alex maiolo wrote:

fiery jack wrote:the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

No, Mr. Godwin, you can accuse Macca of certain Crimes Against Music, but nobody, to my knowledge, died, and everyone has been free to not listen.
-A

well, I've done my research, and I don't like what I'm reading.

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mandolin and fuzz bass? i'm down.

fiery jack wrote:the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

Hitler has been invoked.

fiery jack wrote:

alex maiolo wrote:

fiery jack wrote:the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

No, Mr. Godwin, you can accuse Macca of certain Crimes Against Music, but nobody, to my knowledge, died, and everyone has been free to not listen.
-A

well, I've done my research, and I don't like what I'm reading.

I stand corrected.
-A

Sid Hartha wrote:

fiery jack wrote:the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

Hitler has been invoked.

Hence my Godwin reference above.

-A

did anyone watch lauren laverne interview him on the culture show a few weeks back? i surprised myself by becoming jealous of her. they were on some nice wooden deck overlooking a field having a brilliant chat about his youth and the early beatles years and then he played a couple of songs there and then and even got her clapping and making up verses. she had this grin on her face the whole way through that said 'if i die tomorrow, this will have been worth it"

it was a good interview, he's okay i s'pose...

Macca was awesome in the Beatles and Maybe I'm Amazed is an awesome song.

Not Crap. But Band on the Run is still the lowest common denominator of popular music.

alex maiolo wrote:In the end, they needed each other to be at their very best, and that's hard to dispute.

Allow me to dispute: Plastic Ono Band and Imagine are fucking incredible, revealing, gut-punching pieces of work from start to finish (with the exception of the song "Power To The People" on Plastic Ono Band...[it doesn't fit with the rest of the album at all]). That's two fucking phenomenal albums. Most bands/artists can't even make one...and these are in addition to John's culture-shaking Beatles contributions.

I enjoy these albums as much as any Beatles album...and in some cases, I definitely enjoy the first two Lennon solo albums more.

The only thing more surprising to me than this question being asked is that the answers seem evenly split.

As far as I'm concerned all the Beatles get a lifetime NC pass regardless of what they did later. And I include George Martin as a Beatle.