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It's conferences week for me, but en route from Leipzig to Lorsch I had the chance to happily employ my Ipad reading "Photograph", which is an ebook filled with guess whats by one Ringo Starr which yours truly is fannishly enough to acquire. (Also: not expensive and way lighter than the coffee table edition sure to follow.)
It uses the Ebook medium really well, i.e. in addition to the various photos and documents, you get audio commentary from Ringo, which is different from the written annotations, and occasionally there is a little vid. The photos themselves, covering childhood, teenage years, Hamburg, Beatles and 70s, are actually new instead of having been reprinted a thousand times already, and they're lovely, but my favourite item is his pass from the musician's union from 1962. Brian Epstein insisted they'd have to join, and Ringo informs us that the Stones never did ("well, maybe Mick"), which is why, he concludes, the Beatles got the better sessions musicians if they needed them. (Think piccolo trumpet for Penny Lane.)
What I would like to know: do the union membership fees get bigger if your band suddenly takes off and becomes a global phenomenon, and how are the rules about unannounced strikes? This is band history relevant, guys. Enquiring minds want to know.
It uses the Ebook medium really well, i.e. in addition to the various photos and documents, you get audio commentary from Ringo, which is different from the written annotations, and occasionally there is a little vid. The photos themselves, covering childhood, teenage years, Hamburg, Beatles and 70s, are actually new instead of having been reprinted a thousand times already, and they're lovely, but my favourite item is his pass from the musician's union from 1962. Brian Epstein insisted they'd have to join, and Ringo informs us that the Stones never did ("well, maybe Mick"), which is why, he concludes, the Beatles got the better sessions musicians if they needed them. (Think piccolo trumpet for Penny Lane.)
What I would like to know: do the union membership fees get bigger if your band suddenly takes off and becomes a global phenomenon, and how are the rules about unannounced strikes? This is band history relevant, guys. Enquiring minds want to know.
