This Wednesday, Everybody Becomes a Geezer

Cidu Bill on Sep 8th 2009

Filed in Amazon, Beatles, Bill Bickel, CDs, Rock Band, music, video games | 33 responses so far

33 Responses to “This Wednesday, Everybody Becomes a Geezer”

  1. Daniel J. Drazen Sep 8th 2009 at 09:28 am 1

    Hey, I happen to LIKE listening to classical music!

  2. Tim Sep 8th 2009 at 09:28 am 2

    You mean, because kids will be rushing to get a game featuring a band that broke up before their parents were born?

    I admit it. I’m a geezer, and I want it.
    (Also, first!)

  3. Tim Sep 8th 2009 at 09:29 am 3

    Aargh! The one time I try it, I got beat out!

  4. Carl Sep 8th 2009 at 11:05 am 4

    OK, I’m clearly missing something. There’s no comic here, and I don’t get the Beatles and Amazon keywords.

  5. Kyle Orland Sep 8th 2009 at 11:06 am 5

    Proud non-geezer and Beatles fan here, who managed to get an early copy of Beatles: Rock Band as part of his job writing game reviews and is LOVING IT so far.

    Just thought I’d rub it in =P

  6. yellojkt Sep 8th 2009 at 11:35 am 6

    I can’t even play ‘Band on the Run’ on Guitar Hero, so Beatles Rcok Band is not an issue. And I’m not about to spend a couple of hundred dollars replacing the Beatles CDs I just rip to 198kbps MP3s anyways just because they’ve been remastered.

  7. Fnord Sep 8th 2009 at 11:43 am 7

    I also see no comic. It looks like the post contains some links to Amazon, but all I get from them is an empty response.

  8. Keera Sep 8th 2009 at 12:56 pm 8

    It’s good to be a geezer! The mono sound box has gotten rave reviews in my neck of the woods so that’s what I want to get.

  9. Keera Sep 8th 2009 at 01:00 pm 9

    A game is the farthest thing from this geezer’s mind. Here, this is what I meant: Mono Rocks More. Rave review elsewhere, too.

  10. Nathan C Sep 8th 2009 at 01:11 pm 10

    You missed Please Please Me and Yellow Submarine….

  11. Heather D Sep 8th 2009 at 01:29 pm 11

    “You mean, because kids will be rushing to get a game featuring a band that broke up before their parents were born?”

    Meh, they were only just barely broken up when I was born. And MY parents kept playing their music, so I still grew up with them — I think most of our generation did. My son is 11 and is a guitar maniac, he can’t wait for Beatles Rockband (although we won’t be able to get it right away). I think it’s an improvement over his steady ubiquitous diet of Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne (two other acts that had their heyday long before HE was born). He is pretty keen on the “classics” — things that were popular when I was his age, and when his GRANDPARENTS were his age… but not as much on the stuff that’s current now. Some of it, yes, but he’s not obsessively playing those ones on his guitar like he does for Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, The Cure, Stevie Ray Vaughn…

    Hey, it’s only the quality stuff that endures through the years like that, so it’s been ‘pre-filtered’, whereas the current stuff is just everything that’s catchy for now. 20 years from now we’ll have a much better idea of whether Lady Gaga is any good at all…

  12. Vroshnak Sep 8th 2009 at 01:29 pm 12

    DO NOT WANT.

  13. Nicole Sep 8th 2009 at 03:15 pm 13

    I think it is safe to say that the content of this site sometimes drifts off topic (gasp)

    All of the Beatles Albums have been remastered and are being re-released on Wednesday … along with a game.

    Bill may be hoping that you will buy the albums through his site so he can continue to amass his fortune and retire to the life he would like to become accustomed to … or he may just be interested in what you have to say about the re-release and the game … or both

  14. Keera Sep 8th 2009 at 03:16 pm 14

    I think both. I thought Bill’s use of ads to describe an event was quite clever. Two birds with one stone. :-)

  15. Tim Sep 8th 2009 at 03:34 pm 15

    Don’t get me wrong; I like the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney wrote some of the best music of all time. However, my wife was born just prior to their breakup, and my daughter is carrying an M16. There are a lot of teenagers who want the game born to parents born post-1974.

  16. Carl Sep 8th 2009 at 04:23 pm 16

    Let me guess. The thing Fnord and I don’t see is an ad, and we use ad-blockers.

