You people had cool parents. As a kid, I was going to see the LA Phil and meeting Henry Temianka and Jean-Pierre Rampal.

I was kind of a hybrid. My parents were classical music listeners, but they had a certain appreciation for the Beatles. They didn't listen to it, but they had no objection to us listening to it, so I was exposed to it pretty early and don't really recall a time not having some awareness. Since it relatively ever-present, I had a very murky concept of exactly the time frame. I remember knowing a collection of fragmented facts with no sense of how they fit together to create the history of the band. I knew Lennon had been assassinated, but it took me a while for it to sink in that it was after I was born. I knew the Beatles had broken up because of someone named Yoko Ono (apparently a crazy Asian lady to go by the parodies I'd seen), and if I had been asked, I might have thought about it and put those two facts together and figured out that the latter probably happened before the former.

And the fact that they sang both Twist and Shout AND Lucy in the Sky confused the snot outta me.

I eventually filled in the gaps and have grown to be blown away by their incredible ability to successfully reinvent themselves and stay ahead of the curve. At this point, while I certainly understand that they can't be everyone's cup of tea, but I can't wrap my brain around people who don't acknowledge some amount of appreciation for what they were. The pretty much guarantees that me and them should never talk music.

When I was little, for a short period of time, I had a british nanny (she was around 18),I learned many Beatles songs from her. I remember singing Yellow Submarine as we wandered along Alamitos Bay.

Tonight was British Invasion night in my Rock Music and Culture class. What a timely thread! I don't know much about the Beatles, have only heard a smattering of their music. But I like what I've heard, and would like to know more.

What I really liked about class tonight was learning about Marriane Harris (is that the right last name? I have no clue!). She fvcked all the Stones! Some people in class were like, "That slut!" I'm like, "What the fvck?! She totally rocks! Who wouldn't want to fvck all the Rolling Stones?" For their iconic popularity and bad boy style of course. And I mean the Stones of the 60's, not the Stones now. The video we watched had clips of her being interviewed a few years ago and she was totally demure. You would never have known that she was the Rolling Stone's girlfriend.

I think you may have lived every man's fantasy.

Marianne Faithful. When you look up iconic 60s goddess, there's her photo.

I actually think Jean-Pierre Rampal is cooler than George Harrison. There, I've said it.

And I wanted to see Benny Goodman and the symphony and such, my parent were telling me, where do you get that from and go play on the freeway....

I'll never forget when I got into swing music and related stuff, including the modern bands that emulated them. I played some Squirrel Nut Zippers for my dad and he said "That's my parents' music," with a large helping of Boomer disdain. Heh.

As awesome as the L.A. production of Burrough's Black Rider was, I was so disappointed that it didn't include Marianne Faithful, who was in the S.F. production.

My mother taught me how to ride a motorcycle and took me to see Blazing Saddles and Papillon.