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Spring 2002 | Vol. 12, No. 2 |
The Americanization of Irving Berlin |
by Stefan Kanfer |
It is supremely fitting
that God Bless Americathat stirring hymn to patriotismhas become our
unofficial anthem in the aftermath of September 11, since the life of the
legendary New York songsmith who penned it, Irving Berlin, born one Israel
Baline in 1888 in distant Siberia, epitomizes everything about Americas
indomitable civilization that our terrorist enemies despise: its openness
to striving and talent, its freedom, its inexhaustible optimism and
Balines amazing American success story began when he stepped onto
Ellis Island in 1893, on his way to Gothams teeming Lower East Side, the
eyesore of New York and perhaps the filthiest place on the continent,
according to the New York Times of the era. However dirty and poor,
this Jewish ghetto was incubating an American renaissance that would
produce legislators, merchants, professionals of all stripesand Irving
Berlin. Berlins family was too poor to provide piano lessons, let alone a
piano; Berlin would remain musically illiterate. His father, Moses, a
cantor, gave him a love of melody and a quick wit, but that was about all
he could afford. To supplement the familys meager income, Israel, more
fluent in English than his parents and five older siblings, haggled with a
nearby junk shop. I used to go there selling bits and pieces of an old
samovar that my mother had brought from Russia and kept under the bed, he
once recalled. Id get five and ten cents for the pieces and kept selling
them until the entire samovar disappeared.
Berlin understood the value of hard-earned money from early on. Hawking
papers on a downtown pier in 1901, a 13-year-old Israel had just sold his
fifth copy of the New York Evening Journal when a loading crane
swung into his path, knocking him into the East River. Fished out just in
time, he was given artificial respiration and packed off to Gouverneur
Hospital for further ministrations. An hour later, as the young newsie
slept, a nurse pried open his clenched hand. In it: five copper coins. He
remained tight-fisted for the rest of his 101 years. Shortly after Israel was bar mitzvahed, Moses died, and the
following year young Izzy left home and school to try his luck at street
singing. Sans education, but brimming with aspiration and besotted with
the street sounds and street language of the town he would never leave for
long, the teenage Berlin plied his trade along the Bowery and the Lower
East Side. He soon got a regular gig at the roughhouse Pelham Café, doing
ribald parodies of popular hits. The salary was meager, sure, but the café
provided a piano and a place to hang out. He taught himself to play a bit
by ear, amused the rowdy crowds, and picked up small change. A colleague,
Jubal Sweet, remembered the young Berlin moving around easy, singing all
the time, every time a nickel would drop, hed put his toe on it and kick
it or nurse it to a certain spot. When he was done, hed have all the jack
in a pile, see?
As the pile grew, Izzy kept his eye open for the main chance. It came
in 1907, when a song in an Italian dialect, My Mariucci Take a Steam
Boat, swept through the saloons. Collaborating with a melodist, Izzy
wrote the lyrics for Marie from Sunny Italy, to be performed with the
same Neapolitan intonation:
Please come out tonight my queen The riffraff made Marie a hit. Spurred by its success, Izzy Baline
changed his name to Irving Berlin and began to write more songslots more.
After all, if one ditty could earn a few coins, perhaps a hundred would
make him rich. Berlin set to work, 18 hours a day, seven days a
week. Right from the start, he shattered conventions. By contrast with
the popular songs of his time, which used stilted language and wooden,
overly refined images, Berlin resolved instead to use the rude wit and
terse phrases of everyday speech. Three-fourths of the quality which
brings success to popular songs is phrasing, he later noted. I make a
study of itease, naturalness, every-day-nessand its my first
consideration when I start on lyrics.
One early effort perfectly encapsulates Berlins marvelously creative
economy with words. Berlin took off from an actors offhand remark that he
was free for the evening because my wifes in the country. Now, the
usual and unsuccessful way of handling a line like that, Berlin said, is
to dash off a jumble of verses about the henpecked husband, all leading up
to a chorus running, well say, something like this:
My wifes gone to the country, Needlessly wordy and flat, thought Berlin. All night I sweated to find
what I knew was there, and I finally speared the lone word, just a single
word, that made the songand a fortune. Listen:
My wifes gone to the country! Hooray! That word gave the whole idea of the song in one quick
wallop, enthused Berlin. It gave the singer a chance to hoot with sheer
joy. It invited the roomful to join in the hilarious shout. He concludes:
And I wasnt content until I had used my good thing to the limit. She
took the children with herHooray! Hooray! Berlins early lyricsnow increasingly wrapped in melodies of his
own inventiondepicted the world of immigrant New York that he knew well,
especially that of the avidly assimilating Jews. Sadie Salome concerns a
young lady who takes to the stage, much to the consternation of her
sweetheart, Moses:
Dont do that dance, I tell you, Sadie, Business Is Business explored the humorous crossroads where avarice
and amour meet:
Business is business, Miss Rosie Cohen, Years later, Berlins contemporary Groucho Marx would sing these ethnic
Jewish songs at parties, to the songwriters excruciating embarrassment.
