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Hi, I found this forum by accident while trawling the internet to feed my intermittent attacks of Beatlemania, and it seems just the place! I’m a gen x aussie who played in a bunch of unsuccessful bands in the 80’s and 90’s as a bass player so my terrible opinions come with some musical qualification These days I’m trying to get work as an IT Trainer but I’ve had all sorts of jobs. I spend too much time on the internet discussing politics with younger people in an effort to engage them more than my generation was. I have a son in university but he prefers metal to Beatles pop oh dear.

The Beatles were part of the soundtrack of my childhood but it wasn’t until i was about 18 that I first heard most of their albums on vinyl as distinct units, as opposed to cassettes of The Red and the Blue. Later on I met up with another Beatlemaniac so we could practice our attempts at Beatle harmonies I’ve been through many phases of Beatle fandom, which taught me a lot about the phenomenon of being a fan itself. I was once a fervent Johnnist then a Paulist then a Johnnist again and now I’ve just given up and decided I prefer Ringo to the others A good drummer is very, very hard to find any time. I’ve read a bunch of the books, collected a few of the bootlegs, reissues, remasters etc. I saw Ringo and his band at Festival Hall in Melbourne 50 years after he first played there, which fits for me because the only Beatles record we had in the house was the Australian pressing of Beatles For Sale with the nice big picture of Ringo playing that night!