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'69 AND THE CRIME ETCHED IN TIME -"When I Was 17, It was not a very good year"Rich BucklandWell. Here is something I've yet to get over in all the years since I first read the grisly details of Sharon Tate's murder in the Sunday newspaper's Parade magazine when I was just a wacky hippie teen and beach Boys fanatic.Cult-leader and killer Charles Manson and Beach Boy drummer and surfer Dennis Wilson were friends. For a while, at least. Good enough friends that Manson and his “family” of young women lived with Wilson for several months. Good enough friends that Wilson convinced the Beach Boys to include a song written by Manson, who had musical ambitions, on their album 20/20.Which brings me back to the main bad guy, Charles Manson. I knew as early as the Parade magazine article that Manson and his “family” had gone to Sharon Tate's house looking for Terry Melcher, who did not live there. And I knew that Manson's actual target was this Terry Melcher, who I also knew was Doris Day's son. As it turns out, he was an important producer in the music industry.Yes indeed gand. The 60's was not all Peace, Love and Understanding. In 1988, Melcher earned a Golden Globe nomination for co-writing the song "Kokomo" with John Phillips, Scott McKenzie and Mike Love. Recorded by the Beach Boys, the song was featured in the 1988 Tom Cruise film Cocktail and hit No. 1 (the band's career fourth overall) on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was certified gold with U.S. sales of more than one million copies.[18] Melcher later co-wrote and produced the band's 1992 studio album Summer in Paradise, which was the first record produced digitally on Pro Tools.Charles Manson- The White AlbumOne of the two great influences on the thinking of Charles Manson, along with the Book of Revelation, was the musical group the Beatles. According to Family members, Manson would most often quote "the Beatles and the Bible." The two influences were linked, in that Manson saw the four Beatles members as being the "four angels" referred to in Revelation 9. Revelation 9 also tells of "locusts"--the Beatles, of course--coming out upon the earth. It describes prophets as having "faces as the faces of men" but with "the hair of women"--an assumed reference too the long hair of the all-male English group. In Revelation 9, the four angels with "breastplates of fire"--electric guitars--"issued fire and brimstone"--song lyrics.Manson believed that the Beatles spoke to him through their lyrics, especially those included in the White Album, released in December 1968. Several songs from the White Album crystalized Manson's thinking about a coming revolt by blacks against the white Establishment. He interpreted many of the songs idiosyncratically, believing, for example, that "Rocky Raccoon" meant black people and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" was a song about getting firearms to carry on the&

his opening quote ostensibly falling from the prepubescent mouth of John Lennon appears to identify a fractious mind when compared to another Lennonism in the form of lyrics claiming "Happiness is a Warm Gun." There is no written record of John ever telling this story still it has been attributed to this man who, along with three compadres, revolutionized Rock 'n Roll music helping it soar to vaunted heights. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-olson6/support

Matt and James are back to tell the story of the 2016/17 season, in which Francesco Becchetti completely loses the plot and tries to sink the club through a lethal mix of spite, incompetence and Valpolicella. In this episode the President graciously agrees to a Q&A session with fans, although does bring a man with a gun just in case. Andy Hessenthaler explains why he took the permanent manager job despite everything that happened last season, Linda Hendon is back – this time inexplicably speaking Geordie – and we hear the inside story on how club legend Dean Cox was made an offer he couldn't refuse by Mr Becchetti… 

Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifty-seven-minute bonus episode available, on "I Love You" by People!. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata Not really an error, but at one point I refer to Ornette Coleman as a saxophonist. While he was, he plays trumpet on the track that is excerpted after that. Resources No Mixcloud this week due to the number of songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. This time I also used Steve Turner's The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs 1967-1970. I referred to Philip Norman's biographies of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, to Graeme Thomson's biography of George Harrison, Take a Sad Song by James Campion, Yoko Ono: An Artful Life by Donald Brackett, Those Were the Days 2.0 by Stephan Granados, and Sound Pictures by Kenneth Womack. Sadly the only way to get the single mix of “Hey Jude” is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but a remixed stereo mix is easily available on the new reissue of the 1967-70 compilation. The original mixes of the White Album are also, shockingly, out of print, but this 2018 remix is available for the moment. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick note -- this episode deals, among other topics, with child abandonment, spousal neglect, suicide attempts, miscarriage, rape accusations, and heroin addiction. If any of those topics are likely to upset you, you might want to check the transcript rather than listening to this episode. It also, for once, contains a short excerpt of an expletive, but given that that expletive in that context has been regularly played on daytime radio without complaint for over fifty years, I suspect it can be excused. The use of mantra meditation is something that exists across religions, and which appears to have been independently invented multiple times, in multiple cultures. In the Western culture to which most of my listeners belong, it is now best known as an aspect of what is known as "mindfulness", a secularised version of Buddhism which aims to provide adherents with the benefits of the teachings of the Buddha but without the cosmology to which they are attached. But it turns up in almost every religious tradition I know of in one form or another. The idea of mantra meditation is a very simple one, and one that even has some basis in science. There is a mathematical principle in neurology and information science called the free energy principle which says our brains are wired to try to minimise how surprised we are --  our brain is constantly making predictions about the world, and then looking at the results from our senses to see if they match. If they do, that's great, and the brain will happily move on to its next prediction. If they don't, the brain has to update its model of the world to match the new information, make new predictions, and see if those new predictions are a better match. Every person has a different mental model of the world, and none of them match reality, but every brain tries to get as close as possible. This updating of the model to match the new information is called "thinking", and it uses up energy, and our bodies and brains have evolved to conserve energy as much as possible. This means that for many people, most of the time, thinking is unpleasant, and indeed much of the time that people have spent thinking, they've been thinking about how to stop themselves having to do it at all, and when they have managed to stop thinking, however briefly, they've experienced great bliss. Many more or less effective technologies have been created to bring about a more minimal-energy state, including alcohol, heroin, and barbituates, but many of these have unwanted side-effects, such as death, which people also tend to want to avoid, and so people have often turned to another technology. It turns out that for many people, they can avoid thinking by simply thinking about something that is utterly predictable. If they minimise the amount of sensory input, and concentrate on something that they can predict exactly, eventually they can turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream, without dying. One easy way to do this is to close your eyes, so you can't see anything, make your breath as regular as possible, and then concentrate on a sound that repeats over and over.  If you repeat a single phrase or word a few hundred times, that regular repetition eventually causes your mind to stop having to keep track of the world, and experience a peace that is, by all accounts, unlike any other experience. What word or phrase that is can depend very much on the tradition. In Transcendental Meditation, each person has their own individual phrase. In the Catholicism in which George Harrison and Paul McCartney were raised, popular phrases for this are "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" or "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." In some branches of Buddhism, a popular mantra is "_NAMU MYŌHŌ RENGE KYŌ_". In the Hinduism to which George Harrison later converted, you can use "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare", "Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya" or "Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha". Those last two start with the syllable "Om", and indeed some people prefer to just use that syllable, repeating a single syllable over and over again until they reach a state of transcendence. [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Jude" ("na na na na na na na")] We don't know much about how the Beatles first discovered Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, except that it was thanks to Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's then-wife. Unfortunately, her memory of how she first became involved in the Maharishi's Spiritual Regeneration Movement, as described in her autobiography, doesn't fully line up with other known facts. She talks about reading about the Maharishi in the paper with her friend Marie-Lise while George was away on tour, but she also places the date that this happened in February 1967, several months after the Beatles had stopped touring forever. We'll be seeing a lot more of these timing discrepancies as this story progresses, and people's memories increasingly don't match the events that happened to them. Either way, it's clear that Pattie became involved in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement a good length of time before her husband did. She got him to go along with her to one of the Maharishi's lectures, after she had already been converted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation, and they brought along John, Paul, and their partners (Ringo's wife Maureen had just given birth, so they didn't come). As we heard back in episode one hundred and fifty, that lecture was impressive enough that the group, plus their wives and girlfriends (with the exception of Maureen Starkey) and Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, all went on a meditation retreat with the Maharishi at a holiday camp in Bangor, and it was there that they learned that Brian Epstein had been found dead. The death of the man who had guided the group's career could not have come at a worse time for the band's stability.  The group had only recorded one song in the preceding two months -- Paul's "Your Mother Should Know" -- and had basically been running on fumes since completing recording of Sgt Pepper many months earlier. John's drug intake had increased to the point that he was barely functional -- although with the enthusiasm of the newly converted he had decided to swear off LSD at the Maharishi's urging -- and his marriage was falling apart. Similarly, Paul McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher was in a bad state, though both men were trying to repair their damaged relationships, while both George and Ringo were having doubts about the band that had made them famous. In George's case, he was feeling marginalised by John and Paul, his songs ignored or paid cursory attention, and there was less for him to do on the records as the group moved away from making guitar-based rock and roll music into the stranger areas of psychedelia. And Ringo, whose main memory of the recording of Sgt Pepper was of learning to play chess while the others went through the extensive overdubs that characterised that album, was starting to feel like his playing was deteriorating, and that as the only non-writer in the band he was on the outside to an extent. On top of that, the group were in the middle of a major plan to restructure their business. As part of their contract renegotiations with EMI at the beginning of 1967, it had been agreed that they would receive two million pounds -- roughly fifteen million pounds in today's money -- in unpaid royalties as a lump sum. If that had been paid to them as individuals, or through the company they owned, the Beatles Ltd, they would have had to pay the full top rate of tax on it, which as George had complained the previous year was over ninety-five percent. (In fact, he'd been slightly exaggerating the generosity of the UK tax system to the rich, as at that point the top rate of income tax was somewhere around ninety-seven and a half percent). But happily for them, a couple of years earlier the UK had restructured its tax laws and introduced a corporation tax, which meant that the profits of corporations were no longer taxed at the same high rate as income. So a new company had been set up, The Beatles & Co, and all the group's non-songwriting income was paid into the company. Each Beatle owned five percent of the company, and the other eighty percent was owned by a new partnership, a corporation that was soon renamed Apple Corps -- a name inspired by a painting that McCartney had liked by the artist Rene Magritte. In the early stages of Apple, it was very entangled with Nems, the company that was owned by Brian and Clive Epstein, and which was in the process of being sold to Robert Stigwood, though that sale fell through after Brian's death. The first part of Apple, Apple Publishing, had been set up in the summer of 1967, and was run by Terry Doran, a friend of Epstein's who ran a motor dealership -- most of the Apple divisions would be run by friends of the group rather than by people with experience in the industries in question. As Apple was set up during the point that Stigwood was getting involved with NEMS, Apple Publishing's initial offices were in the same building with, and shared staff with, two publishing companies that Stigwood owned, Dratleaf Music, who published Cream's songs, and Abigail Music, the Bee Gees' publishers. And indeed the first two songs published by Apple were copyrights that were gifted to the company by Stigwood -- "Listen to the Sky", a B-side by an obscure band called Sands: [Excerpt: Sands, "Listen to the Sky"] And "Outside Woman Blues", an arrangement by Eric Clapton of an old blues song by Blind Joe Reynolds, which Cream had copyrighted separately and released on Disraeli Gears: [Excerpt: Cream, "Outside Woman Blues"] But Apple soon started signing outside songwriters -- once Mike Berry, a member of Apple Publishing's staff, had sat McCartney down and explained to him what music publishing actually was, something he had never actually understood even though he'd been a songwriter for five years. Those songwriters, given that this was 1967, were often also performers, and as Apple Records had not yet been set up, Apple would try to arrange recording contracts for them with other labels. They started with a group called Focal Point, who got signed by badgering Paul McCartney to listen to their songs until he gave them Doran's phone number to shut them up: [Excerpt: Focal Point, "Sycamore Sid"] But the big early hope for Apple Publishing was a songwriter called George Alexander. Alexander's birth name had been Alexander Young, and he was the brother of George Young, who was a member of the Australian beat group The Easybeats, who'd had a hit with "Friday on My Mind": [Excerpt: The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"] His younger brothers Malcolm and Angus would go on to have a few hits themselves, but AC/DC wouldn't be formed for another five years. Terry Doran thought that Alexander should be a member of a band, because bands were more popular than solo artists at the time, and so he was placed with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, a Beach Boys soundalike group that had had some minor success. John Lennon suggested that the group be named Grapefruit, after a book he was reading by a conceptual artist of his acquaintance named Yoko Ono, and as Doran was making arrangements with Terry Melcher for a reciprocal publishing deal by which Melcher's American company would publish Apple songs in the US while Apple published songs from Melcher's company in the UK, it made sense for Melcher to also produce Grapefruit's first single, "Dear Delilah": [Excerpt: Grapefruit, "Dear Delilah"] That made number twenty-one in the UK when it came out in early 1968, on the back of publicity about Grapefruit's connection with the Beatles, but future singles by the band were much less successful, and like several other acts involved with Apple, they found that they were more hampered by the Beatles connection than helped. A few other people were signed to Apple Publishing early on, of whom the most notable was Jackie Lomax. Lomax had been a member of a minor Merseybeat group, the Undertakers, and after they had split up, he'd been signed by Brian Epstein with a new group, the Lomax Alliance, who had released one single, "Try as You May": [Excerpt: The Lomax Alliance, "Try As You May"] After Epstein's death, Lomax had plans to join another band, being formed by another Merseybeat musician, Chris Curtis, the former drummer of the Searchers. But after going to the Beatles to talk with them about them helping the new group financially, Lomax was persuaded by John Lennon to go solo instead. He may later have regretted that decision, as by early 1968 the people that Curtis had recruited for his new band had ditched him and were making a name for themselves as Deep Purple. Lomax recorded one solo single with funding from Stigwood, a cover version of a song by an obscure singer-songwriter, Jake Holmes, "Genuine Imitation Life": [Excerpt: Jackie Lomax, "Genuine Imitation Life"] But he was also signed to Apple Publishing as a songwriter. The Beatles had only just started laying out plans for Apple when Epstein died, and other than the publishing company one of the few things they'd agreed on was that they were going to have a film company, which was to be run by Denis O'Dell, who had been an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night and on How I Won The War, the Richard Lester film Lennon had recently starred in. A few days after Epstein's death, they had a meeting, in which they agreed that the band needed to move forward quickly if they were going to recover from Epstein's death. They had originally been planning on going to India with the Maharishi to study meditation, but they decided to put that off until the new year, and to press forward with a film project Paul had been talking about, to be titled Magical Mystery Tour. And so, on the fifth of September 1967, they went back into the recording studio and started work on a song of John's that was earmarked for the film, "I am the Walrus": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] Magical Mystery Tour, the film, has a mixed reputation which we will talk about shortly, but one defence that Paul McCartney has always made of it is that it's the only place where you can see the Beatles performing "I am the Walrus". While the song was eventually relegated to a B-side, it's possibly the finest B-side of the Beatles' career, and one of the best tracks the group ever made. As with many of Lennon's songs from this period, the song was a collage of many different elements pulled from his environment and surroundings, and turned into something that was rather more than the sum of its parts. For its musical inspiration, Lennon pulled from, of all things, a police siren going past his house. (For those who are unfamiliar with what old British police sirens sounded like, as opposed to the ones in use for most of my lifetime or in other countries, here's a recording of one): [Excerpt: British police siren ca 1968] That inspired Lennon to write a snatch of lyric to go with the sound of the siren, starting "Mister city policeman sitting pretty". He had two other song fragments, one about sitting in the garden, and one about sitting on a cornflake, and he told Hunter Davies, who was doing interviews for his authorised biography of the group, “I don't know how it will all end up. Perhaps they'll turn out to be different parts of the same song.” But the final element that made these three disparate sections into a song was a letter that came from Stephen Bayley, a pupil at Lennon's old school Quarry Bank, who told him that the teachers at the school -- who Lennon always thought of as having suppressed his creativity -- were now analysing Beatles lyrics in their lessons. Lennon decided to come up with some nonsense that they couldn't analyse -- though as nonsensical as the finished song is, there's an underlying anger to a lot of it that possibly comes from Lennon thinking of his school experiences. And so Lennon asked his old schoolfriend Pete Shotton to remind him of a disgusting playground chant that kids used to sing in schools in the North West of England (and which they still sang with very minor variations at my own school decades later -- childhood folklore has a remarkably long life). That rhyme went: Yellow matter custard, green snot pie All mixed up with a dead dog's eye Slap it on a butty, nice and thick, And drink it down with a cup of cold sick Lennon combined some parts of this with half-remembered fragments of Lewis Carrol's The Walrus and the Carpenter, and with some punning references to things that were going on in his own life and those of his friends -- though it's difficult to know exactly which of the stories attached to some of the more incomprehensible bits of the lyrics are accurate. The story that the line "I am the eggman" is about a sexual proclivity of Eric Burdon of the Animals seems plausible, while the contention by some that the phrase "semolina pilchard" is a reference to Sgt Pilcher, the corrupt policeman who had arrested three of the Rolling Stones, and would later arrest Lennon, on drugs charges, seems less likely. The track is a masterpiece of production, but the release of the basic take on Anthology 2 in 1996 showed that the underlying performance, before George Martin worked his magic with the overdubs, is still a remarkable piece of work: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus (Anthology 2 version)"] But Martin's arrangement and production turned the track from a merely very good track into a masterpiece. The string arrangement, very much in the same mould as that for "Strawberry Fields Forever" but giving a very different effect with its harsh cello glissandi, is the kind of thing one expects from Martin, but there's also the chanting of the Mike Sammes Singers, who were more normally booked for sessions like Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz": [Excerpt: Engelbert Humperdinck, "The Last Waltz"] But here were instead asked to imitate the sound of the strings, make grunting noises, and generally go very far out of their normal comfort zone: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] But the most fascinating piece of production in the entire track is an idea that seems to have been inspired by people like John Cage -- a live feed of a radio being tuned was played into the mono mix from about the halfway point, and whatever was on the radio at the time was captured: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] This is also why for many decades it was impossible to have a true stereo mix of the track -- the radio part was mixed directly into the mono mix, and it wasn't until the 1990s that someone thought to track down a copy of the original radio broadcasts and recreate the process. In one of those bits of synchronicity that happen more often than you would think when you're creating aleatory art, and which are why that kind of process can be so appealing, one bit of dialogue from the broadcast of King Lear that was on the radio as the mixing was happening was *perfectly* timed: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] After completing work on the basic track for "I am the Walrus", the group worked on two more songs for the film, George's "Blue Jay Way" and a group-composed twelve-bar blues instrumental called "Flying", before starting production. Magical Mystery Tour, as an idea, was inspired in equal parts by Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the collective of people we talked about in the episode on the Grateful Dead who travelled across the US extolling the virtues of psychedelic drugs, and by mystery tours, a British working-class tradition that has rather fallen out of fashion in the intervening decades. A mystery tour would generally be put on by a coach-hire company, and would be a day trip to an unannounced location -- though the location would in fact be very predictable, and would be a seaside town within a couple of hours' drive of its starting point. In the case of the ones the Beatles remembered from their own childhoods, this would be to a coastal town in Lancashire or Wales, like Blackpool, Rhyl, or Prestatyn. A coachload of people would pay to be driven to this random location, get very drunk and have a singsong on the bus, and spend a day wherever they were taken. McCartney's plan was simple -- they would gather a group of passengers and replicate this experience over the course of several days, and film whatever went on, but intersperse that with more planned out sketches and musical numbers. For this reason, along with the Beatles and their associates, the cast included some actors found through Spotlight and some of the group's favourite performers, like the comedian Nat Jackley (whose comedy sequence directed by John was cut from the final film) and the surrealist poet/singer/comedian Ivor Cutler: [Excerpt: Ivor Cutler, "I'm Going in a Field"] The film also featured an appearance by a new band who would go on to have great success over the next year, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They had recorded their first single in Abbey Road at the same time as the Beatles were recording Revolver, but rather than being progressive psychedelic rock, it had been a remake of a 1920s novelty song: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies"] Their performance in Magical Mystery Tour was very different though -- they played a fifties rock pastiche written by band leaders Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes while a stripper took off her clothes. While several other musical sequences were recorded for the film, including one by the band Traffic and one by Cutler, other than the Beatles tracks only the Bonzos' song made it into the finished film: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Death Cab for Cutie"] That song, thirty years later, would give its name to a prominent American alternative rock band. Incidentally the same night that Magical Mystery Tour was first broadcast was also the night that the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band first appeared on a TV show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, which featured three future members of the Monty Python troupe -- Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones. Over the years the careers of the Bonzos, the Pythons, and the Beatles would become increasingly intertwined, with George Harrison in particular striking up strong friendships and working relationships with Bonzos Neil Innes and "Legs" Larry Smith. The filming of Magical Mystery Tour went about as well as one might expect from a film made by four directors, none of whom had any previous filmmaking experience, and none of whom had any business knowledge. The Beatles were used to just turning up and having things magically done for them by other people, and had no real idea of the infrastructure challenges that making a film, even a low-budget one, actually presents, and ended up causing a great deal of stress to almost everyone involved. The completed film was shown on TV on Boxing Day 1967 to general confusion and bemusement. It didn't help that it was originally broadcast in black and white, and so for example the scene showing shifting landscapes (outtake footage from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, tinted various psychedelic colours) over the "Flying" music, just looked like grey fuzz. But also, it just wasn't what people were expecting from a Beatles film. This was a ramshackle, plotless, thing more inspired by Andy Warhol's underground films than by the kind of thing the group had previously appeared in, and it was being presented as Christmas entertainment for all the family. And to be honest, it's not even a particularly good example of underground filmmaking -- though it looks like a masterpiece when placed next to something like the Bee Gees' similar effort, Cucumber Castle. But there are enough interesting sequences in there for the project not to be a complete failure -- and the deleted scenes on the DVD release, including the performances by Cutler and Traffic, and the fact that the film was edited down from ten hours to fifty-two minutes, makes one wonder if there's a better film that could be constructed from the original footage. Either way, the reaction to the film was so bad that McCartney actually appeared on David Frost's TV show the next day to defend it and, essentially, apologise. While they were editing the film, the group were also continuing to work in the studio, including on two new McCartney songs, "The Fool on the Hill", which was included in Magical Mystery Tour, and "Hello Goodbye", which wasn't included on the film's soundtrack but was released as the next single, with "I Am the Walrus" as the B-side: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Incidentally, in the UK the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double-EP rather than as an album (in the US, the group's recent singles and B-sides were added to turn it into a full-length album, which is how it's now generally available). "I Am the Walrus" was on the double-EP as well as being on the single's B-side, and the double-EP got to number two on the singles charts, meaning "I am the Walrus" was on the records at number one and number two at the same time. Before it became obvious that the film, if not the soundtrack, was a disaster, the group held a launch party on the twenty-first of December, 1967. The band members went along in fancy dress, as did many of the cast and crew -- the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed at the party. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys also turned up at the party, and apparently at one point jammed with the Bonzos, and according to some, but not all, reports, a couple of the Beatles joined in as well. Love and Johnston had both just met the Maharishi for the first time a couple of days earlier, and Love had been as impressed as the Beatles were, and it may have been at this party that the group mentioned to Love that they would soon be going on a retreat in India with the guru -- a retreat that was normally meant for training TM instructors, but this time seemed to be more about getting celebrities involved. Love would also end up going with them. That party was also the first time that Cynthia Lennon had an inkling that John might not be as faithful to her as she previously supposed. John had always "joked" about being attracted to George Harrison's wife, Patti, but this time he got a little more blatant about his attraction than he ever had previously, to the point that he made Cynthia cry, and Cynthia's friend, the pop star Lulu, decided to give Lennon a very public dressing-down for his cruelty to his wife, a dressing-down that must have been a sight to behold, as Lennon was dressed as a Teddy boy while Lulu was in a Shirley Temple costume. It's a sign of how bad the Lennons' marriage was at this point that this was the second time in a two-month period where Cynthia had ended up crying because of John at a film launch party and been comforted by a female pop star. In October, Cilla Black had held a party to celebrate the belated release of John's film How I Won the War, and during the party Georgie Fame had come up to Black and said, confused, "Cynthia Lennon is hiding in your wardrobe". Black went and had a look, and Cynthia explained to her “I'm waiting to see how long it is before John misses me and comes looking for me.” Black's response had been “You'd better face it, kid—he's never gonna come.” Also at the Magical Mystery Tour party was Lennon's father, now known as Freddie Lennon, and his new nineteen-year-old fiancee. While Hunter Davis had been researching the Beatles' biography, he'd come across some evidence that the version of Freddie's attitude towards John that his mother's side of the family had always told him -- that Freddie had been a cruel and uncaring husband who had not actually wanted to be around his son -- might not be the whole of the truth, and that the mother who he had thought of as saintly might also have had some part to play in their marriage breaking down and Freddie not seeing his son for twenty years. The two had made some tentative attempts at reconciliation, and indeed Freddie would even come and live with John for a while, though within a couple of years the younger Lennon's heart would fully harden against his father again. Of course, the things that John always resented his father for were pretty much exactly the kind of things that Lennon himself was about to do. It was around this time as well that Derek Taylor gave the Beatles copies of the debut album by a young singer/songwriter named Harry Nilsson. Nilsson will be getting his own episode down the line, but not for a couple of years at my current rates, so it's worth bringing that up here, because that album became a favourite of all the Beatles, and would have a huge influence on their songwriting for the next couple of years, and because one song on the album, "1941", must have resonated particularly deeply with Lennon right at this moment -- an autobiographical song by Nilsson about how his father had left him and his mother when he was a small boy, and about his own fear that, as his first marriage broke down, he was repeating the pattern with his stepson Scott: [Excerpt: Nilsson, "1941"] The other major event of December 1967, rather overshadowed by the Magical Mystery Tour disaster the next day, was that on Christmas Day Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announced their engagement. A few days later, George Harrison flew to India. After John and Paul had had their outside film projects -- John starring in How I Won The War and Paul doing the soundtrack for The Family Way -- the other two Beatles more or less simultaneously did their own side project films, and again one acted while the other did a soundtrack. Both of these projects were in the rather odd subgenre of psychedelic shambolic comedy film that sprang up in the mid sixties, a subgenre that produced a lot of fascinating films, though rather fewer good ones. Indeed, both of them were in the subsubgenre of shambolic psychedelic *sex* comedies. In Ringo's case, he had a small role in the film Candy, which was based on the novel we mentioned in the last episode, co-written by Terry Southern, which was in itself a loose modern rewriting of Voltaire's Candide. Unfortunately, like such other classics of this subgenre as Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Candy has dated *extremely* badly, and unless you find repeated scenes of sexual assault and rape, ethnic stereotypes, and jokes about deformity and disfigurement to be an absolute laugh riot, it's not a film that's worth seeking out, and Starr's part in it is not a major one. Harrison's film was of the same basic genre -- a film called Wonderwall about a mad scientist who discovers a way to see through the walls of his apartment, and gets to see a photographer taking sexy photographs of a young woman named Penny Lane, played by Jane Birkin: [Excerpt: Some Wonderwall film dialogue ripped from the Blu-Ray] Wonderwall would, of course, later inspire the title of a song by Oasis, and that's what the film is now best known for, but it's a less-unwatchable film than Candy, and while still problematic it's less so. Which is something. Harrison had been the Beatle with least involvement in Magical Mystery Tour -- McCartney had been the de facto director, Starr had been the lead character and the only one with much in the way of any acting to do, and Lennon had written the film's standout scene and its best song, and had done a little voiceover narration. Harrison, by contrast, barely has anything to do in the film apart from the one song he contributed, "Blue Jay Way", and he said of the project “I had no idea what was happening and maybe I didn't pay enough attention because my problem, basically, was that I was in another world, I didn't really belong; I was just an appendage.” He'd expressed his discomfort to his friend Joe Massot, who was about to make his first feature film. Massot had got to know Harrison during the making of his previous film, Reflections on Love, a mostly-silent short which had starred Harrison's sister-in-law Jenny Boyd, and which had been photographed by Robert Freeman, who had been the photographer for the Beatles' album covers from With the Beatles through Rubber Soul, and who had taken most of the photos that Klaus Voorman incorporated into the cover of Revolver (and whose professional association with the Beatles seemed to come to an end around the same time he discovered that Lennon had been having an affair with his wife). Massot asked Harrison to write the music for the film, and told Harrison he would have complete free rein to make whatever music he wanted, so long as it fit the timing of the film, and so Harrison decided to create a mixture of Western rock music and the Indian music he loved. Harrison started recording the music at the tail end of 1967, with sessions with several London-based Indian musicians and John Barham, an orchestrator who had worked with Ravi Shankar on Shankar's collaborations with Western musicians, including the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack we talked about in the "All You Need is Love" episode. For the Western music, he used the Remo Four, a Merseybeat group who had been on the scene even before the Beatles, and which contained a couple of classmates of Paul McCartney, but who had mostly acted as backing musicians for other artists. They'd backed Johnny Sandon, the former singer with the Searchers, on a couple of singles, before becoming the backing band for Tommy Quickly, a NEMS artist who was unsuccessful despite starting his career with a Lennon/McCartney song, "Tip of My Tongue": [Excerpt: Tommy Quickly, "Tip of My Tongue"] The Remo Four would later, after a lineup change, become Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who would become one-hit wonders in the seventies, and during the Wonderwall sessions they recorded a song that went unreleased at the time, and which would later go on to be rerecorded by Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke. "In the First Place" also features Harrison on backing vocals and possibly guitar, and was not submitted for the film because Harrison didn't believe that Massot wanted any vocal tracks, but the recording was later discovered and used in a revised director's cut of the film in the nineties: [Excerpt: The Remo Four, "In the First Place"] But for the most part the Remo Four were performing instrumentals written by Harrison. They weren't the only Western musicians performing on the sessions though -- Peter Tork of the Monkees dropped by these sessions and recorded several short banjo solos, which were used in the film soundtrack but not in the soundtrack album (presumably because Tork was contracted to another label): [Excerpt: Peter Tork, "Wonderwall banjo solo"] Another musician who was under contract to another label was Eric Clapton, who at the time was playing with The Cream, and who vaguely knew Harrison and so joined in for the track "Ski-ing", playing lead guitar under the cunning, impenetrable, pseudonym "Eddie Clayton", with Harrison on sitar, Starr on drums, and session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on bass: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Ski-ing"] But the bulk of the album was recorded in EMI's studios in the city that is now known as Mumbai but at the time was called Bombay. The studio facilities in India had up to that point only had a mono tape recorder, and Bhaskar Menon, one of the top executives at EMI's Indian division and later the head of EMI music worldwide, personally brought the first stereo tape recorder to the studio to aid in Harrison's recording. The music was all composed by Harrison and performed by the Indian musicians, and while Harrison was composing in an Indian mode, the musicians were apparently fascinated by how Western it sounded to them: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Microbes"] While he was there, Harrison also got the instrumentalists to record another instrumental track, which wasn't to be used for the film: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "The Inner Light (instrumental)"] That track would, instead, become part of what was to be Harrison's first composition to make a side of a Beatles single. After John and George had appeared on the David Frost show talking about the Maharishi, in September 1967, George had met a lecturer in Sanskrit named Juan Mascaró, who wrote to Harrison enclosing a book he'd compiled of translations of religious texts, telling him he'd admired "Within You Without You" and thought it would be interesting if Harrison set something from the Tao Te Ching to music. He suggested a text that, in his translation, read: "Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven For the farther one travels, the less one knows The sage, therefore Arrives without travelling Sees all without looking Does all without doing" Harrison took that text almost verbatim, though he created a second verse by repeating the first few lines with "you" replacing "I" -- concerned that listeners might think he was just talking about himself, and wouldn't realise it was a more general statement -- and he removed the "the sage, therefore" and turned the last few lines into imperative commands rather than declarative statements: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] The song has come in for some criticism over the years as being a little Orientalist, because in critics' eyes it combines Chinese philosophy with Indian music, as if all these things are equally "Eastern" and so all the same really. On the other hand there's a good argument that an English songwriter taking a piece of writing written in Chinese and translated into English by a Spanish man and setting it to music inspired by Indian musical modes is a wonderful example of cultural cross-pollination. As someone who's neither Chinese nor Indian I wouldn't want to take a stance on it, but clearly the other Beatles were impressed by it -- they put it out as the B-side to their next single, even though the only Beatles on it are Harrison and McCartney, with the latter adding a small amount of harmony vocal: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] And it wasn't because the group were out of material. They were planning on going to Rishikesh to study with the Maharishi, and wanted to get a single out for release while they were away, and so in one week they completed the vocal overdubs on "The Inner Light" and recorded three other songs, two by John and one by Paul. All three of the group's songwriters brought in songs that were among their best. John's first contribution was a song whose lyrics he later described as possibly the best he ever wrote, "Across the Universe". He said the lyrics were “purely inspirational and were given to me as boom! I don't own it, you know; it came through like that … Such an extraordinary meter and I can never repeat it! It's not a matter of craftsmanship, it wrote itself. It drove me out of bed. I didn't want to write it … It's like being possessed, like a psychic or a medium.” But while Lennon liked the song, he was never happy with the recording of it. They tried all sorts of things to get the sound he heard in his head, including bringing in some fans who were hanging around outside to sing backing vocals. He said of the track "I was singing out of tune and instead of getting a decent choir, we got fans from outside, Apple Scruffs or whatever you call them. They came in and were singing all off-key. Nobody was interested in doing the tune originally.” [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] The "jai guru deva" chorus there is the first reference to the teachings of the Maharishi in one of the Beatles' records -- Guru Dev was the Maharishi's teacher, and the phrase "Jai guru dev" is a Sanskrit one which I've seen variously translated as "victory to the great teacher", and "hail to the greatness within you". Lennon would say shortly before his death “The Beatles didn't make a good record out of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we – I say ‘we' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us – Paul would sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song … Usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs, when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like ‘Strawberry Fields' or ‘Across The Universe', somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in … It was a _lousy_ track of a great song and I was so disappointed by it …The guitars are out of tune and I'm singing out of tune because I'm psychologically destroyed and nobody's supporting me or helping me with it, and the song was never done properly.” Of course, this is only Lennon's perception, and it's one that the other participants would disagree with. George Martin, in particular, was always rather hurt by the implication that Lennon's songs had less attention paid to them, and he would always say that the problem was that Lennon in the studio would always say "yes, that's great", and only later complain that it hadn't been what he wanted. No doubt McCartney did put in more effort on his own songs than on Lennon's -- everyone has a bias towards their own work, and McCartney's only human -- but personally I suspect that a lot of the problem comes down to the two men having very different personalities. McCartney had very strong ideas about his own work and would drive the others insane with his nitpicky attention to detail. Lennon had similarly strong ideas, but didn't have the attention span to put the time and effort in to force his vision on others, and didn't have the technical knowledge to express his ideas in words they'd understand. He expected Martin and the other Beatles to work miracles, and they did -- but not the miracles he would have worked. That track was, rather than being chosen for the next single, given to Spike Milligan, who happened to be visiting the studio and was putting together an album for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund. The album was titled "No One's Gonna Change Our World": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] That track is historic in another way -- it would be the last time that George Harrison would play sitar on a Beatles record, and it effectively marks the end of the period of psychedelia and Indian influence that had started with "Norwegian Wood" three years earlier, and which many fans consider their most creative period. Indeed, shortly after the recording, Harrison would give up the sitar altogether and stop playing it. He loved sitar music as much as he ever had, and he still thought that Indian classical music spoke to him in ways he couldn't express, and he continued to be friends with Ravi Shankar for the rest of his life, and would only become more interested in Indian religious thought. But as he spent time with Shankar he realised he would never be as good on the sitar as he hoped. He said later "I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm better off being a pop singer-guitar-player-songwriter – whatever-I'm-supposed-to-be' because I've seen a thousand sitar-players in India who are twice as better as I'll ever be. And only one of them Ravi thought was going to be a good player." We don't have a precise date for when it happened -- I suspect it was in June 1968, so a few months after the "Across the Universe" recording -- but Shankar told Harrison that rather than try to become a master of a music that he hadn't encountered until his twenties, perhaps he should be making the music that was his own background. And as Harrison put it "I realised that was riding my bike down a street in Liverpool and hearing 'Heartbreak Hotel' coming out of someone's house.": [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"] In early 1968 a lot of people seemed to be thinking along the same lines, as if Christmas 1967 had been the flick of a switch and instead of whimsy and ornamentation, the thing to do was to make music that was influenced by early rock and roll. In the US the Band and Bob Dylan were making music that was consciously shorn of all studio experimentation, while in the UK there was a revival of fifties rock and roll. In April 1968 both "Peggy Sue" and "Rock Around the Clock" reentered the top forty in the UK, and the Who were regularly including "Summertime Blues" in their sets. Fifties nostalgia, which would make occasional comebacks for at least the next forty years, was in its first height, and so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney's song, "Lady Madonna", which became the A-side of the next single, has more than a little of the fifties about it. Of course, the track isn't *completely* fifties in its origins -- one of the inspirations for the track seems to have been the Rolling Stones' then-recent hit "Let's Spend The Night Together": [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together"] But the main source for the song's music -- and for the sound of the finished record -- seems to have been Johnny Parker's piano part on Humphrey Lyttleton's "Bad Penny Blues", a hit single engineered by Joe Meek in the fifties: [Excerpt: Humphrey Lyttleton, "Bad Penny Blues"] That song seems to have been on the group's mind for a while, as a working title for "With a Little Help From My Friends" had at one point been "Bad Finger Blues" -- a title that would later give the name to a band on Apple. McCartney took Parker's piano part as his inspiration, and as he later put it “‘Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing. I got my left hand doing an arpeggio thing with the chord, an ascending boogie-woogie left hand, then a descending right hand. I always liked that, the  juxtaposition of a line going down meeting a line going up." [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] That idea, incidentally, is an interesting reversal of what McCartney had done on "Hello, Goodbye", where the bass line goes down while the guitar moves up -- the two lines moving away from each other: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Though that isn't to say there's no descending bass in "Lady Madonna" -- the bridge has a wonderful sequence where the bass just *keeps* *descending*: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] Lyrically, McCartney was inspired by a photo in National Geographic of a woman in Malaysia, captioned “Mountain Madonna: with one child at her breast and another laughing into her face, sees her quality of life threatened.” But as he put it “The people I was brought up amongst were often Catholic; there are lots of Catholics in Liverpool because of the Irish connection and they are often religious. When they have a baby I think they see a big connection between themselves and the Virgin Mary with her baby. So the original concept was the Virgin Mary but it quickly became symbolic of every woman; the Madonna image but as applied to ordinary working class woman. It's really a tribute to the mother figure, it's a tribute to women.” Musically though, the song was more a tribute to the fifties -- while the inspiration had been a skiffle hit by Humphrey Lyttleton, as soon as McCartney started playing it he'd thought of Fats Domino, and the lyric reflects that to an extent -- just as Domino's "Blue Monday" details the days of the week for a weary working man who only gets to enjoy himself on Saturday night, "Lady Madonna"'s lyrics similarly look at the work a mother has to do every day -- though as McCartney later noted  "I was writing the words out to learn it for an American TV show and I realised I missed out Saturday ... So I figured it must have been a real night out." The vocal was very much McCartney doing a Domino impression -- something that wasn't lost on Fats, who cut his own version of the track later that year: [Excerpt: Fats Domino, "Lady Madonna"] The group were so productive at this point, right before the journey to India, that they actually cut another song *while they were making a video for "Lady Madonna"*. They were booked into Abbey Road to film themselves performing the song so it could be played on Top of the Pops while they were away, but instead they decided to use the time to cut a new song -- John had a partially-written song, "Hey Bullfrog", which was roughly the same tempo as "Lady Madonna", so they could finish that up and then re-edit the footage to match the record. The song was quickly finished and became "Hey Bulldog": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Bulldog"] One of Lennon's best songs from this period, "Hey Bulldog" was oddly chosen only to go on the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine. Either the band didn't think much of it because it had come so easily, or it was just assigned to the film because they were planning on being away for several months and didn't have any other projects they were working on. The extent of the group's contribution to the film was minimal – they were not very hands-on, and the film, which was mostly done as an attempt to provide a third feature film for their United Artists contract without them having to do any work, was made by the team that had done the Beatles cartoon on American TV. There's some evidence that they had a small amount of input in the early story stages, but in general they saw the cartoon as an irrelevance to them -- the only things they contributed were the four songs "All Together Now", "It's All Too Much", "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song", and a brief filmed appearance for the very end of the film, recorded in January: [Excerpt: Yellow Submarine film end] McCartney also took part in yet another session in early February 1968, one produced by Peter Asher, his fiancee's brother, and former singer with Peter and Gordon. Asher had given up on being a pop star and was trying to get into the business side of music, and he was starting out as a producer, producing a single by Paul Jones, the former lead singer of Manfred Mann. The A-side of the single, "And the Sun Will Shine", was written by the Bee Gees, the band that Robert Stigwood was managing: [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "And the Sun Will Shine"] While the B-side was an original by Jones, "The Dog Presides": [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "The Dog Presides"] Those tracks featured two former members of the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Paul Samwell-Smith, on guitar and bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Asher asked McCartney to play drums on both sides of the single, saying later "I always thought he was a great, underrated drummer." McCartney was impressed by Asher's production, and asked him to get involved with the new Apple Records label that would be set up when the group returned from India. Asher eventually became head of A&R for the label. And even before "Lady Madonna" was mixed, the Beatles were off to India. Mal Evans, their roadie, went ahead with all their luggage on the fourteenth of February, so he could sort out transport for them on the other end, and then John and George followed on the fifteenth, with their wives Pattie and Cynthia and Pattie's sister Jenny (John and Cynthia's son Julian had been left with his grandmother while they went -- normally Cynthia wouldn't abandon Julian for an extended period of time, but she saw the trip as a way to repair their strained marriage). Paul and Ringo followed four days later, with Ringo's wife Maureen and Paul's fiancee Jane Asher. The retreat in Rishikesh was to become something of a celebrity affair. Along with the Beatles came their friend the singer-songwriter Donovan, and Donovan's friend and songwriting partner, whose name I'm not going to say here because it's a slur for Romani people, but will be known to any Donovan fans. Donovan at this point was also going through changes. Like the Beatles, he was largely turning away from drug use and towards meditation, and had recently written his hit single "There is a Mountain" based around a saying from Zen Buddhism: [Excerpt: Donovan, "There is a Mountain"] That was from his double-album A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, which had come out in December 1967. But also like John and Paul he was in the middle of the breakdown of a long-term relationship, and while he would remain with his then-partner until 1970, and even have another child with her, he was secretly in love with another woman. In fact he was secretly in love with two other women. One of them, Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda, had moved to LA, become the partner of the singer Gram Parsons, and had appeared in the documentary You Are What You Eat with the Band and Tiny Tim. She had fallen out of touch with Donovan, though she would later become his wife. Incidentally, she had a son to Brian Jones who had been abandoned by his rock-star father -- the son's name is Julian. The other woman with whom Donovan was in love was Jenny Boyd, the sister of George Harrison's wife Pattie.  Jenny at the time was in a relationship with Alexis Mardas, a TV repairman and huckster who presented himself as an electronics genius to the Beatles, who nicknamed him Magic Alex, and so she was unavailable, but Donovan had written a song about her, released as a single just before they all went to Rishikesh: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Jennifer Juniper"] Donovan considered himself and George Harrison to be on similar spiritual paths and called Harrison his "spirit-brother", though Donovan was more interested in Buddhism, which Harrison considered a corruption of the more ancient Hinduism, and Harrison encouraged Donovan to read Autobiography of a Yogi. It's perhaps worth noting that Donovan's father had a different take on the subject though, saying "You're not going to study meditation in India, son, you're following that wee lassie Jenny" Donovan and his friend weren't the only other celebrities to come to Rishikesh. The actor Mia Farrow, who had just been through a painful divorce from Frank Sinatra, and had just made Rosemary's Baby, a horror film directed by Roman Polanski with exteriors shot at the Dakota building in New York, arrived with her sister Prudence. Also on the trip was Paul Horn, a jazz saxophonist who had played with many of the greats of jazz, not least of them Duke Ellington, whose Sweet Thursday Horn had played alto sax on: [Excerpt: Duke Ellington, "Zweet Zursday"] Horn was another musician who had been inspired to investigate Indian spirituality and music simultaneously, and the previous year he had recorded an album, "In India," of adaptations of ragas, with Ravi Shankar and Alauddin Khan: [Excerpt: Paul Horn, "Raga Vibhas"] Horn would go on to become one of the pioneers of what would later be termed "New Age" music, combining jazz with music from various non-Western traditions. Horn had also worked as a session musician, and one of the tracks he'd played on was "I Know There's an Answer" from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] Mike Love, who co-wrote that track and is one of the lead singers on it, was also in Rishikesh. While as we'll see not all of the celebrities on the trip would remain practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, Love would be profoundly affected by the trip, and remains a vocal proponent of TM to this day. Indeed, his whole band at the time were heavily into TM. While Love was in India, the other Beach Boys were working on the Friends album without him -- Love only appears on four tracks on that album -- and one of the tracks they recorded in his absence was titled "Transcendental Meditation": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Transcendental Meditation"] But the trip would affect Love's songwriting, as it would affect all of the musicians there. One of the few songs on the Friends album on which Love appears is "Anna Lee, the Healer", a song which is lyrically inspired by the trip in the most literal sense, as it's about a masseuse Love met in Rishikesh: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Anna Lee, the Healer"] The musicians in the group all influenced and inspired each other as is likely to happen in such circumstances. Sometimes, it would be a matter of trivial joking, as when the Beatles decided to perform an off-the-cuff song about Guru Dev, and did it in the Beach Boys style: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] And that turned partway through into a celebration of Love for his birthday: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] Decades later, Love would return the favour, writing a song about Harrison and their time together in Rishikesh. Like Donovan, Love seems to have considered Harrison his "spiritual brother", and he titled the song "Pisces Brothers": [Excerpt: Mike Love, "Pisces Brothers"] The musicians on the trip were also often making suggestions to each other about songs that would become famous for them. The musicians had all brought acoustic guitars, apart obviously from Ringo, who got a set of tabla drums when George ordered some Indian instruments to be delivered. George got a sitar, as at this point he hadn't quite given up on the instrument, and he gave Donovan a tamboura. Donovan started playing a melody on the tamboura, which is normally a drone instrument, inspired by the Scottish folk music he had grown up with, and that became his "Hurdy-Gurdy Man": [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man"] Harrison actually helped him with the song, writing a final verse inspired by the Maharishi's teachings, but in the studio Donovan's producer Mickie Most told him to cut the verse because the song was overlong, which apparently annoyed Harrison. Donovan includes that verse in his live performances of the song though -- usually while doing a fairly terrible impersonation of Harrison: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man (live)"] And similarly, while McCartney was working on a song pastiching Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys, but singing about the USSR rather than the USA, Love suggested to him that for a middle-eight he might want to sing about the girls in the various Soviet regions: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Back in the USSR"] As all the guitarists on the retreat only had acoustic instruments, they were very keen to improve their acoustic playing, and they turned to Donovan, who unlike the rest of them was primarily an acoustic player, and one from a folk background. Donovan taught them the rudiments of Travis picking, the guitar style we talked about way back in the episodes on the Everly Brothers, as well as some of the tunings that had been introduced to British folk music by Davey Graham, giving them a basic grounding in the principles of English folk-baroque guitar, a style that had developed over the previous few years. Donovan has said in his autobiography that Lennon picked the technique up quickly (and that Harrison had already learned Travis picking from Chet Atkins records) but that McCartney didn't have the application to learn the style, though he picked up bits. That seems very unlike anything else I've read anywhere about Lennon and McCartney -- no-one has ever accused Lennon of having a surfeit of application -- and reading Donovan's book he seems to dislike McCartney and like Lennon and Harrison, so possibly that enters into it. But also, it may just be that Lennon was more receptive to Donovan's style at the time. According to McCartney, even before going to Rishikesh Lennon had been in a vaguely folk-music and country mode, and the small number of tapes he'd brought with him to Rishikesh included Buddy Holly, Dylan, and the progressive folk band The Incredible String Band, whose music would be a big influence on both Lennon and McCartney for the next year: [Excerpt: The Incredible String Band, "First Girl I Loved"] According to McCartney Lennon also brought "a tape the singer Jake Thackray had done for him... He was one of the people we bumped into at Abbey Road. John liked his stuff, which he'd heard on television. Lots of wordplay and very suggestive, so very much up John's alley. I was fascinated by his unusual guitar style. John did ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun' as a Jake Thackray thing at one point, as I recall.” Thackray was a British chansonnier, who sang sweetly poignant but also often filthy songs about Yorkshire life, and his humour in particular will have appealed to Lennon. There's a story of Lennon meeting Thackray in Abbey Road and singing the whole of Thackray's song "The Statues", about two drunk men fighting a male statue to defend the honour of a female statue, to him: [Excerpt: Jake Thackray, "The Statues"] Given this was the music that Lennon was listening to, it's unsurprising that he was more receptive to Donovan's lessons, and the new guitar style he learned allowed him to expand his songwriting, at precisely the same time he was largely clean of drugs for the first time in several years, and he started writing some of the best songs he would ever write, often using these new styles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Julia"] That song is about Lennon's dead mother -- the first time he ever addressed her directly in a song, though  it would be far from the last -- but it's also about someone else. That phrase "Ocean child" is a direct translation of the Japanese name "Yoko". We've talked about Yoko Ono a bit in recent episodes, and even briefly in a previous Beatles episode, but it's here that she really enters the story of the Beatles. Unfortunately, exactly *how* her relationship with John Lennon, which was to become one of the great legendary love stories in rock and roll history, actually started is the subject of some debate. Both of them were married when they first got together, and there have also been suggestions that Ono was more interested in McCartney than in Lennon at first -- suggestions which everyone involved has denied, and those denials have the ring of truth about them, but if that was the case it would also explain some of Lennon's more perplexing behaviour over the next year. By all accounts there was a certain amount of finessing of the story th

