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Post by The Mask on Sept 20, 2011 9:46:03 GMT -5
PAUL as a Scout Boy cca. 1952   Large forehead with widow's peek, which, if you'll notice, is covered up in his teen and adult pics. |
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Post by artemis on Sept 21, 2011 14:07:43 GMT -5
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glassonion
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Post by glassonion on Sept 22, 2011 20:11:52 GMT -5
I recently met and hung out for a while with Henry McCullough, who was in Wings in 1973 and 74. He played the guitar solo on "My Love", and was on other famous songs including "Hi Hi Hi". He and the drummer quit Wings, famously, right after rehearsals but before actually recording the album "Band on the Run", for which Paul was left only with Linda and Denny Laine.
Henry McCullough played with a list of other great people in his day, including playing with Joe Cocker at Woodstock, and Henry is still an amazing guitar player and performer. Check him out on youtube...
I had a chat with him about many things, but as much I would have liked to, I just could not get to the subject of Paul. I think part of the reason why our conversation lasted as long as it did was that we were talking about things that he is not usually asked about. A question about Paul might have ended the chat.
Still, I would have given anything to have felt comfortable asking about the famous split. His reason at the time: "musical differences". Well, to my mind those differences must have been pretty heinous to make a musician, a side man, leave a gig like that. World tours, playing with the most famous musician of all time. I know musicians, and I don't know very many that would walk away from that gig for musical differences. Most musicians would agree to play a sauce pan with a spoon, wearing an "annie" costume every night, if it meant keeping that gig.
Plus, everybody knew going in that it was Paul's show, right?
I don't know...I would have given anything to have about it...
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Post by artemis on Sept 23, 2011 5:45:57 GMT -5
Great info, Glass, but were u that sure that the conversation had ended if ud have mentioned P/FAUL? Maybe u could talk to him about that on some next occasion - if it happens?
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Post by hotman637 on Sept 23, 2011 12:31:42 GMT -5
Interesting story Glass.I have met one of the people that is a replacement and it would have been interesting to ask them about it but I doubt they would have discussed it.After observing the replacement phenomenon for a few years I tend to think it is a lot less mysterious then it often appears.TPTB want to make it seem scarier then it is to keep people off balance. Mostly I think replacement is business as usual for the hillbllies,lol.In other words it is about branding and money and everyone in the industry knows about it or soon finds out.
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Post by fauxster on Sept 23, 2011 15:59:41 GMT -5
new comp vid that's pretty cute
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Post by sherlok on Sept 24, 2011 15:37:30 GMT -5
^ I like that.
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Post by artemis on Sept 24, 2011 17:25:55 GMT -5
new comp vid that's pretty cute Nice indeed but far from truth. |
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Post by The Mask on Sept 24, 2011 20:47:30 GMT -5
I would say it's the tip of the iceberg.
But the video is a good comparison that clearly shows two individuals that anybody can see the difference.
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Post by artemis on Oct 17, 2011 12:55:03 GMT -5
"Early Paul McCartney letter offers drummer tryout
LONDON (AP) — Somewhere, an aging drummer (identity unknown) is probably still kicking himself.
A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles' early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band left for a formative two-month gig in Hamburg, Germany.
The letter, to be auctioned next month by Christie's, has surprised Beatles scholars. It was written two years before the band bounced drummer Pete Best in favor of Ringo Starr, who arrived just in time to help the Beatles' conquer first England and then the world, earning untold millions along the way.
The Aug. 12, 1960 letter handwritten by McCartney offers an audition to someone who had advertised their availability in the Liverpool Echo newspaper four days earlier. The unsigned ad said simply: "Drummer_Young_Free."
McCartney, who was then playing guitar in the band while the late Stuart Sutcliffe handled bass guitar, offered the drummer an audition with the caveat that if he joins the band he must be ready to travel almost immediately to Hamburg. The Beatles honed their musical chops playing at low-rent clubs in the German's city's famed red-light district.
"Expenses paid 18 pounds per week (approx) for two months," McCartney writes. "If interested ring Jacaranda club."
The letter is signed, "Yours sincerely, Paul McCartney of the BEATLES."
It is not known if the drummer came for an audition, and failed to impress McCartney and the others, or if he simply didn't follow up. McCartney addressed the letter "Dear Sir," assuming the drummer was a young man, as there were very few female drummers on the Liverpool rock scene at the time.
Bruce Spizer, author of "Beatles For Sale" and other books about the band, said the Beatles were desperately looking for a drummer to take to Hamburg and eventually chose Best, in part because Best "had a drum kit" and because his mother ran a nightclub where the group had played.
"This shows that Pete wasn't the only person they were interested in," Spizer said. "They needed a drummer and Pete was convenient. It makes sense that they would have responded to some drummer in Liverpool looking for work. My speculation is that two months in Hamburg intimidated him, maybe he didn't want to go and never replied. If he had responded, and if he was good, it might have changed everything."
Christie's spokeswoman Leonie Pitts said the auction house's Beatles experts are certain that the letter was not an early feeler to Starr, who was a successful drummer with a rival Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, before he joined the Beatles.
She said auctioneers had not contacted McCartney to ask if he knew anything about the drummer who had placed the ad.
"We think he's on his honeymoon," she said. McCartney married U.S. heiress Nancy Shevell eight days ago. His representatives did not immediately return a request for comment.
Christie's auction house said Monday the letter would likely draw more than 7,000 pounds ($11,000) when it is sold Nov. 15 along with other pop memorabilia.
The letter was discovered by a man from Liverpool who has asked to remain anonymous. The auction house said he is a devoted collector of antique coins who regularly checks yard sales."
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Post by lucy on Oct 17, 2011 18:57:03 GMT -5
Bill wouldn't have remembered something he wasn't part of at the time.....LOLOL
Seriously, someone has too much money to pay for that....really....
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Post by artemis on Oct 18, 2011 3:37:57 GMT -5
I know that. I told u, they dont know what to come up with. Plus that I bet my head that McCartney (or whomever the guy with his identity was) wasnt eager to replace Pete Best.
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Post by beatlies on Nov 6, 2011 15:43:19 GMT -5
Another gaping hole in the fabric of Featles lies: the mysterious "Francie Schwartz" who in the Beatles history books up to now had been Beatle Paul's girlfriend in-between the aristocratic daughter of a British psychiatrist and mind control honcho, Jane Asher, and wealthy Harvard/CIA family kin Linda Eastman. One problem: there are almost no pictures of Francie Schwartz anywhere, despite the fact that she was with "Paul McCartney" for a significant while and is said to have sat in on the white album recording sessions with him. So now the history of Faul-Francie is being re-written as per this BBC special "Biggest Beatles Secrets" to tell us that Francie was just "an affair" had by Beatle Paul McCartney, implying that we should now all think of her as having been just a one-night-stand or something. Pathetic, Orwellian and another case of the MI6 media liars just digging their own hole deeper as far the new truth and reality-movements go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZcJ46GqdM[youtube] www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZcJ46GqdM[/youtube]It's interesting to me that---as far as we can tell about her given the little dis-information they have dribbled out--- Francie appears to be a "Linda Eastman" type: young American woman, Jewish, with a media celebrity-based career or attempted career. As if they were beta-testing the soon-to-be unveiled Linda "Mrs McCartney." |
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Post by lucy on Nov 7, 2011 18:55:09 GMT -5
It seems that Faul has an attraction for those wealthy family lines.
Not the pretty girls...but the strange link with Heather Mills....
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Post by sherlok on Nov 18, 2011 17:09:30 GMT -5
And the BS rolls on ...
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