seriuos shit

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Dictel at aol.com schrieb:

> In a message dated 12/21/00 1:19:25 PM, blicero at linknet.idt.net writes:
>
> << it is good to know that there there are people out there that understand 
> and see this type of thing...i am afraid that it is not enough....mabye this 
> sounds silly, but i often use to find myself agonizing over the garbage dump 
> this world has become... >>

> Whoa!  Have Blicero and George Harrison ever been seen in the same room?



   nope, this is for the first time in history. a-and listen, now they're 
   singing a song together, & it is - what? - "all we are say-ing, is 'give 
   peace a cha-ha-hance' ..." excuse me, folks, but now i have to check out that 
   goose for x-mas dinner ... honey, where's the chopper?! kfl     


> Thursday December 21 10:24 AM ET
> George Harrison Says 'The World Is Going Mental' 
> By Dean Goodman
> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Beatle George Harrison is so concerned about 
> the state of the world that he's jokingly thinking of calling his next album 
> ``Your Planet is Doomed, Volume One.''
> ``The world is just going mental as far as I'm concerned,'' Harrison told 
> Reuters Wednesday. ``It's speeding up with the whole technology and 
> everything that's happening.''
> Having survived both a home invasion by a knife-wielding maniac last Dec. 30 
> and a throat cancer scare in 1997 -- incidents he declined to discuss -- 
> 57-year-old Harrison could be forgiven for seeing life in shades of black.
> To remind himself of the bright side of things, Harrison has re-recorded his 
> ode to peace, love and Hare Krishna, ``My Sweet Lord,'' which topped the 
> American and British charts in 1971. It will appear -- along with the 
> original -- on a 30th anniversary re-issue of his ``All Things Must Pass'' 
> triple album, set for release on Jan. 23 via Capitol Records.
> ``I just like the idea and the opportunity to freshen it up, because the 
> point of 'My Sweet Lord' is just to try and remind myself basically that 
> there's more to life than the material world,'' Harrison said.
> ``Basically I think the planet is doomed,'' he said with a laugh. ``And it's 
> my attempt to try to put a bit of a spin on the spiritual side, a reminder 
> for myself and for anybody who's interested.''
> Harrison added that while pessimistic about the environment, he is positive 
> about ``my place in creation ... and I don't have any worries whatsoever 
> about that.''
> ``All Things Must Pass,'' originally released in December 1970 as the Beatles 
> were breaking up, served as a much-needed creative outlet for Harrison, whose 
> songwriting efforts were overshadowed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
> Musicians on the sessions included Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, keyboardist 
> Billy Preston, guitarist Dave Mason and an uncredited Eric Clapton.
> Besides the original album's 23 songs, the reissue also contains an unused 
> song from the sessions, ``I Live For You,'' different versions of the tracks 
> ``Beware of Darkness'' and ``Let It Down,'' and a horns-heavy instrumental 
> version of the single ''What Is Life.''
> Harrison produced the album with Phil Spector, whose ``Wall of Sound'' 
> technique, in which songs were given lush orchestral treatments, sounds 
> outdated today, he now claims. But it worked well at the time. ``All Things 
> Must Pass'' ended up selling about three million copies worldwide.
> Harrison was later dragged into court when it was claimed that ``My Sweet 
> Lord'' sounded a lot like the Chiffons' ``He's So Fine.'' He was judged to 
> have unknowingly plagiarized the earlier song.
> Harrison's son, Dhani, a 22-year-old university student, plays acoustic 
> guitar on the updated version, and is also helping his dad a little for an 
> album of new material, Harrison's first since 1987's ``Cloud Nine.''
> Harrison said it would possibly come out next October or November. He plays 
> most of the instruments, with session drummer Jim Keltner, and has produced 
> it himself so far, though may bring in an outsider for some finishing 
> touches. A free agent, he has talked to a number of labels about distribution.
> Needless to say, the album will be computer-free. ``My music doesn't seem to 
> belong to any particular period,'' Harrison said. ``I just make it the same 
> way as we made it back in the sixties, which is analog tapes, microphones and 
> guitars, bass, drums, pianos.''