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There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon, and then there are the guys who are brilliant players.

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There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon....


Now, that's quite amazing to me. In what way did John Lennon have "no support?" His aunt, who raised him, encouraged him in everything he did, sent him to art school, bought him a guitar... everybody who met him as a kid told him he was a genius, by the time he was 23 he was one of the most famous people who ever lived, and for the rest of his life was surrounded by fawning sycophants.

I admire and respect John Lennon to the very toppermost of the poppermost, but I don't think you can characterize him as someone who had to suffer or struggle for his art.


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Steve Harris, Stanley Clark, Cliff Burton (RIP) were my role models when I picked up the bass. Now, lots of great bass players out there inspire me to play better.

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pohatu771 wrote:
There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon....


Now, that's quite amazing to me. In what way did John Lennon have "no support?" His aunt, who raised him, encouraged him in everything he did, sent him to art school, bought him a guitar... everybody who met him as a kid told him he was a genius, by the time he was 23 he was one of the most famous people who ever lived, and for the rest of his life was surrounded by fawning sycophants.

I admire and respect John Lennon to the very toppermost of the poppermost, but I don't think you can characterize him as someone who had to suffer or struggle for his art.


Gravity Jim's got a point. John Lennon was supported very much by his Aunt(atleast John had someone to support him seems that his mom died when he was 15 and his dad walked out on him) but I can also see where pohatu771 is coming from: John was disliked by a lot of people and he really seemed to not like Beatles life so much( which made people wonder). Plus, he was a hippie, so he kept doing things and saying things and it got him nowhere but shot!!! He wanted peace, but staying in bed wasn't gonna do anything. It also doesn't make sense that he wanted peace oh so much but he had almost nothing to say about the student riots except pretty much"oh well they're fighting for peace" Yah, well that worked out real well didn't it? I respect John Lennon too, he was a very talented musician, but I really don't get hippies. I read a book on John Lennon and I was so confused. There was this guy named John Sinclair who got arrested for selling 2 joints to an undercover agent and all the hippies went against his arrest because they figured that he was getting arrested just for being a hippie!!! :roll: I think they shot up a couple too many times :? :? :?

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Mrs. Drake Bell wrote:
Gravity Jim wrote:
pohatu771 wrote:
There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon....


Now, that's quite amazing to me. In what way did John Lennon have "no support?" His aunt, who raised him, encouraged him in everything he did, sent him to art school, bought him a guitar... everybody who met him as a kid told him he was a genius, by the time he was 23 he was one of the most famous people who ever lived, and for the rest of his life was surrounded by fawning sycophants.

I admire and respect John Lennon to the very toppermost of the poppermost, but I don't think you can characterize him as someone who had to suffer or struggle for his art.


Gravity Jim's got a point. John Lennon was supported very much by his Aunt(atleast John had someone to support him seems that his mom died when he was 15 and his dad walked out on him) but I can also see where pohatu771 is coming from: John was disliked by a lot of people and he really seemed to not like Beatles life so much( which made people wonder). Plus, he was a hippie, so he kept doing things and saying things and it got him nowhere but shot!!! He wanted peace, but staying in bed wasn't gonna do anything. It also doesn't make sense that he wanted peace oh so much but he had almost nothing to say about the student riots except pretty much"oh well they're fighting for peace" Yah, well that worked out real well didn't it? I respect John Lennon too, he was a very talented musician, but I really don't get hippies. I read a book on John Lennon and I was so confused. There was this guy named John Sinclair who got arrested for selling 2 joints to an undercover agent and all the hippies went against his arrest because they figured that he was getting arrested just for being a hippie!!! :roll: I think they shot up a couple too many times :? :? :?


I think John, who was my hero for many many years, was guilty of being naive. A lot of us were. John believed it was simple....war is stupid. There's no reason we all can't get along. There's no reason why people have to go hungry. He was right.

And he was wrong. You can't teach a puppy to act like a kitten and you can't teach a human to stop acting like a human. It was naive to think otherwise. But it wasn't wrong for him to try or for others to continue trying. Someday the point will sink in or evolution will help us out by changing the way we respond to the world around us.
As for John Sinclair, authorities were using very harsh marijuana laws to crush the hippie movement. Some people were getting life sentences for simple possesion. People fought these arrests because they were ludicris. Shooting up too many times had nothing to do with it. Actually most hippies never even touched a needle.

