The Walrus Speaks: Dear Prudence, India

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Dear Prudence, India

by Hector Diego

Prudence Farrow told me Lennon needn't have worried about her sanity, she was just enjoying her meditation and didn't feel like playing with the Beatles.

Now, that's what I call a meditative trance.

2 comments:

derek said...: yet another great john lennon / beatles song. john's answer to "living is easy with eyes closed..." in 'strawberry fields' is to "look around round round" in 'dear prudence'.

all four beatles are great here. john's song and paul playing single notes on the first half of the first verse, then coming in with a more memorable bass line. then george's noodling and chromatic build-up and ringo's simple then very inventive drumming toward the end. music to my ears, music at it's best.; 8:33 PM
Hector Diego said...: I agree, and thanks for that assessment. It was songs like this and Eleanor Rigby that secured the interest and praise of the most die hard, square critic unappreciative of the Beatles.

The Beatles blew them all away, and stayed true to their rock and roll roots to boot.

If any band of musicians becomes as great as the Beatles in the future, it will probably be after all memory of the Beatles is long gone--that is, when all memory of the Roman Empire and Bill saying "that depends on what the meaning of is is"...in other words, in the aftermath of a comet hitting the earth or something, wiping out all civilization and all record of history.

Until then the Beatles rule for a long list of reasons.

Having said all that, I declare that many artists can be as good as the Beatles if we compare any one song to their body of work. For instance, who wouldn't grant that "The Sound Of Silence" or "Like A Rolling Stone" aren't as great as Beatles songs?

But to be as great as the Beatles, one must have as many great songs as they do, and exceed in other categories too.

So, the Beatles rule.; 6:41 AM

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Dear Prudence, India

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