Paul McCartney, You M-Fer

[earthrise]

I want to state for the record that I just cried over a YouTube video of the Beatles rooftop concert, specifically at the beginning of "Get Back

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[grapefruiteater]

I feel the same way about the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and "Carolina in My Mind." To my list I'd add Van Morrison ("Into the Mystic"), Springsteen (the last verse of "The River,"), and the Stones (mostly for the scary guitar intro to "Gimme Shelter").

[awilynt]

You have a way of conveying the poetry of New York in such a way that really makes me wish I was still there...I just wish that I had been able to hear the subway guitarist.

[earthrise]

Where are you? I am out of the AWT loop.

[howdoyousolve]

5. Me too.

[earthrise]

I'm thinking of taking a trip out there, either during the winter doldrums (Jan-March) or maybe during the saguaro primary flowering period (May/June).

Also, there's a job posting on the U of A website for Biosphere tourguide.

I totally didn't sit there for 10 minutes contemplating the idea of applying.

[cbreakr]

It's very sad, though also very fitting with The Beatles "done everything" legacy, that Paul turned into the biggest sell-out in history.

[earthrise]

I honestly don't like much of any of the individual Beatles' post-Beatles work, with the exception of some of George Harrison's songs. But he was always more on his own to begin with, well outside the Lennon/McCartney powerhouse.

I don't know if it's selling out. It's just separating the most delicious cake ever made into its unrecognizable ingredients. You can't expect chocolate-chips Paul, even if he is Ghiradelli, to be as exquisite without the flour and eggs and sugar that the others brought.

Enough with the lame and inappropriate metaphor.