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...quote of John's that I was fond of jelly babies and had written about it in his column. That night we were absolutely pelted...Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on you from the sky. Every now and then one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play. From then on, everywhere we went it was exactly the same...
Harrison's guitar idols had included not only rocker Carl Perkins but also Andres Segovia, and he had worked hard to master an intricate, precise technique (his later experiments with 12-string guitars, not to mention his sitar playing, would be vastly influential in rock music). Now concertgoers couldn't even hear him, and, worse, they didn't care. Harrison, who turned 21 just after that first brief American tour, wondered to the others on the flight home, "How f______ stupid it all is. All that big hassle to make it, only to end up as performing fleas...
...music which manifested itself in earlier songs like “All My Loving” and “Can’t Buy Me Love;” “Something,” his most well-known composition; and the introduction of the electric 12-string guitar, eastern melodies and the sitar to popular music. After the Beatles’ dissolution, Harrison produced a solo album and two hit tracks...
...then there's the Fed, which Wednesday celebrated the 5-year anniversary of Alan Greenspan's famous (if overestimated in terms of impact) speech about "irrational exuberance." If Big Al decides his days of "pushing on a string" and throwing half-point cuts at a recalcitrant economy are over, Wall Street might not take it so well...
...That's particularly dangerous for impressionable types, says Ross, made worse by the absence of any objective analysis or perspective. This is not a situation in which one can just ask a string of questions to a group of learned Islamic scholars. "Which is really too bad," says Ross, "because I'd imagine there would be quite a reaction to some of the Taliban's teachings. So it's okay if I commit mass murder and suicide in the name of jihad? Oh, and by the way, I'd like to visit a strip club beforehand...