Happiness Is a Warm Gun is the sixth of Josh Pachter's “inspired by” anthologies, following volumes of stories inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, and Paul Simon…and by the films of the Marx Brothers.For this collection, the lyrics of the Beatles' inspired the contributing authors to imagine a world in which murder, kidnapping, blackmail, and theft are as common as meter maids and yellow submarines. Each story was inspired by a song from one of the Fab Four's studio albums: seventeen albums, seventeen songs, seventeen stories—by a total of eighteen authors (since one was written collaboratively by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski, two of crime fiction's leading bloggers).Many of the contributors, like the Beatles themselves, come from England—including award winners Martin Edwards, Paul Charles, Vaseem Khan, Christine Poulson, Marilyn Todd, Kate Ellis, and Tom Mead—while the American authors include such popular crime writers as John Copenhaver, Michael Bracken, John M. Floyd, David Dean, Joseph S. Walker, and Robert Lopresti.So roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour—step right this way! After all, when it comes to crime, all you need is…motive, means, and opportunity!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/houseofmysteryradio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Team Penis ~ Selkie (29 July 2014 - Dallas, TX) Happiness is a Warm Gun (9 June 2014 - Stuttgart, GER)

It would be nice to be able to really make the case for Daniel Vogelbach. He seems like a nice and fun guy who likes to hit dingers, which is rad, except now he's not hitting dingers. He's hitting ground balls and pop flies like never before in his life, and all the hard contact in the world doesn't mean anything if you're pounding the ball directly into the ground.It's baffling that someone could be in the 91st percentile of hard hit balls, according to Statcast, yet in the 11th percentile for expected slugging percentage. Yet here we are, and the parallel story isn't exactly encouraging.Similarity scores are generally not something to rely on, but they are good at finding players who might be, well, similar. Ji Man Choi is, like Vogelbach, a three true outcomes-oriented cult hero first baseman-DH, had a big 2019, and then kinda fell off a cliff. And unlike the other players on Baseball Reference's similarity list for Vogelbach, from Kevin Maas to Bob Hamelin to Marv Throneberry, Choi is an active player with Statcast data of his own.It tells a disturbingly similar story of more balls being hit hard, but the expected stats dropping along with the actual stats. A strained Achilles has kept Choi out since April in Pittsburgh, where he essentially was meant to replace Vogelbach this season. He got to Pittsburgh in a trade in which the Pirates gave up Jack Hartman, a former fourth-round pick currently flaming out in Single-A. To get Vogelbach, the Mets gave up Colin Holderman, who is exactly whom the Mets could really use right now.The thing with Vogelbach is that he has a very specific use case scenario: a pinch-hit appearance in a playoff game where you can use a home run, but a walk will certainly do, and all the better if it's in the sixth inning or so and you can bump the starter's pitch count up into get-him-outta-there territory. Also the pitcher has to be a righty. But if you're planning a long playoff run, you can absolutely see that use case scenario.The problem for the Mets is that they look like they're going to struggle to make the playoffs, partly because Vogelbach has started half their games as the designated hitter, and particularly as a streaky three true outcomes guy… look, the numbers are not lying that he's been below replacement level. He's a slugger who hasn't slugged, that really shouldn't be a surprise.The question that the Mets have to answer for themselves, and which more and more observers are leaning “no” on, is whether the potential giant positive justifies living with a lot of guaranteed negative, because even in the best-case scenario where Vogelbach gets his swing back and hits his bunches of dingers, you're still talking about a player whose only possible defensive position is the one the team's MVP candidate plays, can't hit lefties at all, can't run, and strikes out a ton. It sucks, but the thing that happens with players below replacement level is, they get replaced. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willetspen.substack.com/subscribe

answering questions from the gram @songsoftoriamos ~ 1. Maybe California (6 May 2009 - Vienna, AUS) 2. Purple People (16 December 2001 - Poland Radio 3) 3. Space Dog (13 April 1994 - Dusseldorf, GER) 4. Wild Way (1 August 2014 - St Louis, MO) 5. Take to the Sky (2 December 1999 - Wallingford, CT) 6. Bouncing off Clouds (11 July 2010 - Bruges, BEL) 7. Happiness is a Warm Gun (9 June 2014 - Stuttgart, GER) 8. Climb (29 September 2017 - Berlin, GER) 9. Don't Make Me Come to Vegas (26 May 2014 - Rotterdam, NET) 10. Northern Lad (4 October 2011 - Luxembourg, LUX) 11. Selkie (8 August 2014 - Nashville, TN) 12. Icicle (18 April 1994 - Milan, ITA) 13. The Beekeeper (19 June 2005 - Copenhagen, DEN) 14. Sweet Dreams (7 October 2001 - Washington, DC) 15. Velvet Revolution (8 November 2011 - Belfast, IRE) 16. Cruel/Sweet Sangria (1 August 2015 - Stockholm, SWE) 17. 16 Shades of Blue (31 May 2014 - Zurich, SWI) 18. Dragon (28 October 2011 - Antwerp, BEL) 19. Amber Waves (1 August 2008 - Dranouter, BEL)

Not too very long ago while deep in the middle of some late-night Homan Studios conversations; the BOYZ were discussing the emergence of legal cannabis coffee and bakery shops in Chicago and the surrounding areas.  This became a point of inspiration for the BOYZ who subsequently made plans to visit the 'Wake & Bakery' in Homewood, Illinois to sample some of their offerings and record the process of doing so.  This they surmised was an interesting plan.  So that's what they did.  The BOYZ and their Homan Studios Producer, Tiffany Rosedale, showed up at the 'Wake & Bakery' on a Friday afternoon, and well.......you'll see how it turned out. When they brought back the recordings from that adventure; the Homan Studios Production Team at work on the next Hamlin Avenue Boyz LP felt the results clearly showed that "Waking and Baking" on that Friday afternoon had an impact on dem BOYZ for sure!  And that it should be included in the HAB7 LP already in post-production.  See if you can notice the ch ch ch ch changes as that visit unfolded. Vince Hamlin Edward Hamlin Tracks  1.   How Are You Sleeping These Days? 2.   A Warm Gun 3.   Sinner 4.   Wake + Bake 5.   Wake + Bake Part 2 (Recorded 'Live' at the Wake & Bakery in Homewood, Illinois) Music Composition / Performance Credits 1.   "How Do You Sleep" John Lennon 1971 / John Lennon 1971 2.   "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"  John Lennon & Paul McCartney 1968 / U2 1997 3.   "Sinner"  Aaron Lewis 2016 / Aaron Lewis 2016 4.   "Wake + Bake" Machine Gun Kelly 2017 / Machine Gun Kelly 2017 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edward-hamlin/message

Regresamos a una de nuestras canciones favoritas de The Beatles, la impresionante Happiness is a Warm Gun del White Album de 1968. Este tema es sin duda el clásico oscuro de la historia de la música popular. Presenta Ricardo Portman. Espacio patrocinado por Salva Martínez, Bruno M., Verónica G., Cintia M., Andrés M. Martín y varios mecenas anónimos… ¡GRACIAS! Si os gusta el programa podéis apoyar Ecos del Vinilo Radio siendo patrocinadores ¡por lo que vale un café al mes! desde el botón azul de iVoox. Recuerden que nuestros programas los pueden escuchar también en: Nuestra web https://ecosdelvinilo.com Radio M7 (Córdoba) lunes 18:00 y sábados 17:00. Distancia Radio (Córdoba) jueves y sábados 19:00 Radio Free Rock (Cartagena) viernes 18:00. Generación Radio (Medellín, Colombia) jueves y domingos 19:00 (hora Col.) Radio Hierbabuena (Lima, Perú) jueves 20:00 (hora Perú)

Podcast for a deep examination into the career and life choices of Adam Sandler (again). Patrick and Joe take a trip down memory and discover they don't like what they find. In an attempt to white wash history, the WTHHTT team decides to clean up their old podcasting mishaps. Will they be successful? Find out on this week's remixed episode of 'What the Hell Happened to Them?' Email the cast at whathappenedtothem@gmail.com Disclaimer: This episode was recorded in August 2022. References may feel confusing and/or dated unusually quickly. 'Happy Gilmore' is available on DVD: https://www.amazon.com/Madison-Gilmore-Double-Feature-Blu-ray/dp/B00TYZ3626/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2MQG3TFJ0SDRG&keywords=happy+gilmore&qid=1672537079&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjEwIiwicXNhIjoiMy4yNiIsInFzcCI6IjAuNDQifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=happy+gilmore%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-3 Clips from "Happy Gilmore" Music from 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' by The Beatles 'To Get By' by Gramatik (remixed from 'You're All I Need to Get By' by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)   Artwork from BJ West   quixotic, united, skeyhill, vekeman, adam, sandler, remastered, remix, redux, happy, gilmore, bowen, lost, happiness, warm, gun, hockey

Train of Thought is a podcast hosted by Rob Tobias focusing on culture, music, interviews and society. This show features songs of JOHN LENNON. Tomorrow Never Knows, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Nobody Loves You When You are Down and Out, Julia, Hey Bulldog, Strangers Room, Yer Blues, and In My Life. Comments and questions can be sent to rob@robtobias.com

 The Show Notes  Never Really A Money GuyIntroTop Secret is a great movieThe History Chunk     - July 13thReligious Moron of the Week     - Creflo DollarAsk George     - Happiness is a Warm Gun? from Ken S.Rupert McClannahan's Indestructible Bastards     - Mary VincentTell Me Something Good     - Teen Jumps In RiverNECSS tickets on saleMusikfest Aug 8 & 12Show close  Mentioned in the Show  Mary Vincent Something Good NECSS Musikfest gigs ...................................  SUBSCRIBE! You can sign up at the Geologic Podcast page or at Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com where you can learn more about the perks of being a Geologist or a Geographer. If you've already subscribed, stop by Subscriber.GeorgeHrab.com to check out the archived content which we at the Geologic Universe are rolling out in phases. As always, thank you so much for your support! You make the ship go. ................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! A reminder that the portal to the Geologic Universe is at GeorgeHrab.com. Thanks to Joseph Kolasinski, our webmaster. Check out Geo's wiki page thanks to Tim Farley. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too!

