Fans over 50?
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BarbB:
Even though I am in my 20s and none of my parents or grandparents were fans..does that still make me a 1st generation fan?
I should say that I may be first generation US fan, as the Liverpoolgroom was at one of the gigs in the uk when I was only nine yrs, old!!(he must have been 18 yrs. old)
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I consider myself a first generation Beatles fan. I listened to alot of music on American Bandstand, but when I heard the Beatles music, my world changed.... overnight!!! It was before the Ed Sullivan Sheew.... then on the night, I was there watching Ed Sullivan with my family.... even my Dad became a Beatles fan that night...
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The really funny thing....I watched even before the Ed Sullivan show. The Beatles as they landed in the US and all the girls screaming...I thought "They are just nutts!" And then I heard the boys and then I knew .. I could become one of those girls too!
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~BUMP~...~BUMP~ I want to hear from some new members...are you a first generation fan? Thanx to all who have posted...love hearing from all!!!
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i wrote this in another thread, but, i remember seeing all the news on the Beatles first visit to America. my entire family and our relatives gathered in our small living room to watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. i remember my uncle commenting on their "long hair...who do they think they are???" i was 11 years old and loved who they were!!! (i still have the "video," yes, VHS - when it came out later) of the Beatles first visit. the British Invasion was just the shot in the arm our country needed at that time following JFK's death; it is so very interesting to me that these bands studied so much about the music going on in america early rock, soul, rhythm and blues, etc. all i know is what i witnessed an immediate explosion of small, garage bands wanting to "catch up" with the British bands!!! there were constant "Battle of the Bands" going on. it was such an exciting time!!! i loved all of the bands from Great Britain, my first love, of course, being the Beatles. i remember how British culture entirely impacted our fashions, our perfumes, soaps, etc.!!!! (i love seeing Austin Powers movies for that reason!!!) i know this dates me, but we women used to sew all of our own clothes. i loved sewing myself up all of the trendy british fashions i saw in Seventeen Magazine - gray tweed vest with hot pink lining/custom buttons and matching dirndle skirt (actually of German origin); tailored (and i mean tailored) long-sleeved blouses that i liked putting French cuffs on - at that time it was less expensive to sew one's clothes - we didn't quite yet have mass-produced fashions...
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49 soon and when i saw them on TV in 2/64 I was almost 3 and understood then something special was going on. When I look at me I say "Dude, you are so old", but when I look at Paul I say, "Geez, he's not old at all!". In fact I am old enough to remember Mick Jaggar state in an early interview that he didn't particularly like Beatle music. I never believed him. I remember how shocked I was learning that Paul was dead. I reminded people in the 80's what Beatle cartoons were and being called a liar until MTV played them once. Then there was the breakup and the knowledge that I would never see them. Then the day came as a teenager when it was announced they would do a concert in ... Kampuchea? I don't remember. But I do remember explaining to my family wherever that was, city, country, or planet we were going and I would be there. Didn't work out too well of course and it was cancelled anyway. Honestly to this day I couldn't find it on a map. My first paycheck ever went for a guitar and all the Beatle albums I could get. They inspired so many musically, but that didn't work out for me at all (i.e. zero talent) and I'll leave it at that. My friends used to call them the "Glee Club". They were always a hot topic. Back in those days sometimes when a relationship would go sour a couple of women told me I killed their admiration for them. Not that I did but just to throw a stab at me I'm sure. Young love. Good but so damn bad. I once was in a class with a Juliard trained professor and brought in some of their sheet music. She played Imagine, just a few bars, and remarked how any sophmore at Juliard could write that. I told her that may be so, but when John did it, it's worth alot more than music theory. The class laughed and she agreed. I can't wait to see what Paul does next.
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i wasn't that surprised regarding the Beatles' break-up, when you think about how volatile the times were...my gosh, they had taken us all on the most mysterious ride from cherubic times (early 1960s) through war times and transcendental times (later 1960s)... and they had grown in the most artistically varied ways, perhaps in ways they and we don't quite yet understand... and they, as a group, had reached a pinnacle, perhaps... each as an individual, however, had entered into personal relationships, and were trying to "get on" with their lives...each, as an individual, was trying to find more personal paths...(?? can't speak for each individual) causes and effects, so to speak, of so many different stripes...life in all it's random glories... acceptance and forgiveness...the final steps...and the wondrous realization that the music remains... the music reincarnates, over and over again... thanks for your input, rs232c!!!
