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« on: December 06, 2009, 01:36:39 PM » |
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2009, 07:39:48 PM » |
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Yup, I do remember it like it was only a few years ago. Oddly enough, I did not then or now have an emotional response to the whole thing though. I remember being P O'd and perhaps in a bit of shock....but the thought of some sort of vigil never ever has occurred to me.
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2009, 08:26:44 PM » |
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I was too young to really remember the whole thing. (I was 5). What I do find disturbing is the way we "celebrate" death. I can understand a vigil the night he died but for heaven's sake move the future celebration to his birthday. It's the same with Elvis. It's akin to those people that want to make 9/11 a federal holiday. We don't celebrate death - we celebrate life. Of all people John Lennon was about living. That's how he should be remembered. O.K. I'm off my rant now. ;)
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2009, 08:41:21 PM » |
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I tend to agree about celebrating the guy's life instead of his death...funny thing is, there's only a few people could tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when JL was born. I guess people do that because they feel a sort of "common experience" thing, a kind of horrific lesson, all learned in the same class. It's nice that people are still affected by Lennon even 29 years later, but it'd be even better if folks started to take peace seriously as he seemed to. Imagine that!  |
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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2009, 08:42:03 PM » |
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Nicely said GB....in fact, that is what I was trying to say myself..I was just rubbish at it hahaha!  |
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2009, 08:24:03 PM » |
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One of the reasons John's death is so remembered is because of the brutality and shock involved - and the ONLY thing that we could do was play his songs, so that element took on a life of it's own.
Also, why his death is so remembered and 'celebrated' - is he was seen just weeks before being "re-born" as a rock artist, after the house-husband days and releasing DF and giving interviews. We were salivating his return, knowing DF was a modest warm-up to opening up his genius treasure again - and possibly playing with Paul and the Beatles again. It really, also, was the death of the Beatles.
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2009, 09:05:16 PM » |
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I went to the local drugstore for a paper and prob cigs (smoked back then) and saw headline: John Lennon shot dead. Didn't watch BBC in the mornings. I just wondered what kind of demonstration he was at and if the police did it or the National Guard. I read the article, and the world just seemed to be a gloomy lace. Plus it was Dec in England, so it was literally gloomy too.
Yes, The Beatles did end that day too didn't they?
I don't know what to say about that day. Happy Christmas (War is Over) seemed quite dramatic that December when is was played on BBC or in a club.
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2009, 09:07:38 PM » |
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Hey Greg....why were you in England?
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2009, 09:17:57 PM » |
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Hey I was 19 and flunking out of college. My friends were going down to the Texas oil fields. I bought a one-way ticket to England. I'd gotten a visa from an ad in the back of Rolling Stone magazine. I got off the plane, took a train to London, seemed too big for me, went down to Maidstone and got a job and a place to live. Volunteered at a school for the handi-capped, worked at night, had a great time. Saw U2 as the backup band for Slade (I hate U2). Saved money for a return ticket a year later.
Liverpool wasn't Beatled-out then. Had dinner with Macs neighbors. I mean the people who remembered living next to them til the early sixties. Went to Blackler's where George used to work. Walked to the church where John met Paul.
What a memorable time in life. Thanks for asking. Sorry for extraneous info.
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 09:27:38 PM » |
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That sounds so awesome....thanks for sharing!
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« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2009, 03:03:17 AM » |
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Hey I was 19 and flunking out of college. My friends were going down to the Texas oil fields. I bought a one-way ticket to England. I'd gotten a visa from an ad in the back of Rolling Stone magazine. I got off the plane, took a train to London, seemed too big for me, went down to Maidstone and got a job and a place to live. Volunteered at a school for the handi-capped, worked at night, had a great time. Saw U2 as the backup band for Slade (I hate U2). Saved money for a return ticket a year later.
Liverpool wasn't Beatled-out then. Had dinner with Macs neighbors. I mean the people who remembered living next to them til the early sixties. Went to Blackler's where George used to work. Walked to the church where John met Paul.
What a memorable time in life. Thanks for asking. Sorry for extraneous info.
Reminds me a bit of the main guy in the film 'Across the Universe', he went on a bit of an adventure too :) |
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