Reverb

When the white people come, there will be as many of them 
as there are “leaves of grass” - American Indian saying

I do the rock, “I do.. I do.”  - John Lennon 1980 Rolling Stone Interview

The Truth is revealed,
about the Beatles 1957 concert in Roswell New Mexico
At Last! 

The Beatles were not very good until they played in Hamburg
When they returned to Liverpool the sign said “Direct from Hamburg”
The local girls could not figure out how they spoke English with no accent.
In “Nashville”, the killer is stopped by a soldier played by Scott Glenn
Robert Altman built the movie around two Keith Carradine songs 
“It don’t worry me”, and “I’m Easy”
Keith Carradine never recorded any other songs.

Scott Glenn was commander of the USS Dallas in “Hunt for Red October”
In 1963 in Dallas there was a man on the street holding an open umbrella
In “Animal House” during the parade one of the students is wearing a trench coat
and holding an open umbrella.
Spies sometimes had to get off the street for a few hours.
The best place to get off the street was a movie house.
The only movie houses that were open all the time were porno houses.
Dark trench coats hide stains the best.
I don’t believe it when they say  they were playing a John Wayne movie when Oswald was arrested.
The arresting officer passed away in January.  He said Oswald was carrying a .32 
Oswald pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger.

The cop grabbed the gun.  A .32  He waited for the bullet to enter his chest
But the gun didn’t fire.  His thumb stopped the hammer.
The killer in Nashville was a Hells Angel from Columbus Ohio
The Jefferson Airplane used a plane named “Hells Angel” in one of their album covers.
The waist gunner in the picture is named John Kennedy, a different one.
Captain Warren’s crew from the 390th Bomber Squadron
Howard Hughes made a movie about WWI pilots called “Hells Angels”
Robert Redford played a pilot in the movie “The Great Waldo Pepper”
The test pilot for the Waco aircraft company was named Pepper Martin.
Robert Redford played Major Wood in “A Bridge too Far”
He should have gotten an Academy Award for inventing this character.
Robert Duvall reused the exact same personality in “Apocalypse Now”

The original posters for Woodstock said “White Plains”
Lately people have been saying Bob Dylan had a house in Woodstock.
The Peanuts character Woodstock did not appear until the next year.
In “Butch Cassidy” the opening scene is a parody of US policy in Vietnam.  
We won’t leave until they ask us to stay.
Sundance couldn't shoot if he was standing still.  Butch couldn't shoot at all.
“Who are those guys?” “Why don’t they want to actually catch us?”  “Are they getting paid by the hour?”
“Butch” Cassidy might have been a woman  - “The congenial desperado”
Butch and Sundance liked to start wild rumors about themselves.
Then they would sit back and laugh.

Near Marietta Ohio back in the hills is a nice old hotel called Sundance’s Place.  
No kidding.  Really.  The sign says “No Kidding”
Green River Utah was one of their early hideouts.  
Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote a song about Green River.
In Green River people say CCR had a breakdown there, and stayed the whole summer.
In “A Bridge too Far”, the British Major carries an umbrella to scout out the bridge.
He explains that he didn’t want to get mistaken for a German
No German would ever carry an umbrella.
When the Maharishi went to England he had someone carry his umbrella
The Maharishi said the Beatles were great and meditation would make them better.
“It is good for the British intelligence to be used in this way.  British are intelligent.  British Intelligence. Good.  Brr har. Humbug.  Rudyard Kipling.

During WWII the staff buildings for OSS were in temporary buildings where the Vietnam Memorial is now.  
The main headquarters was in Q building.
The bus line that passed that way was the X-2 bus.
Most of their trick devices were dangerous, especially on a bumpy  road.
Jim Garrison was a small plane pilot in France during the war.
Jimmy Stewart played a small plane pilot in “Battle of the Bulge”.
Danny Glover played a small plane pilot in “Bat 19”
Gene Hackman played a radar scientist who played golf.
In “the Right Stuff” Scott Glenn played the first golfer on the moon.
Buzz Aldrin was the first soldier on the moon.
Neil Armstrong was the first Ohioan on the moon
Jack Schmitt was the first non-pilot on the moon, but they let him help fly the lunar lander.

Gene Cernan is the guy who was on the moon most recently.
Cernan’s parents were immigrants from Czechoslovakia.
Before he was an astronaut Cernan was trained to drop a nuclear bomb on a factory in Czechoslovakia, and he would have done a good job if they told him to do it.
The Wright Brothers left Ohio for Kitty Hawk because the neighbors were making fun of their airplanes.
Robert Goddard left Massachusetts because the neighbors were making fun of his rockets.
Robert Goddard moved to Roswell.  The Wright Brothers moved to Kitty Hawk.
The Frisbee was perfected in San Luis Obispo.
One of the inventors was a military pilot named Fransciosi.
The hard part was getting the skirt done right.  
The outer part needs to curve, the inner part needs to “toe” in
Hovercraft became popular in the early 1960’s on the English Channel
Hovercraft don’t spin. Frisbees hover.

