Minnesota has the 30 day waiting period thing too. Way back in college, my wife and I applied for a marriage license when we visited her family on winter break and got married at spring break. Luckily, her grandfather is a minister and MN doesn't require a scheduled date (although we could've told them if we had to),…

How else am I going to waste the afternoon on the last day at work before my winter break vacation starts?

That was about Britain's insane 95% supertax that was in effect at the time though (hence the title and the "Haha Mr. Wilson. Haha. Mr. Heath." in the backing vocals, referring to the Prime Minister and opposition leader at the time), not about EMI/Capital taking it.

Yeah, the club in Hamburg stipulated that they had to be a 5 piece, so John talked Stu into buying a bass with money he got for a painting and coming with them. Worked about as well as expected.

Don't they mention in the Anthology TV series that Ringo had filled in for Pete a bunch of times in Hamburg when he didn't turn up?

I find it hard to believe that live versions of even Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand and Sie Liebt Dich exist, let alone other German language songs. None of the Beatles spoke more than rudimentary German and they didn't want to record those songs in the first place, but were forced to by EMI (who hired someone to translate…

Dammit. They are not Randians. Neil Peart had a brief phase where he liked some of her books about 40 years ago and credited them for inspiring some songs. "Anthem" and "2112" are the only two songs that even reference Ayn Rand, and only the former is Randian in the really shitty sense. "2112" is more about free…

Did you grow up in Hocking Hills or Madison County or something? There are little pockets of Amish in Ohio, but like I said, it's a pretty urbanized state.

Yup, おはよう (O-hayou) means "good morning" (actually, more literally, it means something like "early" (with a polite honorific on the front)).

What states would you expect to have them in then? Ohio is decently populated state (7 of 50) with something like 8 (maybe even 10) cities over 100k, several metro areas over 1 million, so plenty of places where there are enough people that you could at least have some small music scenes. There are a ton of bands…

Majel Barrett is a bad example. She was Number One in the pilot, then downgraded to Nurse Chapel (and ship's computer voice) when the studio execs told Roddenberry he could either have the guy who looked like the devil (i.e. Spock) or a woman first officer, but, you know, devil is a bit more preferable. Also she was…

The reason for BoBW pt1 was that Michael Piller (the showrunner at the time) thought he was leaving the show and it would be funny to leave them in an impossible situation on his way out. But then Roddenberry talked him into coming back and he had to figure out how to fix it.

Oops. I was going from memory, but I just listened again (as well as checking sources) and yup, you're right.

That's how Paul ended up playing lead on "Taxman". George just kept fucking it up, so it was suggested that Paul give it a whack and he nailed it in one or two takes. George Martin loved it so much he had them fly it in again at the end of the song.

Lennon is definitely the 3rd. The cycle goes Harrison -> McCartney -> Lennon. George had a nice slow clean country style, Paul was a more rock (see also "Taxman"), and John was so sloppy ( but it somehow generally worked (see also his bass playing on "Helter Skelter", which really shouldn't have worked)) and threw in…

For 25 years he did Guitar Craft classes which have morphed into Guitar Circles. One cool thing is that they use Fripp's "New Standard Tuning", where the guitar is tuned CGDAEG (bottom 5 strings are in 5ths instead of 4ths and the highest string is a 3rd, because it would probably snap if you tried to tune it up to…

They're just reviewing the first season, which they didn't do when it aired.

Memory Alpha is always your friend for Trek questions:

Well, yes and no. It was a ridiculous 3D bullshit interface that Silicon Graphics created to show off the powerful (for the early 90s) graphics cards in their workstations. It only worked on SG Irix (their version of Unix) and no one would actually use that silly thing to do work.

I checked Prime, but was disappointed to see that "Garfield's 9 Lives" doesn't appear to be one of the listed specials. That one is also relatively out there, at least in parts.