Happy 45th birthday Sgt. Pepper.

Wait, wouldn't it be 65 years ago, then?

Don't mess with Bradley, he's a harsh editor.

Cool!
 

 

Why do you guys feel compelled to keep reminding me that I'm getting OLD!!!!!
 
 
 
Bill, tgo
 
(Message edited by lbpesq on June 02, 2012)

Bill, Esq, you ain't the only one. . . .
 
For the benefit of our younger readers, and maybe to tickle the memory of other 'experienced' pilots like Bill and yours truly:
 
I was 12 years old in 1967.  I always say people who didn't live through the 60's just can't get it, what an upheaval this world went through in the 10 years from 1960 to 1970.  When I went to 1st grade in 1960, Eisenhower was the President, and America was still like the 'nifty 50's', like an episode of 'Leave It To Beaver'.  This was the time of that cool suburban angst beginning to brew that Donald Fagen has mined and expressed so richly over the years.
 
By 1970, Kennedy was dead, VietNam, the Summer of Love, Nixon, De-segregation, Women's Rights, drugs, you name it.  The whole world turned inside out.
 
And it's a small-er world.  No internet.  FM radio was only played in Dentist's Offices.  Three-network TV.  Newspapers.  Black and white TV.  It was still a big deal to place a long distance call, if your 'party line' was free.
 
So the girl I was sweet on in 6th grade (STILL think about her from time to time . . . ), her Mom had gone to Floyd's Record Shoppe and bought SPLHCB and it was waiting on us when we got off the bus, and we ran to the house to listen to it.
 
All those people on that Peter Max cover.  Opened it up and they looked  . . . . very different.  Put it on.  All those 'found' sounds.  And the songs, and the production, nothing I'd ever heard sounded anything like it before or since.
 
That record created and owned its own time and space like nothing before or since.  They owned the world leading up to it, and after it, nothing else was ever the same.  Whether it was two kids in East Texas, or anyone anywhere else in the world, it rewrote the book and closed it behind itself in one shot.
 
J o e y

Mica,
 
It's the truth.
 
Bradley

Joey,
 
I can't tell you how wonderfully you expressed your memories of that time and that album.

Well Thanks, Doc.  BTW, I'm lighter by a gall bladder today !  Am I glad THAT's over with !
 
J o e y

Glad you are doing well after the surgery Joey!

Broadcast on 25 June 1967, Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production. Creative artists, including opera singer Maria Callas, The Beatles and painter Pablo Picasso, representing nineteen different nations were invited to perform or appear in separate segments featuring their respective countries. The broadcast took place at the height of the Vietnam War, and the Beatles wanted to use the opportunity to convey a positive message expressing a philosophy of love. They gave a live performance, transmitted at 8:54 pm GMT, performing a new song, written primarily by John Lennon, entitled All You Need Is Love, which was composed especially for the occasion. The Beatles invited many of their friends to the event to create a festive atmosphere and to join in on the song's chorus. Among the friends were members of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon and Graham Nash. The performance was preceded by just a single rehearsal.
 

Conceptually;_____ if we embrace our existence as a huge radius in tune with the universe and congruent with its dimensional presence instead of a straight line with incremental integers with a finite start and end we can not get old,  just infinitely present locked in without time,  forever on our souls journey in the path of the radius.   ( a dream I had )
 
The wheel goes around and around_____________

WOW Wolf, that was deep!!

Thanks Rusty, but someone better take me to the shallow water before it gets too deep   ____ lol