How to reinvent yourself ~ Happiness is a Warm Gun (9 June 2014 - Stuttgart, GER)

This week Shadi and Damir sat down to discuss the Uvalde mass shooting and its aftermath. Tragedy has struck the American psyche once again. The murder of innocent children has Americans groping for answers but the seemingly scripted discourse in the wake of such tragedies provides anything but solid answers. Are there really any viable legislative paths to prevent such terrible shootings? Must everyone “read the room” when Twitter is collectively grieving? As the conversation progresses, the discussion turns to liberals' squeamishness about appearing patriotic and what to do when one's political party changes before their eyes. In Part 2 of their discussion, available here for subscribers, Shadi admits that he feels somewhat perplexed by swing voters—after all, who hasn't had time to make up their minds by this point—only to find out that Damir is in fact one of these elusive voters. They go on to discuss their voting histories and ask whether Republicans are more antidemocratic than their counterparts. Also, Shadi admits that he views Mitt Romney and John McCain in a new light while Damir explains his concerns about Vice President Harris potentially taking over for an aging Biden. Required Reading "The U.S. has more in common with South America than Europe" by Samuel Goldman (The Week) Shadi's controversial Atlantic piece from before the election. "How the Left Lost Me" by Shadi Hamid (Wisdom of Crowds) Pat Buchanan's 1992 speech at the RNC Matt Yglessias' initial tweet Matt Yglessias' apology tweet Elon Musk's tweet about voting for Republicans. Elon Musk's tweet about the Democrats moving to the left. Ted Cruz's one door for schools idea "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles (Youtube)

The heats continue on the journey to the Greatest Beatles Song of All Time, and head ups - this week's an odd one. We face the choice of elevating You Really Got a Hold on Me, Think for Yourself, Happiness is a Warm Gun or Yer Blues. Yup...

Who doesn't love big, giant, stompy robots? This week we're joined by Brett and Phil from Studio 404 Games to talk about mecha, mecha anime, mecha gaming, and most importantly, their fabulous Genesys supplement "Mechasys".  A good time is had by all, and there's lots of talk about all the fun you can have with mecha in you games! Studio 404 Games links:      Website:  https://www.studio404games.com/      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Studio404Games/      Twitter:  https://twitter.com/studio404games      Drive-Thru RPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Studio%20404%20Games&affiliate_id=2018399   d20 Network Spotlight:  Primed By Cortex -- https://pbcpod.podbean.com/   Game of the Week:      Steve G:  Fullmetal President -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149660/Fullmetal-President-White-House-Mecha-Chaos?affiliate_id=2018399      Brett Bowen:  Misspent Youth -- (Launches 4/19/2022) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fraggingunicorns/misspent-youth-fall-in-love-not-in-line      GM Phil:  Kids Logic Robotech miniatures line/Kickstarter -- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minitech-games/robotech-macross-dog-fight-the-miniatures-game      Steve S:  Happiness is a Warm Gun -- https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/346324/Happiness-is-a-Warm-Gun?affiliate_id=2018399   *We have an affiliate link with Drive-Thru RPG.  All this does is give us a small percentage of your purchase cost on Drive-Thru as a "referral bonus".  It does not cost you, as a consumer, anything extra.*   We greatly appreciate the donations of our Patreon supporters: Eric Witman, Jeff McKinney, Jesse!, and Joshua Gopal-Boyd!  Y'all make keeping this going possible!   As always folks, have fun, be kind to each other, and go play some rpgs!   You can reach us at meandsteverpg@gmail.com On Facebook as Me and Steve RPG Podcast On Twitter @AndRPGs on TikTok @meandsteverpgpodcast Support us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/MeandSteveTalkRPGs   Join us on our Discord! Me And Steve RPG Discord  https://discord.gg/5wWNcYW   We are proud members of the d20 Radio Network! http://www.d20radio.com/main/  

Zwei Jahre gewartet und jetzt soll es endlich losgehen - da ticken der Kölner Karneval und die russische Armee auf einer Wellenlänge. Nur dass bei einem von beiden der oberste Chef nicht richtig tickt. Von Satire Deluxe.

Podcast for a deep examination into the career and life choices of Adam Sandler (again). Patrick and Joe take a trip down memory and discover they don't like what they find. In an attempt to white wash history, the WTHHTT team decides to clean up their old podcasting mishaps. Will they be successful? Find out on this week's remixed episode of 'What the Hell Happened to Them?' Email the cast at whathappenedtothem@gmail.com Disclaimer: This episode was recorded in October 2022. References may feel confusing and/or dated unusually quickly. 'Happy Gilmore' is available on DVD (+other stuff): https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Gilmore-Adam-Sandler/dp/1417010959/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1L8GBOCU61XAZ&keywords=happy+gilmore&qid=1666191414&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjg3IiwicXNhIjoiMy4wMSIsInFzcCI6IjAuNDcifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=happy+gilmor%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-4 Clips from "Billy Madison" Music from 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' by The Beatles 'To Get By' by Gramatik (remixed from 'You're All I Need to Get By' by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)   Artwork from BJ West   quixotic, united, skeyhill, vekeman, adam, sandler, remastered, remix, redux, happy, gilmore, golf, barker, shooter, mcdonald, weathers, bowen, black, adam

Loneliness is a Warm Gun by Dwayne Bunney This is a short story I originally started to write as a project for a creative writing evening class I was attending. At that time I had been quite obessed about the details surrounding the Port Arthur Massacre in 1996, and this story, in a way, was a result of my complete lack of comprehension of the crime. I structured it deliberately in episodic form (3 parts), and when an opportunity came to pitch it to Big Finish, I inserted the characters of the 5th Doctor and Nyssa (who I swapped the original character "Mary" for). The Doctor Who version was never completed as a pitch only consists of a synopsis and 1 page of story. But here is the original story without the Doctor Who elements. I hope you like it. This also gives me the opportunity to change the title back to the name I originally intended, because when the text version was published, the publisher insisted on changing the name to Loneliness "OR" a Warm Gun. I was never happy with that. I'm big on story names and I had a very specific reason why I chose this one. Yes, I stole it from The Beatles. Please visit the Big Finish website to grab your free copy of this years winning entry into the Paul Spragg writers opportunity. https://www.bigfinish.com/ Email: sirensofaudio@gmail.com Website: https://www.sirensofaudio.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/audiosirens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audiosirens/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audiosirens YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrU3MLlOeJTLnAbLl35QgeQ Clips and music are copyright BBC and Big Finish. No infringement is intended. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sirensofaudio/message

Neville Marten is the editor of Guitar Techniques magazine. Since 1983 he has played guitar with Marty Wilde & the Wildcats, one of the first generation of British stars to play American rock and roll in the 1950s. Neville discusses the complex masterpiece from the Beatles' White Album, Happiness is a Warm Gun. Tour dates for Marty Wilde & the Wildcats: https://martywilde.com/events/The Blues Headlines by Neville Marten's Blues Collective:https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com/collections/friends-of-tps/products/cd-the-blues-headlines-by-neville-martens-blues-collectiveGuitar Techniques magazine: https://www.magazinesdirect.com/az-magazines/6936789/total-guitar-magazine-subscription.thtml

This clip is from my eBook Tori Amos Soul Searching and Uncensored. It was recorded in 2001 when Tori released her album, Strange Little Girls. Here we allude to the other Joe Jackson and talk about Lennon's song Happiness Is a Warm Gun, and related matters

American Rifleman had an 1968 article that caught John Lennon's eye. A lovely little article about a kid hunting with his Dad. The title? Happiness Is A Warm Gun. This is a rollicking number by John penned and recorded in 1968 for The Beatles (White Album). Is it a drug song? Oh yeah. Is it a sexual innuendo? Oh yeah? Do we think it's awesome? Of course. How many takes did it take to record it? What did John and Paul and George think of this one? Is it the MOST complicated Beatles track? What Cartoon inspired the song title and did you know that this song is a history of rock and roll in song form? This and more from inside the Glass Onion. You might even get a lesson on how to count out this song's complicated rhythmic section in this episode...but you don't seem like a listener that misses much. Do do do do do, oh yeah. Enjoy. BONUS LISTENER QUESTION - What is George Harrison's best guitar solo? Our answers may surprise you! "

David and Peter Brewis of Field Music join Jack & Robin to discuss their personal Beatles. There's special love for Ringo, how Happiness is a Warm Gun shaped their sound, and the enduring influence of The Beatles and George Martin on their music. Field Music are a rock band from Sunderland who have been releasing music since 2004. Their latest album, Flat White Moon, is available now on Memphis Industries. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/personalbeatles. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a very nice show from August 10 2005 at the Fillmore in San Francisco. We listen to Bad Luck Blues Goodbye, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and Willin'. The taper called this a special night, and he was right.

Vamos con un disco sobre el que dijo el propio Kurt Cobain que era “algo épico que nunca te dejará olvidar a tu ex-novia”. Hablamos de The Breeders y su álbum debut, Pod (1990). Escucharemos Glorious, Doe, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Oh!, Hellbound, When I Was a Painter, Fortunately Gone, Iris, Opened, Only in 3’s, Lime House y Metal Man + Bonus track.

John talks about "Happiness is a Warm Gun' and how he really feels about guns.    John is eyeing an electric car - Tammy tells him why it might not be such a good idea.    And John is going high tech with a new computer but he still isn't a fan of digital recordings.   Find us at: TalksWithJohn.com

In this latest episode we decided to have an honest and data driven conversation about guns in America. We do our best to present the information with honesty and also share our hearts with vulnerability. Please give it a listen and share your thoughts. Enjoy!

American Rifleman had an 1968 article that caught John Lennon's eye. A lovely little article about a kid hunting with his Dad. The title? Happiness Is A Warm Gun. This is a rollicking number by John penned and recorded in 1968 for The Beatles (White Album). Is it a drug song? Oh yeah. Is it a sexual innuendo? Oh yeah? Do we think it's awesome? Of course. How many takes did it take to record it? What did John and Paul and George think of this one? Is it the MOST complicated Beatles track? What Cartoon inspired the song title and did you know that this song is a history of rock and roll in song form? This and more from inside the Glass Onion. You might even get a lesson on how to count out this song's complicated rhythmic section in this episode...but you don't seem like a listener that misses much. Do do do do do, oh yeah. Enjoy. BONUS LISTENER QUESTION - What is George Harrison's best guitar solo? Our answers may surprise you! www.billymcguigan.com/beatlessongpodcast

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On this week's episode of Friends Talking Nerdy, join The Reverend Tracy and Tim as they open with Tim ranting about the US Customs service, Tracy discusses catching up with an old friend, they briefly touch on the HBO Max documentary Allen V Farrow (which we will go more in depth with next week), they discuss the move of the WWE Network to the NBCUniversal app Peacock as well as discuss the debut of Zack Snyder's Justice League on HBO Max, and finally, discuss the idea of Trigger Warnings. As always, we wish to thank Christopher Lazarek for his wonderful theme song. Head to christopherlazarek.com for information on how to purchase his EP, Here's To You, which is available on all digital platforms. Follow us on Twitter at @FTNerdy, @TheRevTracy, and @timjousma Announcing the Friends Talking Nerdy Podcast Network. We are a collective group of podcasters that are banding together to help support each other's shows. The first member of the Friends Talking Nerdy Podcast Network is Their Voices Podcast. Each episode, they share their ancestors stories and history topics related to the times and places they lived. Follow Their Voices on Twitter @TheirVoices_Pod Check out their podcast at this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/their-voices-podcast/id1552015520 Head to our Linktree to find out where else you can find Friends Talking Nerdy: https://linktr.ee/FTNerdy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ftnerdy/message

Nel 1962 Charles Schultz pubblica un'altra raccolta delle sue strisce e la intitola “Happiness is a warm puppy”, la felicità è un cucciolo caldo.Ashley Halsey era invece una sorta di Vittorio Feltri americano, direttore di una rivista chiamata The American Rifleman, emanazione cartacea del pensiero della NRA, la National Rifle Association.Cosa possa c'entrare Peanuts di Schultz con Ashley Halsey è parte della storia di questa meravigliosa canzone del repertorio lennoniano dei Beatles.Per ascoltare la playlist di Spotify della puntata di oggi clicca qui! https://rbe.it/?p=65602

On this weeks show we are joined by Tom Wade to discuss his very divrse backround and touch on shooting. Of course there are 3 more musical selections to round out the episode. And of course a plug for nothing. Links I dropped Thinking In Bets-Annie duke https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions/dp/0735216355 It all starts with the vision No link found Skunkworks-Ben Rich https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed-ebook/dp/B00A2DIW3C Colateral https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/collateral Gunsite Academy https://www.gunsite.com/ OODA loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop Norco80 https://laist.com/podcasts/norco-80.php Alone at dawn- Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Dawn-Recipient-Deadliest-Operations/dp/1538729652 No second place winners-William Henry Jordan https://www.amazon.com/Second-Place-Winner-William-Jordan/dp/0936279095 THIS IS DOPE Fanfare-Magic City Hippies https://www.magiccityhippies.com/about Wildflower blues-Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton https://jolieandsamantha.com/ Austin Tx(featuring Blake Rules)-Netherfriends https://www.ilovenetherfriends.com/ This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Welcome to the Big Beatles Sort Out, a show in which I, author and musician Garry Abbott, attempt to finally decide my favourite Beatles recordings by scoring each and every one for lyrical content, musicality and production. I am assisted in this venture by my brother and resident Beatles expert, Paul Abbott, with a deep knowledge of the Beatles and the wider context in which they operated. Each episode we explore and score 5 songs from the Beatles full recording catalogue. The songs are drawn at random to try and avoid any album or era prejudices skewing the results. So please join us as we try and sort out, The Beatles. Episode 20 Songs: Dear Prudence, Taxman, Happiness is a Warm Gun, We Can Work it Out, Honey Don't PLUS RUTLES BONUS! Let's Be Natural. Please let anyone know about this podcast who might be interested! You can contact me on Twitter @big_sort or @Garry_Abbott, or via my website www.garryabbott.co.uk. Please listen out for Paul's other Podcasts, 'The Head Ballet' - all about novelty music, and 'Hark! 87th Precinct Podcast' - all about Ed McBain's seminal police procedural novel series. You can listen along to the songs featured in this episode on this handy spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/721DoSYkwNZA009X5DcQmy Keep up with the scoring charts, or start your own using the blank-master, with this handy google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qc7mHMeBBM9LSPUV0L6zrYrF2Rib9eX-Xssua-Wox3g/edit?usp=sharing

