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>>>Youthful exuberance? Full of himself? Poseur?

all of the above? Yes... plus incredibly talented.

Ever see the clip of the Beatles on the British TV "goon show" Morecambe and Wise (the one where they sing "Moonlight Bay")? You cant tell it from reading the lyrics, but this is an example of Paul just being too full of himself for his own good. He just came on way too strong and fell flat on his face. It's like I said about Paul in AHDN.... he just tried so hard to show off that you cant help but want to slap him and say "Calm down Pauly and be more like George ... a little humility will go a long way".

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Speech-Eric-Morecambe-and-Ernie-Wise-lyrics-The-Beatles/A195C0BB7569AFCC48256DE500304B97

They had to grab onto politics to keep in the public eye and I don't believe half of it, half musician and half politician. I doubt the sincerity of a lot of these rich rock stars, if they were really sincere they'd do that stuff anonymously.

Bob, I think Bono is pretty sincere. First, encouraging governments to forgive third world debt has never really been a sexy issue. (Nor is having a photo op with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil.) Second, Bono's been at this for years — long before Live8. It isn't some rock star flavor-of-the-month charity for him. Lastly, he brings more worldwide attention, and good, by using his celebrity for this cause than he would by making a one-time anonymous donation.

Off the soapbox now.

It also seems to me that this isn't the kind of event where stars should be feeding their egos-be it Bono or McCartney or whoever else. Worries over who's gonna be the headliner is a stupid, petty tabloid-type consideration given the context of the concert. In my opinion, it makes everybody involved in this kind of bickering look bad.

Paul Wilcznyski,

John Lennon was a pretty fair rythm guitarist, according to Paul Kantnor. John's rapid, accurate strumming on "All My Loving" is almost in the same league as "Pinball Wizard", for my money. Obviously, YMMV.
Note, how I chose not to defend George's guitar work; his slide playing never impressed me. IMHO George did some fine playing on "And Your Bird Can Sing".

Respectfully,
Larry
Paul: on my '65 bootlegs, Pauly never EVER missed a trick! He was killer live on his little Hefner.

Speaking of looking bad... whats up with Geldof's hair?

He's like Jean Valjean-he's gone white overnight with the stress of it all....

Looks like he's starting to explain to somebody how to play a G chord, no? "And you take your 2nd finger and move it up here like that see." Think McCartney forgot how to play a G?

it would have been interesting if george and john were still alive and if all 3 had been asked to perform....who would be headliner?

RINGO!

John Lennon was a pretty fair lead guitarist actually too, actually very good IMHO. And I still think Bono's full of it. I know he's been doing this stuff for years and has been getting accolades for years, that's why he does it, gives him (and his band) good press, these guys aren't stupid you know. Takes work and talent to get there, takes brains to stay there especially if you're not that talented, look at Madonna, who's done it in a different way. I'm not saying U2 are a bad band just that his political stuff hasn't hurt their career that's for sure.

None of McCartney's control issues really affect me, so I could care less one way or the other...except for one thing. it pisses me off I can't get a hamburger at one of his concerts. I'll eat what I want thank you very much!. It's hard sneaking in a Big Mac!

Really you can't buy meat at a McCartney concert? haha!

Actually now that I think about it I'm not sure if it was at the concerts. I know in 1999 at the House of Blues in LA for a listening party for "Run Devil Run" they weren't serving meat. Luckily we had big steaks before the function. I'll let you know after the Seattle show.

OK so I've been listening to London Town. I actually forgot how good Denny's "Children Children" and "Deliver Your Children" were.

yeah london town is a good record, ive been listening heaps to that and ram, too many people is a great song too.

I'm going to relisten to London Town tonight.... while I eat a big T-bone steak in Macca's honor.