From: norbertkosky69@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 12:14:41 PM UTC-8, oldernow wrote:   
   > On 2023-12-18, Norbert K  wrote:    
   >    
   > > It's complicated, because the pre- and post-LSD John Lennons    
   > > were two very different people -- as far as personality,    
   > > songwriting, etc.    
   > >    
   > > The pre-LSD Lennon might have been my favorite Beatle, but it    
   > > really is a tough call. Plus, a lot of the best songs were    
   > > true Lennon-McCartney collaboations, with the duo "writing    
   > > eyeball-to-eyeball," as Lennon put it.   
   > No doubt about all that.    
   >    
   > But I'm fine with the pre/post acid John. I'm way older    
   > now than when one of my aunts "learned me the Beatles" in    
   > what was probably 1964-ish, and have certainly been a very    
   > different person and many points along the way. And some    
   > of the differences certainly had degrees chemical influence    
   > behind them.   
   > --    
   > Oldernow    
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   I did my share of all that stuff, too.  However, as his best friend Pete   
   Shotton phrased it, John Lennon turned his life into a "continuous acid trip"   
   -- only to end up surrounding himself with predatory nuts.   
      
   Can you imagine the John Lennon who once labored alongside Paul McCartney at   
   the piano in search of *just that right chord* dribbling a two-chord piece of   
   drivel like "Give Peace a Chance"?   
      
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