you any superior to anyone else.
Pete, for his part, is desperate to still seem "edgy." He mentioned this Yoko thing during his Superbowl-related interviews, too. Like he felt the need to say, Hey, I'm playing at a football game to 70 million people but look at me mention Yoko. Does that make me hip still?
And by the way, I like some of Yoko's music. I just don't think I deserve a gold star from the Hip Club for liking it.
If one adds Jagger to that "desperate to still seem edgy" comment/sentiment, the nail has been hit on the head. IMO. (Yeah, I know this isn't about Jagger. But still....)
Jon and Sam, thanks for the laughs, I knew they were coming. It's not condescention, it's common sense to anticipate a pattern that constantly being repeated. The missing-the-point of a message is another pattern. I just have to sit back and wait! Please carry on, don't mind me!
Toi boat: You and your little baiting game are kinda lame. You go in search of negativity, you will find it.
Hmm says:
Toi boat: You and your little baiting game are kinda lame. You go in search of negativity, you will find it.
HMM, on this list, if there's a Yoko mention, the negativity always comes, and it's usually really damned stoopid. Not just stoopid, but REALLY DAMNED stoopid. Why wait for the negativity when I can have a little fun before it comes?
Notice I mentioned in my first post there'd be "some bending over backwards to expain what Pete REALLY means"? Eight hours and 20 minutes later, SAM chimed in with "Pete, for his part, is desperate to still seem "edgy."
Okay?
But yes your outlook is more in line with what Yoko professes.
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