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Mrs. Drake Bell wrote:
There was this guy named John Sinclair who got arrested for selling 2 joints to an undercover agent and all the hippies went against his arrest because they figured that he was getting arrested just for being a hippie!!!
The protest was because John Sinclair was sentenced to ten years in prison for selling two joints.

That's five years per joint. A bit excessive, isn't it?

Thinking back, John Lennon probably wasn't the best example of someone with no support. What can I say? It was late.


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I would have to say that my guitarists for my inspiration would be Angus Young, Eric Clapton, SRV, and JerryC. (look JerryC up, he's wicked awesome!)

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cryingstrat wrote:
Mrs. Drake Bell wrote:
Gravity Jim wrote:
pohatu771 wrote:
There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon....


Now, that's quite amazing to me. In what way did John Lennon have "no support?" His aunt, who raised him, encouraged him in everything he did, sent him to art school, bought him a guitar... everybody who met him as a kid told him he was a genius, by the time he was 23 he was one of the most famous people who ever lived, and for the rest of his life was surrounded by fawning sycophants.

I admire and respect John Lennon to the very toppermost of the poppermost, but I don't think you can characterize him as someone who had to suffer or struggle for his art.


Gravity Jim's got a point. John Lennon was supported very much by his Aunt(atleast John had someone to support him seems that his mom died when he was 15 and his dad walked out on him) but I can also see where pohatu771 is coming from: John was disliked by a lot of people and he really seemed to not like Beatles life so much( which made people wonder). Plus, he was a hippie, so he kept doing things and saying things and it got him nowhere but shot!!! He wanted peace, but staying in bed wasn't gonna do anything. It also doesn't make sense that he wanted peace oh so much but he had almost nothing to say about the student riots except pretty much"oh well they're fighting for peace" Yah, well that worked out real well didn't it? I respect John Lennon too, he was a very talented musician, but I really don't get hippies. I read a book on John Lennon and I was so confused. There was this guy named John Sinclair who got arrested for selling 2 joints to an undercover agent and all the hippies went against his arrest because they figured that he was getting arrested just for being a hippie!!! :roll: I think they shot up a couple too many times :? :? :?


I think John, who was my hero for many many years, was guilty of being naive. A lot of us were. John believed it was simple....war is stupid. There's no reason we all can't get along. There's no reason why people have to go hungry. He was right.

And he was wrong. You can't teach a puppy to act like a kitten and you can't teach a human to stop acting like a human. It was naive to think otherwise. But it wasn't wrong for him to try or for others to continue trying. Someday the point will sink in or evolution will help us out by changing the way we respond to the world around us.
As for John Sinclair, authorities were using very harsh marijuana laws to crush the hippie movement. Some people were getting life sentences for simple possesion. People fought these arrests because they were ludicris. Shooting up too many times had nothing to do with it. Actually most hippies never even touched a needle.


You don't have to touch a needle to get high, I'm just sayin. And people who were hippies all seem to admit they did drugs at one point in time. I'm not talkin about the people who wanted peace but didn't do drugs, I'm talkin about the true hippie: Love, Peace, and happiness which bassically ment(in my eyes) "I'll just stay home and do it with who ever I wnat to do it with and I'll take drugs, and not go to work" you know stuff like that. I'm not saying they weren't creative people or that 100% of them did drugs, but a lot of them did, and I'm not saying that world peace isn't worth fighting for. Plus, war may not be the greatest thing in the world, but if someone bombs us, then I would really hope and pray that our president wouldn't just stand there and take it. The problem with this country right now is that everyone is so worried about being called a racist, or being politically correct that we tend to not be patriotic anymore, hence, my future Fender Forum signature. Nobody has to agree with me, but that's how I see things, It's just my opinion

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Mrs. Drake Bell wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
Mrs. Drake Bell wrote:
Gravity Jim wrote:
pohatu771 wrote:
There are two types of role models, for me... there are the guys who had no support, but refused to give it up, like John Lennon....


