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Basilides
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John Lennon
#5969183 - 08/16/06 11:18 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why does John Lennon get so much reverence in the counter culture. I just that he and another Beatle once mugged someone at gun point for the fun of it.
Doesn't sound like a very friendly thing to do. I was mugged once at gun point and I thought that was the night I was going to die.
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koppie
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Re: John Lennon [Re: Basilides]
#5969185 - 08/16/06 11:22 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lennon was just keepin' it real. He was the original gangsta.
Any sources to back up that claim? Sounds like a fun read.
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CosmicFool
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Re: John Lennon [Re: koppie]
#5969259 - 08/16/06 11:48 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have a dvd about Pete Best... and they mention mugging somebody... it also tells a story about pissing off a church onto a nun... but I don't remember which Beatles took part in either act
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kake
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I think a big part of it was that he was apart of the most popular and arguably greatest band in the world, and he spoke freely and fondly of acid - I'm sure that was the convincing factor for people who weren't necessarily your all out free-spiritted flowers-in-the-hair types to go ahead and try acid?
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Disco Cat
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Re: John Lennon [Re: kake]
#5970278 - 08/16/06 05:58 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Paul McCartney owned him at songwriting, but John was more full of himself, and I think people latch on to that without thinking about it. He did a lot of artsy stuff basically for the sake of being artsy, with a tad of meaning behind it. People buy into that stuff too. Basically in the environment he was living he convinced himself he must be a genious, but due to that descicion was prolly a little more on the mad side.
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QuantumMeltdown
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Re: John Lennon [Re: Disco Cat]
#5970443 - 08/16/06 06:29 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Im more of a fan of Paul and also think alot of Johns solo works suck I said alot not all though.
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