"Get Back, Loretta..."

If you know me, you are aware that I have always been a huge fan of this band...

They have been the sound track of my Life... and I have made my kids listen exposed my kids to their music...

Back in February, the 50th anniversary of their initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was celebrated...  The fact that their music is still relevant and sounds good today is amazing.

They had gone separate ways by the time I got to where I could possibly have seen them in concert... but my memory is that they had stopped touring in 1966.... their very last concert on tour was August 29, 1966... just a bit over two years after making it big.

The Beatles

Candlestick Park

San Francisco

August 29, 1966

Anyway...  50 years and eight months after they initially came to the United States, I got to see and hear Paul McCartney perform this past weekend (10/11/14) in New Orleans...  The performance was amazing...

... but as the evening progressed... there was something that became noticeable...

Paul talked a great deal about George Harrison...

George

... and he played...

THIS...

(Click on 'THIS'...)

He spoke so dearly of George... several times... whatever rifts had developed, they must have healed...  prior to the beginning of the concert, there were many different photos shown... quite a few of them were of George.

He also spoke of John Lennon...

John

Paul played a song that he claimed to have written after John's death... and I can't remember the name of it... but he also played this song of John's...

click

HERE...

I think that he and John were in the process of healing their split as well... but I didn't sense/feel the same kind of warmth that Paul expressed towards George...

What was missing... and didn't happen...

was any mention of this guy...

Ringo

Zilch...

Nada...

Nothing...

I found an interesting quote that Ringo made a few years ago about the relationship between he and Paul... 

He said...

"We are as close as we want to be. 

We're the only two remaining Beatles, 

although he likes to think he's the only one."

Ringo seems to be fine with it all...

But... 

it seems he could have acknowledged him somehow...

Anyway... 

My favorite song of the night was this one...

CLICK

For a few hours...

I was a kid again...

"What? Me Worry???"

Alfred E. Neuman

"Jim...

... you worry too much... most of the things you worry about will never ever happen... Those that do, you will handle just fine..."  

~Mom~

Mom

Yesterday, October 8, was Mom's birthday... If she were alive today, she would be 102...  As odd as it may sound to you, I talk to Mom daily... She never says anything that I immediately get, but I sense that she offers directions to me... 

This had started out to be a somewhat humorous post...

... but evidently, I hijacked my own writing.

Imagine that.

Oddly enough...

These all sound like things my Mom would have said to me...

I love you, and miss you...

Each and Every day...