Is This A Bad Sign?

[Wheatenheimer]

OK. I'm not a meteorologist, biologist or entomologist. But I do know that those are not Japanese Beetles. They are also not Lady Bugs. I am quite sure that they are Asian Lady Beetles. Here's some photo's...........

Lady Bug.

Japanese Beetle.

Asian Lady Beetles.

Japanese Beatle Breaker Upper (the one on the left.)

Not one to nit pick, though.

Kevin

[eric1978]

Japanese Beatle Breaker Uper's (the one on the left.)

Kevin

Actually, Paul's control freak attitude was more of a problem leading to the break up than Yoko, but in the spirit of the play on words:

You would have thought that someone would have figured out how to eradicate the Japanese Beatle Breaker Upper species by now. If only Ringo had sprayed her with pesticide...

On the bright side, we got All Things Must Pass out of George (the best solo Beatle member album, hands down) after Yoko screwed everything up, and we may never have heard it since Paul would never let George get any of his stuff on the Beatles albums.

Thread officially hijacked...blame Kevin

[brownieman]

Maybe Ringo did spray her...just not quite a strong enouph dose.

Might have warped her so bad that's why it all ended up the way it did, lol.

Surely money didn't come into the picture... after all she was related to a beetle family and enjoys sinking those teeth into things, ya know.

later on

[Wheatenheimer]

Blame Paul for his type "A" personality.

Blame John for not standing up to Paul and instead, finding a skape goat in a young Japanese artist.

Blame George for not being confident enough in his song writing skills at the time or persistant enough with John and Paul.

Blame Ringo for not upping the dose of insecticide he may have tried on Yoko. (I think he may have disguised it as hairspray.....no chance of her using that!)

Blame me for hijacking this thread! (Not guilty!)

But in the end, isn't it just so much more fun to blame Yoko?

[eric1978]

Blame Paul for his type "A" personality.

Blame John for not standing up to Paul and instead, finding a skape goat in a young Japanese artist.

Blame George for not being confident enough in his song writing skills at the time or persistant enough with John and Paul.

Blame Ringo for not upping the dose of insecticide he may have tried on Yoko. (I think he may have disguised it as hairspray.....no chance of her using that!)

Blame me for hijacking this thread! (Not guilty!)

But in the end, isn't it just so much more fun to blame Yoko?

It's more fun and much more convenient, since I still love each one of those guys. Even Ringo, he added a LOT of personality to the group, and believe it or not came up with many of the song and album titles, including A Hard Day's Night.

I don't know if George wasn't confident in his song writing skills; by the time the White Album came out he had surpassed both John and Paul with his lyrics. He was just too passive and frustrated with the group. You can see it on the Let It Be documentary where he and Paul are arguing about some lick. George said something like, "I'll do it however you want or I won't do it at all if that's what you want. I don't really care." Something to that affect. You can tell his heart wasn't in it.

And yeah, the Japanese Beatle was right there, looking like an idiot, which she was.

[Wheatenheimer]

It's more fun and much more convenient, since I still love each one of those guys. Even Ringo, he added a LOT of personality to the group, and believe it or not came up with many of the song and album titles, including A Hard Day's Night.

I don't know if George wasn't confident in his song writing skills; by the time the White Album came out he had surpassed both John and Paul with his lyrics. He was just too passive and frustrated with the group. You can see it on the Let It Be documentary where he and Paul are arguing about some lick. George said something like, "I'll do it however you want or I won't do it at all if that's what you want. I don't really care." Something to that affect. You can tell his heart wasn't in it.

And yeah, the Japanese Beatle was right there, looking like an idiot, which she was.

Amen, Brother!

I'm with you 100%! I too, adore all four and I mean no disrespect towards George and his songwriting accomplishments. I feel that he did blossom into one of the best songwriters of the 20th century, of course when you have mentor's like Lennon and McCartney, you are destined for greatness! I mean really, look at Ringo, "Photograph" is one of my all time favorite songs, not to mention "Octopus' Garden".

I just feel that with George being the youngest of the four and slightly in awe of the greatness of the songsmith's he was surrounded by, as an aspiring songwriter (not that I am comparing myself to any of the four by any means) confidence would take a back seat.

I remember reading a quote from John, maybe I viewed it on one of the many film rolls, something of the nature in the direction towards Paul, during the Let It Be era "George has become our best songwriter." Granted, afterwards, all four continued to crank out many audible masterpieces.

John: "Working Class Hero", "Watching the Wheels", "Jealous Guy", "Woman", "God" and of course, dare I mention "Imagine".

Paul: The good majority of Paul's Post Beatle hits were with Wings, but I still get goose bumps and, depending on the mood, may come to tears every time I hear "Here Today" and "The End of the End".

George: Yes, I agree, All Things Must Pass is friggin' awesome! Just the sight of the Album cover puts me in a mood. My Brother plays a wicked version of "Isn't a Pity" that just sends chills down my spine every time I hear it!

