Twallk 4 - Yesterday and Today

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Just reached page 666 of The Beatles: The Biography before hitting the library today.  We're up to the Sgt. Pepper's sessions--the album that inspired me to become a musician.  The book is - besides being a kind of passe subject for most people; I hide the cover out of embarrassment (kidding) - EXTREMELY informative.  Best of all, it has revealed the true nature of what it took for the group (and themselves as individuals) to come to a place where they could influence the whole world.  I'd Read Shout!, Strawberry Fields (a Lennon biography) several photo journals and of course everything else I could get my hands onto, before reading this book.  What fascinates me most about history is the trends that are set in motion by small things; a kind of "butterfly effect" for social movements.  It can be bottom-up or top-down, but it always starts with a thought by one person.  All things were once thoughts.  On "Mercy Street" Peter Gabriel sang (please note my emphasis)...

Looking down on empty streets, all she can see
Are the dreams all made solid
Are the dreams all made real

All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebody's head

She pictures the broken glass, she pictures the steam
She pictures a soul
With no leak at the seam

Lets take the boat out
Wait until darkness
Let's take the boat out
Wait until darkness comes

Nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey
Nowhere in the suburbs
In the cold light of day

There in the midst of it so alive and alone
Words support like bone

Dreaming of mercy st.
Wear your inside out
Dreaming of mercy
In your daddy('s arms again
Dreaming of mercy st.
'swear they moved that sign
Dreaming of mercy
In your daddy's arms

It is a song that often haunts my mind.

Then the fire that spreads that thought - evolves it - in the outside world, is not primarily the work of the artist (writer, musician--whatever), but by the SUPPORTERS of those thought-originators.  In the case of The Beatles, it was almost always one phone call, one gift, one chance meeting, one extra effort made by names of supporters and friends who are forgotten now to history, that bridged the gap between lingering artistic inspiration and world wide acknowledgment of those ideas.  Often the Beatles did not fully appreciate just how much other people did for them (besides just buying their records).  I envision a new paradigm in this 21st Century, where everyone (or those who are interested) might rise TOGETHER as a recognized source.  Like a corporation, with folks moving up and down and sideways in the "business" to effect profound change.  The idea bringers could be on a par with the idea makers.  I'm running out of time with this, but I hope to delve into some further ideas of my own along these lines in the weeks to come.  And as always comments would be warmly welcomed.

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