  17. turquoise cow Sep 8th 2009 at 07:22 pm 17

    i love the Beatles (and classic rock in general, with a few exceptions), and i wasn’t born until after the band broke up AND Lennon was dead. I’d love to play Beatles Rock Band, but i probably won’t buy it because it’s a lot of money, i don’t have room to set it up in my teeny apartment, and i don’t really play the video games i have. still, if one of my friends or relatives gets it, i’ll try it out. i wasn’t too bad when i tried guitar hero at my aunt’s.

  18. John DiFool Sep 8th 2009 at 08:23 pm 18

    Me want, me can’t afford.

    I was literally weaned on the Fab Four (thanks to the teenagers next door whom I hung out with constantly as a toddler), so their hooks lie deep within me. A Christmas present perhaps. I do have a question-if I want to get their remastered singles (if they exist), what compilation do I get? Very surprised (IOW) that they didn’t put e.g. “Ticket to Ride” on Rubber Soul.

  19. anaceofkidneys Sep 8th 2009 at 08:35 pm 19

    Hey, most of the bands I like broke up before I was born.

    This is not one of those bands however. I despise them and the orgy of commercialism that surrounds everything they do/did. Sir Paul McWifebeater does not need any more of your money, people.

  20. Chakolate Sep 8th 2009 at 09:01 pm 20

    Haha! I’m already a geezer - I beat you all!!

    Actually, they broke up when I was heading off to college. When John got killed I felt like I’d been punched in the solar plexus.

  21. Nicole Sep 8th 2009 at 09:13 pm 21

    Tim — I hope your daughter stays safe wherever she is

  22. Carl Sep 8th 2009 at 09:17 pm 22

    anaceofkidneys, Paul doesn’t get anything. At one time Michael Jackson owned the Beatle’s music rights. I don’t remember who has them now, but unless he bought them back Paul only gets residuals on later music (Wings and solo stuff).

  23. Yaniv Sep 9th 2009 at 12:35 am 23

    CIDU Bill, are you suggesting that Generation Y isn’t familiar with or doesn’t like the Beatles? o.O That would be VERY untrue.

  24. Keera Sep 9th 2009 at 12:48 am 24

    Bill, I’m sure everyone knows The Beatles’ music. It still gets plenty of airplay and the Fab Four also still make the rounds in the media.

    I’m no Beatles fan, per se. I knew of them, but while they were breaking up, I was trying to adjust to life in a foreign country. When I got my own musical independence (via Europe’s Radio Luxembourg c. 1971), it was the solo releases of each member that caught my attention.

    My current interest in The Beatles is fairly new, thanks in part to a wonderful duo in Norwegian radio who gave us our “Daily Beatles” during the course of a year. One song per day, the how and why of it, both musically and personality-wise. It was a fascinating musical journey, biography and history lesson, and gave me a new appreciation for the lads. And it’s why I’m quite curious about the mono collection now being released.

  25. Nicole Sep 9th 2009 at 07:34 am 25

    http://comics.com/off_the_mark/2009-09-09/

  26. Kay Shawn Sep 9th 2009 at 11:54 am 26

    Keera–I’d love to hear that series of “Daily Beatles.” I’m re-reading “Revolution in the Head,” and am enjoying the analysis of each Beatles song, even when I disagree with it. Pick it up. [It’s by Ian McDonald.]

  27. Keera Sep 9th 2009 at 12:22 pm 27

    Nicole, LOL!

    Kay, it’s a Norwegian language show, but you can read a bit about it in English here.

  28. anaceofkidneys Sep 10th 2009 at 11:29 pm 28

    @Carl Nah, Paul McCartney owns all the Beatles songs, at least the ones he wrote. He bought them back from MJ.

  29. Nicole Sep 11th 2009 at 08:08 am 29

    http://assets.comics.com/dyn_file/str_strip/295277/

  30. Keera Sep 11th 2009 at 11:40 am 30

    Nicole, LOL! And truly one for the geezers (even if the youngsters know about Yoko Ono).

  31. Nicole Sep 11th 2009 at 01:02 pm 31

    Thanks Keera — there are lots of Beatles Rockband comics around, but the reference to Yoko made this one particularly memorable

  32. paperboy Sep 11th 2009 at 05:52 pm 32

    anaceofkidneys; Paul doesn’t OWN any of the Beatle tunes, but he gets song-writing and “performance” royalties from the recordings… Now let’s all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born…

  33. Cidu Bill Sep 11th 2009 at 06:04 pm 33

    A few years ago, my niece was taking part in a youth ballet performance and one of the songs they danced to was “Your Mother Should Know” — and it occurred to me that that song WAS a hit before many of these girls’ mothers were born.

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