TBone and Fishie -- Confessions thread

[mrkelley23]

I've never been a Beatles fan. I admired what they achieved, their songs never offended me, even when they were being overplayed, but they just didn't do it for me.

Until two nights ago. One of my resolutions for this year is to spend more time at the piano and on the guitar, so I sat down at the piano with some music books I borrowed from the library, and started playing and singing. I don't "play" piano the conventional way -- I pretty much play it the way I play acoustic guitar -- just strumming chords for accompaniment. So I noticed there were a couple of Beatles songs in the one book, so I thought, "what the hey?"

I played "Let it Be." Possibly the most overplayed of the overplayed Beatles songs. And about halfway through, I got that old familiar feeling in my chest I used to get a lot when playing and singing -- expansion and lightness and feeling like a helium balloon was going to lift me right off the bench. That one simple nine-chord progression that recurs often, and finally finishes the song may be one of the most awesomely simple-yet-powerful things I've ever played.

So now I'm going back through the catalogue, trying to find songs I can play without embarrassing myself. It's pretty amazing. But I keep having this urge to apologize to every Beatles fan I ever knew. So here you are.

[Bob Juch]

I never liked the early Beatles, but I have to admit their music is some of the most inventive of the era. In 200 years it will still be played.

[ulysses5019]

I've never been a Beatles fan. I admired what they achieved, their songs never offended me, even when they were being overplayed, but they just didn't do it for me.

Until two nights ago. One of my resolutions for this year is to spend more time at the piano and on the guitar, so I sat down at the piano with some music books I borrowed from the library, and started playing and singing. I don't "play" piano the conventional way -- I pretty much play it the way I play acoustic guitar -- just strumming chords for accompaniment. So I noticed there were a couple of Beatles songs in the one book, so I thought, "what the hey?"

I played "Let it Be." Possibly the most overplayed of the overplayed Beatles songs. And about halfway through, I got that old familiar feeling in my chest I used to get a lot when playing and singing -- expansion and lightness and feeling like a helium balloon was going to lift me right off the bench. That one simple nine-chord progression that recurs often, and finally finishes the song may be one of the most awesomely simple-yet-powerful things I've ever played.

So now I'm going back through the catalogue, trying to find songs I can play without embarrassing myself. It's pretty amazing. But I keep having this urge to apologize to every Beatles fan I ever knew. So here you are.

I accept. Now if I can just get t-bone to like the Doors......

[T_Bone0806]

So now I'm going back through the catalogue, trying to find songs I can play without embarrassing myself. It's pretty amazing. But I keep having this urge to apologize to every Beatles fan I ever knew. So here you are.

'S OK. Better late than never to have seen (heard?) the error of your ways

If everyone liked the same stuff, there'd only be one format broadcast on every radio station in the world.

Not that the corporation dominated airwaves aren't trying to make it that way these days, of course.

[T_Bone0806]

I accept. Now if I can just get t-bone to like the Doors......

Oh, I like The Doors OK. They're not among my FAVORITES, mind you, but I like a fair amount of their tunes. At least enough to fill a compilation cd of about 20 songs or so. I don't hate them, at any rate.

[ulysses5019]

I accept. Now if I can just get t-bone to like the Doors......

Oh, I like The Doors OK. They're not among my FAVORITES, mind you, but I like a fair amount of their tunes. At least enough to fill a compilation cd of about 20 songs or so. I don't hate them, at any rate.

Ok. I guess I remember you saying something about them being over rated which is a fair assessment. I just happened to grow up with their music here in LA.