Hello Friends, and welcome to the first Mixology of 2021! We're diving headfirst in to a brand new year with our first double album, the 1968 classic 'The BEATLES'. More commonly known as the White Album, we'll be exploring these notoriously different mixes across two episodes, this week focusing on Disc 1. So join me in discovering just why Happiness is a Warm Gun, where the Handclaps went in Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, and above all, why does the stereo mix of Back in the USSR end in an arctic storm?Happy Listening, Frederick Email the show at: backtomonoradio@gmail.comListen to companion podcast Back to Mono here: backtomono.podbean.comJoin the Facebook Community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/backtomono 

Rockhistorier hylder John Winston Lennon, som den 9. oktober 2020 kunne være blevet 80, hvis ikke han i december 1980, blot 40 år gammel, var blevet myrdet på åben gade af en psykopat. Han efterlod sig hustruen Yoko Ono, deres søn Sean Ono Lennon og sønnen fra første ægteskab, Julian Lennon. Samt en allerhelvedes masse gode sange.Og det er naturligvis dem, vi tager fat i. Lige fra gennembrudshittet med The Beatles i 1963, ”Please Please Me” – som var en Lennon-komposition, selvom han og bandkollegaen Paul McCartney deltes 50-50 om akkreditering, så længe samarbejdet stod på – og frem til hans svanesang, albummet Double Fantasy 1980, udsendt sammen med Yoko Ono i 1980, ganske kort før hans chokerende død.Men selvom Lennon altså ikke nåede at leve et fuldt liv, efterlod han sig en så sublim sangskat, at de fleste sangskrivere givetvis ville give en lillefinger for bare at have kreeret to-tre sange af den kaliber. Podcastens værter har i hvert fald en snigende fornemmelse af at ”we are not worthy”, og bøjer sig i støvet for en uforlignelig sangskriver, en fabelagtig sanger og en på alle niveauer stor kunstner, hvis bedste sange vil leve ligeså længe, den slags synges og spilles. The Beatles: Please Please Me (1963)The Beatles: Help! (1965)The Beatles: She Said, She Said (1966)John Lennon: Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo, indspillet november 1966) The Beatles: I Am the Walrus (1967)The Beatles: Across the Universe (Anthology 2-version, indspillet februar 1968)The Beatles: Happiness Is a Warm Gun (1968)Plastic Ono Band: Cold Turkey (1969)Lennon/Ono with The Plastic Ono Band: Instant Karma! (1970)John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: Working Class Hero (1970)John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: God (1970)John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: My Mummy’s Dead (1970) John Lennon: Gimme Some Truth (1971)John Lennon: Jealous Guy (1971)John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band/Elephants Memory: New York City (1972) John Lennon/U.F.Onoband: Mind Games (1973)John Lennon: Steel and Glass (1974)John Lennon: #9 Dream (1974)John Lennon: Stand by Me (1975)John Lennon/Cheap Trick: I’m Losing You (Alternativ version fra Wonsaponatime, 1998; original version på Double Fantasy, 1980)John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Cleanup Time – Stripped Down Mix (Fra Double Fantasy Stripped Down, 2010; original version på Double Fantasy, 1980)

Twist And Shout (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 2/23/64) 2:49 The Beatles Rock 0 2 Dig a Pony 3:55 The Beatles Let It Be Rock 0 9 Across the Universe 3:48 The Beatles Let It Be Rock 0 4 Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) [Ultimate Mix] 3:22 John Lennon & Yoko Ono GIMME SOME TRUTH. Rock 0 5 Happiness Is a Warm Gun 9:55 Tori Amos Strange Little Girls Rock 0 4 Tomorrow Never Knows 2:58 The Beatles Revolver Rock 0 33 Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows 3:08 The Beatles Love Rock 0 3 Tomorrow Never Knows (Live) 6:15 Phil Manzanera 801 Live Rock 0 3 Forever Young 4:56 Bob Dylan The Essential Bob Dylan (Revised Edition) Rock 0 1 The Ghost in You 4:28 Robyn Hitchcock The Man Upstairs Alternative 0 3 God (Ultimate Mix) 4:11 John Lennon GIMME SOME TRUTH. Rock 0 3 Love (Ultimate Mix) 3:21 John Lennon GIMME SOME TRUTH. Rock 0 2 Power to the People (Ultimate Mix) 3:23 John Lennon GIMME SOME TRUTH. Rock 0 2

Number9Number9Number9Number9 - In this episode we dig deep into Russian covers of White Album tunes, our second official A-Paul-ogy, Slane Whiskey's full-on cold shoulder of our love, notes from the Blotto Scruffs, some Rick Danko love, some Robbie Robertson hate, that phase when John Lennon walked the stage with only half a mic stand, an early tip on the Magical Mystery Word, our official stance on Donovan (argh, Donovan), the Beatles once again refusing to credit their own friends, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the difference between vinyl and cd sequencing, how the Beatles play into sense memories for us all, and the White Album banger, "Happiness is a Warm Gun."As always, you can find Team Blotto Beatles on Instagram (@blottobeatles) and Twitter (@blottobeatles), by emailing us (blottobeatles@gmail.com), or on the web (blottobeatles.com). We want to hear from you!Please also take the time to rate and review us on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.We have a new shop! Grab some merch.See the canonical, argument-ending list of Beatles songs we are assembling here: https://www.blottobeatles.com/list; listen to it on Spotify here.Please remember to enjoy Blotto Beatles responsibly.Peace and Love.Hosts: Becker and TommyExecutive Producer: Scotty C.Additional Musical Supervision: RB (@ryanobrooks)#PeteBestGetThatCheck

Sarah and Cranky welcome back Cam Edwards from Bearing Arms (and breeding goats). Tune in for this discussion on guns in America, how the existence of “autonomous zones” and unrest has effected the image and status of gun rights, and what an armed populous means in real terms. And we can’t have Cam without some Farmville talk-which especially means GOATS! Twitter: @FoundersGirl @StillCrankyAF @CamEdwards @BearingArmsWeb: http://www.bleepingpodcast.comCam: https://bearingarms.com/

Sarah and Cranky welcome back Cam Edwards from Bearing Arms (and breeding goats). Tune in for this discussion on guns in America, how the existence of “autonomous zones” and unrest has effected the image and status of gun rights, and what an armed populous means in real terms. And we can’t have Cam without some Farmville talk-which especially means GOATS! Twitter: @FoundersGirl @StillCrankyAF @CamEdwards @BearingArms Web: http://www.bleepingpodcast.com Cam: https://bearingarms.com/

Join Bob, Lou and David as they discuss "Come Together", "I Am The Walrus", Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds", "A Day in the Life", "Bungalow Bill" and others.Lou Longobardi is a well known US Beatle's expert and David Bedford is the author of several Beatle's Biographies.

Ahhh, dueling and politics. Like a hand in a glove for a large part of American history. North Carolina and Johnston County know it well. A dusty street at high noon is not necessary. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jocoyo/support

On the Virginia gun rally, Neil Peart's lyricism, and bleeding-heart libertarianism.

It's episode 58 and our post-Halloween pod :) We hope everyone is recovering from all your tricker treaters and any extra candy - we are! This week Emma has a story about a woman, Sharon Kinne, who believed she should get whatever she wanted. If obstacles occurred, she just relied on her love of guns. Anish takes on a paranormal tale from Madrid that was made into a Netflix film called Veronica. It's the only case where authorities are on the record about witnessing supernatural results. We also discuss a bunch of horror movies we watched on Halloween (Trick r Treat, The Witch), a must-see at the theater, Jojo Rabbit, and another comeback heart-stopping win by Liverpool to keep the streak alive ;) Send us your own suggestions/fun facts/stories through our gmail (everythinginpodcast@gmail.com) or through our website (www.everythingpodcast.weebly.com)! And of course, follow us on instagram @everythinginpodcast and twitter @between_podcast. Our spotify playlist is called The Soundtrack In Between - feel free to check it out! Enjoy!

She's not a girl who misses much

I need a fix cause I'm going down

Flag Day inspired us to take a dive into the gun rights issue. Nanny joins us; it's Cass's birthday, and wine is flowing. We discuss the history of the second amendment, a list of things more regulated than guns, and social health. Music courtesy of Quinn.

This is my 2nd all-time favorite Beatles song. Tried making a sound-alike recording for it. Let me know what you think! This was a blast to make, and a great challenge in picking out the vocal harmonies. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/danbarracuda/support

Episode #5 of the Orange13 podcast jumps into the topic of Happiness and why it is so ...

De bekende liedjes van The Beatles, die kennen we natuurlijk allemaal wel. Maar wat vinden de liefhebbers nu eigenlijk de mooiste en meest ondergewaardeerde liedjes van de band? Dat hoor je in de eerste aflevering van een gloednieuwe podcast van KINK in samenwerking met Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes: de Ondergewaardeerde Playlist. Presentator Stefan Koopmanschap gaat daar in gesprek met bloggers Marco Groen, Freek Janssen en Martijn Janssen over de Beatles-pareltjes die het jammer genoeg nooit tot grote hit hebben geschopt. En dan proberen ze ook nog antwoord te geven op prangende vragen als: was Helter Skelter nu écht het allereerste hardrocknummer? Is Paul nu wel of niet doodgegaan? Ging Happiness Is a Warm Gun over pistolen, of was het stiekem toch keiharde porno? De hele playlist is te vinden op https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2019/04/04/de-ondergewaardeerde-playlist-the-beatles/

De bekende liedjes van The Beatles, die kennen we natuurlijk allemaal wel. Maar wat vinden de liefhebbers nu eigenlijk de mooiste en meest ondergewaardeerde liedjes van de band? Dat hoor je in de eerste aflevering van een gloednieuwe podcast van KINK in samenwerking met Ondergewaardeerde Liedjes: de Ondergewaardeerde Playlist. Presentator Stefan Koopmanschap gaat daar in gesprek met bloggers Marco Groen, Freek Janssen en Martijn Janssen over de Beatles-pareltjes die het jammer genoeg nooit tot grote hit hebben geschopt. En dan proberen ze ook nog antwoord te geven op prangende vragen als: was Helter Skelter nu écht het allereerste hardrocknummer? Is Paul nu wel of niet doodgegaan? Ging Happiness Is a Warm Gun over pistolen, of was het stiekem toch keiharde porno? De hele playlist is te vinden op https://ondergewaardeerdeliedjes.nl/2019/04/04/de-ondergewaardeerde-playlist-the-beatles/

Featuring: Chris (Play Comics), Jeremy (Podcasts We Listen To), Tiff (Gravity Beard Interns)Tonight we're battling it out over the age-old debate: Who's better, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Two of us will be defending The Beatles and two of us will be defending The Stones. This week's playlist:Across the Universe by The Beatles (Tiff)Mother's Little Helper by The Rolling Stones (Jeremy)I Wanna Be Your Man by The Beatles (Chris)Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones (Josh)Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles (Tiff)Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones (Jeremy)Happiness is a Warm Gun by The Beatles (Chris)Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones (Josh)Listen to the playlist at our-americana.com/playlist

Neeley and Chris kick off the show discussing the recent interviews with Alex Jones of Info Wars and David Lee Roth of Van Halen on the Joe Rogan Experience. The Alex Jones interview influences Neeley to contemplate purchasing new fire arms. Catch THE CLASSIC METAL SHOW Saturdays from 9pm to 3am EST at www.theclassicmetalshow.com. www.theclassicmetalshow.com - WEBSITE www.reddit.com/r/classicmetalshow - REDDIT www.gab.com/theclassicmetalshow - GAB www.chatandkill.com - CHATROOM www.bitchute.com/channel/classicmetalshow - BITCHUTE www.facebook.com/thecms - FACEBOOK www.twitter.com/cmsrocks - TWITTER www.instagram.com/classicmetalshow - INSTAGRAM PODCAST: https://www.spreaker.com/user/cmsrocks - SPREAKER https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/classic-metal-show-best-podcast/id295946198 - iTUNES https://open.spotify.com/show/5B6g73ONnQskxRk79KAJ9I - SPOTIFY https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Ilolxypla5l5zk7diswqfm2zae4 - GOOGLE PLAY https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-the-classic-metal-show-26997557/episodes/ - iHEARTRADIO https://tunein.com/podcasts/Talk-Show-Replays/The-Classic-Metal-Show-p587552/ - TUNEIN https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-classic-metal-show - STITCHER

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In celebration of the incredible 50th-anniversary edition of The White Album, we are bringing back Cover to Cover for The Fab Four. Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ I Want To Hold Your Hand by Al Green on Love Ritual (Hi Records) 2′53″ Can't Buy Me Love by Scary Pockets on Kitsch Funk 4′26″ A Hard Day's Night by The Supremes on A Bit of Liverpool 6′54″ I Feel Fine by Chet Atkins on Picks On The Beatles 8′20″ Ticket to Ride by Vanilla Fudge on Vanilla Fudge 11′41″ Day Tripper by Otis Redding on Complete 15′14″ We Can Work It Out by Stevie Wonder on Signed, Sealed, and Delivered (Motown) 18′15″ Eleanor Rigby by The Four Tops on Four Tops Now (Motown) 21′08″ Come Together by The Meters on Kickback (Warner Bros) 24′32″ Strawberry Fields Forever by Richie Havens on 20th Century Masters 27′07″ Norwegian Wood by Waylon Jenning on Nashville Rebel (Sony) 30′40″ Fixing A Hole by The Wood Brothers on Up Above My Head (Indirecto) 33′19″ With A Little Help From My Friends by Steve Cropper on Dedicated 38′11″ Jealous Guy by Hurray For The Riff Raff on My Dearest Darkest Neighbor (This is American Music) 41′37″ Let Me Roll It by Lake Street Dive on Fun Machine 44′18″ All Things (Must) Pass by Billy Preston on Encouraging Words (Apple) 48′09″ Cold Turkey by The Soft Boys on A Can of Bees (Yep Roc) 51′54″ Instant Karma by Midnight Oil on King of the Mountain (Midnight Oil) 54′29″ Working Class Hero by Green Day on Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur (Warner Bros.) 60′02″ Happiness is a Warm Gun by The Breeders on Pod (Rough Trade) 64′19″ Mother Nature's Son by John Denver on Best Of 68′01″ Michelle by Ben Harper on This Bird Has Flown (Concord) 74′39″ Run For Your Life by Thee Headcoatees on The Kids Are All Square 77′16″ Help by The Damned on Damned Damned Damned (MCA Records) 80′04″ I'm Looking Through You by Mark Heard on Second Hand 84′43″ And Your Bird Can Sing by The Jam on Sound Affects (Polydor) 89′16″ She's Leaving Home by Billy Bragg on Reaching to the Converted (Cooking Vinyl) 94′40″ Got To Get You Into My Life by Daniel Johnston on 1990 99′14″ What Goes On by Sufjan Stevens on This Bird Has Flown (Concord) 103′44″ Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Jimi Hendrix on Atlanta Pop Festival (Sony) 107′12″ Taxman by Junior Parker on Funny How Time Slips Away (LRC Ltd.) 111′32″ In My Life by Johnny Cash on American VI: Ain't No Grave (American) 113′00″ Because by Elliott Smith on American Beauty (Geffen) 117′38″ Medley: Sun King / Mean Mister Mustard ... by Booker T. & The M.G.'s on McLemore Avenue (Stax)

Un día como hoy, pero de 1968, en el estudio N° 2, Los Beatles estuvieron trabajando en las sesiones de mezcla para la canción "Happiness Is a Warm Gun".

