On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:00:40 -0500, cybercat wrote:

> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 09 Dec 2008 03:24:44 GMT, Michael "Dog3" wrote:
>>
>>> Pete C. tossed this tasty morsel into the pot
>>> ter.com:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> December 8, 1980.........Mark David Chapman shot and killed John
>>>>> Lennon in front of his home in the Dakota building in NYC. Da-yam I
>>>>> feel old, I was in college and my roommate and I went into mourning
>>>>> for a week. Who's up for a 'dead spread' in honor of John Lennon.
>>>>> If you were going to one, what would you bring......think not only
>>>>> 'dead spread' but 'beetles' as well. -ginny
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps I'm slightly too young, being just shy of 11 at the time, but
>>>> I was never much of a beetles fan and gave it little note.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OMG!!! We have an infant among us ;-) I was just past 30 at the time. I
>>> wan't a huge Beetles fan as far as the group was concerned but I loved
>>> John
>>> Lennon and Paul McCartney.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> i remember where i was when i found out jimi hendrix had died, but not
>> lennon.
>>
>
> I still love his music and listen to it regularly. The first album I ever
> heard was "Cry of Love," which I think was a posthumous compilation. There
> is something of the sound and motion of the sea in his guitar. I even like
> his vocals.

he also writes better lyrics than he's given credit for.

your pal,
blake