"Double Fantasy" wins Album Of The Year GRAMMY '81
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audi:
From what I've read over the years, John Lennon was very much into the latest techie stuff (typical of Libra males). I'm sure he had the best Beta around.
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Erik in NJ:
Here's a funny story...when my buddy Tom (huge Beatles fan) and his brother bribed their way into sitting in Lennon's limo at the Dakota back in the 70s, he said when they went into the back seat that Lennon had a fold down turntable in the back I thought this was a bit odd for a car. He did say it was kind of cheapie/plasticy though. You'd think a guy like that would have had a custom mounted Marantz 6300 or something high end. But then again a turntable in a car?? It wasn't like casettes weren't around then and certainly with his money he could have mounted a reel-to-reel unit. Still can't believe he was able to get into that car!
I'm unaware they owned a limo in NYC. They did have the old 72 Crysler station wagon (they were still using that in 79, and a new 79 Merc 300TD station wagon.) Almost always if they weren't on foot, they'd have Fred drive them around in the Crysler. They had limos collect them, around the Double Fantasy sessions time for sure. Surely those wouldn't have had plastic fold out turntables? Maybe the old green Crysler had the turntable?
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It was the Rolls that he brought over from England.
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Ahhh...well yeah, I can see that having the fold out record player. There was a photo in an early Beatles Monthly (around 65) of George's car and he was inserting a 45 into the space where later car cassette's would be placed. Just shoved the single into the slot and bang! It played!
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moptops:
Ahhh...well yeah, I can see that having the fold out record player. There was a photo in an early Beatles Monthly (around 65) of George's car and he was inserting a 45 into the space where later car cassette's would be placed. Just shoved the single into the slot and bang! It played!
That's pretty cool! Still can't believe my buddy bribed his way into that car (he gave $20 to the secuity guard for him and his younger brother to sit in the car )--this was after being kicked out of the lobby of the Dakota. I don't know if that Rolls was really being used at the time. He took a cheapo bottle opener that he found in the glove compartment for some reason as a souvenier (he didn't want to remove anything intrusive...I'm not sure I would have taken anything, but this was years and years before I knew him)..and ended up throwing it in a kitchen drawer at home. It was later lost or thrown away although I'm not sure anyone would have believed that it came from Lennon's Rolls.
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Just texted him, he said it was a psycadelic paint job on the outside (I think it was originally white in England) and had a black interior. I keep telling him he's a fool for losing that bottle opener.
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oobu24:
toris:
oobu24:
toris:
John's songs on Double Fantasy are awesome.... Woman, Watching the Wheels, Beautiful Boy... all of them.... all of the songs of his on that album are A1. But I can't get over Yoko's contribution. Terrible. And worse, given I bought it when only records existed, if I wanted to skip Yoko's songs I had to get up and lift the needle. And that damn song of hers, the one where she moans and groans, and was quite happy for everyone to know she lay down on the studio floor and "entertained" herself to perfect the effect.... her presence did nothing to enhance what could've been John's greatest album. Imagine Yoko's songs been left off, and others like Nobody Told Me, Grow Old With Me, Life Begins at Forty, for starters, being included instead. That would've made my day.
Had to get up & lift the needle...that's the equivalent to telling your kids you had to walk 5 miles uphill to school. Good one!
That, and a fleeting memory of black and white television, are perhaps the greatest indications of my age. And I recall when Beta was king over VHS!
Me too...although I don't remember B&W TV.
I thought you were older than that!
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Erik in NJ:
Here's a funny story...when my buddy Tom (huge Beatles fan) and his brother bribed their way into sitting in Lennon's limo at the Dakota back in the 70s, he said when they went into the back seat that Lennon had a fold down turntable in the back I thought this was a bit odd for a car. He did say it was kind of cheapie/plasticy though. You'd think a guy like that would have had a custom mounted Marantz 6300 or something high end. But then again a turntable in a car?? It wasn't like casettes weren't around then and certainly with his money he could have mounted a reel-to-reel unit. Still can't believe he was able to get into that car!
He bought the car I believe in late '66, early '67 (not sure of purchase date, but it was a '65 model), so there were no cassettes yet.
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Nancy, I'm so old, we didn't even have white yet on our TVs back in those days--just black!!
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Nancy R:
He bought the car I believe in late '66, early '67 (not sure of purchase date, but it was a '65 model), so there were no cassettes yet.
Guess my buddy was in it ca 1974. A turntable in a car must have been challenging--let's hope he never drove through Blackburn, Lancashire in '67!!
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Erik in NJ:
Just texted him, he said it was a psycadelic paint job on the outside (I think it was originally white in England) and had a black interior. I keep telling him he's a fool for losing that bottle opener.
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Nancy R:
Erik in NJ:
Here's a funny story...when my buddy Tom (huge Beatles fan) and his brother bribed their way into sitting in Lennon's limo at the Dakota back in the 70s, he said when they went into the back seat that Lennon had a fold down turntable in the back I thought this was a bit odd for a car. He did say it was kind of cheapie/plasticy though. You'd think a guy like that would have had a custom mounted Marantz 6300 or something high end. But then again a turntable in a car?? It wasn't like casettes weren't around then and certainly with his money he could have mounted a reel-to-reel unit. Still can't believe he was able to get into that car!
He bought the car I believe in late '66, early '67 (not sure of purchase date, but it was a '65 model), so there were no cassettes yet.
They were around Nancy, not widespread though. The fabs were using cassettes in 1965 for home use etc...amongst their other gadgets.
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moptops:
Nancy R:
Erik in NJ:
Here's a funny story...when my buddy Tom (huge Beatles fan) and his brother bribed their way into sitting in Lennon's limo at the Dakota back in the 70s, he said when they went into the back seat that Lennon had a fold down turntable in the back I thought this was a bit odd for a car. He did say it was kind of cheapie/plasticy though. You'd think a guy like that would have had a custom mounted Marantz 6300 or something high end. But then again a turntable in a car?? It wasn't like casettes weren't around then and certainly with his money he could have mounted a reel-to-reel unit. Still can't believe he was able to get into that car!
He bought the car I believe in late '66, early '67 (not sure of purchase date, but it was a '65 model), so there were no cassettes yet.
They were around Nancy, not widespread though. The fabs were using cassettes in 1965 for home use etc...amongst their other gadgets.
Yeah, just those rich folk with their "cement ponds" and such could afford them! (that was a Beverly Hillbillies reference for you youngsters and Brits--not sure about Aussies!)
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Nancy R:
moptops:
Nancy R:
Erik in NJ:
Here's a funny story...when my buddy Tom (huge Beatles fan) and his brother bribed their way into sitting in Lennon's limo at the Dakota back in the 70s, he said when they went into the back seat that Lennon had a fold down turntable in the back I thought this was a bit odd for a car. He did say it was kind of cheapie/plasticy though. You'd think a guy like that would have had a custom mounted Marantz 6300 or something high end. But then again a turntable in a car?? It wasn't like casettes weren't around then and certainly with his money he could have mounted a reel-to-reel unit. Still can't believe he was able to get into that car!
He bought the car I believe in late '66, early '67 (not sure of purchase date, but it was a '65 model), so there were no cassettes yet.
They were around Nancy, not widespread though. The fabs were using cassettes in 1965 for home use etc...amongst their other gadgets.
Yeah, just those rich folk with their "cement ponds" and such could afford them! (that was a Beverly Hillbillies reference for you youngsters and Brits--not sure about Aussies!)
I was more of a Get Smart kind of guy, but I remember those Hillbillies!... That Ellie May....