MUSI 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Top Ten Club, Brian Epstein, Kaiserkeller
Document Summary
Quiz on jan 26th; midterm on feb 9th. * review* john lennon got connected to his mother again, this time more as a friendship instead of a mother-son relationship. She taught him how to play the banjo. This was when john stopped caring about anything that wasn"t rock and roll. his mother died in a car crash when john was 18. Had no discipline or focus, rarely went to class, he had nothing else going for him. Would probably get diagnosed with a bunch of stuff now a days. 1st trip to hamburg: aug-nov 1960 @ indra club + kaiserkeller, got deported for various reasons. 2nd trip: april-july 1961 @ top ten club, recorded my bonnie with tony sheridan. When they return to liverpool, they"re discovered by brian epstein @ the cavern. Played 264 gigs during 1961 in liverpool alone (2 or 3 a day) - they went from splitting 7. 50 pounds per gig to 15 pounds per gig.