Now, that's quite amazing to me. In what way did John Lennon have "no support?" His aunt, who raised him, encouraged him in everything he did, sent him to art school, bought him a guitar... everybody who met him as a kid told him he was a genius, by the time he was 23 he was one of the most famous people who ever lived, and for the rest of his life was surrounded by fawning sycophants.

I admire and respect John Lennon to the very toppermost of the poppermost, but I don't think you can characterize him as someone who had to suffer or struggle for his art.


Gravity Jim's got a point. John Lennon was supported very much by his Aunt(atleast John had someone to support him seems that his mom died when he was 15 and his dad walked out on him) but I can also see where pohatu771 is coming from: John was disliked by a lot of people and he really seemed to not like Beatles life so much( which made people wonder). Plus, he was a hippie, so he kept doing things and saying things and it got him nowhere but shot!!! He wanted peace, but staying in bed wasn't gonna do anything. It also doesn't make sense that he wanted peace oh so much but he had almost nothing to say about the student riots except pretty much"oh well they're fighting for peace" Yah, well that worked out real well didn't it? I respect John Lennon too, he was a very talented musician, but I really don't get hippies. I read a book on John Lennon and I was so confused. There was this guy named John Sinclair who got arrested for selling 2 joints to an undercover agent and all the hippies went against his arrest because they figured that he was getting arrested just for being a hippie!!! :roll: I think they shot up a couple too many times :? :? :?


I think John, who was my hero for many many years, was guilty of being naive. A lot of us were. John believed it was simple....war is stupid. There's no reason we all can't get along. There's no reason why people have to go hungry. He was right.

And he was wrong. You can't teach a puppy to act like a kitten and you can't teach a human to stop acting like a human. It was naive to think otherwise. But it wasn't wrong for him to try or for others to continue trying. Someday the point will sink in or evolution will help us out by changing the way we respond to the world around us.
As for John Sinclair, authorities were using very harsh marijuana laws to crush the hippie movement. Some people were getting life sentences for simple possesion. People fought these arrests because they were ludicris. Shooting up too many times had nothing to do with it. Actually most hippies never even touched a needle.


You don't have to touch a needle to get high, I'm just sayin. And people who were hippies all seem to admit they did drugs at one point in time. I'm not talkin about the people who wanted peace but didn't do drugs, I'm talkin about the true hippie: Love, Peace, and happiness which bassically ment(in my eyes) "I'll just stay home and do it with who ever I wnat to do it with and I'll take drugs, and not go to work" you know stuff like that. I'm not saying they weren't creative people or that 100% of them did drugs, but a lot of them did, and I'm not saying that world peace isn't worth fighting for. Plus, war may not be the greatest thing in the world, but if someone bombs us, then I would really hope and pray that our president wouldn't just stand there and take it. The problem with this country right now is that everyone is so worried about being called a racist, or being politically correct that we tend to not be patriotic anymore. We're always worried about what the immigrants are gonna think and we always have to make sure that we know THEIR language, when really they should learn OURS. That doesn't mean that I think all immigrants are like that, it's just the ones who come here and expect us to know their language and expect us to not believe in God, but to believe in Allah or whoever that is, just because they're here. I know a lot of people from different races that are really close friends and good people. Nobody has to agree with me, but that's how I see things, It's just my opinion


Well said Mrs' Bell!!!

The theory of peace is great but it will never happen. i DONOT beleive in evolution!! With that being said, if you read the book of Gensis where it talkd about Abram and Sarai you will find when Abram had "relations" with his servent Hagar and had a son Ishmall, this broke the promise that God had given to Abram, and this caused a riff, and Ishmell was the father of many nations,but thes will be no peace in those lands, so until Jesus Christ comes back, there will be no real peace, there will be false peace, but no real peace!!! I am not a doom and gloom, hell fire and brimstone kind of christian, but we are closer the we think. And We need to do somthing about our selves we are going to be in a world of hurt.

I also think that lennon was a genuis, but look at most of the great genuis; in history they where also crazy in some form or another. Look at Van Gogh, Edger Allen Poe, Shakespear. Then look at the demons some of the others have, like Morrison, or Hendrix or Lennon. They all, all of them, fought some form of demon. The old saying is tru there is a thin line between genuis and insanity!!!


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uh, i think my role models are- Synyster Gates, Billie joe Armstrong, and my uncle eddie


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