MLT Club Member Jim Yahr
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The two that come immediately to mind are Country Rap and Death Metal. The rest of it I can handle – even “regular” rap. Favorite genres are pretty much the same as what everyone else has listed.
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I saw a lot of Speedwagon before they became big – they had a contract with the student union where I went to college in the early 70’s. Probably played there 4-5 times a year.
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The big one from Australia would be AC/DC, probably followed by country artist Keith Urban, then probably the Bee Gees.
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I’ve been to (and worked) a number of memorable concerts but the one that really sticks was 2009. My girlfriend (now wife) called and said some friends were in town and had concert tickets and “were we interested?” I was slightly reluctant, since her tastes are opera and classical, but since we’d only been dating for 9 months, I said “sure.” She came and picked me up and we headed to her friend’s hotel. After hanging out for a little while they said it was time to go and we piled into her car. As we pulled up to the venue, I realized this wasn’t opera this was a Paul McCartney concert! Next surprise – we’re there several hours early but, they have full access FOB tickets! So we’re there not only for the concert, but the soundcheck too! The soundcheck was fun, but a little frustrating for the band because this was one of the first shows in the venue (Cowboys Stadium) and the sound system still had bugs. After the soundcheck we got to hang out in the green room with the band. Paul was off doing interviews so we didn’t get to talk to him, but I spent a bunch of time talking to Rusty and Brian. At 5 minutes to go we headed for our seats – floor, 10th row, dead center on Paul’s mike. Great concert, we were close enough that the stage sound overwhelmed the poor PA sound, and her friends got a shoutout from Paul. This was the final concert of the tour and everybody bugged out after the show, so there are no after party stories for this one. I’ve still got a set list sitting around here someplace. All in all it was a memorable evening.
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Thanks for this – Good to hear he’s still working on Volume 2.
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As far as Beatles go, I like the simplicity of the intro to Eight Days a Week. It’s short, sweet, and instantly recognizable.
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Elanor Rigby would be the face in the window, (up by the bird, top left center)
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I see Lovely Rita and Helter Skelter too. Here Comes the Sun and I’ll Follow the Sun are both there. I can probably find more but it’s late and I have a work from home meeting at 8AM. -
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He edited, the original email notice that I popped the reply button on said “Neil Diamond”, then I edited because I couldn’t find a way to delete the reply. -
Jung – One of my favorite tunes.
From the album “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”
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Since the question asked about pop/rock that eliminates my earliest because my parents were into musicals so either “Oklahoma” or “The Music Man” (or some barbershop quartet) was usually on the stereo when I was little. But the Beatles “Yes It Is” brings up the strongest memory – my first boy/girl party and my first slow dance with a girl. Probably when I was in 6th grade or so. “Puff” also brings back some great memories from a few years later, because I was in a folkie group and we sang “Puff” at our first paying gig.
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I remember her since I was DJ’ing on Armed Forces Radio at the time. I always thought “Beautiful People” from Woodstock was her tour de force. “Momma Momma” and “Birthday of the Sun” (from Woodstock) were almost as good. After that she was basically just another hippie chick with a happy sounding song. Baez and Mitchell were doing social issues and Janice was a sound you just couldn’t ignore, but there were probably 10 others that all sounded like Melanie and most were-one-hit-wonders. She’s put out a lot of work, but its just never really caught on. Some of it was may have been the way she was promoted – she was always just a little too clean cut and what was selling was the “bad girl” image.
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P-90 dogears are the standard single coil pickup on all Gibson 330s and Epiphone Casinos and have been since since Gibson introduced the ES-330 in 1959, and Epiphone brought out the Casino in 1961. I have two Casino;’s (a 2005 Standard and a 2010 Elitist) and both have dogears. Paul’s Casino (which he still uses occasionally) would be more rare since it’s a 1962 model, John and George’s are both 1965 models. -
I don’t have a picture of him with this but this is John Lennon’s one-off Rickenbacker 325/12. It was on display at the Met last year in the “Play It Loud” exhibition:
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Maybe, but that’s not what he plays live. Live he uses “Sonny”, which would be 5 string open G, and he uses capo 5. I personally think it’s in his fingers and nothing to do with the guitar. He also has a custom one-off Gibson 10 string acoustic built to be tuned in open G that he uses live for Wild Horses and another acoustic he keeps in Open G Nashville tuning, which would give the same sound as what’s described.
