I think we've all heard John Lennon talk about a man on a flaming pie or something and said Beetles with an A. I think this is just John's way of being of beat(ha!)ing around the bush.
Beatles most definitely came from the Bohemian culture the Beatles had become part of during their art school days and also through their travels.
Marlon Brando's the Wild One must have been quite popular for the Beatles and other young people living the bohemian lifestyle.As impressive as Brando was as an actor they would have also been impressed by Lee Marvin as well. Lee's biker gang just happened to be called "The Beetles".
Other characters from this era would have impressed the Beatles as well such as James Dean. A lifestyle was either emerging or being revealed.
I've been studying Bohemian Grove and bohemian ways for some time now. I mostly look at music. Take the French Chanson Begone Dull Care. It travels from France(origin of the Bohemian culture), goes to Scotland and then to the West Coast of the United States. Bohemian Grove out in California is full of French, Scottish and other symbolism. Why you have signs in French even. At the Cremation of Care ceremony they play the bagpipes and Begone Dull Care.
Begone Dull Care is also an avant garde animation made by a Scottish artist. This artist brilliantly scratched, painting, and drew on film frame by frame.
Begone Dull Care is the motto or state of mind of the Bohemian no matter where they are. The Beatles certainly became part of this group and no doubt helped them become very successful.
I'm not really sure what goes on at Bohemian Grove. Why I don't even think Alex Jones uncovered much. For all I know he's a member. I suppose there are bad people at the grove who do bad things in the real world but what's good and what's bad is hard to define. You can go to work everyday, pay your taxes and never cuss but does that make you a good person? Why the less fortunate could use your job so they could have a piece of the flaming pie.
I think despite what I've speculated over the years about Bohemian Grove I've always been my own type of bohemian. I don't really want to work or toil away for someone. I prefer playing my guitar and singing under a shady tree, gardening, riding my bike, and playing with my dog.
Perhaps all people who become obsessed with music become bohemians? It's really hard not to be. When you start to create you develop a sense of godliness. You are now creator. When someone comes along and instructs you how to lead your life you want nothing to do with their notion. They can take your body but not your soul you think. Your spirit is free. I think that's exactly what people like the Beatles were after. Some people are just not meant to fit into the rat race.
For me string instruments will always be the perfect tool for expression. I'm currently writing a new album I hope to have released this spring. It will be an avant garde acoustic album.
One of the reasons for releasing Carnival of Light was in hopes of financing my new project. I could really use a better signal chain. By that I mean 1 or 2 nice microphones along with a nice channel strip/mic preamp or 2.
One other thing that would make an album more interesting would be a couple more string instruments I do not possess. I'm not entirely sure what I would use but there are certain instruments I am fond of.
One is the Mandolin. Ultimately I'd love to have a Weber Yellowstone HT but would settle for a simple more available Weber.
Another is the Octave Mandolin. Again I'd go with a Weber. And again although one of the real fancy ones would be nice a simple one would do the job.
Currently I have a nice Classical guitar(pictured), Martin D-28. My sole microphone is a Bluebird by Blue fed into a Joe Meek 3Q mic preamp. I have a convolution reverb plugin as well as other effects if needed.
Mostly I could improve the very cheap signal chain. The 2 instruments would make for a nice thick sound. I do a lot of finger style but love to fire in with the crimson sound of a thick rhythm section. Any patrons of the arts or investors interested feel free to contact me.
On November 16th 2008 I completed a track called Carnival of Light. The track was my response to Paul McCartney lobbying the press to help him release the Beatles' Carnival of Light. In many ways it was a cry for help. You see the release of any new Beatle materials calls for a unanimous vote. Beatle Olivia, Beatle Yoko and Beatle Ringo all said no. So I released my version for countless reasons I shall attempt to go into.
I don't follow ever single aspect to the Beatles. I'm not one of those fans who will argue till they're blue in the face over what Paul had for breakfast back in 1965. An argument complete with supporting evidence that would make even Paul himself wonder if he was alive. So I figured Carnival of Light was on Youtube. I checked it wasn't there so I thought it would be funny if it was added.
My first attempt was a sonic collusion of sorts with out much room to breathe. I thought to myself I was simply trying to hard. I wasn't trying to copy the description I read but rather come up with something else far more mind boggling. I mean I really find it to be anticlimax to sit back and listen to a track and say "Oh there's the Barcelona chant", and oh there's this and that. You might as well swallow a jar of sleeping pills to wake up. So I was striving for something more interesting but at the same time weird or sonic-ally irritating.
What I came up was much better than even I expected. I wanted the track to have many a 1967 Beatles' sound but at the same time sound as if they had found a new drug and went off in another direction. A song that could of, might of been but never was was the emotion I was trying to evoke. All that and more was accomplished.
What else I was trying to accomplish is to infuse a great deal of symbolism. Some of this symbolism is obvious where I paint sonic pictures of beasts or freaks one might find at a carnival. Since this was a carnival of light it could not be literal but instead had to be figurative. Other messages are hidden and I will not reveal them here.
Carnival of Light(my version) had to be be packaged together all nice and tidy. I had no desire to carry on for 13:48 or whatever it was suppose to be. I wanted a digestible piece of music that might make one feel sea sick for a time but for only a spell. Some early Jimi Hendrix songs came to mind along with the works and feelings of Edgar Allen Poe. Many of the early Hendrix songs were nice neat packages full of weirdness. I like that "avant garde pop". Poe felt long stories and worse novels were a waste of time. If you can't spit out the story in a short amount of time you're nothing but a heroin dealer.
So I placed it on Youtube and watched in amazement as it became very popular. Not everyone liked it. There was the loyal royal Beatle guard who were quick to attack. They were quite ready to accept a song they never heard as being better than my "fake song" just because the unreleased Carnival of Light was the Beatles.
I also encountered many a Youtuber who was very open minded and sometimes open mouthed(as they consumed Shrooms and acid to my music)that would say things like "I don't know if this is it but it's incredible" or "I know this is not the real Carnival of Light but it's awesome none the less". I really appreciate these sorts of attitudes and compliments.
Over the course of time numerous others put up their own versions of Carnival of Light. Some were better than others but most were just really bad jokes. Then late last year someone started cutting up my version, mixing it with other songs and calling it "all outfakes mixed in one". This track was distributed across various file sharing platforms under the title Beatles Now and Then Bootleg. Up until about a week ago I had absolutely no idea how widespread this was.
I had not been looking at what was on Youtube for a while now. Then I came across several videos using my track and giving all credits to some Bulgarian with the user name Doregore. Another youtube user TheoneBeatle had the nerve to try and quiz me about my own production! This pimpleheaded 17 year old was going around apologizing to the Bulgarian bastard about reposting "his song". Then I see all these people commenting on these videos and marveling at the sound. Absolutely no credit was given.
I resolved to remove my Carnival of Light video along with all my videos and ask that the content be removed. Their reaction? One youtuber named birdturd405 ignored all requests. TheOneBeatle tried to quiz me about DoreGore. The latter of which proceeded to basically go tell me to F-off. At that point I had no alternative but to have Youtube remove all content.
Now I have begun going after the file sharing sites. A word to the pimple headed teenagers posting that file "all outfakes mixed in one", I'd be very careful. Don't even think for a second you can be clever and rename it. Just imagine how you will be killed by your parents when your internet provider either cancels your service or puts you on SLOWWWWWW.
From the get go I shared my song with the world and the world heard it. Now others couldn't have that and started distributing it and selling it under their own name. Now I have to put a price on it. I have to point out it was my creation. Unfortunate but true.
