[FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: How long had the Lads been TMing before they started making Sgt. Pepper? I understand that you'd like to assign their creativity to their practice of TM, but isn't what you're asking in the same ballpark as asking, How long had Dr. Harold

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
It didn't take Barry very long to shit on this thread. Gawd forbid that any TMer could derive any creative inspiration from TM. On 10/31/2013 3:49 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: How long had the Lads been TMing before they started making Sgt. Pepper? I

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread awoelflebater
As much as you enjoy being the illuminator of who shits and who doesn't, which threads are going down the tubes or otherwise making your inane and meaningless commentary on the posts of others I think we get it now. You can go onto something more, er, relevant. When are you going to post the

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
Once again, let's review some of the netiquette protocols for posting messages to discussion groups: We don't endorse the 'caste system' which has individuals classed according to their birth circumstances. This is considered to be bigoted and prejudiced malice toward a particular person or

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
This is very insulting comment to post here, Barry. You should apologize to Card for impugning his integrity. With this post, you've reached down to a new low - I feel embarrassed for you. You've taken this forum to a whole new level. Alex once said he thought that a.m.t. was the cesspool of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Uh, how about they were just creative people to begin with? Many artists and musicians are such. It's called talent. On 10/31/2013 09:20 AM, cardemaister@... wrote: So, it seems like LSD might have been the main culprit for their

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
On the contrary, Sgt. Pepper was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy Awards in 1968, one of the world's best selling albums. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is the good example of what is typically cited by serious critics as the best album of all time by

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread s3raphita
Re As for increased creativity, however, most serious rock critics consider their two previous albums (Rubber Soul and Revolver) to be better than Sgt. Pepper.: ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Bhairitu
With regard to the Beatles, local KGO radio host Pat Thurston interviewed Larry Kane, a young news reporter at the time of the Beatles who hung out with them on their US tour and has recently written a book about it called When They Were Boys. He talks about how many of their songs were

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread s3raphita
The biography to read will be the one Jane Asher publishes when Paul McCartney kicks the bucket (and if that's what it takes to stop him singing bring it on). Jane was Paul's girlfriend from 1963-68 which would include the Beatles' early drug experimentation and the trip to India to sit at the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Bhairitu
I've mentioned it here before but I also knew someone who worked at the Leeds Music in Paris in the 1960s and said the Beatles bought some of their songs. That was NOT an uncommon practice back then. I had a cousin who sold some songs to a music publisher. And the publisher of my 60's

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
The serious critics at Rolling Stone voted Sgt.Pepper #1 in a list of 500 of the greatest albums of all time. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread cardemaister
FWIW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaPtrmGCHAlist=RD02DVmXoTa20dY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IaPtrmGCHAlist=RD02DVmXoTa20dY ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: The serious critics at Rolling Stone voted Sgt.Pepper #1 in a list of 500 of the greatest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread Richard J. Williams
So, if they were just creative to start with, why were you casting aspersions on TM practice vis a vis Dr. Harold Bloomfield's raping of women? On 10/31/2013 12:05 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: Uh, how about they were just creative people to

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread awoelflebater
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, punditster@... wrote: So, if they were just creative to start with, why were you casting aspersions on TM practice vis a vis Dr. Harold Bloomfield's raping of women? On 10/31/2013 12:05 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com

[FairfieldLife] RE: Sgt. Pepper and TM?

2013-10-31 Thread s3raphita
Re FWIW: It's worth a lot thanks as background info on the Beatles' state of mind. As to whether the psychedelic experience was genuinely mine-expanding or just a dead end I guess the jury's still out on that one. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister@... wrote: FWIW: