Guitarkid 1991 and non of that ego stuff John had

Yes, but John was also disappointed in many ways to be a Beatle, to miss a career in visual arts, to be stereotyped. And because he was murdered, he never had the chance to mature and to evolve.

Having never taken LSD I don't get that at all... what am I missing?

Harrison was saying that taking LSD even once allows you to perceive the universe in new ways, that the experience changes you. You don't have to experience LSD more than once in order to be changed... but that doesn't mean you won't want to experience it more than once. Harrison was (if I'm interpretting him correctly) saying "the first time I needed acid to open up my mind. After that I was pretty much doing it for fun."

Thanks for the insight. How does it change you? Do you really perceive the world differently or care more or less about things? Do you feel less inhibited? I'm just curious.

It's different for different people. It's different for the same person on different trips. Your mental state when you take it, the physical reality around you, and different impurities in the acid can all have different effects. Here's a link to other people describing their acid experiences: drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5085

I been seeing walls move and visions and dancing girls turn into clowns with bright lights flashing and the world expanding and such my whole life. So when people told me about it , I said, I don't think I need it thank you.

Yeah, and he got the wife.... and settled down and now looks 10 years younger than he is, because he looks after himself these days. He was The Beatles drummer for one reason. He was about the best there was, and he probably always will be.

No, he was a court jester who made the others feel good about themselves. Put him in the same room with Mitchell, Bonham, or Watts and it gets embarrassing.

Sorry (sentiment does't enter the debate) but he was ok doing the Beatles stuff, but was extremely limited & couldn't cut it with the next level of musicians. You ever heard of Ginger Baker or any jazz drummer for that matter?

*dave himlin* On this I can only agree 100%. And Led Zeppelin were my favorite band AFTER the Beatles. Ringo was a VERY GOOD drummer! Very underrated, and John was wrong Ringo WAS the best drummer in the Beatles! (And I am such a Lennon fan I still wear the same glasses he wore (National health round one's and played lead guitarist with his best friend David Peel in Dec 1980 when Lennon was murdered; right after his political enemy Reagan was elected!!). I was supposed to play lead with John at 123 Prince studios only 3 days after his murder as John had promised to come in an put down a couple of rhythm parts for his old buddy; I was 3 days from meeting and more important playing with him. I did NOT get paid for my time! The biggest what if of my life!

That's the rudest thing ever said about Ringo.... I wouldn't fetch a soda for Phil Norman.

Neil Murphy - You can see how that’s true (or maybe you can’t). To get what acid gives you is either a revelation that changes your life, or it confirms what you suspected all along. I was in that second category and never got any more than knowing what I suspected was true. I still took it for recreation, but it was just recreation. My wife was blown away and says it changed her life. Well, sure, she was raised a Mormon and their perception of “what is” is so fixed and inflexible, like we’d recall a mutual experience and she’d insist I saw it wrong. That’s what amazed her. Nothing happened the way you remember it, and no one shares an experience.(other than sharing the experience of two experiences and seeing what each had in common). The Mormons say, “there’s only one truth” and they really believe that.

Fucking brilliant isn’t it, love his cheeky smile at the end of the sentence. I know exactly what he means. I’ve not taken it for nearly 20 years but still treasure the times I had.

It's such a Rutles line! And biscuits too.

zephyrquartz Well said! I miss this man so much. I love his music and I love how real he was after going through all he went through.

He was also important because he was actually very talented. One of the miracles about the Beatles is that 4 lads who lived close, were all so talented AND got together as a band. I will never tire of listening to the Beatles and the best of their solo stuff too. Its such a unique musical gift they gave to the world. It will never happen again.

zephyrquartz How genius comment: ".....he thought he wasn't " !!!!

Brian Ruhe No, he knows the truth that reincarnation is the bunk

Me too, but the funny thing is: Palin is interviewed by Harrison in THE RUTLES!

Reality4Peace same haha

only because he was very left out, I felt it before but not to that extent

71hammyman Because the fame was so immense, and intense...

Lynn Turman we will never know for sure...

71hammyman No we won't.

It's a shame that neither Paul or John took him seriously, or treated him as equally important. I reckon 'What Is Life', 'Give me Love' and 'My Sweet Lord' would have been magnificent Beatles songs. When I think of Beatles music the first two that come to mind these days are 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' - both Harrison songs!

softclay4thought good comment

Me too

+John Smith George was always my favourite of the Beatles.

