![]() ![]() My teens took place in the 70’s and the Beatles had long since broken up but every artist I listened to cited them as an influence. Our second set consisted of a 17 song Beatles medley that began with “Nowhere Man”. When I was about 20 yrs old, I rejoined my brothers’ band as a rhythm guitar player and singer. I gave the bass guitar a try but my fingers were too small and that thing weighed a ton. By the third grade I was playing drums and singing in my older brothers’ band. I thought they were for me but it was really just a way to have drums at the house so the drummer didn’t have to lug his to practice. The band practices held in our living room, the neighbors calling the police to “stop all that noise.” For my 8th Christmas, I received a set of blue Rogers drums. My first recollection is the song “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” I certainly saw the effect the Beatles had on my older brothers. I was fairly young when the Beatles came to America. It’s quite obvious to me that without The Beatles, my life would have been quite different. Now it’s 51 years later, and I’m still a major fan. The construction of our song and their song is strikingly similar. Our song “Sanctimonious” was recorded 6 months before The Beatles released “Hey Jude”. Naturally, I joined a band in 1967, playing a Hammond B3 organ and singing lead vocals, and we did many, many Beatles covers, such as “Ticket To Ride”, “I Feel Fine” and “HELP!”. sweetheart, paying nineteen-cents-a-gallon and driving from one beach to another, from one nightclub to another, with the constant background of the “HELP!” album on every radio station. When I graduated in 1965, I spent a glorious two weeks in Miami with my H.S. ![]() I was a tenor in choir at my church, so singing harmonies along with the mop-tops was one of my favorite things to do. The songs of The Beatles were always on my radio programs. I began my career in radio broadcasting as a part-time DJ in the deep south in 1963. Mike Birch (bass guitar, vocals)įor me, it all started on a Sunday night in 1964 … February 9 … the Beatles took the stage on the Ed Sullivan show and while the girls in the audience screamed, my parents and grandparents exclaimed about the “long hairs” and a 7-year-old boy thought, ‘I’m going to learn to play the guitar one day!’ Grady Moates (vocals, percussion) Their music is a spiritual journey, especially if you can experience it in chronological order.Īnd their career described a perfect path: they sprang from seemingly nowhere, conquered the world, proceeded to grow ever more surprising and audacious… then they were gone at the peak of their artistic power and popularity without ever having a chance to decline. They later began to write as much about the world around them as about their inner selves, both the happy things and the not-so-happy. The early stuff is full of naive youthful energy, romance, optimism, and self-assurance. It unites us.įor me personally, it represents the arc of life and personal growth. It’s known and sung throughout the world in many cultures by many generations. I consider The Beatles music to be a kind of modern kind of folk music. Here’s what Scrambled Eggs had to say about The Beatles. This year’s benefit is on Saturday, May 21 at 7:30 at the me&thee coffeehouse, 28 Mugford Street, Marblehead, Mass. Our musicians donate their time, energy and enthusiasm to this project and we can’t thank them enough! We firmly believe that providing additional arts programs in our schools is a vital and very necessary part of school curriculums. Proceeds from this show go to sending musicians into the local schools for workshops and concerts. The question “What do the Beatles mean to YOU?” was posed to the participants of the annual “All You Need is Love” benefit at the me&thee coffeehouse in Marblehead, Mass. ![]()
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