From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V10 #18 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, February 26 2006 Volume 10 : Number 018 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: Saturday Morning Yarn [Frank ] Re: oops ["Anna Creech" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:20:48 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Subject: Re: Saturday Morning Yarn Okay Ron, I was at the McCartney book signing in NYC. Liverpool is divided by the Mersey River. There is the city proper, and over the river, you have a more well to do suburb known as the Wirral. We visited Paul's home in the Wirral, which had been his Dad's and is near Paul's brother's home (Mike). I had heard that Paul purchased the old mansion that was featured in the Batman series, which I think was in Pasadena...I don't know. But here's a few things you probably don't know about the song Strawberry Field. John used to go there because it was around the corner from his house...up the road a bit. Whenever John would tell Aunt Mimi that he was going there, she'd warn him, "You'd better stay out of there, you're going to get into trouble." He had a stock answer which was "They can't hang you for it." SO the line "Nothing to get hung about," was kind of a reply to Mimi. Also, John had a treehouse in the yard, and he'd sit up there for hours drawing and writing poetry. The line, "No one I think is in my tree..." seems to have been taken from there. After making "Help" and "How I Won The War" John returned to start work on Pepper. Strawberry Field was the first song from those sessions. What I find interesting is that having quit touring his first inclination was to regress back to his childhood. What else? John's home was in the suburb. He had the best house. They got the house because of an English law favoring the tenants during the war. As soon as the occupants moved out, Mimi moved in, i.e. she was a squatter. Ringo and George's homes were in the worst neighborhoods, but Paul lived across the golf course from John in a small brick row. It all began to make sense to me, I mean, George's quotes, "If we knew we were going to be the Beatles, we would have tried a lot harder," and, "The world used us as an excuse to go crazy and then blamed it on us." John was not a person that you would really want to know back then. Because he had no sense of having real parents, he more or less covered his shame or lack of an ordinary family life by becoming belligerent and threatening. He used fear as a means to control his friends. George moved from a street that was 'abandoned' meaning had no sewers or municipal services, to a home in Speke...way out by the airport...a long drive. It was a government house, or a home that you were given due to poverty. I really had a sense of how ordinary the fab four were by touring their haunts. Sure, they had talent, but that mass hysteria had more to do with social repression, I think. I live in New Jersey in a town between Trenton and Princeton called Lawrenceville. Musically, I have dabbled in everything. My main instrument is the guitar. I learned classical pieces, and loved rock. I picked up keyboard along the way as a necessity. When I first started making recordings, I tried writing in the old songbook style, but I didn't stay there too long. Now, with this Fantom keyboard and a whole orchestra, I have been writing pieces that are more symphonic in structure. It's odd that I can do this in my room with headphones. Along the way, I produced 17 projects or different artist friends. So, since 1992, I have been making recordings in my basement. I am approaching 50 years of age next November, and slowing somewhat. I devoted my life to music aside from my survival needs...to the neglect of everything else...that's right...no kids. But I just recently met a new ovely lady, named Susan by the way, whom I met on the tour. So, I am taking more time to smell the roses. You might even say that this may in fact be the first time that I have been truly in love; where I have actually been alert to all my senses; valued the beauty and uniqueness of another human. Why? Well, I was always studying, math, computers, and doing music, and really was SO focused on that stuff, that I didn't pay attention to life. ...uhm...No, I wouldn't say Narcissistic because I have kept all of the friends that I have made, but rather, eccentrically tied to the arts because of unresolved conflicts that I internalized. That's as far as I want to go with that... When the music scene went dark and deoressing, I was still trying to write songs that were uplifting and not too intrusive. Sometimes, I felt that I didn't have a lot of lyrical depth, and now, sometimes I think that people will yearn for that soon as there is so much strife in the world. War and terror changes people. I think they begin to crave art that is not too terrifying or filled with strife. Well? I mean, I used to listen to Turbulent Indigo, and I attached to it, but it was depressing. I felt comforted in identifying with the pain, but, it didn't really soothe me like those old love songs which were almost like hallmark cards. I am writing free-form and will probably regret opening myself up. I had given up internet typing a long time ago...here I go again? I love to write, so ...I hope that I don't bore you eventually. Peace, Frank ..didn't spell check...forgive me. - --- Ron Rosen wrote: > > It's a long story,but after John's dad split, > Julia > > met Albert who is Julia's father. John was shipped > off > > to Aunt Mimi's because of circumstances though > Julia > > lived 20 minutes away. John found out later in > life, > > and began cycling there. Julia, the sister, and > John > > had some fun times--like stealing golf balls off > the > > golf course to sell them back to the golfers in > the > > clubhouse. Julia was the scavenger, and JOhn was > the > > salesman. > > Interesting. I did not recall that John had a > sister, but I may have read > that sometime back in the day. I take it she (Julia > Baird) led part of the > tour you were on? > > >I took the Magical Mystery Tour which is at > > www.liverpooltour.com -there may be an 's' on > tour. > > I can tell you his sister is a very sweet and > kind, > > unassuming person, and easy to warm up towards. > She is > > open to people who can act themselves. > > Where do you live, Frank? What kinds of music do > you play? I live in South > Pasadena, CA near LA. Paul McCartney has a house > somewhere in Pasadena and > has been seen around, particularly at a Mexican > restaurant not far from > here. I sometimes think about where Paul grew up > and how he lives here > now - at least part time - in such different > surroundings. Lawrence Juber > plays at a local coffee house once or twice a year, > and I try to catch his > show. > > Since I posted my questions to the list as well as > directly to you, you > might want to post your informative response to the > list as well. > > Ron Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:46:27 -0800 From: "Anna Creech" Subject: Re: oops On 2/25/06, wojizzle forizzle wrote: > > one time at band camp, Suzanne Thiel said: > > sorry for the double post... > > the approriate people have been sacked. ;) Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. 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