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Everett Mills - 25 Feb 2005 17:00 GMT

John Lennon's band while he was in high school was a skiffle band called
"The Quarrymen," AKA "Johnny and the Moondogs." Paul joined the band
and eventually brought in George and they dropped the skiffle tunes and
switched to covers of Everly Brothers, Elvis, Chuck Barry, Little
Richard, etc. This band they renamed the "Silver Beetles," which
quickly changed to "Silver Beatles," to indicate that they played "beat"
music. They dropped silver around the time the started playing for real
money. The rest, as the say, is history.

--EEM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cartlon Shew [mailto:cashew@lapaz.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:29 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: oops - by now very off topic indeed
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> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:57:12 -0000, "Neil Truby"
> <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote:
>
> h the skiffle group "The Spice Girls",
>
> Yet another word vexes those across the pond - "skiffle"? Isn't that
> what the Beatles were described as?
>
> The Beatles and the Spice Girls played the same kind of music?

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Obnoxio The Chav - 25 Feb 2005 19:35 GMT

Cartlon Shew said:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:57:12 -0000, "Neil Truby"
> <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote:
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> The Beatles and the Spice Girls played the same kind of music?

Neil does have a bit of a tin ear, to be fair. Or he wouldn't be listening
to the Spice Girls in the first place.

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Cartlon Shew - 25 Feb 2005 23:36 GMT

>John Lennon's band while he was in high school was a skiffle band called
>"The Quarrymen," AKA "Johnny and the Moondogs." Paul joined the band
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>music. They dropped silver around the time the started playing for real
>money. The rest, as the say, is history.

Thanks for clearing that up.

So, I take it "skiffle" is just another word for crap?

> --EEM
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