Every time I see him, Berlin grumbled, I stick my hand in my pocket and
ask him, How much if you dont sing it? It wasnt just his
co-religionists whom Berlin sent up, however. The Bard of the Bowery was
an equal-opportunity gadfly. For his Teutonic neighbors, he wrote Oh, How
That German Could Love. For the Irish, there was Molly-O! For blacks,
Colored Romeo.
Not content with ethnic humor, Berlin began writing about sexual
shenanigans too. Amused by the bawdy tales that young showgirls told their
friends, he made this bold inquiry:
How do you do it, Mabel Had Berlin just stuck with ethnic jokes and sexual satire, he
undoubtedly would have won big profits and a bright, if short-lived,
reputation, like so many Tin Pan Alley writers of the time. But there was
always something more ambitious about him. Where other songsmiths were
personally flamboyant, he was fastidious, carefully barbered, turned out
in the best suits he could afford. Where the others chased secretaries
around desks, he dated women with politesse. Where the others were content
with hackwork that the public gobbled up like peanuts, he wanted to serve
up more substantial fare.
Berlins higher aspirations made him alert to changes in the cultural
atmospherelike jazz. His composition Alexanders Ragtime Band wasnt
really a rag, rather a song about rag, but that was good enough for
sheet-music buyers, who made it their Number One choice in the U.S. and
abroad in 1911. To his astonishment, Irving Berlin became a brand name on
both sides of the Atlantic. The song has remained popular until today,
with a time out during the Vietnam War. For sixties protesters, one
couplet crystallized all that was wrong with Amerika:
They can play a bugle call like you never heard before In 1912, fresh from his Alexander success, Berlin experienced
both great happiness and profound loss. He married Dorothy Goetz, sister
of a fellow songwriter. After a traditional Jewish wedding, the couple
sailed off to honeymoon in the Caribbean. Typhoid had hit the region;
Dorothy contracted it. Five months later, she was dead. The Berlin song
factory shut down.
It wasnt until the following year that Berlin mastered his grief;
unsurprisingly, he came to terms with it in a song dedicated to his
brides memory:
I lost the sunshine and roses He never wrote so autobiographically again; his life remained
creatively off-limits.
From then on until late in the century, the song factory ran at full
capacity. Some songs took the writer weeks of concentrated effort; others
he scribbled in taxis or composed tossing restlessly in bed. Past triumphs
evaporated as soon as he started to work; each song, he later admitted,
came to life under a nervous strain, and more often than otherwise I feel
as if my life depends on my accomplishing a song. Note: not writing or
composing, accomplishing. Because of the effort required, Berlin
never slept much; barbiturates were one of his basic food groups. It was after Dorothys death that another theme began to emerge in
Berlins life and writing: a deep love of the country that had allowed
such success. Patriotism, notes biographer Laurence Bergreen, was
Irving Berlins true religion. It evoked the same emotional response in
him that conventional religion summoned in others; it was his rock.
In 1915, shortly after becoming an American citizen, Berlin offered an
early expression of his patriotism, The International Rag, a song that
derided those Europeans who lamented the influence of U.S. dress, idioms,
and music. Contemporary European America-bashers could still learn from
What did you do, America? Looking around his beloved adopted nation, Berlin saw that one benefit
of its burgeoning prosperity was progress in educating ever-greater
numbers of people. He regretted his own lack of schooling, and set out in
what spare time he had to at least get a bowing acquaintance with the
worlds best literature, and some knowledge of history, and all of the
famous dead people. In addition to Shakespeare, whose expensively bound
works he displayed in his home, Berlin loved American history and culture.
He treasured his autographed first editions of American novels and a
biography of Abraham Lincoln that came with some of the presidents
As Berlins love for America deepened, so did his interest in politics.
