MUSCLG 68 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lonnie Donegan, Stuart Sutcliffe, Ringo Starr
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Constraints: what the composers made and what the performers did with it. Knowledge: what we know about musicians, other music, etc. Individual listeners can have different experiences with the same music, due to their own personal internal constraints. Skiffle: performing style popular in the 50s. Tea chest bass for basic bass beats. Ringo was the drummer in the band. March, 1957: john (16) and school friends formed a skiffle group, the quarrymen. Neither john nor his friends knew how to play any instruments but john wanted to form a skiffle group. July, 1957: paul (15) met john, played for him, and joined the quarrymen. Paul was a better musician than all of them. February, 1958: george (14) auditioned, joined in march. January, 1959: john at liverpool college of arts, playing with paul and george (others quit) John and his band attempt to look more professional with ties and jackets.
