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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:10:56 -0400 |
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Can't recall if I started the RITH thread (Pig Gold, maybe?), but I certainly jumped immediately at first site of it. So if I didn't first it, I certainly seconded that emotion.
This has been a bible for me for years, and I tell everyone I know that it's obligatory reading. Even got it for the four Splitsville lads for Xmas one year. (I've actually gifted it to people for more occassions than I can ever recall.)
Matt Huseman and I recently sat down for lunch in Boston with Art Herman, the owner of Zip Records (our US label). Art also brought along his daughter and her friend, two frosh at Suffolk. They're taking a Beatles course, and on their syllabus for the sememester is RITH.
Why didn't they have classes like that when I went to college? I might have gotten my ass out of bed and gone to class.
>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: :audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Sent: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:02:10
>
>On 10/12/07, synthhtnys@comcast.net
><synthhtnys@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I've had it in the back of my mind to keep an eye
>out for it.
>> I ran across it and initially almost put it back,
>thinking
>> "Another song by song impression book.... no
>thanks".
>> But I read one song's worth, then another and
>another
>> and walked out with it. I haven't been able to
>put it down since.
>> This really IS one of the best books about the
>Beatles.
>
>It is. Some of MacDonald's opinions are, frankly,
>bizarre (Across The
>Universe is dreadful while Yellow Submarine is
>great? I think not...)
>but he was one of the tiny number of rock
>journalists who could write
>about *music*, rather than just the lyrics... that
>book was invaluable
>to me when I started writing songs for the way it
>took the Beatles'
>ones apart to see what made them tick...
>
>--
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>http://myspace.com/thenationalpep
>National Pep CDs - http://cdbaby.com/cd/nationalpep
>
>The National Pep - Pop Music to hurt you forever -
>http://thenationalpep.co.uk
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