When World War I first engulfed the Old World, Berlin took a pacifist
stance, but in 1917, he sharply reversed course:
Lincoln, Grant and Washington, The following year found Private Irving Berlin drafted. His musical
plaint still rings out at military bases around the world:
Someday Im going to murder the bugler; Other composers wouldve stopped there. Not Berlin. He was forever in
search of the kickerthe final line that summed up a song and made the
audience smile. In the last chorus, he fingered the true culprit:
And then Ill get that other pup, For an army show at Camp Yaphank, Berlin wrote another song, then put
it back in his trunk: God Bless America wouldnt see daylight for 20
years, but it perfectly expressed Berlins patriotic feelings at the time
and later. Given Berlins pro-democracy, pro-U.S. worldview, its no surprise
that he was one of the first popular artists to skewer the new Soviet
Socialist Republic. He used his kicker to warn Americans, Look Out for
the Bolsheviki Man:
To the speeches that he makes In case anyone missed the point, Berlin followed with The
Revolutionary Rag:
Twas made across the sea Berlin didnt just defend American democracy from its enemies; he also
cast a perceptive eye on changes in social mores on the home front.
Splitsville, an area rarely visited in the prewar period, became a
favorite subject. A Fair Exchange Scene caricatures wife- and
husband-swapping in the Jazz Age:
JUDGE: What do you want? Hollywood bluenoses, prohibition, the loose morals of Greenwich
Village, religionhardly any American phenomenon was outside his ambit.
The year 1925 marked a watershed in Berlins life: he met the
young16 years his juniorsocialite Ellin Mackay, a Catholic. The two fell
instantly in love, infuriating her father, who was president of Western
Union. He forbade the courtship and even sent Ellin on a European trip so
that shed forget about her show-business upstart. This, of course, was
the stuff of tabloids, and the New York Mirror ran a slew of
stories (some actually true) about the couple. The day you marry my
daughter, Clarence Mackay allegedly told Berlin, Ill disinherit her.
Berlin supposedly retorted, The day I marry your daughter, Ill settle $2
million on her. Another reported clash had Mackay boasting of his
ancestry, and Berlin countering, I can trace mine back to Exodus. Said
Mackay: Is that so? Heres another Exodus for you. Get out.
The composer gave his wife a unique present upon their marriage at City
Hall in 1926: the song Always. In later years, George S. Kaufman,
director of the Marx Brothers first show, The Cocoanuts, claimed
that Berlin wanted to shoehorn the number into it. Kaufman, perhaps
recalling his own peccadilloes, grumbled that the verse was unrealistic.
Instead of Ill be loving you, Always, he said, it should be Ill
be loving you, Thursday.
When the Depression came, the Berlins stayed in the headlines and out
of the bread lines. Hit followed hit in the early 1930s; royalty checks
flooded in. In 1933, writer and director Moss Hart seized on Berlins
ability to turn current events into profitable songs. The collaboration
resulted in As Thousands Cheer, a Broadway revue built around
newspaper headlines. Herbert Hoover, leaving the White House to a Bronx
cheer, Mahatma Gandhi sitting cross-legged on a mat, Josephine Baker
caterwauling, Walter Winchell retailing gossipBerlins songs poked fun at
them all.
Not everything in the revue was satirical, however. Those
who had dismissed Berlin as a lightweight changed their tune when Ethel
Waters appeared in a powerful scene with the headline Kids will soon be yellin Berlin wasnt content to editorialize in song: his deeds backed up his
belief in racial equality. During the rehearsals, actors Clifton Webb and
Helen Broderick refused to take curtain calls alongside a Negro. Very
well, responded Berlin, no one would bow for any number. The mutiny
promptly ended; thereafter all three performers acknowledged the applause
together. Had the composer retired
in the early 1930s, hed be remembered as two Irving Berlinsthe writer of
singles, songs that went out and succeeded on their own; and the creator
of words and music for Broadway revues. But there were more Berlins to
come. A third sojourned in Hollywood, a place that he found 3,000 miles
too far from Manhattan. It did have one incomparable asset, however: Fred
When Jerome Kern said, Astaire cant do anything bad, Berlin
concurred. You give Fred Astaire a song, he observed, and you could
forget about it. If he did change anything, he made it better. No wonder
almost all the great New York songwriters of the period trekked out West
to work with the dancer, among them Kern, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter.
