this thread has become a "Tell the world about the tickets you have, or bitch about the tickets you dont have"

Well, I'm gonna piss youse all off, 'cause I'm gonna brag. I caught one his first solo tours in Philly at the now-defunct Veterans Stadium back in 76 when I was in college. ( College was cool back then as a lot of up-and-commers played universities. Our college hosted Billy Joel on campus before he really made it big.) In 1992 I photographed his show back in Philly from on stage ( I work as a newspaper photographer). This ticked my wife off so much I ended up getting tickets for her and me at Madison Square during the same tour. His last tour, we caught at the Meadowlands in North Jersey. When it was announced that Atlantic City would be included in the tour, I bought three tickets -- for me, my wife and son, who was ten at the time. I ended up photographing that show as well, but after shooting and sending the pictures, I was able to store my gear in the convention center press office and use my ticket to join my family for the rest of the show. OK, I will accept the hate mail, now. :)

[QUOTE=Sgt._Joker]this thread has become a "Tell the world about the tickets you have, or bitch about the tickets you dont have"[/QUOTE]

Unfortuently I'll be one of the ones bitching.

You know it may just be me, but when I first started posting in the Beatles thread there was a lot of good Beatles conversation going on so here's my attempt the bring that back for a while:

Since the Beatles songs have so many different meanings to everybody what you do is you post a song then the people in the thread write their interpitation of the song and at the bottom of the post give another Beatles song for sombody else to interpit (yeah I'm making it pretty obvouis I can't spell with this post). Hopefully this will bring back some of the good conversations that used to be in here.

Oh yeah: interpret Fool on the Hill :)

(sorry if this was a bad idea, just hoping to start up some conversation)

Tickets went on school Monday here at 10:00 while I was in school in 2nd period. :upset: They were sold out by 5th period.

Fool on the Hill-I heard some story about the guys seeing some beggar or something on a hill, but I don't remember the story...It's one of my favorite songs. I think it's just about someone who knows more than people give him credit for. I would write more, but I have to leave...

Across the Universe, (or someone else can post something better about Fool on the Hill cause mine sucks)

/is going to play to a somewhat large audience for first time in talent show on Thursday :D

I got my tickets on Friday (before everyone else) it cost a total of 98 dollars on the 4th row.....!!!! :D How can I not brag?

You've said that you got tickets in a lot of threads.

:(

I'm jealous. I'll be one of the ones bitching about not getting tickets

To reply to that^
[QUOTE]How can I not brag?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=xxxRoCkJuNkiExxx]Tickets went on school Monday here at 10:00 while I was in school in 2nd period. :upset: They were sold out by 5th period.

Fool on the Hill-I heard some story about the guys seeing some beggar or something on a hill, but I don't remember the story...It's one of my favorite songs. I think it's just about someone who knows more than people give him credit for. I would write more, but I have to leave...

Across the Universe, (or someone else can post something better about Fool on the Hill cause mine sucks)

/is going to play to a somewhat large audience for first time in talent show on Thursday :D[/QUOTE]

To me Fool on the Hill is about a man who is in touch with his inner self, and has the answears to peace, but everybody just ingnores him because he is talking about revolution.

Across the Universe is about sombody who finds himself though song writting, though in fustration with the world wishs to fly among the stars away from it all.

Song: I am the Walrus.

Goo Goo GaJoob!

I Am the Walrus: About smoking bud? I really have no clue and I don't even think Lennon could've told you that.

At that stage (1967) they were really heavily taking psychadelic drugs, so I am the walrus may be a result of that.

Yes I'm sure Lennon wrote it when he was high, and yes there is some parts of it that are just there and don't mean anything. But the parts that do mean things have an endless list of things that it could be interprited as.

I am the Walrus is posibly my favourite beatles song, what it is, its actually a nursery ryhme jumbled up so its lines are reversed and things.
"Mix it with custard, and throw in a dead dogs eye" or somethng like that.

I don't know if the "Paul is dead" thing has been mentioned in this thread, but anyway here is a link [url]http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3674/pid.html[/url] I don't believe it myself but I guess it's fun to examine their lyrics and look for hidden meanings.

[QUOTE=Viva Hate]I don't know if the "Paul is dead" thing has been mentioned in this thread, but anyway here is a link [url]http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/3674/pid.html[/url] I don't believe it myself but I guess it's fun to examine their lyrics and look for hidden meanings.[/QUOTE]

They probably have mentioned it before, but I haven't read about it yet. I'll check out this page, thanks :thumb:

I haven't seen that site before, I'll be sure to check it out.

