Not Pynchon just paranoia

Fri May 12 11:12:40 CDT 2017

Laura and Becky: Thank you so much for posting this on the list so I can
see it! 1963 I was in a concert in Essen, Gruga Halle, in the first row, no
kidding. They were there just 5 meters (barely 6 yards) in front of me,
singing A hard day's night, Roll over Beethoven if Memory serves right. And
Money. I was only 15 and had bought each single that came out. And the
girls on the balconies were crying so loud that they nearly drowned out the
lyrics.

I still think Ringo was rather cool – think about his ring in HELP!

John must have been a real pain in the ass, personally. (Can a man with
such a big Ego be cool?)

2017-05-12 17:51 GMT+02:00 Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>:

> My sister's more sophisticated (if 9-year-olds can be called that) friends
> all went for John and, later that year, they were the oddball few who
> preferred Napoleon Solo to Ilya Kuryakin.
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>> LOL Laura!   Yes!
>>
>> I was barely 16 years old and the Beatles were just brand new - very
>> early 1964 - we’d heard the music at the dances before they got to Ed
>> Sullivan.   I had 3 really good girlfriends and we divided them up.   I
>> would have no one but Ringo,  but that’s okay since the others had their
>> own picks.   I still remember -  Rachel took John,  Susie took Paul and
>> Robin took George.  It just worked out that way.
>>
>> Becky
>> https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
>>
>> > On May 12, 2017, at 8:23 AM, Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > The Fab Four are the defining example of synergy.
>> >
>> > By the way, I agree with all that's been said about Paul, though it
>> personally pains me, because I have a crushing responsibility to defend him.
>> >
>> > When I was about 7, my big sister laid out four black-and-white Beatle
>> bubble-gum cards (no bubble-gum in the deal), and said: "These are the
>> Beatles. You have to pick which one you like." I looked them over and
>> pointed to George. "Uh-uh. He's mine. Pick another." So I chose Paul, and
>> I've tried to be (Wings?? Ebony and Ivory???) as faithful as I can ever
>> since.
>> >
>> > Laura
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 7:07 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > "PM's simplicity to the point of idiocy (combined with what seems like
>> a savant-like sense of melody and pop structure), innocence to the point of
>> ignorance, aren't really compelling on their own”
>> >
>> > Teff, you just made a friend for life.
>> >
>> >> On May 11, 2017, at 6:52 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Could be said for all four post breakup
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:48 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> To me PM's simplicity to the point of idiocy (combined with what seems
>> like a savant-like sense of melody and pop structure), innocence to the
>> point of ignorance, aren't really compelling on their own, but in the
>> presence of the others and their qualities/influence sometimes gets
>> elevated to something profound or even divine. See "A Day in the Life,"
>> maybe the best pop song ever because of how perfectly it illustrates and
>> alchemizes the basic JL/PM differences. But the more distance between him
>> and the rest of The Beatles, the less he rewards my attention.
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:18 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Wings: “If I ever get out of here, I’m giving it all away”
>> >>
>> >> But I suppose Gilmore falls in there too. Should mention that my
>> middle name is Lennon. That’s the L in the JLguuch. Possibly created some
>> bias at birth.
>> >>
>> >>> On May 11, 2017, at 2:26 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Thought the Rutles wrote that one
>> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:18 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> I seem to remember that Ringo wrote Money.
>> >>>
>> >>> 2017-05-11 18:12 GMT+02:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> >>> Yep.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:08 AM Jesse Gooch <jlgooch at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> I would kinda like to smoke the dude who sang about “givin’ it all
>> away” and then charged $400 for tix in the nosebleed section at his
>> concerts.
>> >>> The cool Beatles are dead.
>> >>> Just sayin.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 5/10/17, 2:01 PM, "owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of Thomas
>> Eckhardt" <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org on behalf of
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>     On 10.05.17 19:48, rich wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>     > So who killed Paul?
>> >>>
>> >>>     Ringo.
>> >>>     -
>> >>>     Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
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