Oh, my, I am warped enough to find this funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

I don't know .....

You don't know what? You don't find it funny?

I love it. If it is on You Tube...it must be true. Scotty Pippin huh? I thought Ringo Cavanaugh was the 5th Beatle.

Eddie

WEIRD .......
t.

That's JUST how I remember the 70's. I think.
DonM

It is hilarious!

North American humour does not appeal to Europeans, I'm afraid.
I found this uninteresting and at times rather puerile.
(steps aside, waiting for bricks)......

Haha, well, yes, it's pretty crazy. It reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit. (American t.v. show.) I find it totally hilarious. I found myself crying in laughter. It's warped satire about how history gets the facts about something big totally distorted.

Layla In The Sky For The Benefit Of Shaft. That Paul McKenzie was quite a writer.

Well, it's not Jerry Lewis, certainly...

Me I'm from Europe, live in the States, and I thought it was hilarious.

Mind you, the Beatles send-up par excellence was the Rutles project, and that was English!

[This message has been edited by Diki (edited 01-07-2010).]

Synthzone 3000

I wonder...



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Bo pen nyang.

Synthzone 3000 facts report:

* Admin Dnj banned someone named Nigel,
* ScottYee is an African American guitar player, posts rarely,
* Diki is an Canadian Yamaha clinician,
* Ian is English and plays Korg instruments only,
* Taike is Laotian, lives in the Netherlands and is married with a girl named Captain Russ,
* Fran Carango is a die-hard Yamaha fan,
* DonM plays a strange instrument named Golf but only when the weather permits it,
* Gary Diamond is an avid mountain climber living in the midwest and hates the sea ans the sun,
* Bebop cannot drive,
* Trident can play the piano really well,
etc

....Greece has been invaded and conquered by the Cayman Islands.

Lucky likes women again.

Fran has learned to play.....whoops, sorry, that's Synthzone 4000.

Diki has learned humility.......naaa, scratch that one too.

Healthcare is close to being passed.

Osama Bin Laden nominated for Nobel Peace prize.

The South has risen again......however it's 100% occupied by transplanted New Yorkers.

New SZ Administrator DNJ, has just banned himself.

Diki has been named new head of Liontracks.

Chas has successfully combined Hip-hop and Schlager.

Russ has given his entire fortune away.....is shot by wife and kids.

Zuki is still playing nursing homes, but for his room and board.

James and Dom (Liontracks) have just announced their engagement (Diki will be best man).

Rikki owns the rights to all style creation software everywhere and refuses to share with anyone.

DonM beats Tiger Woods in the U.S. Open. Plays his own victory party.....on a nearly-completed Audya.

Tony Hughes is being kept under massive sedation......still waiting for OS4.

enough, enough.

chas

Oh, and SqueakD has a #1 hit on the Country charts. The entire album was done on a BOTL Casio which was purchased from the Clearance section of Toys-R-Us (which happens to be the exclusive distributor for all arranger keyboards).

chas

Wow .... found nothing even mildly amusing about that - couldn't even watch the whole thing. Guess I too much of a fan of the real deal. Glad you liked it!

Perhaps Benny Hill is more to your taste?

It's just another example how different people are. We are all musicians, you'd think we'd see pretty much eye to eye. See, you hate it and I cannot fathom how one cannot find humor in that.

It's satire, but it's also reality. We have learned that much have history has been badly distorted. Facts get all screwed up. That piece has Scotty Pippin, NBA player, as a Beatle. How stupid is that? To some, that is humorous.

It's kind of like the movie, "Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks. Which I found funny but I'm sure some people hated. It's just goofy, silly, sarcastic humor to the extreme. Like the writers are in their writing room seeing how far out can they go with the bit.

Point is, it's another example of why some people love a certain song or an artist and others don't.

I think certain types of humor require a level of sophistication that some people simply don't possess. Like, if it ain't slapstick, it ain't funny (Dick Van Dyke tripping over a chair or a little ol' lady slipping on the ice). Like some people's view of music, if it has more than three chords, it's just noise. That's why pop music is so pop....ular, you can be officially brain dead and still enjoy it.

I know a few people that are too uptight to find humor in anything, but very few of them are musicians. I think recognizing and enjoying good humor requires soul, sensitivity (to the human condition), tolerance (open to other's perception of the world), intellect (the ability to 'get it'), and finally, optimism (you can't see humor through a cloud of gloom and doom).

Obviously this does not apply to everyone. For some, it could just be a matter of taste. Also, just because I said it doesn't make it so . Still, you gotta remember the old saying - Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you, cry, and you cry alone.

chas

Well Chas...
No one can criticize you for lacking a sense of humor. I am still laughing about Donny banning himself. That is a classic.
Eddie

Wow... finally hgot a chance to watch the entire Beatles 3000 YouTube clip and got some good laughs. Like Chas says, this sort of thing requires an appreciation of mockumentary parody style humor similar to these movie classics which I enjoy as well:

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Waiting For Guffman (1996)

Waiting for Guffman Trailer

Best in Show (2000)

Bill, thanks for posting the Beatles 3000 clip.

Scott

Funny to me:
Monty Python
Superbad
Seinfeld (most, not all)

NOT funny:
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Chocolate and Vanilla !

I tried it again - can't get through it.
Why use John Lennon's name, and no one elses?
I'm stumped...but you all enjoy!

Funny is when someone insists that John Lennon starred in "Some Like It Hot". I met one like this once.

Nah, not funny. Just plain dumb!

Regards

Taike



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Bo pen nyang.

LOL! Just had a chance to watch that. I could not stop laughing.
Lets just hope that in 3000 the facts are not that distorted.