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I think I've found the wildest piece of music history in existence. So I went to a audio/visual store today, and they had vintage cassettes, and I was amazed to find a Travelling Wilburys one. The Travelling Wilburys were a musical supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. (I've linked their most popular songs, just in case you're not sure who they are.) So I was very excited to add it to my collection. (Side note: it plays great.) Upon opening it up this evening, I was looking at the inside pamphlet, you know, the kind that has designs and track lists and such. And I found an incredible piece of fake lore for the band, which I have typed out (CW for brief racial stereotype):
“The etymological origins of The Traveling Wilburys have aroused something of a controversy amongst academic circles. Did they, as Professor “BOBBY” Sinfield believes, originate from the various Wilbury Fairs which travelled Europe in Medieval times, titillating the populace with contemporary ballads, or rather, were they rather derived from “YE TRAVELLING WILLYBURYS”, who were popular locksmiths during the Crusades used to picking or unlocking jammed chastity belts (rather like today’s emergency plumbers.) Dr. Arthur Noseputty of Cambridge believes they were closely related to the Strangling Dingleberries, which is not a Group but a disease, an unpleasant form of crotch-rot; arguing that a “WILLBERRY” is often used as an expression for a piece of crud found in the crevice of an ancient pair of y-fronts; but I think this can be discounted, not only because of his silly name but also from his habit of impersonating Ethel Merman during lectures. Some have even gone on to suggest tenuous links with the Pillsburys, the group who invented Flour Power. Dim Sun, a Chinese academic, argues that they may be related to “THE STROLLING TILBURYS”, Queen Elizabeth the first’s favourite minstrels, and backs this suspicion with the observation that The Travelling Wilburys is an obvious anagram of “V. BURYING WILL’S THEATRE”, clearly a reference to the closing of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre by Villiers during an outbreak of plague. This would account for the constant travelling. Indeed, many victims of plague and St. Vitus’ dance literally danced themselves to death, and it is this dancing theme that resurfaces with The Wilbury Twist. Not a cocktail but a dance craze, reminiscent of The Wilbury Quadrille made famous at Bath in 1790 by Beau Diddley, and the Wilbury Waltz, which swept Vienna in the 1890’s. One thing, however, remains certain. The circumambulatory peregrinations of these itinerant mundivagrant peripatetic nomads has already disgorged one collection of popular lyrical cantata, which happily encapsulated their dithyrambic antiphonic contrapuntal threnodies as a satisfactory auricular experience for the hedonistic gratification of the hoi polloi on a popular epigraphically inscribed gramophonic recording. Now here’s another one. Tiny Hampton (Professor “TINY” Hampton is currently leading the search for Intelligent Life amongst Rock Journalism, at the University of Please Yourself, California.)"
(I've included links that might help contextualize the jokes/puns/references that I could pick up on.)
HELLO?????? WHICH ONE OF THEM WROTE THIS I NEED TO KNOW
And APPARENTLY, they all had Wilbury personas.
And BEST OF ALL, they named their SECOND ALBUM (which this is pulled from), "VOL. 3". IM WHEEZING.
Absolutely insane to me that George Harrison convinced Bob Dylan to join his fun little band. And then Bob wrote Dirty World for George with lyrics like
If you need your oil changed, I'll do it for you free Oh baby, the pleasure would be all mine If you let me drive your pickup truck and park it where the sun don't shine
and everyone was just like "yep, that's heterosexual".
And then at the end the rest of the polycule joined in with little things they love about George.
she traveling on my wilbury til i'm the greatest musical supergroup ever formed
being a george harrison fan is hearing the most heart-wrenching song and then finding out it’s either about his best friend’s wife or sometimes, like, bob dylan
#for reference
marq's tips for capturing beetles
these were made bc a friend or two mentioned they were struggling to get their faces distinct and so i offered my #thoughts
you arent a better or worse artist for doing any of this, but if you find any of my observations helpful then yay! that's all
seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors
Losing my mind currently over atrocious early Beatles photoshoots… No reason they had to be doing all of this 😭
mclennon is more than a "ship" or "rpf" it is essentially a series of diabolical historical accounts
geooooorge... geoooorgggeeeeeee....
Happy birthday to the Beatle with the best sense of humour <3 🎂
while my guitar cries so hard it throws up
Happy Birthday George Harrison // February 25, 1943.
Happy Birthday George Harrison // February 25, 1943.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE HARRISON ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
George in 1964
Happy Birthday George Harrison [February 25, 1943]
Happy Birthday, George Harrison (b. 24/25 February 1943)
I’m really quite simple. I don’t want to be in the business full time, because I’m a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don’t go out to clubs. I don’t party. I stay at home and watch the river flow. - George Harrison - I, Me, Mine
John made a collage as a birthday gift for George in 1975
Remembering George with gratitude on his what would be his birthday. Thoughts go out to his family and friends.
Footage from VH1.
“I still feel like everybody else, that I’m just growing and learning. Basically, I feel pleased to have discovered this thing that’s inside me, that’s connected to the same thing that’s inside everybody and everything. I think now it’s just a matter of trying to hold onto it and manifest it more and more. If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace.” - George Harrison, The New Sun, 1990 Q: “[W]hat would you like to say to the younger generation that looks up to you?” George Harrison: “Try to realize what the purpose of being in a body is. There is only one purpose really and that is what you have to try to not forget. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?” - MSN web chat, February 15, 2001 George Harrison: “Thank you all! May God bless you all. Don’t forget to say all your prayers tonight. Be good little souls. Lots of Love! George. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)” - Yahoo chat, February 15, 2001
Is this why Beatlemania happened
George Harrison appreciation posts (all pics are from pinterest)
Made a new batch of cards
I think he likes cats
Okay well first of all Princess Gwen x Peter is not Torksmith it’s some other shit. And scientists don’t even know the long term ramifications of its effects yet
John songs be like: there was a holy whale yes he blew me and wailed and I was in my living room goo goo he slapped we with his horny tail
Paul songs: what if I told you I wanted you to come back because baby I miss you with everything in my heart please come back
George songs: I love dig 👍
Paul Mcbeardy, 1969
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY
i have nobody to talk to about this crossover 🥲
George Harrison with Kermit Saturday Night Live on November 20, 1976.
When George Harrison was on Saturday Night Live on November 20, 1976, Jim Henson also had a spot on the show and his Muppets appeared on a regular basis during that season. The opportunity arose for Geroge and Kermit to meet.