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Just 3 months to go...... .....then I can post on this thread and recieve all my unwanted junk mail from Gaga sorry, Saga.
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david mitchelson:
Just 3 months to go...... .....then I can post on this thread and recieve all my unwanted junk mail from Gaga sorry, Saga.
SORRY.....SAGA?...Seniors Against Giggling Alone?
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LB My son has just drawn me a Fathers Day card..... ......a lovely picture of me with only a little hair and walking with a stick..... ......cheeky little sod! I still say Gaga holidays is closer. I worked for them once as an art historian taking the old dears round European museum and galleries.....never do that again, miserable, uncultured stuck-up old ***s! ....and back to smiley David.....
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David LOOK...you said you wouldn't turn 50 until Oct. 3 (thought no one was paying attention, AY!) I have a son who is 41...YOU"RE JUST A YOUNGSTER!!!! *says in a crackly old woman voice...come back when you grow up a bit!!
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I'm there, but, i'm not telling you my age
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LB Come back when I've grown up a bit.... .....now we all know that ain't ever gonna happen!..... I am quickly regressing back to my childhood and intend to be more eccentric, annoying and mischievous with every passing day......and ya boo sucks to anyone who don't like it!.....
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(in a chair facing you on the couch) "Would you like to tell us a little bit about that, your childhood regression??!!"
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Fly on the wall.... yes David... let's hear... aboot it...
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Good Lord! Tell you about my regression. But then I'd lose all my mystique and power......
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that's a start...go on...!!!
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yes I was from one of the best Era's that ever was! where Rockabilly and Rock and Roll emerged! my girfriend dated Gene Vincent! he gave her his Bomber jacket too. nothing like the old radio days!!! where I would stay up every night and listen to NON Stop platters, Jan and Dean, ink spots. and remember, " You don't have to be a baby to cry" great harmony! the fleetwoods. I'm Mr Blue! where you dated the Guy in the 55 Chevy! and later he got a Vett! wooo, that was the funnest era I ever had! growing up, roller skating down a fast hill, with my transistor, in my front pocket going full blast! jumping on a Trampoline in my swimsuit to the Beach Boys Surffs up album. when Albums were 30 and 33! the real deal! summers were a blast, where ever I took my radios! going to A&W getting a frosty root beer, with roated hot dog, and hearing Tressa Brewer singing, put another nickle in the nicklodian! I thought I was in heaven listining to Murray the K- IN NYCITY! staying up till 5 am listening to radio stations all over the world! when I discovered the Beatles On the Beeb! in 1963! so I had to call Murray the K! girls tell your stories too ok? mine Is just started!
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*waving my hand madly* I'm 58 (yep, I claim my years proudly!), and I've been a fan since 1/64. It seems so strange to think of it, but the teenagers who feel in love w/Paul and the rest of the Beatles are now either nearing 60 or past it; in some ways, it just doesn't seem like that much time has passed, and yet so much has happened, and much of the world we knew then has changed beyond comprehension. Rotary phones, $4 concert tickets (and that was for the front row!), cars with fins....all gone the way of the dinosaur. And, thankfully, the Vietnam War, over. What a long, strange trip it's been..........
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NO KIDDING!!! i remember our transistor radios - they were the absolute latest technology from japan - and if you were really lucky, you also had earphones for them!!! i remember 50 cent movies, double-features(!), and sitting up in the balcony to toss popcorn and soda down - do you remember "Beach Party" with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello? (1963) slide rulers WERE the calculators/computers of the day - WE HAD NO OTHER TECHNOLOGY!!! and our 45s were played on box record players. telephone party-lines were our "internet," and young ladies had to have their skirts (NO PANTS ALLOWED!) measured by school administration to make certain they were the proper length...