From: JYOB@aol.com   
      
   ....This *Perfect* album by George Harrison always reminds me of the   
   "Good Ol' Days" of 1970 & Xmas Time.  Can't believe it's been *45*   
   Years since this album was released. My buddy's older brother had an   
   apartment within walking/short drive from our neighborhood back in   
   1970 & he had a good job with Eastman Kodak (probably made $6.50/hour)   
   with a MONSTER Stereo system in the apartment.  I wuz on Xmas break   
   from college so we'd always go over there & hang around, drink Genesee   
   beer & smoke weed & Camels.  ATMP was played constantly (along with   
   Frank Zappa's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich").  Well, there wuz a party   
   there every night during the Holidaze of 1970 -1971, the AM radio was   
   always playing "My Sweet Lord" & "Isn't It A Pity" constantly...so   
   "All Things Must Pass" wuz BURNT into my brain as a part of my life   
   circa Xmas Time 1970.   
      
   It wuzn't until a few years I finally purchased the remastered CD & when   
   I played it a FLOOD of memories came rushing back to me.   
      
   Oh, to be young again!  The ol' man used to always exclaim, "Youth is   
   wasted on the young"...now I know what he meant!  Just to go back & re-   
   live one of those crazy nights again.  I'd probably be most thoroughly   
   embarrassed at the "childish" antics going on.   
   One of the BIG "kneeslappers" was to pour beer into the ashtrays(Remember   
   ashtrays....everyone smoked back then when we were "FREE" & not controlled by   
   a buncha hand wringing sob sisters/Nanny State) in my   
   friend's brother's apartment...the only illumination being black lights   
   & color organs & then when some poor soul would put their cigarette   
   into the ashtray........psssst!    Haww...haww...haww  Hee-ger...Always good   
   for   
   a laugh!  I won't even go into about putting Saran Wrap over the   
   toilet bowl!   
      
   The other music I always associate with Xmas time is the Moody Blues.   
   Probably because every Xmas Eve the local BIG FM station (WCMF)   
   starting at 7PM on Xmas Eve would play all 7 Moody Blues albums in   
   order until done.  I remember driving through snowstorms on Xmas Eve   
   over to relatives houses for parties with the MB playing on the car   
   radio.  WCMF kept this practice up until about 1982 when they found   
   out that playing the Moody Blues on Xmas Eve interrupted their nonstop   
   Arrowsmith/Boston playlist so they discontinued it.  Xmas Eve has   
   never been the same.   
      
   Anyway...back to "All Things Must Pass"...a perfect album by George.   
   Not a BAD tune on the album.  Not too many artists can claim that.   
   Too bad everything he did after that really stunk.  It wuz a tuff act   
   to follow.   
      
   Anyway again...enuff ramblings by the drunken OLD GEEZER!   
      
   TOG   
      
   ND:Sierra Nevada Celebration IPA & Ezra F**KHEAD's Kentucky Sour Mash Whiskey   
   NP: All Things Must Pass - George Harrison   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)