Ringo: So Far Away, But It Looks As Though . . . by Rani Solhaug

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Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 16, 2013 at 8:39am

Dr. Robert was written about a NY 'Dr. Feelgood' who handed out medication to make people happy. There is a lot of speculation as to the true identity of who Lennon and McCartney was really singing about — they purported that he was a real doctor, but they just changed his name to 'protect' his identity. According to wikipedia, the real doctor's name was Dr. Robert Freymann, but Robert Fraser, a gallery owner, was also a supplier of hallucinogens to many of his famous friends, including the Beatles. Whoever the real Dr. Robert may be, my comment aimed at the use of mind-altering substances and their influence on the lads' outlook on possible musical directions.
Definitely not Dr. Leary [definitely as in I'm pretty sure, not]. For Leary, listen to the Moody Blues' Legend of a Mind. But that's a whole different conversation.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 16, 2013 at 1:18am

Damn, I'm slipping. "Right place, wrong time" is Dr. John, not Billy Preston.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijx17Wv-1-Y

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 16, 2013 at 1:10am

Fascinating, I think we now have the Fab Four at about 10 people, and those contributions are all well documented. And don't overlook the obvious that Yoko Ono had an impact.

 

Yeah, Billy Preston: "I was in the right place, musta been the wrong time..."

 

KS - Who is Dr. Roberts? I always thought Dr. Mad Max Jacobson, but as all the new stuff comes out, the connection grows fainter. Tim Leary?

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 15, 2013 at 5:45am

Did I go off topic? Yes, I went off topic . . . oh my . . .

Don't forget Dr. Roberts . . . he had a very pivotal influence on the lads . . . never had a signed picture of anyone of note; but John W. Snow's signature is on this portrait of Andrew Jackson [see, I'm holding it up against the computer's camera, can you see it?] But I don't think Mr. Snow had anything to do with Jackson's career.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 15, 2013 at 5:30am

And go back to the early Hamburg days (and Stuart Sutcliffe) and the important role of Astrid Kircherr.

(Tell your glass onion that I once had a signed Kircherr limited edition photo of the Beatles in Hamburg, but in a mad rush of paternal beneloence I gave it to my daughter and her bloke when they moved into their new house)

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 15, 2013 at 5:23am

And don't forget the Indian musicians that played on Within You, Without You . . . no Beatles there other than George.

Okay, again — yarp . . . time to go water my glass onion.

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 15, 2013 at 5:17am

Don't forget Billy Preston and George Martin . . . George Martin above all others helped those four guys find their footing . . . then there were the multitudes of studio musicians that never received credit for their contributions — Billy Preston was the first, and only, musician to get credit for his work with the band while they were a working group [perhaps not functioning, but working] . . . even though everyone knows Eric Clapton played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps . . .

Yarp. Time to go sweep the walk.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on November 14, 2013 at 11:37pm

And there is Pete Best's Lonely Heart's Club (not to mention Stuart Sutcliffe). The Fab Four - all 6 of them.

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 14, 2013 at 9:42pm

Still, Ringo is cool and the Beatles would most likely not have been what they became without him. It was a matter of personalities clicking and eventually clashing.

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 14, 2013 at 9:41pm

Yes, I know of that quote, and also know that he was referring to Paul being the better drummer.

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