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Post by ursamajor on Dec 7, 2011 18:16:57 GMT -5
Remembering John today ..
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 7, 2011 22:51:25 GMT -5
Man, December 8, 1980, seems so long ago yet the harsh memory of it is still pretty vivid with me.
John was world famous in his lifetime from approximately 1963 through 1980, a mere 17 years. He has been gone now for 31 years.
That is a long time.
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Post by mikev on Dec 8, 2011 8:40:37 GMT -5
Man, December 8, 1980, seems so long ago yet the harsh memory of it is still pretty vivid with me. John was world famous in his lifetime from approximately 1963 through 1980, a mere 17 years. He has been gone now for 31 years. That is a long time. Another perspective is that more time has passed between now and the Anthology, than the Anthology and his death. Point being, even when Anthology came out it seemed like he was gone for so long.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 8, 2011 9:16:28 GMT -5
Man, December 8, 1980, seems so long ago yet the harsh memory of it is still pretty vivid with me. John was world famous in his lifetime from approximately 1963 through 1980, a mere 17 years. He has been gone now for 31 years. That is a long time. Another perspective is that more time has passed between now and the Anthology, than the Anthology and his death. Point being, even when Anthology came out it seemed like he was gone for so long. That is so true. And the state of the home demo used for "Free As A Bird" made John sound like a ghost which I actually found effective to convey a sense of sadness, that we were really missing a huge piece of the puzzle even though John seemed to be there. The song is very dreamlike to me as to John's vocals with Paul and George bringing us back to stark reality. And in the film itself those scratchy old recorded interviews of John did nothing to make him sound closer to us. We got contemporaneously filmed interviews of George in his garden or home, Ringo by a California hillside pool or some modern highrise office and Paul driving boats or making fires in woods or steering the Space Shuttle( ) and then boom we get a scratchy recording of John's voice or a grainy filmed interview from Dick Cavett or something from years ago. Yeah, that magnified John's loss to us and made it painfully real.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Dec 8, 2011 12:50:29 GMT -5
Another perspective is that more time has passed between now and the Anthology, than the Anthology and his death. Point being, even when Anthology came out it seemed like he was gone for so long. That is so true. And the state of the home demo used for "Free As A Bird" made John sound like a ghost which I actually found effective to convey a sense of sadness, that we were really missing a huge piece of the puzzle even though John seemed to be there. The song is very dreamlike to me as to John's vocals with Paul and George bringing us back to stark reality. And in the film itself those scratchy old recorded interviews of John did nothing to make him sound closer to us. We got contemporaneously filmed interviews of George in his garden or home, Ringo by a California hillside pool or some modern highrise office and Paul driving boats or making fires in woods or steering the Space Shuttle( ) and then boom we get a scratchy recording of John's voice or a grainy filmed interview from Dick Cavett or something from years ago. Yeah, that magnified John's loss to us and made it painfully real. The other thing FAAB did, though, was help both the Beatles and us get some closure. For that, Yoko can't be thanked enough.
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Post by lowbasso on Dec 8, 2011 13:29:56 GMT -5
Man, December 8, 1980, seems so long ago yet the harsh memory of it is still pretty vivid with me. John was world famous in his lifetime from approximately 1963 through 1980, a mere 17 years. He has been gone now for 31 years. That is a long time. It is a long time, though every year on this day I remember vividly sitting in the Motel 6 room in Bloomington, Indiana watching Monday Night Football, when they broke in with he news of John's shooting and death. It still amazes me The Beatles recorded all their albums and singles in only 6 years and 11 months from "Love Me Do" to "Because". No other act, musician, composer, etc. in the history of music that I can think of created such a remarkable, phenominal, and lasting body of work in such a brief amount of time. Miss you John. RIP.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2011 15:24:45 GMT -5
Free to Air television here aired the documentary, The Day John Lennon Died in memory of John Lennon and the tragic way his life was cut short all those years ago.
I'd watched it previously on You Tube and it has some graphic moments, especially when the doctor on duty that night says all the arteries around Johns heart were destroyed making resuscitation impossible.
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Post by mikev on Dec 8, 2011 15:38:56 GMT -5
Another perspective is that more time has passed between now and the Anthology, than the Anthology and his death. Point being, even when Anthology came out it seemed like he was gone for so long. That is so true. And the state of the home demo used for "Free As A Bird" made John sound like a ghost which I actually found effective to convey a sense of sadness, that we were really missing a huge piece of the puzzle even though John seemed to be there. The song is very dreamlike to me as to John's vocals with Paul and George bringing us back to stark reality. And in the film itself those scratchy old recorded interviews of John did nothing to make him sound closer to us. We got contemporaneously filmed interviews of George in his garden or home, Ringo by a California hillside pool or some modern highrise office and Paul driving boats or making fires in woods or steering the Space Shuttle( ) and then boom we get a scratchy recording of John's voice or a grainy filmed interview from Dick Cavett or something from years ago. Yeah, that magnified John's loss to us and made it painfully real. They left out the clips of Paul delivering a foal from his horse, conducting the London Philharmonic, directing traffic at Trafalgar Square and coaching Liverpool FC vs. Manchester United ;D
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Post by vectisfabber on Dec 8, 2011 19:04:19 GMT -5
Oh, meow!
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Post by lowbasso on Dec 8, 2011 21:45:50 GMT -5
When I was 5 years old, my mom told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
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Post by winstonoboogie on Dec 8, 2011 22:13:34 GMT -5
R.I.P., Johnny Rhythm, wherever you are....
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Post by cosmo on Dec 8, 2011 23:33:40 GMT -5
Miss you, John XXX
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Post by brothermichael on Dec 11, 2011 13:06:36 GMT -5
That is so true. And the state of the home demo used for "Free As A Bird" made John sound like a ghost which I actually found effective to convey a sense of sadness, that we were really missing a huge piece of the puzzle even though John seemed to be there. The song is very dreamlike to me as to John's vocals with Paul and George bringing us back to stark reality. And in the film itself those scratchy old recorded interviews of John did nothing to make him sound closer to us. We got contemporaneously filmed interviews of George in his garden or home, Ringo by a California hillside pool or some modern highrise office and Paul driving boats or making fires in woods or steering the Space Shuttle( ) and then boom we get a scratchy recording of John's voice or a grainy filmed interview from Dick Cavett or something from years ago. Yeah, that magnified John's loss to us and made it painfully real. They left out the clips of Paul delivering a foal from his horse, conducting the London Philharmonic, directing traffic at Trafalgar Square and coaching Liverpool FC vs. Manchester United ;D ;D
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