It was an extraordinary confluence of craftsmen and artists. Unlike the
others, Berlin had no formal musical training or schooling, yet the
autodidact more than held his own. By every critical measure, Top
Hat is the greatest of the Fred AstaireGinger Rogers collaborations,
boasting such Berlin classics as Isnt This a Lovely Day to Be Caught in
the Rain? Cheek to Cheek, and the title tune, which established
Astaires jaunty protagonist in a series of cascading rhymes:
Im Now that Berlin moved in fast companyin every sensehe quickened the
tempo of many numbers and raised his craft to a higher level, ready to
match wits with the great Cole Porter himself. Indeed, he wrote a private
salute to his fellow Astaire fan, kidding Youre the Top:
Youre the top! The proof was there for anyone to see and hear: Berlins verbal agility
could match even that of Yale grad and musical scholar Porter. Berlin never minded reaching into his trunk and taking out an old
number when the time was ripe. And the epoch of the Munich Conference was
overripe. Shortly after Neville Chamberlain & Co. acceded to
Hitlers demand for the Sudetenland, Berlin added a few touches to God
Bless America and published it to national acclaim.
Republicans asked to use the song at their 1940 convention; so did the
Democrats. Though for years, Berlinconcerned by high taxes and swelling
governmenthad been moving inexorably from left to right (he rooted for
Wendell Willkie to unseat President Roosevelt), he chose to sidestep
controversy and let both parties use the song. Within months, God Bless
America became so popular that the composer felt uncomfortable when the
enormous royalties rolled in: this was, after all, a piece extolling
patriotism, not a Broadway production designed for gain. In a bold
philanthropic gesturethough he hated squandering money, he was generous
if the cause was righthe ceded the profits in perpetuity to the Boy
Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Enthusiasts lobbied to replace the difficult Star Spangled Banner
with words a child could recall and a tune the tone-deaf could carry.
Flattered but abashed, the writer answered, Weve got a good national
anthem. You cant have two. True enough; but there was no law about
having an unofficial national anthem, and God Bless America
became the peoples choiceas it has become again postSeptember 11.
Berlin wrote other anthems that made it into the national bloodstream,
as Philip Roth noted with typical salinity. In Operation Shylock,
the narrator observes, God gave Moses the 10 Commandments, and He gave to
Irving Berlin Easter Parade and White Christmas. The two holidays that
celebrate the divinity of Christthe divinity thats the very heart of the
Jewish rejection of Christianityand what does Irving Berlin do? Easter he
turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow.
In fact, Irving and Ellin raised all three of their daughters as
Protestants. They sent them to tony private schools, as well, and Ellin
saw to it that they observed the amenities. She also made sure that the
trio recognized who had given them their penthouse on East End Avenue.
When Linda was very young, she remembered, Mama instructed her to get her
elbows off the dinner table. But Daddy has his elbows on the
table, the child complained. Thats different, instructed Ellin. Your
father is a genius. Few would have disputed hercertainly no one in uniform during
World War II. When the hostilities began, Berlin turned his attention to
the armed services. He recruited talent from the ranks for a touring show,
This Is the Army, and donated profits from the musical to the Army
Emergency Relief Fund. The production offered more than 20 new Berlin
songs, including one for black troopsthus creating, willy-nilly, the
armys first integrated unit.
The show toured Great Britain just as Prime Minister Winston Churchill
was reading war dispatches by the brilliant Oxford don Isaiah Berlin, at
the time head of the Special Survey Section of the British Embassy in
Washington. Churchill asked for a meeting. A communications snafu sent the
luncheon invitation to the wrong I. Berlin, and Irving showed up at Number
10. The PM addressed him as Professor and grilled him about the progress
of the war. Bewildered, the composer answered in monosyllables, until a
frustrated Churchill gave up and turned to the guest on his left. Later,
he commented: Berlins like most bureaucrats. Wonderful on paper, but
disappointing when you meet them face to face.
Composer Jerome Kern, who knew the difference between Berlins, was
wiser. Asked about Irvings place in American music at this time, he
answered: To my mind, there are phrases in Berlins music as noble and
mighty as any clause in the works of the Masters, from Beethoven and
Wagner on down. In short, Irving Berlin has no place in American music.
He is American music. Irving had proved that movie musicals presented no obstacle, but
Broadway was different. Though Berlin had been a star composer in the days
of the Follies, the theater had undergone vast alterations since then.
Replacing the old revues and girlie extravaganzas, book shows now used
songs to define character and propel plot. Gothams Great White Way was
home to such colossi as Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin,
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and two gentlemen who, like Berlin,
dared to write their own words and music, Harold Rome and the
British visitor Noel Coward. Could Irving Berlin compete?