Un día como hoy, pero de 1968, en el estudio N° 2, Los Beatles estuvieron trabajando en las sesiones de mezcla para la canción "Happiness Is a Warm Gun".

This first episode is about America's love/hate relationship with the 2nd Amendment. Here's the playlist: 1. ) Lou Reed “The Gun” from The Blue Mask (1982) 2. The Beatles “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” from The Beatles (White Album) (MP3, 1968) on EMI UK 3. Junior Walker & The All Stars “Shotgun” from The Motown Story, Vol. 1 - The 1960s (2002) 4.Justin Moore “guns” from Outlaws Like Me on Universal Music Group International (USA) 5. Green Day “21 Guns” from 21st Century Breakdown (Deluxe Version) (2009) on Reprise (UK) 6. AC/DC “Fire Your Guns” from The Razors Edge (1990) on Epic 7. Johnny Cash “Don't Take Your Guns to Town” from The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958) 8. The Clash “The Guns of Brixton” from London Calling (MP3, 1979) 9. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Ohio” from So far on Rhino Atlantic (USA) 10. Lynyrd Skynyrd “God & Guns” from God & Guns on Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud 11. Warren Zevon “Lawyers, Guns and Money” from Excitable Boy (1978) 12. Steve Earle “The Devil's Right Hand” from A Tribute to the Man in Black

The cripple impersonations, the Nazi salutes, the MBEs (received and returned), the groupies, the ‘Butcher cover’, the ‘bigger than Jesus’ controversy, the drugs, the love anthem, the naked album cover, the politically-charged lyrics, the peace campaign, the erotic artwork… However we slice and dice The Beatles’ story, it’s never boring,. What they said, sang and did still incites heated debates and disagreements five decades later. And what was deemed acceptable or unimportant back in the 1960s is often judged far more harshly today—as well as the other way around. So, diving into this often amusing, sometimes disturbing topic, we appraise things according to not only current mores, but also the era in which they took place—guaranteeing an action-packed episode… and a splendid time for all. The Music I Saw Her Standing There Day Tripper The Word Girl Run for Your Life Got to Get You into My Life Tomorrow Never Knows Doctor Robert Penny Lane Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds A Day in the Life All You Need is Love Revolution 1 Blackbird Piggies No Pakistanis Maggie Mae I’ve Got a Feeling Don’t Let Me Down Give Peace a Chance Come Together You Can’t Do That Across the Universe Piggies Happiness is a Warm Gun Revolution Commonwealth

This November, an upcoming seminar "Producing An Enigma for The Ages" celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release has been announced by Monmouth University.     Dean Ken Womack of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences (author of "Maximum Volume" and the forthcoming "Sound Pictures" George Martin biography) joins us to discuss the plans for the Symposium, the Tuesday Night Record club and their other projects entertaining and educating not only their students, but the community at large with the union of recent popular music and scholarly research and study.    In the remaining time, we discuss a couple of White Album topics, including mixes, George Martin and "Happiness is a Warm Gun".

We close out the conversation about Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season One with guest scholar James South, editor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale and the upcoming Westworld and Philosophy: If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing. Together we discuss the hidden chalkboard messages of 111, “Out of Mind, Out of Sight,” and the intentional fallacy of Merrie Melodies in 112, “Prophecy Girl.” Cordy finally goes to the library; Xander is a bully; and Buffy’s only 16.   Also, what did the Beatles know about invisible assassin school and when did they know it?   Next: Michael Adams, author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon shares some words with me about the first two episodes of the second season, “When She Was Bad” and “Some Assembly Required.”   THE BREAKDOWN Intro / Guest (00:00 - 5:00) Main Topic (5:00 - 1:19:50) Outro / Next (1:19:50 - 1:26:16)   THE LIBRARY Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (Popular Culture and Philosophy, Vol. 4), edited by James B. South   Westworld and Philosophy (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series), edited by James B. South   THE LINKS James South Academic Site   THE MUSIC “Conversations (feat. Wesley Mead)” by Azura (2017) “Happiness is a Warm Gun” by the Beatles, The Beatles (1968)   THE SCHOLARS Whedon Studies Association is anon-profit academic organization devoted to the study of the works of Joss Whedon and his associates. They put out Slayage: The Journal of Whedon Studies, and Watcher Junior​: The Undergraduate Journal of Whedon Studies, both blind peer-reviewed twice-yearly online publications. They also host the biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverses, which brings all these incredible scholars together to present papers, discuss ways of incorporating Whedon Studies in education, and basically just geek out together. http://www.whedonstudies.tv/

BWBB - Episode 12 - Happiness is a Warm Gun by Boys Will Be Boys

Ducky smoothly talks her way peacefully pass the guards in the lobby... by threatening to murder their family

Eager for more work, the team checks in with Calyx for a job and he sends them off to meet a new Johnson...

Casey and Reese take over the VIP room at Trinity Nightclub for a series of interviews with some of the artists playing this year's Upstream Festival & Summit. Jump on the interview train and get an earful from DJs Swerve 1 and U No Hu, recording artists Tay Sean and Warm Gun, and the one and only Russell North

Podcast for a deep examination into the career and life choices of Adam Sandler. Happy (his last name is Gilmore) wants to be good at hockey, but his grandmother's anti-government stance forces him to force Carl Weathers to teach him to be good at golf. His golfing even seems to lead to people's death. But at least he saves the day at the end. And by 'day,' we mean his grandmother's house. Also Patrick refuses to believe that Julie Bowen is actually in this movie. Listen to find out who wins in a fight between Patrick and IMDB? 'Happy Gilmore' available on DVD, streaming, and weirdly Blu-ray: www.amazon.com/Happy-Gilmore-Ada…ler/dp/0783225717 Disclaimer: This episode was recorded in August 2015. References may feel confusing and/or dated unusually quickly. Clip from 'Happy Gilmore' Music from "Happiness is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles Artwork from BJ West   quixotic, united, skeyhill, vekeman, sandler, bowen, lost, philip, glass, circles,  

show#688 04.22.17 Gunz & Blues David Baerwald - The Got No Shotgun Hydra Head Octopus Blues from Triage 1992 A&M (4:26) Sunnyland Slim - Johnson Machine Gun from The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1947-1950) 1999 (2:51) Bo Diddley - Gunslinger from The Chess Story 1947-1975 (1960-1961) 1999 (1:54) R.L. Burnside - 44 Pistol from Too Bad Jim (2:58) Tom Hambridge - The Pistol from Boom! 2011 (4:00) Rich DelGrosso - Shotgun Blues from A Tribute to the Legendary Blues Mandolin Man James 'Yank' Rachell (4:47) Big Sugar - Shot In the Dark from Big Sugar 1992 Provogue (3:07) Treat Her Right - I Got a Gun from Treat Her Right 1987 Demon (3:31) David Gogo - Gunslinger from Different Views 2009 Cordova Bay (2:57) Chris Whitley - Guns & Dolls from Din of Ecstasy 1995 Work Group (3:30) Rory Block - Like A Shotgun from Tornado 1996 Rounder (4:17) Pat Boyack - Shotgun Slim from Voices from the Street 2004 Doc Blues (3:29) Rory Gallagher - Big Guns from Jinx 1982 (3:30) Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat - Scattergun from BL2154 - Bad JuJu 2001 Lucky Seven (4:09) Bill Perry - Trouble in the Shotgun from Crazy Kind of Life 2002 Blind Pig (2:50) Larry Garner - Edward Had a Shotgun from Once Upon the Blues 2000 Ruf (2:59) Robert Cray - Smoking Gun from Strong Persuader 1986 Mobile Fidelity (4:09) Too Slim & the Taildraggers - Big Guns from The Fortune Teller 2007 Underworld (4:17) Mink DeVille - Gunslinger from Cabretta 1977 Capitol (2:11) Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun from Shotgun 1965 Tamla Motown (2:59) Mighty Reapers - Shotgun from Trouble People 1996 Terra Nova (3:28) Free Lance Band - Gunman from Rough 'n Tough 1980 CNR (5:13) Guy Forsyth - Needle Gun from Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana 2005 Small and Nimble (5:13) Barrance Whitfield - Girl Gunslinger from Let's Lose It 1990 Stony Plain (3:22) The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol from Brothers 2010 Nonesuch (4:29) Matthew Stubbs - Pistol Whip from Medford & Main 2010 Blue Bella Records (2:40) Popa Chubby - Young Guns from Stealing the Devil's Guitar 2006 Dixiefrog (3:36) Ellis Hooks - Slide the Gun from The Hand of God 2004 Zane (3:28) C.C. Adcock - Loaded Gun from Lafayette Marquis 2004 Yep Roc (2:49) Charlie Musselwhite - Pistol In Your Face from The Harmonica According To Charlie Musselwhite 1978 Kicking Mule (4:02) Kevin Breit & The Sisters Euclid - Gun from John and the Sisters 2004 Northern Blues (4:38) The Imperial Crowns - Bettye Gunne from Star Of The West 2007 (4:36) Anders Osborne - Happiness Is a Warm Gun from The Blues White Album 2002 Telarc (3:27) Roy Buchanan - Peter Gunn from Deluxe Edition 2001 Alligator (3:18)

The Beatles double album, officially titled "The Beatles" but better known as "The White Album" because of its iconic white cover, is to many people the most special Beatles album of all. This is the one that feels personal, that you feel like only you understand and no one else. There's masterpieces, curious trifles, unfinished gems and a few damned silly tracks. Because it's a double album, we're doing two episodes to cover it. Today we go over Sides 1 and 2, which includes the jaw-droppingly great "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Blackbird," "Happiness is A Warm Gun," "Dear Prudence" and MORE AND MORE. Holy crap. Panelists: Manny Hagopian, Will Hines, Ariana Lenarksy, Adam McCabe, Joel Spence. (audio re-mixed, yep yep)

This time around Wes, Will and Matt explore many of the types of wepons players can use.  Don't forget to enter to win #TRBootyQuest!

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This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for October 18, 2016. In this episode, I talk about He Who Will Not Be Named Because He is a Rapist Monster. #PussyGrabsBack Songs Played in this episode: Pussy Grabs Back by Kim BoekbinderMiss Pussy Pants by Ann MagnusonPussy Thrusts by Gravy Train!!!!Big Mouth by SantigoldYou Think You’re a Man by The VaselinesKill v. Maim by GrimesTraffic Island Psycho by Tone DogsHappiness is a Warm Gun by Tori AmosPsychopath by Lisa GermanoRattlesnake by St. VincentIndestructible by Robyn Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

This episode was pre-recorded for airing on KWTF Sonoma County Radio for October 18, 2016. In this episode, I talk about He Who Will Not Be Named Because He is a Rapist Monster. #PussyGrabsBack Songs Played in this episode: Pussy Grabs Back by Kim BoekbinderMiss Pussy Pants by Ann MagnusonPussy Thrusts by Gravy Train!!!!Big Mouth by SantigoldYou Think You’re a Man by The VaselinesKill v. Maim by GrimesTraffic Island Psycho by Tone DogsHappiness is a Warm Gun by Tori AmosPsychopath by Lisa GermanoRattlesnake by St. VincentIndestructible by Robyn Please subscribe and rate! Thank you.

Hosted by attorney Michael Komorn from Komorn Law and Chad from Birmingham Compassion Contributions from Rick Thompson from The Compassion Chronicles-also providing the news, and show producer Jamie Lowell from the Third Coast Dispensary in Ypsilanti Tonight- the MI-Legalize legal challenge moves to the Michigan Supreme Court- what just happened and what's next for MI-Legalize?Attorney David Cahill joins us to discuss the MI-Legalize strategy going forward.A recap of the Country Fair- MI High Times Cannabis Cup, Award Winner Captain Kirk will be joining us via phone.Everything else that is related to Medical Cannabis and Cannabis Reform in Michigan.  Regular guests and friends of the show: Jim Powers- Michigan Parents for Compassion co- founder and board member of MILegalize. Also- attorney Jeff Frazier, attorney David Rudoi of Rudoi Law, Eric Gunnels Thetford Twp Trustee and T- pain

Hosted by attorney Michael Komorn from Komorn Law and Chad from Birmingham CompassionContributions from Rick Thompson from The Compassion Chronicles-also providing the news, and show producer Jamie Lowell from the Third Coast Dispensary in YpsilantiTonight- the MI-Legalize legal challenge moves to the Michigan Supreme Court- what just happened and what's next for MI-Legalize?Attorney David Cahill joins us to discuss the MI-Legalize strategy going forward.A recap of the Country Fair- MI High Times Cannabis Cup, Award Winner Captain Kirk will be joining us via phone.Everything else that is related to Medical Cannabis and Cannabis Reform in Michigan.Regular guests and friends of the show: Jim Powers- Michigan Parents for Compassion co- founder and board member of MILegalize. Also- attorney Jeff Frazier, attorney David Rudoi of Rudoi Law, Eric Gunnels Thetford Twp Trustee and T- pain

You have to wonder about things like guns, and June Gloom, the LGBLT community, preaching love, calling things "the worst in U.S. history," Wounded Knee, your high school history book, wars, genocide, subjugation, cupcakes, immigrants and queers, throwing rocks at politicians, gun control, unemployment checks, Kickstarter, the emperor's new clothes, swimming upstream, fluffing up your eggs, the NRA, Jesus Christ himself, your fellow citizens, Mexican hats, rumpus rooms, 7-11, Wyatt Earp, Vivienne Westwood boots, cops, taking care of each other and Phil Hendrie.

