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Post by Ish Kabbible on Feb 21, 2017 23:01:12 GMT -5
If you google Beatles fanfiction, there's probably enough to read for the rest of your life. Personally, I can't be bothered by fan fiction . I'm sure there are Beatles-related SF short stories and possibly a novel as well from established authors but my SF reading is usually confined up to the 1980's.
Also starting with page 5 of this thread, we ran through the multiple Beatles appearances in comics by publisher during the 1960's
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Post by berkley on Feb 21, 2017 23:30:09 GMT -5
The Beatles played a large part in my imaginative life when I was a small kid, I think largely because the cartoon made them personalities to me in addition to loving the music. I remember daydreaming, making up extended stories about them - often in conjunction with the Fantastic Four: for some reason the two were associated in my mind at that age (around 6,7, 8 years old). I'd have them visiting the Baxter Building, stuff like that.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 22, 2017 20:03:31 GMT -5
The very concept of Beatles' fiction (outside of their films) is news to me, but on reflection, how could I have not assumed such a thing existed -- I shudder to imagine what kind of Beatles porn fan fiction exists out there.
I'm still reeling from this revelation, but off hand, I don't have any interest in it. The Fab Four's films are of interest by dint of the Beatles themselves having been involved in them, but other fiction starring them doesn't appeal at all. The Beatles' real story is wilder than fiction at points, so non-fiction is what I'll stick with.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 22, 2017 21:57:04 GMT -5
I shudder to imagine what kind of Beatles porn fan fiction exists out there. "Dear Prudence, Why don't we do it in the road? From me to you, Michelle"  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 7, 2017 14:49:21 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 7, 2017 14:58:48 GMT -5
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 14, 2017 16:11:41 GMT -5
If you google Beatles fanfiction... It's probably time to turn off the computer and go for a walk or something. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 20, 2017 9:10:11 GMT -5
One of the final Beatles concert, in full, from Japan. The concert begins at 12:45
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Post by Confessor on Mar 20, 2017 18:38:33 GMT -5
One of the final Beatles concert, in full, from Japan. The concert begins at 12:45 Man, and don't they just sound tired of it all? That Budokan Stadium footage is great, but it's such a lacklustre performance compared to the energy that the band displayed just a year earlier at Shea Stadium or the Hollywood Bowl. The full band rendition of "Yesterday" at that concert is particularly bad. |
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 20, 2017 18:39:36 GMT -5
Ringo looks bored as hell during that first song, doesn't he?
Also, seeing that drum kit reminds me that I took a crapload of photos of Beatles stuff during my recent visit to the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame. I suppose I should post some!
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 20, 2017 18:49:22 GMT -5
  George's suit and John's shirt, both from 1966 I believe (I should have taken better notes). |
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 20, 2017 18:57:07 GMT -5
 John's suit jacket, and the guitar that he played at...Shea Stadium, I think? One of the US stadium shows, anyway. It's quite a small guitar.  John's leather jacket that he wore in Hamburg. Sorry about all the reflections on this stuff. I just couldn't find a way to avoid them. |
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 20, 2017 19:00:42 GMT -5
 The drum kit used by Ringo on stage and record from 1964-66.  The actual Mellotron used on Strawberry Fields Forever. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 7:45:23 GMT -5
Spike-XThanks for sharing those photos with us today! 
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Post by Confessor on Mar 21, 2017 8:17:24 GMT -5
Great photos there, Spike-X. Thanks for sharing. That's one of my favourite Beatles concert posters. I love the British/American yin and yang symbol. It's also pretty historically significant because the 1966 gig at Candlestick Park was the band's last live concert performance in front of a paying audience (they did do a free concert on top of the Apple offices in Savill Row, London in January 1969). John's suit jacket, and the guitar that he played at...Shea Stadium, I think? One of the US stadium shows, anyway. It's quite a small guitar. You're quite right, that guitar was played by John at the 1965 Shea Stadium gig. That's John's second Rickenbacker 325 guitar, which was given to him by the company in 1964. It was also played on the Beatles' second Ed Sullivan Show appearance in late February 1964, as well as being used in the films A Hard Day's Night and Help!. This was John's main stage guitar throughout 1964 and 1965. His original Rickenbacker 325 had been bought in Hamburg, Germany (I believe) in 1962 and had a natural wooden finish to it (what Rickenbacker call Mapleglo), which John then painted black some time later. Note on your photo how Lennon had bent the guitar's metal tremolo arm at a right angle in the middle, in order that it wouldn't get in his way when he played the instrument. Those tremolo arms were fairly sharp at the end, by all accounts, and would dig into the guitarists hand if he wasn't careful. John's leather jacket that he wore in Hamburg. I wonder if that's the same leather jacket that John is wearing in the famous photo by Jürgen Vollmer of John standing in a Hamburg doorway in 1962, which adorned the front cover of Lennon's 1975 Rock 'n' Roll album...  The actual Mellotron used on Strawberry Fields Forever. Actually, it's not.  There is a lot of confusion about this. That is John Lennon's personal Mellotron, which he had at his home in Weybridge, Surrey in 1967 and 1968. The Mellotron that the Beatles used on the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" was hired in from an outside rental company, because E.M.I. didn't have one themselves. By 1968, E.M.I. had installed their own Mellotron at Abbey Road studios and it is that instrument that was used on White Album tracks like "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" and "Revolution 9" and, today, Paul McCartney owns that particular ex-E.M.I. instrument. Incidentally, Macca also claims that his is the very one that was used on "Strawberry Fields Forever", but he's wrong as well. The "Strawberry Fields" Mellotron was returned to the hire company after being used on that record and was likely rented out again and again to other people for a few years before wearing out and being thrown away. Still, this Mellotron you saw is certainly a very cool piece of music history, since Lennon would've definitely played and maybe even written stuff on it. But it's not the instrument heard on "Strawberry Fields Forever". |
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