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|    Mike Powell to GEORGE POPE    |
|    Re: The ******* Beatles    |
|    06 Dec 21 16:20:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 25342.memoryln@1:2320/105 261422d7       REPLY: 1898.fido-memories@1:153/757.2 26127b6e       PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.12-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0       BBSID: CAPCITY2       CHRS: ASCII 1       > > Maybe they didn't like the later, psychedelic stuff the Beatles did but my       > > understanding is that they were up in arms about them long before then.              > Pretty much from day one, mostly because they all had long hair (Elvis, their       > hero, always had short/nbet hair, & no facial hair, so what was with the got       > tam Beatles? These people still say the Beatles began the erosion of       American       > moral values upon arrival in 1964.              Except not everyone liked him, either. He shook his hips too much. :)              > Turned out that correlation does not equal causation; after a proper       > scientific(following the proper rules for such) study, it was determined that       > the type of woman who used the BCP were also the same type to sunbathe in       > bikinis more than the general, perhaps more priggish, population.              I thought I knew where that was going, and I did. :)              > A comment from a senior member on talkclassical.com said:              > "Almost everything he did was unexpected -- and still is on first listen if       > you're deeply immersed in it. It's those passages where he leads you along       and       > you think he's going to resolve a phrase on the tonic or root chord as most       > others composers of the time did, but then goes off on a completely       surprising       > tangent. Combine that with the headbanging thrust, Thrust, THRUST of his       > sforzando passages and he must have had people fainting in the aisles."              Did they give you a name? :)                      * SLMR 2.1a * The girl of your dreams is unavailable except in print       --- SBBSecho 3.12-Linux        * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 90/1 105/81 120/340 616 123/10 131 124/5016 129/305       SEEN-BY: 153/757 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90 221/0 6 226/18       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 201 229/424 426 428 452 664 700 240/1120 2100       SEEN-BY: 240/5138 5234 5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206 307 317 400 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/1038 292/854 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2320/0 33 105       SEEN-BY: 2320/195 304 2452/250 2454/119 3634/12       PATH: 2320/105 154/10 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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