Ep. 86 The Beatles Papers, Zoom Fatigue and Other Tangential Topics with A College Student

Welcome to The Modern Moron and we're going to get straight to it as we take somewhat of a deep dive into the Beatles.  My guest is our college student who, due to the pandemic, was plucked from her liberal arts college in New York where she had access to not only the college life and professors teaching art, but also the museums of Manhattan that contain a good deal of the art she is studying.  All of that, gone and put back in her childhood bedroom to study virtually on a series of zoom meetings. But things are looking up.  There's a pretty good chance she'll be going back to school in August and I'm pretty sure she can't wait. We eventually get around to the actual point of the episode which are two papers she wrote in a class on The Beatles: she did one paper on the Song "Helter Skelter" by Paul McCartney on the White Album, and a paper on Geroge Harrison's growth as a song writer and guitarist using one of his earliest songs… maybe his first?  A song called "Dont' Bother Me" on their album "With the Beatles. We also talk about his iconic song "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"  We also do some commiserating about our common … what's the word to use?  Our common craw?  Our common conundrum?  That being the Senator whom she now lives with 24/7 as opposed to being on her own in Manhattan.  So we both vent about him for a half a minute. It's the Beatles Papers, Zoom Fatigue and other Tangential topics on the Modern Moron!  CLOSE: Patty Boyd… she must have been taking some … supplements or something huh?  George Harrison AND Eric Clapton?  We should do a separate episode on Patty Boyd right?   Real quick, the song "Something" by George Harrison you heard was not George Harrison as some of you may have recognized.  As our guest said, "Something" is one of the most covered of all Beatles songs and that was Jeff Lynn of Electric Light Orchestra.  Lynn worked with George on some of his solo work as well as being a member of The Traveling Wilbury's that included George Harrison and Jeff Lynn.  That performance was part of a Grammy's tribute to the Beatles in 2014 and I include it because additional vocals and guitar was provided by George Harrison's son Dahni. Sorry this episode was so long that's what she said but when you have such an interesting guest and subject matter that's what happens.  Thank you for listening and we'll see you next time!