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I had no doubt heard jazz in the air any number of places before I heard The Beatles, and even had a few "obsession" before them (notably Jim Reeves' "Billy Bayou" , Big Joe Turner's "Flip Flop And Fly" * David Seville's "Almost Good", as well as the Muffin CRG records), but it was The Beatles who flipped the ON switch for me and music and left the lights on pretty much to this day. So I've got that shit in my blood just as much as I do anything, probably a little more primally than some toher things, and...just no sense in pretending that it didn't happen the way it did, or that I really don't like it any more, that I gre out of it or something, because that's just not happened and probably never will.

But I can tell you this I know full damn well that Coltrane playing "Transistion" is more of a life-lesson that "I Am The Walrus". But I can also tell you that "I Am The Walrus was a life changer that got me to the point to where the life change that "Transition" brought about was able to be received and acted upon because I was in the mood for life-lesson/life-changing music very much because of The Beatles, and no, I don't know that I would have been so open to change and growth and exploration and just sound if my big light-bulb moment would have been some $ Seasons record, if you know what I mean.

You can't pick where or how you get hit, you just pick how you proceed after you do.

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