Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Whatsoever Wednesday
Pictorial tribute to George's Hindu/Hare Krishna family, whom he loved so dearly:
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Monday Minutiae
On my John Lennon blog today, I wrote a brief entry about this amazingly talented guy who does 3D renders of different things relating to the Beatles. The pictures on that blog were of John's sunroom at Kenwood. But there is also a beautiful 3D render relating to George that actually got me a bit choked up. It was a combination of the soft, warm colors of the picture - you could almost feel the coziness, like you were standing in the room - along with the beautiful pictures he chose to frame and George's guitar right in the middle of it all. Outstanding. Here's the picture here:
You can see his blog and his other work here:
http://thebeatlesin3d.blogspot.com/
You can see his blog and his other work here:
http://thebeatlesin3d.blogspot.com/
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Fretful Friday
According to music critic Ian MacDonald, the song "starts as a twelve-bar blues in E, which makes a feint at turning into a twelve-bar in the relative minor (i.e. the chorus) before doubling back to the expected B—another joke from a group which had clearly decided that wit was to be their new gimmick."
The video isn't the best quality, but George gets fret points just for looking so damn cool while playing guitar.
The video isn't the best quality, but George gets fret points just for looking so damn cool while playing guitar.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Thought for Thursday
George on chanting:
"Chanting doesn’t stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too."
"Chanting doesn’t stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too."
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Testimonial Tuesday
To this day, I cannot hear this without getting choked up.
" 'Here Comes the Sun' is about you.."
" 'Here Comes the Sun' is about you.."
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Thought for Thursday
"George was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you." ~ Tom Petty
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Monday Minutiae
* Note: Very rarely will I post the same entry to multiple blogs, but this particular entry will be on Paul, John and George's blogs today.
In 1960, the Beatles went off to Hamburg, Germany for the first time. George had to lie about his age in order to perform, as he was only 17 years old at the time.
They had been performing under less-than-ideal conditions at a place called the Indra and then later, when neighbors started complaining about the noise, at the Kaiserkeller- sleeping in a storeroom at the Bambi Kino, a nearby theater owned by Bruno Koschmider, who also owned the clubs the boys were playing at. As Paul describes it: "We lived backstage in the Bambi Kino, next to the toilets, and you could always smell them. The room had been an old storeroom, and there were just concrete walls and nothing else. No heat, no wallpaper, not a lick of paint; and two sets of bunk beds, with not very much covers—Union Jack flags—we were frozen."
John was equally unimpressed:
"We were put in this pigsty. We were living in a toilet, like right next to the ladies' toilet. We'd go to bed late and be woken up next day by the sound of the cinema(porn)show and old German fraus (women) pissing next door."
In addition, the boys' only option for washing and shaving was to use cold water from the urinals in the bathroom.
Having heard of a better club called the Top Ten, they began negotiations with the owner to perform there. According to George, the sound system was better, it looked nicer and it would pay a bit more.
The story goes that Koschmider, being less than thrilled at the boys breaking their contract with him, called the cops on George and reported him for being underage. The police arranged for his deportation shortly thereafter.
George says that he stayed up all night with John, teaching him his guitar parts before he was deported so that the Beatles could continue to play.
He wasn't alone back home for very long though. Bandmates Paul McCartney and Pete Best were soon deported as well. Going back to the Bambi Kino to gather their things, they grabbed a condom from their belongings, nailed it to the wall and set fire to it. No real damage was done, but they were reported to the authorities for attempted arson.
The Indra in the 1960's:
The Beatles on their first night at the Indra club (left to right: John, George, Pete, Paul and Stu in matching lilac jackets that Paul's neighbor made for them):
George, John, Pete, Paul and Stu later in the evening:
George, John and Paul:
The Indra as it looks today:
Grosse Freiheit in the 1960's (site of the Kaiserkeller club):
concert poster for the Beatles and Rory Storm (to date, no proven photos of either band playing there in 1960 have surfaced):
the Kaiserkeller today:
The Top Ten Club:
The Beatles at the Top Ten club (left to right: Pete, Paul, George, John and Stu):
The location of the former Top Ten Club as it appears today:
George in their room at the Bambi Kino:
Paul and John in their room at the Bambi Kino:
The boys at Harold's cafe in Hamburg, with an unidentified man who looks rather enamored with George (who could blame him?):
A scantily clad John on the street:
John was known to have said "I may have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg."
In 1960, the Beatles went off to Hamburg, Germany for the first time. George had to lie about his age in order to perform, as he was only 17 years old at the time.
They had been performing under less-than-ideal conditions at a place called the Indra and then later, when neighbors started complaining about the noise, at the Kaiserkeller- sleeping in a storeroom at the Bambi Kino, a nearby theater owned by Bruno Koschmider, who also owned the clubs the boys were playing at. As Paul describes it: "We lived backstage in the Bambi Kino, next to the toilets, and you could always smell them. The room had been an old storeroom, and there were just concrete walls and nothing else. No heat, no wallpaper, not a lick of paint; and two sets of bunk beds, with not very much covers—Union Jack flags—we were frozen."
John was equally unimpressed:
"We were put in this pigsty. We were living in a toilet, like right next to the ladies' toilet. We'd go to bed late and be woken up next day by the sound of the cinema(porn)show and old German fraus (women) pissing next door."
In addition, the boys' only option for washing and shaving was to use cold water from the urinals in the bathroom.
Having heard of a better club called the Top Ten, they began negotiations with the owner to perform there. According to George, the sound system was better, it looked nicer and it would pay a bit more.
The story goes that Koschmider, being less than thrilled at the boys breaking their contract with him, called the cops on George and reported him for being underage. The police arranged for his deportation shortly thereafter.
George says that he stayed up all night with John, teaching him his guitar parts before he was deported so that the Beatles could continue to play.
He wasn't alone back home for very long though. Bandmates Paul McCartney and Pete Best were soon deported as well. Going back to the Bambi Kino to gather their things, they grabbed a condom from their belongings, nailed it to the wall and set fire to it. No real damage was done, but they were reported to the authorities for attempted arson.
The Indra in the 1960's:
The Beatles on their first night at the Indra club (left to right: John, George, Pete, Paul and Stu in matching lilac jackets that Paul's neighbor made for them):
George, John, Pete, Paul and Stu later in the evening:
George, John and Paul:
The Indra as it looks today:
Grosse Freiheit in the 1960's (site of the Kaiserkeller club):
concert poster for the Beatles and Rory Storm (to date, no proven photos of either band playing there in 1960 have surfaced):
the Kaiserkeller today:
The Top Ten Club:
The Beatles at the Top Ten club (left to right: Pete, Paul, George, John and Stu):
The location of the former Top Ten Club as it appears today:
George in their room at the Bambi Kino:
Paul and John in their room at the Bambi Kino:
The boys at Harold's cafe in Hamburg, with an unidentified man who looks rather enamored with George (who could blame him?):
A scantily clad John on the street:
John was known to have said "I may have been born in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg."
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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