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Date Posted: 04:38:37 12/17/03 Wed
Author: GG
Author Host/IP: 62.254.32.5
Subject: I've actually had sort of the same thing happen to me...
In reply to: wwolfe 's message, "wwolfe's Morbidly Curious Question of the Day" on 15:52:21 12/16/03 Tue

one night on 580E, with my sister in law, we got stuck in a HUGE back up. Eventually the CHP had everyone turn around and go back the other way and off an on ramp. Same situation, an 18-wheeler jacknifed into the middle of the road. The best was the message my SIL left on her work machine (it was like 1a by the time we got clear of the mess) "Hi, its me, I'm gonna be in late tomorrow cuz I'm heading W on 580E and about to go off the ramp that leads on from the zoo"

It was very surreal.

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[> hey wwolfe, saw this news item thought it might interest you -- Simon, 05:46:24 12/17/03 Wed (193.61.148.113)

no idea how valid it is but anyway

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12953019,00.html

DID THE BEATLES REUNITE?

An internet auction house claims to have proof that The Beatles reunited in secret in the mid-1970s in an attempt to record a final album.

The website is auctioning a recordings list and tape, said to have been made at a session in 1976 which ended in a dispute between the Fab Four.


New York-based Curator Gary Zimet claimed that John, Paul, George and Ringo recorded five songs at the Davlen Studios in Los Angeles, but never released them.

While the tape label, listing the songs Happy Feeling, Back Home, Rockin' Once Again, People Of The Third World and Little Girl, is intact, the tape itself was said to be "bulk erased" by The Beatles because the session ended in a row.

A complete version is still being held in vaults at Abbey Road Studios in London, he said.

Mr Zimet said the former co-owner of the LA studio, Len Kovner, and sound engineers could "independently confirm" that the session took place.

He quoted a letter from Mr Kovner which said the recording session was a "failed attempt to reunite" The Beatles.

"This tape deserves its place in rock archives.

"The only copy is in a vault in Abbey Road," the letter said.

But a spokesman for Paul McCartney said: "What reunion was that? I am not aware of any Beatles reunion in the 70s."

A spokesman for producer and "fifth Beatle" George Martin could not be immediately reached for comment.

Abbey Road had no immediate comment.

Last month the same website - momentsintime.com - put on sale an album cover signed by John Lennon for Mark Chapman, the man who later shot him dead.

Mr Zimet said the new Beatles specimens were being sold by a former engineer at the LA studio.


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[> [> I hadn't seen that. -- wwolfe, 11:29:49 12/17/03 Wed (161.149.63.106)

It's not impossible that such a thing happened, but I'm skeptical. John was immersed in his househusband years by 1976, so I'd be surprised if he'd taken time away from that to go to LA for an extended time while working on an album. Not to mention the difficulty in keeping such an undertaking out of the press. But stranger things have happened. (And I have to say I'm glad the boys called it off: the Beatles ended when they should have and any serious reunion would have been a mistake.)

Thanks, Simon - I'm glad I had a chance to see this.


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