RE: oops - by now very off topic indeed
John Lennon's band while he was in high school was a skiffle band called "The Quarrymen," AKA "Johnny and the Moondogs." Paul joined the band and eventually brought in George and they dropped the skiffle tunes and switched to covers of Everly Brothers, Elvis, Chuck Barry, Little Richard, etc. This band they renamed the "Silver Beetles," which quickly changed to "Silver Beatles," to indicate that they played "beat" music. They dropped silver around the time the started playing for real money. The rest, as the say, is history. --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: Cartlon Shew [mailto:cashew@lapaz.com] > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:29 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: oops - by now very off topic indeed > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:57:12 -0000, "Neil Truby" > <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > > h the skiffle group "The Spice Girls", > > Yet another word vexes those across the pond - "skiffle"? Isn't that > what the Beatles were described as? > > The Beatles and the Spice Girls played the same kind of music? > sending to informix-list
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:00:45 -0600, "Everett Mills" <eemills@nationalbeef.com> wrote: > >John Lennon's band while he was in high school was a skiffle band called >"The Quarrymen," AKA "Johnny and the Moondogs." Paul joined the band >and eventually brought in George and they dropped the skiffle tunes and >switched to covers of Everly Brothers, Elvis, Chuck Barry, Little >Richard, etc. This band they renamed the "Silver Beetles," which >quickly changed to "Silver Beatles," to indicate that they played "beat" >music. They dropped silver around the time the started playing for real >money. The rest, as the say, is history. > Thanks for clearing that up. So, I take it "skiffle" is just another word for crap? > --EEM > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cartlon Shew [mailto:cashew@lapaz.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:29 AM >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: oops - by now very off topic indeed >> >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:57:12 -0000, "Neil Truby" >> <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >> >> h the skiffle group "The Spice Girls", >> >> Yet another word vexes those across the pond - "skiffle"? Isn't that >> what the Beatles were described as? >> >> The Beatles and the Spice Girls played the same kind of music? >> > > >sending to informix-list