+John Smith It's not that they were trying to suppress him. It's just they had their own songs they wanted on the albums. There wasn't room for George's songs. George's role had always been to be the lead guitar player. John & Paul were the singer/songwriters. So when George started bringing his own songs in, it upset the apple cart. It disturbed the dynamic and the balance of the group. And is one of the main reasons they broke up (the other being John wanted out).

George did plenty of writing, he just couldn't get his songs on the Beatle albums. Notice once the Beatles split, George came out with All Things Must Pass in 1970. That was a triple album with a bunch of George songs that would have taken him 20 years to get heard on a Beatles record. He was more than ready to leave the Beatles...

George didn't start writing prolifically, nor with any consistent quality, until around the time of the White Album. That was the time The Beatles pretty much stopped being a band, and became solo artists helping each other out. And that's when the songs began to pour out of George. It's not like he had half a dozen songs that were left off, say, With The Beatles. He had Don't Bother Me, which fit beautifully. But little else to offer. By Revolver, he was getting better - and got the opening track on the album, Tax Man, and two other songs on there. But Within You Without You on Pepper was considered filler by many at the time (including George Martin). For some of us, it was a masterpiece. But then he got four cracking songs on The White Album. What I'm saying is, it's not really fair to say Lennon & McCartney kept him down. He just didn't have the songwriting chops, nor very many actual songs until much later. Then of course, as the Beatles broke apart, he ended up with a triple album - mind you, the third disc was nonsense; just jamming. But there wasn't one dud amongst the first two discs.

very

Totty? What is a totty?

Pir8jove George always had an eye for the ladies, he probably enjoyed this interview!

What an arrogant creep, he is.

It must be awfully annoying to have someone like Norman to write about you. That 'John Lennon is 3/4 of the Beatles' crap is one of the biggest jokes on earth.

"I didn't appreciate the man's snide putdown of Paul." ....or his casual, untrue, and unkind dismissal of Ringo.

Name three ways.

+Geritopia He must be from one of the lower branches. That's why he has it in for Paul.

Very keen insight. For all the misery being a "Beatle" brought onto them, they really were the only ones who could correctly comment on it.

***** +1!

Yeah I got really annoyed every time they let Philip Norman speak in this thing. He seems like a complete jackass.

a complete ass indeed

Crappy opinion of Ringo

Well, he's probably wrong about Ringo, but he's right about Paul. Over the years he has told us 3 different stories about why he's barefoot on the Abbey Road cover. He wants us to think that The Beatles were always nice to each other, everything was great, why do you think the Let It Be film still hasn't been reissued on DVD/Blu-ray?

Paul likely had no great memory of his being barefoot to tell. He wore flip flops and took them off on a few of the photos. he had no idea people would make a big deal about his feet for the next 50 yrs. So he embellishes a bit. that is what storytellers do and songwriters are storytellers! Especially paul.

+Peter Gear Like what? whats something he's lied about?

+godriczimmerman I heard him in an interview saying "when me and John wrote a day in the life together...." when they didn't. John wrote a day in the life and Paul put some rubbish in the middle of it. they didn't write it together.

+Ste Oc If thats the worst he's said then i think this smug "Biographer" is being very harsh on Paul.

+godriczimmerman that's just an example.

+Ste Oc I understand you're just giving an example, but i think that something like that could have simply been a slip of the tongue on Paul's part. What irritates me is that this guy who wrote a Biography basically accuses Paul in a T.V. interview of lying and rewriting Beatles history for his own personal gain, without giving any reference as to what he's talking about.

David Scottmaclean Probably not, but don't patronize us for it

wasn't

Yes, it does. A trip to remember,,,,😙

lol. beautifully put. i find him incredibly snide - funny, but he is not always kind.

Given the amount of absolute insanity they were surrounded by 24/7 for years, and the number of idiotic questions that were put to them countless times, I think George is remarkably gracious.

It's easy to make sly comments and try and pick apart people's characters who you've never met in your life and when you've had zero experience of anything like the kind of insane lifestyle that was imposed on people like those in The Beatles.

Indeed.

Really? How? Examples?

But wrong about Ringo.

scott crocker He wasn't wrong about the Ringo we saw in the late 70s and 80s. Even Starr has admitted his life was a wreck during that time period. His albums were uninspiring and an embarrassment, to the point he was dropped by two labels. Take a look at Ringo's "performance" during the Beatles' induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Obviously drunk, he made a fool of himself. Happily, that all changed when he got sober and stayed that way.

The good he's done far outweighs the bad. All of the Beatles went thru their crappy little phases. I just think the guy gets a bad rap all things considered. Especially considering he was a virtual human metronome on Beatles recordings and rarely screwed up in the studio. John, Paul George & George Martin have all attested to that.