Why was Sgt. Peppers such a huge album?

[drew]

McCartney's show was the highlight of the game for me (well, that and all the former LSU players who walked away with a Superbowl ring). A real class act, much better than the halftime shows of the last few years.

[booker]

I wonder what the "real" Paul would think about all of this.

[hookstownbrown]

I heard he is living in Paraguay as a monk. They don't watch tv so, unfortunately, he'll probably never know...

[drew]

Did you notice that Paul knew how to be entertaining without crotch-grabbing, wardrobe malfunctions, humping the mic stand (or anything else), he didn't even have to use foul or obscene language to get the audience to like his show.Go figure.Maybe I should stop doing all that at my gigs.

[mani]

The thing I'd like to know is this: Would there be outrage if he did show his nipple? I bet ya nobody'd bat an eyelid coz it's a guy.

[booker]

Yeah Drew...I bet at those Christian gigs "humping the mic stand" doesn't go as far as it used to. BTW..how do you...where do you...oh never mind!

[mani]

I think you need one of those special adapters Rock!

[hookstownbrown]

Quote:I think you need one of those special adapters Rock! Probably need breast implants, too, for maximum effect...

[booker]

I wonder if John Lennon would have eventually gotten breast implants? He was always so sensitive.

[gongchime]

I was reading a scholarly article about complexity. It basically said that successfully creative people have personalities that love complexity, so they're able to crank out all this different stuff. However, complexity is not the same as popularity. The Beatles, it mentioned, got less and less popular, the more complex they're music became. The most popular music, they said, tends to have a moderate amount of complexity, not more or less. I read a related article on music perception/psychology which mentioned that well formed rhythms (what people expect to hear) have 2-6 events per 5 seconds (that must be the parameters for a moderate amount of complexity in that musical dimension). The tempo 100 beats per minute is in the center of the perceptual field (moderate complexity?). Scales also have well-formedness. They usually have 5 or 7 notes, not 4 or 6. 5 is a bit simple, the chromatic is a bit complex so, we mostly like 7 even if some of the notes are microtonal but most people are having none of this 31 divisions of the octave stuff etc... that computer music programmers are spewing out.The song Strawberry fields is interesting because it uses Chromatic mediant and Neopolitan chord progressions from a bunch of guys that never had classical training. They discovered that stuff on their own with their ears and found a place for it in a pop song when they were still relatively young. Thats genius. Gongchime. P.S. I paid for Broadjam, you'll be able to hear my gamelan soon I hope. Unless my check got lost in the mail.