Ringo: Well, ya just gotta love Ringo. "It Don't Come Easy", written with George, post Beatle era, is a fantastic song! And not too far back he did a song called "La Di Da" that I proclaim is a very witty, very catchy tune.

Now at this point, I am pretty sure that I have accomplished another inebriated, incoherent ramble. So, therefore, I apologize!

Kevin

P.S. Yes I admit my guilt, I have unintentionally Hijacked this thread! So Sorry!

[patfish]

P.S. Yes I admit my guilt, I have unintentionally Hijacked this thread! So Sorry!

Hijack away, I've enjoyed it!

[Flysmallie]

The Beatles suck. Why can't we talk about Devo. Now those guys are cool.

[eric1978]

Amen, Brother!

I'm with you 100%! I too, adore all four and I mean no disrespect towards George and his songwriting accomplishments. I feel that he did blossom into one of the best songwriters of the 20th century, of course when you have mentor's like Lennon and McCartney, you are destined for greatness! I mean really, look at Ringo, "Photograph" is one of my all time favorite songs, not to mention "Octopus' Garden".

I just feel that with George being the youngest of the four and slightly in awe of the greatness of the songsmith's he was surrounded by, as an aspiring songwriter (not that I am comparing myself to any of the four by any means) confidence would take a back seat.

I remember reading a quote from John, maybe I viewed it on one of the many film rolls, something of the nature in the direction towards Paul, during the Let It Be era "George has become our best songwriter." Granted, afterwards, all four continued to crank out many audible masterpieces.

John: "Working Class Hero", "Watching the Wheels", "Jealous Guy", "Woman", "God" and of course, dare I mention "Imagine".

Paul: The good majority of Paul's Post Beatle hits were with Wings, but I still get goose bumps and, depending on the mood, may come to tears every time I hear "Here Today" and "The End of the End".

George: Yes, I agree, All Things Must Pass is friggin' awesome! Just the sight of the Album cover puts me in a mood. My Brother plays a wicked version of "Isn't a Pity" that just sends chills down my spine every time I hear it!

Ringo: Well, ya just gotta love Ringo. "It Don't Come Easy", written with George, post Beatle era, is a fantastic song! And not too far back he did a song called "La Di Da" that I proclaim is a very witty, very catchy tune.

Now at this point, I am pretty sure that I have accomplished another inebriated, incoherent ramble. So, therefore, I apologize!

Kevin

P.S. Yes I admit my guilt, I have unintentionally Hijacked this thread! So Sorry!

Sorry Patfish, I have to further hijack a little more.

Kevin,

Actually, George wrote "Photograph," too, so Ringo's two best solo hits were really "gifts." I'm not so sure Ringo was even the greatest drummer, but what he lacked musically, he made up for ten-fold with personality. Have you ever seen "Help?" He's a riot.

For John, yep, you pretty much nailed it. He didn't do a lot of solo stuff because he took a long moratorium after the breakup to raise Sean. Then, just when he was getting back into it, that jackass Chapman stole him from us. Gotta wonder what we missed out on because of one psycho prick. But yeah, the Plastic Ono Band album is great start to finish. Imagine is great, too, and did you know "How Do You Sleep" was written about Paul? Factoid.

George...All Things Must Pass is one of the best albums of all time, right up there with Dylan's Highway 61, IMO. Living In the Material World is also great, along with Somewhere in England and Thirty Three and 1/3. I even like Cloud Nine even though it kind of has that eighties sound to it that pretty much makes me nauseous. And don't forget about the Wilburys! George had a great career post-breakup.

As for Paul, if you only know his Wings stuff, you're missing out BIGTIME. He has some great solo stuff pre- and post-Wings. His first solo album, titled "McCartney," is killer. It's the one with the picture of a bowl of cherries on the cover and was released the same day the breakup was announced (my birthday...how's that for being born under a bad sign?). Ram is also killer. After Wings he did Tug of War and Give My Regards to Broad Street, which both have a few good songs. And yep, with Wings, Band on the Run, killer. Red Rose Speedway, REALLY killer, and Venus and Mars had a few good songs. I wasn't crazy about London Town or anything he's done in the last, oh, twenty years.

I think Paul had the most talent when it came to composing music and had the best voice. George was the best instrumentally and I think he was as good a guitar player as Clapton (who stole George's wife Patti, about whom he wrote "Layla"...factoid). John had the most raw rocker in him and IMO wrote the best Beatles songs when they were together. Ringo was the glue. Dylan introduced them to pot which led to George getting LSD from his dentist which led to the group going from moptop superstars to musical revolutionaries around the time of Rubber Soul and Revolver, then Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be...man, were they prolific or what? So you could argue that Dylan was another one of those "fifth Beatles," of whom there are many.

Who you wanna talk about next? Don't even get me started on Neil Young.

Maybe this thread should be moved to the music forum. Sorry Phil.

[eric1978]

The Beatles suck. Why can't we talk about Devo. Now those guys are cool.

Whip it good, Ronnie.