Robert Goddard lived near the Mescalero Apache Indian tribe.
The Wright Brothers were Baptists.
Goddard painted in watercolors as a hobby, so did moonwalker Alan Bean.
Abraham Lincoln was raised Baptist.
The Donner Party came from Springfield Illinois, where Lincoln was living
At Lincoln’s house there is an abalone shell that he owned, someone sent him from the Pacific Ocean
In the Beatles movie “Yellow Submarine” one of the characters is “Fist”
When spies imitate someone sending Morse code, its called their “Fist”
The most famous poster for Woodstock shows a guitarists “Fist”
Keith Carradine did not play at Woodstock. The Jackson Five did not play at Woodstock either.
Before Michael Jackson invented the moonwalk he was famous for wearing one glove.
That guy on trial in California can’t sing like Michael.
That guy on trial in California can’t dance like Michael
That guy on trial in California doesn't have any hit records like Michael.
He’s probably just some white guy they are paying minimum wage to live in that house.
Michael probably had a sex change back in 1987, now he goes by the name “Janet Jackson”
You couldn't get a sex change until about 1965 or so, not on this planet. 
What an awful predicament if you were someone like Butch Cassidy.
The Woodstock poster has a bird on it.
Footprints from the roadrunner bird resemble a peace sign.
In Las Cruces New Mexico there is a giant statue of a roadrunner on a hill west of town. Okay?

Snoopy’s cousin spends a lot of time in New Mexico
Woodstock and Snoopy both are aspiring writers.
Originally “Woodstock” was known as a brand of typewriter.
Roswell was not known as a UFO capital until the 1980s
There used to be 11 Atlas ICBM missile silos within 25 miles of Roswell.
Two missiles exploded in their silos but no one was killed.
The first tunnels under Berlin were dug toward the east.
The CIA was trying to tap the East German phone system.
They dug practice tunnels in New Mexico.
After the Russians built the wall hardly anyone dug toward the east.
But the Russians still put microphones in the ground.
Anyone digging near Roswell is likely to find something - anything.
The Berlin Wall was a standard construction anti-tank defense.
In 1961 President Kennedy sent more troops to Europe
as a show of our support for being ein Berliner
After that German and Russian generals started building the wall.
You put up a fence to keep me out, but to keep mother nature in.

The last big piece of news before the 2000 election fiasco 
was the sinking of the Russian submarine the “Kursk”
We used to send our submarines near Russia to tap their phones.
In the James Bond movie “Moonraker” there is a giant ship for salvaging submarines.
Howard Hughes built the “Glomar Explorer” to do this for the CIA.
“Glomar Explorer” was still secret when “Moonraker” was made.
How hard would it be to send a space shuttle orbiting the moon
and take some pictures of the landing sites.
There was an American sub lost in the Atlantic, near Morocco
The continent of Atlantis is named after the Atlas Mountains, in Morocco.
In the movie “Bridge at Remagen” a little girl has to leave her doll behind 
The doll looks exactly like the one on the Sgt Pepper album cover 
On Sgt Pepper the doll’s dress says “Rolling Stones” 
A band called Ultra Vox sang about “tapes you leave behind”

Angie Dickenson was supposed to be one of President Kennedy’s girlfriends.
The German Commander at Remagen disobeys orders and does not destroy the bridge
He believes he can help rescue five divisions of German troops if he does not destroy the bridge.
There never were five divisions of trapped German soldiers.
The actor later plays the spy “Napoleon Solo” in the “Man from UNCLE”
Harrison Ford played Han Solo in “Star Wars”.  Han is a Vietnamese name
Five Divisions is what the OSS wanted him to believe.
The wookie was played by.....
The German word spuk, or spook, or spock means “ghost”
Glitch comes from the German word ”gleichungen”
Those two Keith Carradine songs are really really good.
The only other good song was called “Bluebird”
George Harrison’s friend Leon Russell had a hit song called “Bluebird”
Laugh-In used to give a bluebird of happiness prize
to the defense contractor who wasted the most money.
May the bluebird of happiness fly up your nose.

The CIA built a really fast plane called the blackbird
Before Roswell was famous the Air Force used to record UFO sightings in a “Blue Book”
Now they just make fun of you.  
What you can do is move to San Luis Obispo
On WKRP they had an episode about the fact that turkeys can’t fly
The song in Nashville is about wanting to fly like a bluebird.
Leon Russell’s bluebird refuses to come back.
Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati
Jaws is a remake of Moby Dick without the tattoos.
ET is a remake of Casper the friendly ghost, with goggles.
Frank Ryan was the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns
He had a PhD in nuclear physics
There is a mathematician in Kansas who wrote a book about elliptical
Riemann integrals of the second and third kind.

Roger Staubach was the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.
The entire team once went to Roswell to make a movie
No Kidding.  The whole team.
Danny Glover was not in Star Wars. Alan Bean died in a motorcycle accident
John Fogarty was sued by his old record company for sounding too much like CCR
In 1964 George Harrison said his favorite music was country and western
Ringo had four number one hits after the Beatles broke up in 1970.
Paul McCartney wanted to go to Nashville in 1972
Paul McCartney has a marijuana arrest on his permanent zapiska
“Wings Wild Life” refers to growing your hair long, not airplanes.
Talking Heads wrote a song about Wild Life
Paul finally made it to Nashville and nobody cared.

The Beatles wrote a song called Hey Jude
Steam re-wrote it better, called Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbye
The Beatles wrote a song called Long and Winding Road
Guess Who wrote a lyric called “making rhymes of Yesterday”
“The road is long, with many a winding turn”
The Q Secrets were given to the Russians back in the 1960s
A double agent named Donald McLean gave away the secrets.
Don McLean wrote “American Pie” in 1972.  
He said it means he doesn't ever have to get a job.
So Bye Bye.  Popeye.  Everybodies talking ‘bout.
You can’t take it with you.

I think that proves to just about anyone’s satisfaction that the Beatles did actually play in Roswell, in ‘57, and it has all been hushed up since then.  People were just afraid to speak up before.

Thanks for being patient.
greg utrecht 3-18-05