New To You Ep213: Remembering Jason Golliher (1976-2016) The week we take a pause from our standard fare.  John, Jules and Keith are joined this week by their long time friend Jason Plapp to reflect on the recent passing of a friend.  This is the first time we’ve recorded remotely so we could include Plapp from his home in Los Angeles where he works in the animation industry. This is a deluxe episode where we introduce you to our friend through the things he introduced to us.  Jason Golliher, who went by Jase or Jayse, for a time by Ari or Artie, and most recently Jackson Hall, was an artist and musician who we had the good fortune to know and befriend in college. He played a pivotal part in Keith, Plapp, John and Jules meeting. “Golden Microphone” a piece from Jayse AKA Jackson Hall 2010. You can find more of his work on his portfolio site. _______________________________________________________________________ PART 1: Keith - Grant Lee Buffalo “Mighty Joe Moon” Album 1994 Keith recalls an album that Jayse introduced him to soon after they met.  You can listen on Spotify, purchase on iTunes or Amazon, and access through any number of music services.  Some of the tracks we discuss in the show: Mighty Joe Moon Last Days of Tecumsah Lone Star _______________________________________________________________________ PART 2: Plapp - The Guitar & Gram Parsons (Musician 1946-1973) Plapp recalls how Jayse introduced him to notion of learning the guitar, and further that Jayse introduced him to the music of Gram Parsons From “Sweetheart of the Rodeo” with the Byrds, through his role in the Flying Burrito Brothers, and onto his solo work and collaborations with Emmylou Harris, Jayse shared the music and storied life of this artist with Plapp.  You can listen to some of his great music here:  Sweetheart of the Rodeo (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon) Flying Burrito Bros. (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon) He was one of the greats, but don’t take our word for it: >_______________________________________________________________________ PART 3: Jules - “Bitch Betta Bite Back” (Mixtape Winter 1997 Jules recalls how Jayse whipped up a mixtape in his Brighton apartment. Jules was able to cobble together most of the mix in a Spotify Playlist you can listen to here. Track list: SIDE A: Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe - Whale As Girls Go - Suzanne Vega Miss Freelove ‘69 - Hoodoo Gurus Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival Punk Rock Girl - Dead Milkmen Spinal Meningitis - Ween Freedom of ‘76 - Ween Wannabe - Spice Girls Bubblehouse - Modeski Martin and Wood For Those of Ya’ll Who Wear Fannie Packs - Ben Folds Five Cherokee Boogie - BR549 Sensurround - They Might Be Giants (not streaming - available on Amazon) Watch that Girl Destroy Me - Possum Dixon Woo Hah - Busta Ryhmes Cantaloupe Island - Herbie Hancock SIDE B: Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners Lyin’ Ass Bitch - Fishbone Ode to Rene - Ween Lover’s Lane - Squirrel Nut Zippers Dick - King Missile Happiness is a Warm Gun - the Breeders Sexy Mother Fucker - Prince (not streaming- available on iTunes) Stuart - Dead Milkmen Pink Thing - XTC Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. Marble Tulip Juicy Tree - Ween Syeeda’s Song Flute - Modeski Martin and Wood We also dig into a favorite band of Jayse: Ween. Their album “The Mollusk” came out in the summer of 1997 - between our freshman and sophomore years of college. You can listen to this album on Spotify, iTunes, or Amazon. >_______________________________________________________________________ PART 4: John - The Art of Drinking John recalls that in college Jayse had turned 21 soon after we all met. He bucked the trend of college drinking being a ‘just to get drunk’ activity.  Jayse introduced us to PBR and extolled the virtues of whiskey as a way of adding smoke to your singing voice.  Jayse loved to share his Tennessee roots: namely the music, hospitality and the whiskey. Our Hollis Place home where at least a half dozen of us lived our last year of college. There just inside the right hand door, on the right hand side was Jayse’s room- that first floor window on the right was his. Jayse loved having people in his room to share stories, drinks, laughter and music.  Just down the block from our Allston home was this dive bar. This was a place Jayse and ‘the family’ loved to go when entertaining at home got stale. A painting by Jayse on corrugated cardboard.  A self portrait. ______________________________________________________________________ A little more about Jayse: While living in Tennessee Jayse had a number of bands in college and highschool, a tradition he carried when he moved to Boston to attend the Art Institute of Boson and a passion he continued when he moved to the Carolina’s after college. Jayse in Tennessee with his band “Bourgeois Pop Machine.” Jayse is on the left. Jayse on guitar, Chris Wilkerson on the bass. The Tennesee Boys in the Comm. Ave apartment. Left to Right: Keith, Shelby, Plapp, and Jayse. Brighton, MA ~1998 Brisco Darlin’ Allston, MA ~’99: Back- Left to Right: Jayse, Nick, Keith, Tim. Front - Left to Right: John Bickford, Plapp, McCann. ‘Beach Party’ Brighton, MA ~’97. Corrina, Jayse and Plapp. Halloween Brighton, MA ~’97/’98. Jayse and Plapp. Jayse in N.C. - A little story behind this one: Jayse introduced Ted Hobgood to the comedy of Patton Oswalt. They then started a series of photos where they catalogued all the things that were mentioned in Patton’s comedy routines. The project was discovered and they were tapped to create a slideshow style video of all the things Patton mentioned in his comedy set “FInest Hour.” This short video was included on the bonus features of the comedy special DVD. Jayse produced the music for the video. You can purchase the special on iTunes or Amazon. We have Jayse to thank for introducing us to vast amounts of music, art, movies, books, and the spirit of doing. He constantly introduced himself to people and in turn introduced those people to the things he loved.  _______________________________________________________________________ You can follow John on twitter @lordjoho You can follow Jules on twitter @beautifuljules​ You can check out Keith’s art on his tumblr earthlingkeith.tumblr.com You can follow Plapp on twitter @dunkleswift #college#jason golliher#art#art school#animation  

California satires itself.

California satires itself.

What the What?!?! Ian is in a good mood on Ian Hates Music!?!?!? That's right! There's so much amazing music to talk about on this podcast episode that you can hear it in Ian's voice! So get ready for your happy doses of metalcore, post-hardcore, metal, hardcore, electronicore, emo, screamo, rock, alternative, pop-punk, punk, deathcore, and really, all the core!  Here's another AWESOME FREE episode of Ian Hates Music! Ian and Jackson talk your scene news from: Punk Goes Pop, Rock AM, Hundredth, Stick To Your Guns, Misery Signals, PVRIS, Tonight Alive, Ink Master, and My Chemical Romance! And New Songs from: Foo Fighters, Bloodclot, Volumes, Dayseeker, Classic Jack, and The Contortionist! And album reviews from: Eighteen Visions - XVIII - Rise Records Obey the Brave - Mad Season - Epitaph Records ‘68 - Two Parts Viper - Cooking Vinyl Miss May I - Shadows Inside - Sharptone Records Eidola - To Speak To Listen - Blue Swan Records House Vs. Hurricane - Filth - UNFD Wednesday 13 - Condolences - Nuclear Blast Records CrazyEightyEight - No Words Spoken EP - Independent Release Plus, Breakdown From The Past and so much more! Don't forget to support Ian Hates Music! Subscribe, rate, and share Ian Hates Music on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and any of your favorite podcast listening apps! Now on SoundCloud! Links below: Ian Hates Facebook Twitter Instagram iTunes Stitcher Google Play Music SoundCloud And the link for Ty's Blog - Check it out! Ty Rock City All sound bites or clips are exclusive property of their respective owners and are in no way affiliated with Ian Hates Podcast or its' sponsors. They are used here for entertainment purposes only. Enjoy! Long days and pleasant nights.

In this extended episode, Richard and Robert examine the singing of John Lennon, commemorating the thirty-five years since his passing with a look at his unique vocal artistry, as a Beatle and solo. Songs include: “Twist and Shout” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Christmas is coming and the Something About The Beatles 2016 calendar is here ATTENTION CHICAGO AREA SATB LISTENERS: With your support, we may be able to make possible something we can all be thankful for: Something About The Beatles on terrestrial radio (and regularly scheduled besides…). MeTV FM is a fabulous new radio station, playing loads of forgotten hits from back in the day. They’re also very Beatle-centric – that makes them the perfect radio home for Something About The Beatles. We have been advertising on them, but what would be fantastic is if we could get all of you to show your interest in such a venture. Do you want to hear Something About The Beatles weekly, on the radio? Then shoot them an email – let them know that you love the show, and that you appreciate the sponsorship of Rode Brothers Fine Wood Flooring. That’s the kind of support that makes things happen – can we count on you? The post 34: John Lennon – Vocalist appeared first on Something About The Beatles.

In this extended episode, Richard and Robert examine the singing of John Lennon, commemorating the thirty-five years since his passing with a look at his unique vocal artistry, as a Beatle and solo. Songs include: “Twist and Shout” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Christmas is coming and the Something About The Beatles 2016 calendar is here ATTENTION CHICAGO AREA SATB LISTENERS: With your support, we may be able to make possible something we can all be thankful for: Something About The Beatles on terrestrial radio (and regularly scheduled besides…). MeTV FM is a fabulous new radio station, playing loads of forgotten hits from back in the day. They’re also very Beatle-centric – that makes them the perfect radio home for Something About The Beatles. We have been advertising on them, but what would be fantastic is if we could get all of you to show your interest in such a venture. Do you want to hear Something About The Beatles weekly, on the radio? Then shoot them an email – let them know that you love the show, and that you appreciate the sponsorship of Rode Brothers Fine Wood Flooring. That’s the kind of support that makes things happen – can we count on you? The post 34: John Lennon – Vocalist appeared first on Something About The Beatles.

With the tragedy at Umpqua Community College (UCC) in Oregon, gun control advocates led by Barack Obama are shamefully politicizing this event, as usual. Truth is gun control would not have saved a single life at UCC. We look at this in the latest episode of Truth Watch Radio.

Guest DJs: KC Oden (From the Back of the Room, Hot Mess, Starve, Homosuperior, Maloso), Brandon Korch (Mop Attack, Dawntreader, Hobis, Monument, Polyon, Maloso), and Maurice Alvarado (Human Anger, Disdain, Gore-Ill-Ass, JFK, The Locos, Strong Intention, A Warm Gun, Magrudergrind, Lost Again, Lotus Fucker, Mind as Prison, Plaguewielder, Maloso) |Playlist:...Entombed - Full of Hell |Marked Men - A Little Time |Brainoil - Dark Eyes of My Past |Tenement - Earwig |Dirty Three - Doris |Hessan I Sabbah - Untitled 2 |Braid - Killing a Camera |Magnolia Electric Co. - Hammer Down |Brujeria - Narcos Satanicos |Obituary - I'm in Pain / Back to One |Eyehategod - Peace thru War thru Peace and War) |Filth - Today's Lesson |X - Your Phone's Off the Hook but You're Not |Nausea - Cybergod |Bikini Kill - Carnival |Hole - Plump |Cave In - Crossbearer |Jawbreaker - The Boat Dreams from the Hill |Dillinger 4 - O.K. F.M. D.O.A. |Neurosis - The Tide |

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In this episode, Robert and Richard get insights into the Beatles’ artistry, including Ringo’s drumming, from The Fab Faux’s Frank Agnello, Rich Pagano and Jack Petruzelli. Songs excerpts heard include “I Don’t Want To Face It,”Everybody’s Got Something To Hide” “I Am The Walrus” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Check out http://www.thefabfaux.com/ http://jackpetruzzelli.com/ http://www.richpagano.com/ Check THIS out for an explicit side by side of the riff Frank talks about, played by Paul and John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIJPO-Jric The post 11: The Fab Faux appeared first on Something About The Beatles.

In this episode, Robert and Richard get insights into the Beatles’ artistry, including Ringo’s drumming, from The Fab Faux’s Frank Agnello, Rich Pagano and Jack Petruzelli. Songs excerpts heard include “I Don’t Want To Face It,”Everybody’s Got Something To Hide” “I Am The Walrus” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” Check out http://www.thefabfaux.com/ http://jackpetruzzelli.com/ http://www.richpagano.com/ Check THIS out for an explicit side by side of the riff Frank talks about, played by Paul and John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIJPO-Jric The post 11: The Fab Faux appeared first on Something About The Beatles.

New Salty Language Episode 133 - www.saltylanguage.comIn this episode, we rant about: Nye vs. Ham Debate: http://tinyurl.com/mble4qa Who won the debate: http://tinyurl.com/pb2mxnp Chris Christie character assassination: http://tinyurl.com/mp55hgz Opening Song: Happiness is a Warm Gun by The Breeders (Beatles Cover) iTunes link: http://tinyurl.com/lrdclew Break Song: Yesterday by Wilco (Beatles Cover) iTunes link for Beatles Version: http://tinyurl.com/mse69aj Subscribe / rate / review us on iTunes!Visit us at:saltylanguage.com salty-language.tumblr.com / facebook.com/saltylanguage @salty_language / saltylanguage@gmail.comhttp://salty.libsyn.com/webpage  / http://www.youtube.com/user/SaltyLanguagePod Skype: SaltyLanguagePodOn Stitcher search Salty LanguageVoicemail: (415) 857-2589podgodsnetwork.com Share with your friends!

Episode Ten: Happiness is a Warm Gun.

The sickly pair of Sam and Rick are holding down the fort this week.  We talk about the anticipated games of the first quarter of 2013.  We also discuss the possibility of what happens if they go into total gun control, will they come after our video games next?  If you agree or disagree, you can leave your feedback at: lovesack@gamerhusbands.com hatemail@gamerhusbands.com You can also follow us at: @GamerHusbands Thanks for listening.

Happiness is a Warm Gun appears to be a bit of a mixed bag, which seems to hang together for some reason. The meaning of most Lennon songs can be unravelled, just as I showed for his poetry. In this case, most will agree with a 'anatomical' intepreation of the 'gun' in the song. This also fits the "Mother superior jump the gun' refrain, since Lennon often referred to Yoko as 'Mother'. The first part is less easy to interpret, because of the interfence from others (Derek Taylor). I read somewhere that they wrote down memories from their visit to Los Angeles, such as the lizard on the windowpane, and the man with mirrors on his boots (to look under girl's skirts) was an actual newspaper clip. Hence, this section is more a 'mr Kite' text, that does not say much about Lennon or anytging in particular, except for setting the slightly threatening mood. In this remix, the song sequence is left intact; the mix now includes keyboards and percussion from take 7, that did not make it to the relased mix. Furthermore, one of the lead guitars is left out of the mix, revealing some features that were difficult to distinguish, such as the spurious 'down' after the guitar riff, and the brass in the refrain around 1m10s. Overall, a warmere sound, befitting a warm gun.....