Recent content by Guido Merkins

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Thanks buddy!!! Its nice to see some of the older guys still hanging around .....

Absolutely!!! Some of my friends call me Deacon Dan ....

Hey everybody. I don't post much at all, really I never post anymore. I no longer have the type of job where I can spend lots of time here. I now teach Catholicism at an all-girls school in New Orleans which is fabulous. I love my job and my students bring me great joy. I am blessed. I do...

They learned it by thousands of hours of practice in Hamburg and Liverpool.  If you play that much you either will end up being really good, if you have anything at all, or you will stay the same, which means you don't have it. Pete Best, for example, I don't think improved as much as the others...

I'm sorry.  I should have put in there something like "for good or for bad, the Beatles made it to where you had to write your own songs" Song interpretation is, in and of itself, also an art form.  Louis Armstrong didn't write many songs, but who would argue that West End Blues isn't his...

This is an extremely complex question.  Of course, i have given it a lot of thought. First, you can't underestimate the chance of good timing.  The Beatles came along at a time where the original rock and roll stars had kind of faded away.  Motown was happening. Early Beach Boys too, but...

Thanks for the kind words buddy!!!  Right back at you!!!

You're right.  It's more than I thought.  I forgot about the movie soundtracks.....

I'm not sure about the others, but I always go by the British catalog to determine that. To my memory, the only singles that were on albums were all on the Please Please Me, Magical Mystery Tour (which is technically a US album), Let It Be, and Abbey Road albums.  The other UK albums had no...

Thanks to everyone who contributed.  It was fun doing the write ups, but I realized pretty early how difficult it was and how amazed I was at @krista4 original write ups.  Finding something interesting to say about all those songs was really hard. Anybody can wax poetic about A Day In The Life...

@krista4 We both like that version, but you think the sitar is too far up in the mix....and that's precisely why I like it. That's why it's fun to have both of our perspectives.....Not the first time, but this one struck me, for some reason

I agree with you.  Lennon was human and deeply flawed.....like all of us.  He's also a very famous and very public figure who lots of people have written books about, ESPECIALLY after he was dead and couldn't speak for himself, so I'm not sure what to think about that because we are only getting...

It's one of the freshest sounding of any Beatles song.  I feel like it hasn't aged a day....

I've always thought of Zeppelin as a heavier Who, but also with diversity that the Who never dreamed of. Helter Skelter is one of many records at that time that could be considered a move to "hard rock."  Zeppelin was another step down that road that led to metal.  The Beatles had a role, but...