[QUOTE=Schyma]I got my tickets on Friday (before everyone else) it cost a total of 98 dollars on the 4th row.....!!!! :D How can I not brag?[/QUOTE]

4th row? NICE.

I landed ones at Boston Fleet Center, Is anyone else going there?


I think Fool on the Hill was about some guy who Paul met that dissapeared. On a hill.

Nice story, bcf717, What college did you go to?

[QUOTE=Sgt._Joker]I am the Walrus is posibly my favourite beatles song, what it is, its actually a nursery ryhme jumbled up so its lines are reversed and things.
"Mix it with custard, and throw in a dead dogs eye" or somethng like that.[/QUOTE]

Yeah a lot of their songs that speak to me were written like that, like A Day In The Life whitch was written from things that were just in the paper one day, but it says much more to me.

Here is what I Am The Walrus means to me:

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together:
The humen race is one entity and we are all connected to each other in some way like through a soul (a philophy I belive in)

See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
This to me means somthing based off the sarcastic comment "yeah when pigs fly" because while some pigs conform to this rule, others fly

Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come, corporation tee shirt, stuipd bloody tuesday, man youve been a naughty boy you let your face grow long
Is about sombody who conforms to impress his friends (they come in the van) but is upset about how he destroyed himself

Mister city policeman sitting pretty little policeman in a row, see how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run
Policemen enforcing conformity

Expert texpert joking smokers don't you think the joker laughs at you
Self destruction through drugs (I do them, and I know the Beatles did them, but they can lead to self destruction)

See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snied
Is about how we just let ourselves be slaves to the rules.

Thats about it for now. A lot of that is personal interpitation, and I'm sure not as intended by the band.

Honestly, I think John was just having fun when he wrote I Am the Walrus because he knew people would try to pick it apart and make everything mean something. I've also heard that he got ideas from the Walrus and the Carpenter (one of his favorite poems).

[QUOTE=xxxRoCkJuNkiExxx]Honestly, I think John was just having fun when he wrote I Am the Walrus because he knew people would try to pick it apart and make everything mean something. I've also heard that he got ideas from the Walrus and the Carpenter (one of his favorite poems).[/QUOTE]


I think John was doing that with a lot of his songs, just having fun. Also, I think I'm going to listen to the song in your user title now :)

You know, all this analysis of people's songs, books, poems, etc. is just a bunch of wasted time and crap. Seriously, what's the fricken point?

The Beatles didn't really have much meaning to their songs, or aleast they won't say they did, their meanings to most of their songs were right in front of you, but if they didn't make sense people would look deeper into it and find things that weren't meant to be their, ie Charles Manson.

[QUOTE=Canadian_Guy]I think John was doing that with a lot of his songs, just having fun. Also, [B]I think I'm going to listen to the song in your user title now[/B] :)[/QUOTE]

:thumb: I think I will too.

My school's choir is going to sing three Beatles songs and I think a song by Styx for their next concert. I think they are singing Here, There, and Everywhere, P.S. I Love You, and I can't remember the other one. It might be And I Love Her or Till There Was You. I was kind of hoping they would do Happiness Is A Warm Gun. I think that would be a cool one for a choir to do.

First ever high school talent show tomorrow! I hope my friends that are singing can make it through our song without crying. :( (The talent show will raise money for the family of a boy in my class who was killed in a car accident in February.) Our song is the last act, and we made a slideshow to go along with it.

[QUOTE=ledpoisoning27]The Beatles didn't really have much meaning to their songs, or aleast they won't say they did, their meanings to most of their songs were right in front of you, but if they didn't make sense people would look deeper into it and find things that weren't meant to be their, ie Charles Manson.[/QUOTE]

I really don't think thats true, yes its true for a lot of what I interprited in I am the Walrus, and many other Beatles lines/songs. There are songs with second means to them the band intended I have a hard time beliving that things like Strawberry Feilds or amusment park rides are just sensless ramblings. I belive though Lennon wrote some songs like I am the Walrus with out it having a meaning to him, but wrote it in a way that other people would be alble to identify with it, and make it there own interpiration rather then just finding out his.

