---Dedicated to Mr. Adams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sitting in a blue sea

Looking at you

My bells ring out

To get your attention

You look at me with your green eyes

 

You paw your face

Like it's a disgrace

You lick your own ass

And look at me like it's nothing important

 

Little girl made your point

By kneading your perch

Do you think you own me?

 

Meowing your intentions of

Snuggling with me in my blue sea

 

Huggies and scratches

 

 

 

 

As I'm digging into the catalogue of The Beatles, I'm really discovering just how much of an influence they have been in both what I compose on guitar, or in my style of playing, but also on my lyrical work.

 

To be honest, the only album of theirs I owned in my life prior to 9-9-09 was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. I've heard all of the other albums off and on over the years, and of course, the songs that everyone all seem to know.

 

I only need to buy With The Beatles, Help!, A Hard Day's Night, Revolver, Yellow Submarine, and Beatles For Sale.

 

I basically bought the CDs as to try to remember childhood memories in some cases, (Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road), rediscovery in others (White Album), and the I-kind-of-know-it-but-don't-remember-it (Let It Be) to the I-Simply-Do-Not-Know-It (Please, Please Me).

 

I really wanted to get Revolver today so I could have finished up my psychedelic portion of the collection, but I ended up with Past Masters, which is basically an album released in 1988 that gathered up the songs that were the singles, or songs not released on any album. I can now play Hey Jude with total utter love, crank it loud. But there's a song I heard that falls into the rediscovery category, and the history of it alone should be appreciated for how music is done today.

 

If you read about the song Rain, it's the song that the band essentially, according to George Harrision, "The first MTV video". It also seems to be the first song to use the art of recording something backwards for a song.

 

 

The "MTV Video Version (minus the backwards vocals)"

 

 

John sings it. I'm trying to play it properly on guitar (G-C-D), but Paul rules this with his bass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beggars and Hangers On

 

 

Micheal

 

 

 James Bond

 

 

November Rain

 

 

Sweet Child

 

 

Patience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On November 11, 1918, World War I ended with the Treaty of Versailles.

 

It is a day that is now known in America as Veteran's Day.

 

For one who wished to have served, this day I wish to celebrate with all of my friends qho are serving, who have served, or tried to serve.

 

May God Bless You.

 

Some of us

Have a way

To play

To use our hands

In such a way

To make music

 

You use your hands and fingers

To play the notes that evoke

Feeling

 

Some of us use guitars to

Speak our mind

We're all are in our own world when we solo

Leave us alone when we go there in our

Zone

 

Some of us play the drums rum pu pa pum

Me and my drum

We keep the beat, the silent ones

The aninmal

 

The bass keeps on grooving away

Helping me keep time

Perception of time

 

Voices calling

Hear me sing

Voices of a band

We can work it out

We can work it out

We can work it out

 

Won't you come out to play

Down to the final Beatle.

 

I know long before I was born, there were contests of "Which Beatle is the cutist?". If I were a girl back then, I'd probably pick Sir Paul. Of the four, he was the crooner, the Sinatra.

 

I never liked the movie Live And Let Die except for two things: a very yummy Jane Seymour, and the song. Mom used to play Band On The Run to put me down for a nap.

 

But, Sir Paul wrote the best Beatle song...the best damned sing-a-long song ever, IMHO.

 

Na na na na, na na na na na

 

 

In closing, I wish I could write songs like The Fab Four.