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Paul McCartney Declines Meeting Rice

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Ms. Rice had wanted to meet Paul McCartney while she was here. But he declined the invitation, and so Ms. Rice visited the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, where the former Beatle, and now Sir Paul, was once a student. She listened to a brief choral presentation in the Paul McCartney theater.

Half-a-dozen students, with the school director's permission, lined up just inside the school's front door and stood with arms crossed over black T-shirts that read: "No torture. No compromise."

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
We can survive without musicians


If you think we can survive without art, you're pathetic.

Icono, do you really believe a musical group brought down the wall?


They played a large part in it.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
For the Russian audience, McCartney's appearance in Moscow is little short of a miracle. The Beatles were banned for decades by the Soviet government, which regarded their music as the epitome of Western decadence and propaganda, and the fans' only access to the group was through the occasional photo or black market album. Their reaction to his 2003 visit is a mixture of frenzy and rapture; in interview after interview, what one fan calls the Beatles' "gentle intervention" is credited with helping to bring down the whole Soviet system, simply because they represented a creativity and freedom that had been almost totally silenced. And that's all before McCartney plays "Back in the U.S.S.R.," which inspires a response that simply must be seen and heard to be believed. Link
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
We can survive without musicians.

It depends on your definition of 'survive'...
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
always have to laugh when I hear that a politician is a rock and roll fan. Like when Al Gore claimed to be a fan of Jethro Tull. All they're trying to do is get more votes.


Yeah, because before they became public servants they weren't even human right? Just little pods waiting to pop open, no history, no struggles, no victories.

Shesh.


If Gore truly WAS a Tull fan, he'd have muzzled Tipper back in the 80's. The PMRC crap was the ANTITHESIS of any "Rock and Roll" mentality!
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
We can survive without musicians.

It depends on your definition of 'survive'


How about we learn how to make our OWN music like people did for, oh, I dunno, THOUSANDS of years before the professional musician made us lazy.
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
If Gore truly WAS a Tull fan, he'd have muzzled Tipper back in the 80's




The PMRC crap was the ANTITHESIS of any "Rock and Roll" mentality!




Yet another attempt to stifle rock and roll.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top

Their reaction to his 2003 visit is a mixture of frenzy and rapture; in interview after interview, what one fan calls the Beatles' "gentle intervention" is credited with helping to bring down the whole Soviet system, simply because they represented a creativity and freedom that had been almost totally silenced.

HAHAHA.  I'd be willing to wager that ANY successful band could have had the same effect.  They were desperate for the forbidden....

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
Baker, you dont have to have a brain to sing. Witness the Scarecrow.


lol. Me gusta. That one made me crack up.
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
How about we learn how to make our OWN music like people did for, oh, I dunno, THOUSANDS of years before the professional musician made us lazy.

Who said anything about professional musicians?

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
Who said anything about professional musicians?


OK, as long as you're not limiting your definition to pros, we're on the same page.

And quoting the bard...always a nice touch!
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
[A little 'off-topic interlude]
I remember on my last trip back to England going into a really rough after hours pub in Birkenhead, Merseyside where everyone was really drunk and the tension and testosterone were high. A couple of anxious young men wondering when they would get their fight for the night, others so drunk they could hardly stand...

... then out came the guitars - and the old fiddle player tuned up - and the music was raucous and random, as befitting the only 'Irish city in England'. Just people out for the music and the fun, ceol agus craic, and as I recall no one actually got punched at all...

So here's a glass for the people making their own music, but I'd like to raise another one too to those professionals who are so good that we stop for a while to listen to them. Sláinte!