[QUOTE=Seafroggys]You know, all this analysis of people's songs, books, poems, etc. is just a bunch of wasted time and crap. Seriously, what's the fricken point?[/QUOTE]

Well the point for people like me is that it makes a problem easier if I know sombody else has lived it. And the world as a whole is a lot more easy to understand to me when you can compare it to a metaphore, or when everything rhymes.

With song lyrics, whats important is what you get out of it, everyone will get something different out of it, i personally try not to find the songs meaning, i just read the lyrics off the net or what ever and look at its structure to help my own songwritting,
Otherwise i just tend to sing the lyrics without thinking about them at all.
Some songs have a bigger effect on me then others, for instence A Day in the Life, the lyrics mean NOTHING to me what so ever, but the song feels powerfull and gives me the illusion that the lyrics do actually mean something.
I am the Walrus also means nothing to me, but i get heaps out of it and can listen to it over and over and over again on repeat for hours.

/my 2 cents

I am really diggin Meet The Beatles right now

Wait a minute Mr. Postman!

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82] There are songs with second means to them the band intended I have a hard time beliving that things like Strawberry Feilds or amusment park rides are just sensless ramblings. [/QUOTE]
Strawberry Fields is the name of a Salvation Army which John lived by when he was a kid.

[QUOTE=Sgt._Joker]Some songs have a bigger effect on me then others, for instence A Day in the Life, the lyrics mean NOTHING to me what so ever, but the song feels powerfull and gives me the illusion that the lyrics do actually mean something.
[/QUOTE]
A Day In The Life lyrics are out of the first 2 pages/articles in a newspaper.

There used to be a site that had some little bit of information about every Beales song recorded (or atl least most) But I can't remember the site. Anyone know it?

[QUOTE=ledpoisoning27]Strawberry Fields is the name of a Salvation Army which John lived by when he was a kid.


A Day In The Life lyrics are out of the first 2 pages/articles in a newspaper.[/QUOTE]

I think your missing the point I'm trying to make. Yes I know a lot of those songs were about things like news paper articles, nursery rhymes, or salvation armys, but I think Lennon wrote the song in a way that could be loosely interpreted. I think he did that because he didn't want to always preach a message to his fans like he does in songs like Revolution I think he wanted his fans to come up with their own thing. I think he wanted to get the creative part of their mind working.

I got most information I know on The Beatles from The Anthology Dvds, I finally finished watching threw all of them, it was 11 hours and 23 mins total, theirs lot of cool stuff on those dvds.

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]I think your missing the point I'm trying to make. Yes I know a lot of those songs were about things like news paper articles, nursery rhymes, or salvation armys, but I think Lennon wrote the song in a way that could be loosely interpreted. I think he did that because he didn't want to always preach a message to his fans like he does in songs like Revolution I think he wanted his fans to come up with their own thing. I think he wanted to get the creative part of their mind working.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, thats why the Beatles are so great. :chug:

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]There used to be a site that had some little bit of information about every Beales song recorded (or atl least most) But I can't remember the site. Anyone know it?[/QUOTE]
i know what site youre talking about. there were a couple. i had them bookmarked, but now...theyre not bookmarked anymore. ha.

I was listening to AOLradio and i finally heard As My Guitar gently Weeps for the first time, and i think i have a new favorite beatles song. What album is it on anyway?

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]I was listening to AOLradio and i finally heard As My Guitar gently Weeps for the first time, and i think i have a new favorite beatles song. What album is it on anyway?[/QUOTE]

The White Album. Good luck finding it in stores for less than 30$.

[QUOTE=Walrus Gumboot]There used to be a site that had some little bit of information about every Beales song recorded (or atl least most) But I can't remember the site. Anyone know it?[/QUOTE]

Im pretty sure this is it [url]http://www.iamthebeatles.com[/url] Is it?

[QUOTE=Distant Echoes]I was listening to AOLradio and i finally heard As My Guitar gently Weeps for the first time, and i think i have a new favorite beatles song. What album is it on anyway?[/QUOTE]

Yea that song rules, I love it. It's on the White Album. AND Clapton play the solos on that one.

Its "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" BTW :thumb:

****...I really need to get that album

Has anyone else but me noticed that Yoko Ono looks like the chick in The Grudge.

My friend and I jammed with that song, just switching off on the leads. It was an awesome experience.

Then again, we jammed to the Joker by the Steve Miller Band for at least 30 minutes with complete harmonica solos, guitar solos, bass solos, and drum solos.

Actually, it was more like drum fills.

But, MAN! It was great.

We're the next Phish haha.....


.... we wish.