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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 14:16
Chill pill time methinks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 14:29
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Chill pill time methinks.
 
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The Dark Elf is usually grumpy, but he is very sweet actually and I like him and in his own grumpiness I find him very funny too LOL eventually he will give in and let me hug him  Big smileWink 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 14:41
Right back atcha Sonia!

My comment wasn't really directed at the back-n-forth between you and ze lark elf, but the one with earlyprog. Anyways, seems like that is over and done with (let's hope eh).

I've had a wonderful Easter up until now thanks with far too much to eat and drink, but it's been in the company of family and other loved ones. I ate a Jesus chocolate today, which is a first for me. He tasted delicious.
I trust you've been enjoying your's as well down in Mozambique?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 14:55
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Right back atcha Sonia!

My comment wasn't really directed at the back-n-forth between you and ze lark elf, but the one with earlyprog. Anyways, seems like that is over and done with (let's hope eh).

I've had a wonderful Easter up until now thanks with far too much to eat and drink, but it's been in the company of family and other loved ones. I ate a Jesus chocolate today, which is a first for me. He tasted delicious.
I trust you've been enjoying your's as well down in Mozambique?
mhwoaaahhhxxx!!!! Hug
 
No need to worry about negative vibes here between Earlyprog and I, I think we both have conformed to the fact that we annoy each other and never ever agree on anything but we are ok with that too Big smile
Hahahaha you ate Jesus hahaha!!! LOL I Never tried him before Big smile 
Mozambique here was nice and quiet for once I did not bring any work home and this felt really good Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 14:59
Cool, I'm glad you guys can agree on something then:-)

Chocolate Jesus eh? Soooo strange but good.

Bringing work home? In the holidays? Damn....I'm glad you decided to refrain from that. Clever girl.
I'm off now - I hear my sis yelling something about a dessert. Cheers:-)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 15:02
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Cool, I'm glad you guys can agree on something then:-)

Chocolate Jesus eh? Soooo strange but good.

Bringing work home? In the holidays? Damn....I'm glad you decided to refrain from that. Clever girl.
I'm off now - I hear my sis yelling something about a dessert. Cheers:-)
Go and have (yum) fun! I am so happy you are back, back, back again yay!!!!!!! Bounce, bounce, happyyyy bounce! Big smile See you later!!!! hugs Hug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 15:05
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Cool, I'm glad you guys can agree on something then:-)


Kati is taking the liberty of talking on behalf of me. No agreement without two parties agreeing.

But i'm cool Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 15:07
Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Cool, I'm glad you guys can agree on something then:-)


Kati is taking the liberty of talking on behalf of me. No agreement without two parties agreeing.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 15:35
His life, his call, the Beatles anyway had reached their peak and he was the 'visionary artist'  in that ensemble! The rest is history
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 16:29
The dessert was brilliant. Coffee flavoured mousse with chocolate shavings.
No sign of any Jesus shaped candy though, which I personally considered quite the let down considering my most recent dessert experience.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2015 at 16:46
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The dessert was brilliant. Coffee flavoured mousse with chocolate shavings.
No sign of any Jesus shaped candy though, which I personally considered quite the let down considering my most recent dessert experience.
 
You are not helping my diet here, Guldbamsen LOL
Yummy that sounds really good! I also want to try Jesus too. hahaha somehow this reminds of The Big Lebowski movie lol hahaha LOLBig smileHug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 10:32
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The dessert was brilliant. Coffee flavoured mousse with chocolate shavings.
No sign of any Jesus shaped candy though, which I personally considered quite the let down considering my most recent dessert experience.

 
You are not helping my diet here, Guldbamsen LOL
Yummy that sounds really good! I also want to try Jesus too. hahaha somehow this reminds of The Big Lebowski movie lol hahaha LOLBig smileHug


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 17 2015 at 20:18
Originally posted by Green Shield Stamp Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The dessert was brilliant. Coffee flavoured mousse with chocolate shavings.
No sign of any Jesus shaped candy though, which I personally considered quite the let down considering my most recent dessert experience.

 
You are not helping my diet here, Guldbamsen LOL
Yummy that sounds really good! I also want to try Jesus too. hahaha somehow this reminds of The Big Lebowski movie lol hahaha LOLBig smileHug


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2015 at 09:52
Originally posted by Lafayette Assburn Lafayette Assburn wrote:

McCartney II is supposed to be Paul at his most experimental - at least that is the hype I heard.
Hearing this I actually spent a whole $8 on a pristine copy. ("II" is not that easy to find hereabouts.)

Big disappointment. Far from exptal. (But then again, I understand the 2cd set(??) has more.)

Speaking of exptal diddling, ever hear  moog pioneer, Bernie Kraus' take on Harrison?
You always hear what a****les Lennon & McCartney were in real life, but not George.

You should read what Kraus had to say about him.



...and you can (link below). Though you may not want or like to do so. I know I didn't.

http://astronautapinguim.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/five-questions-to-bernie-krause.html

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2016 at 11:32
You live with straights who tell you, you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was Yesterday
And since you're gone you're Just Another Day
How can you sleep at night?
 
That John - Paul rift sure got ugly, eh? 
 
Paul's Beatles output was excellent.....some of the most interesting, precious and melodic music in rock history.  The Beatles were a collective - four minds working as one with John and Paul as the lead writers.  Neither Paul nor John could ever muster the magic that they had as partners.....yin-yang, sweet-sour, peanut butter-jelly - as a team they seemed to fill in the spaces between them to make a single functioning unit, especially from 1960-67.  Neither ever recovered from the split.....both may have had some fine singles or even full albums, but they never had that continuity again - something was always missing.  Paul fared well sales-wise and John wrote a few anthems, but nothing ever soared to Beatles heights. 
 
So, to answer the OP - John had his share of blame in the matter, but I think a unit that was that tight needed to come unwound sooner or later.  The Yoko business just led to more friction, which ultimately led to the dissolution of the band.  There were other factors, of course - Paul taking the fore a bit more with John's mind elsewhere; Ringo had quit the band during the White Album recording 'cause he felt he wasn't getting his due; George quit for a time but also came back for the Abbey Road recordings......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 13 2016 at 22:23
Everyone involved could've handled it better--  Yoko, for one, should've realized it would be a bad move and not gotten involved; The band could have been a bit more patient with her & John; And Mr. Lennon was (or should've been) insightful enough to see it coming and avoided the whole fiasco whether the band had broken up then or later.  

On the other hand it was 1969, everyone was pretty messed up.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 15 2016 at 10:28
Familiarity breeds contempt.....and when a "single functioning unit" stays so tight for so long, then a split is bound to come.  Take the Everly Brothers for example.....they wouldn't even speak to each other off stage - separate dressing rooms, separate transport.....the only time they even looked at each other was on stage.  That after so many years as a "single functioning unit".  Even brothers come unglued when under the spotlight for so long......and the Beatles, for all intent, were brothers. 
 
I don't know how much of a factor drugs and alcohol played, but it seems none of the Beatles were ever Keith Richards-level junkies - they may have partook.....and it may have played a part, but I think they died from a thousand paper cuts rather than an A-bomb.
 
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