From the eyes of a child-Yellow Submarine

I live in Rockland County,NY.I moved up to New City when I
was about 5 years old. I remember Yellow Submarine coming to the movie theatres ( back when movie theatres were full sized theatres, not a regular theatre split in 2 or 3). The weekend finally came and we went to see it. How different it looked back then compared to when they released it on DVD. Isn't it weird how different things
looked and smelled and tasted back when we were all kids. From an adult point of view George came out with 2 of my favorite songs on the album-" It's All Too Much " & " Only A Northern Song " . John & Paul came out with one of the best Beatle songs ever- " Nowhere Man " & if you listen to a good recording on a good stereo of " Hey BullDog " and turn the balance all the way to the right you can actually make out what John and Paul are babbyling about near the end of the song. One other point, only the U.K. release has the words " NOTHING IS REAL ", on the front of the album cover under the word " Submarine ".

Who other artists listen to?

I wanted to include this picture of another of my favorite guitarists-Jimi Hendrix. I include this in my Beatles blog because of a story I read that John and Paul were very suprised and delighted they had heard that Jimi had played a cover version of " Day Tripper " at one of his concerts only a day or two after the Beatles had released the song as a single in the U.K.

Let It Be

Let It Be was originally produced by Phil Spector ( the one responsible for the reverb on most of John Lennon's vocal tracks ) It was the only Beatle Album released to the public with the characteristic red apple. As stated on the back of the album cover quote " this is a new phase BEATLES album. . . LET IT BE was that they performed live for many of the tracks; in comes the warmth and the freshness of a live performance; as reproduced for disc by Phil Spector. I don't know about any of the other Beatle fans throughout the world, but this Let It Be was electronically trashed by Phil Spector. All you have to do is listen to Let It Be. . . Naked, and that's the album that should have been originally released as a live studio album. The album with the Red Apple is merely the sound track for the concert they gave on top of what was the Apple Boutique. There wasn't any warmth or spontaneity; it was a live recording that was electronically remastered.If you haven't listened to Let It Be. . .Naked, you don't know what your missing.

A new Beatles Photo

This is a Beatles photo that I found on another site on the web. I always delight in coming across a phtograph of the Beatles I've never seen before. With all the different books on the market ( and I own quite a few ) it's hard to find something you haven't seen before. This picture again looks to be about circa 1967-68. John's wearing that necklace around his neck ( the one with the 2 eyes and smiling mouth) that's in alot of other Beatle photographs.In fact I think it's the only thing besides his birthday suit that he's wearing on the Nude album with Yoko.

Favorite Pictures

These have always been my favorite pictures of the Beatles. My old man had to go down to Washington DC on business and when he came home he gave me the White Album for my birthday.The weird thing was that at the time I was 11 or 12 and my parents were too God damn cheap to buy me a stereo to listen to my albums on. So the 1st month or so I played the White album to death in MONO. A classmate in my grade school invited me over to his house after school and when he put the album on in stereo I almost had a baby. I couldn't believe the difference.My friend laughed his ass off. He couldn't believe my reaction. I'll never forget that.

Beatles ( circa 1967)

I came across this picture on another web site while I was surfing the web one day. They all look pretty wasted, but George almost looks like he's tripping on something or other.From the length of their hair it looks like this picture was taken around the time of the Sgt. Pepper's album. ( the only thing missing is a couple of moustaches. If anyone has some pictures other than the one's everyone's seen hundreds of time , please feel free to share any pictures or songs you've got that aren't in the Anthology DVD.

In The Studio

This is something to this day I would kill for to see. The Beatles in the studio putting together a new album. Of course the 5th Beatle ( George Martin ) would hang out mostly in the booth somewhere in the studio (above in the window ). I think alot of people don't give Martin the credit he deserved for how the final album sounded. This was part of the magic. The group wanted new different sounds & effects and George would make it happen.He was a very lucky person to end up where he did, when he did. Thank you for all the great things you helped with to make the Beatles sound their absolute best.

George Harrison-The "not so quiet" Beatle

Next to John Lennon, I think George was my next favorite Beatle. He wasn't as vocal as John, but, I can definately identify with him. I've always been a loaner; usually went along with the crowd. This is not to say that George didn't follow a path of his own. As he grew up with his brothers,( Paul, John, & Ringo ) George was alot more spiritual than the other Beatles.( in my opinion of course ). He entwined his spirituality with what he learned from the Dali Lama in India. He incorporated Eastern music into some of the songs he wrote for some of the Beatles albums. He taught himself along with the teachings of Ravi Shankar how to play sitar; one of the things I feel made some of his songs very special to himself and to me. He put more emphisis into spiritual things over material things. I, along with many other people felt a great loss when he left us; I wish I could have had the honor of meeting George and talking with him about his life. I think I could have learned a few things from George that would have helped me to put my life into better perspective. I've found there isn't anything more crucial to put life into perspective than the death of someone meaningful. I'm hoping that when I do die that I get that chance to see all the people that played into some part of my life. Years ago, I lost 3 of my friends at very early ages; within the span of 1 month. Way before their time. That put many insignificant bullshit things in my life into a whole new perspective. I now have a wife, my soul mate & a 15 year old son both of which I would die for. They're what keeps my life in perspective now. I miss George Harrison and John Lennon very much. But I thank them for their music; it helped me through some very hard times.

Back to Vinyl-MFSL Beatles Black Box

Is there anyone else on the web that bought a copy of the Beatles Black Box Collection from Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs? ( MFSL ). If you don't know what this is, MFSL is a record company that choose the best sounding Original Master 1/2" audio tapes, played them at 1/2 speed, at the same time ran the lathe that cut the metal negative albums that would be used to stamp the vinyl positive albums that we used to play on our turntables.This would give the lathe twice the time to carve every nuance of sound from the master tapes.The vinyl used was special from Japan that you could see through if held up to a light.To make a long story short, they did this with the original master tapes from the 13 English Beatle albums and the sound was amazing.There's a web site that MFSL is running now that tells what albums besides the Beatles that were made & now they record old & new albums on gold plated CD's, again using only original 1/2" master tapes.

John Lennon Day

There is another website on the web that is trying to get enough signatures to nationally declaire October 9th as a holiday. Officially " John Lennon Day. " The site is " www.johnlennonday.com ". Sign up, and tell all your friends to tell their friends to tell their friends so we can make this a reality.

Day of silence

I wanted to share this story related to the death of John Lennon.On the Sunday after John was killed, we all met at my sister-in-law's house ( off of South Mountain Road, in New City (Rockland County, NY ) to observe the 10 minutes of silence that was to happen at the same time all over the world. It was a bright sunny day, but very cold. When the 10 minutes of silence started, the sun was still shining but it started to snow heavily; as if John was crying and letting us know how much it meant to him that the whole world was doing this for him.I say this because as soon as the 10 minutes ended, so did the snow that left a rainbow in the sky. Coincidence?