tugmoose Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Napoleon? Sweet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Nice wallpaper. Some nice photos on that site. There's pictures of my Dad as a Ted just like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Tony Margaritatime Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Those are some sweet boots that George has on Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adam2 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 that picture of the guy in his underwear looks just like Nels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 ... the guy in his underwear ...John Lennon in Goons mode, when I liked him best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adam2 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 John? Really? I am convinced that it IS Nels Cline. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 .... the wicked dentist Revealed: Dentist who introduced Beatles to LSD By Ian Herbert Published: 09 September 2006 The Independent Few of those many momentous nights enjoyed by the Beatles at the height of their fame were to have more profound consequences than one spent at an unprepossessing two-bedroom flat near London's Bayswater Place in April 1965. It had been an inconsequential evening of socialising shared by George Harrison, John Lennon, their wives Cynthia Lennon and Patti Boyd and George's dentist, who had just drifted over their social horizon. Then the five, accompanied by the dentist's wife, adjourned from the small dining room to the lounge, where the dentist slipped LSD - a substance then as little known to the Beatles as to most in Britain - into their coffees. The details of George and John's introduction to the sense-enhancing drug have, until now, remained one of the most enigmatic aspects of the band's history, despite 1,000 books on the subject, as has the name of the man described only as the "wicked dentist" by George in the one interview which relates a sense of the event for the Beatles Anthology. In a new book the music writer, Steve Turner, reveals the dentist to be John Riley, the son of a Metropolitan Police officer who, after training as a cosmetic dentist in Chicago, became a dentist to the stars. It was the Beatles' first experience of the drug - one which made the small room of the flat in Strathearn Place "as big as the Albert Hall" according to Cynthia and gave George the impression that he was "falling in love" with everyone he met after later driving the group in his Mini to the Pickwick Club and Ad Lib, near Leicester Square. The experience spawned the surreal lyrics of Help!, which went to number one in September 1965 with declarations such as "Now I find I've changed my mind, opened up the doors" (after Aldous Huxley's LSD-inspired Doors of Perception and "My independence seems to vanish in the haze." From the Revolver album to the acid-induced "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (LSD?) track on the Sgt Pepper album and later rows with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who disapproved of the substance, the experience shaped the band's destiny. Turner's book, The Fab Four: The Gospel According To The Beatles (WJK Press, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Doctor Robert? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Albert Tatlock Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Doctor Robert?Not sure. Maybe that was someone later. AMan might know. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 I think he was an actual dealer they, um, dealt with later on down the road. That was just the first thought that popped into my head when reading the story. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Doctor Robert? He played bass on the "the Ballad of John and Yoko" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 Doctor Robert? An actual real person - you can see him in Ciao Manhattan and read about him in the Edie Sedgwick book. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 If my dentist had dosed me when I was that age, I would have perfect teeth today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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