Hed give it his best shot in 1945. Replacing Kern, who had died while
Annie Get Your Gun was in preparation, Berlin turned the romance of
Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill into a credible backstage story. En route,
he showed that at age 57 he hadnt lost the ability to tell a joke in
verse. Some of the biggest laughs came from a chorus of one- and
two-syllable words, adhering to Berlins ideal of economy of expression:
My uncle out in Texas Nor had he lost his gift for anthemsthis one dedicated to show
Theres no people like show people; Total: 45 words41 of one syllable, three of two syllables, one of
three syllables. The Master stumbled, though, with Miss Liberty, a musical
about the statue of the same name. Then, just when the critics were set to
treat him as a relic, he returned with Call Me Madam in 1950. This
SRO smash was based loosely on the life and times of Perle Mesta,
Washingtons thenHostess with the Mostest. Berlin came up with a series
of sparklers, including Marrying for Love.
One new song, however, sparked more enthusiasm than the others. They
Like Ike (converted to I Like Ike for the presidential campaign of
1952) was Irvings hymn to a fellow conservative. Once again, Berlin used
simplicity, coupled with an unpredictable kicker, to make his point:
A leader we can call Thousands of undecided voters may have found themselves persuaded when
they heard the song ring out during the televised GOP convention of 1952.
The convert who meant the most to Berlin, though, was his wife: a lifelong
Democrat, Ellin signed a newspaper ad testifying that she, too, liked Ike.
After the 1952 campaign, Berlin mostly kept his politics offstage.
Still, when the spirit moved him, hed rebuke those who needed a lesson in
Americanism. Lyricist E. Y. Yip Harburg, a splenetic member of the Old
Left, got under Berlins thin skin during the Vietnam War by sarcastically
recommending that God Bless America be retitled God Help America.
Berlin proposed new verses for the song:
God bless America, Irving Berlin sailed in his beloved ark to the age of 101. Before
his death in 1989, there were multitudinous awards, ranging from
presidential citations to a Carnegie Hall recital celebrating his lifes
work. And there was, of course, the limitless ocean of royalties. But
there were also many sorrows before the final curtain descended.
Irvings last Broadway show, Mr. President, bombed. Ellin died
in 1988, in the 62nd year of their marriage, after which Berlin rarely
ventured out of his East Side digs. He lived to see his oeuvre drowned out
by the din of rock n roll, with its celebration of the singer, not the
song. And he watched as love for ones country become cringe-making within
the academy, the High Journalism, and the Beltway.
Yet honest craft and valid emotion have a way of outlasting fashion. In
the last several years, cabaret singers have revived the Berlin
masterworks; there are now more than 30 CDs celebrating the oeuvre,
ranging from Ella Fitzgeralds classic renditions to Michael Feinsteins
friskier tributes. A beautiful new book, The Collected Lyrics of Irving
Berlin, has just appeared, edited with impeccable scholarship by
Robert Kimball. And of course, theres been God Bless America. Irving
Berlins sentiments have proven their lasting worth. As he observed,
A fiddler can speak with his fiddle. There are almost a thousand of those speeches in the Collected
Lyrics, each a time capsule of our manners and mores, our shifting
identities and permanent values. No one has ever been so concise, or so
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Wolves V Manchester United Post Match Review
Sir Alex had chose Carrick and Fletcher in midfield with Evans partnering Vidic in defence. I think that was the only two changes to my side. Could this be the game that we lose since April of last year?
We got a great start again with Nani unleashing one of his thunder bolts just after 3mins to put us in front so if my prediction was going to be right we should be in for a landslide victory.
Wrong just when we were in control of the match on 10mins Wolves drew level. A corner was taken and A Wolves defender lashed a great ball into our net. 1-1 How many goals are we going to let in from crosses this year?
After the goal the game was scrappy and neither side were having any kind of advantage. A couple of penalty appeals but nothing too serious. Then on 40mins Vidic gave away a free kick for Wolves in a good position.
And the ball was again crossed in and the Wolves players tapped the ball into our goal 2-1 to the home side and we have it all to do now. Just before half time we had a free kick in a dangerous area but Nani just fired it straight at the goalie.
Could Fergie again turn it around in his half time team talk?
A change was made at half time, Scholes came on for Carrick. We were straight into them at the start and it was going to be all hands to the pump to turn this one around. Why may you ask because are passing was shite.
Every move seemed to break down on the edge of there box. I honestly can't remember there keeper making a save in the whole of the second half. Giggs was getting frustrated.
All the lads were but there is no point in moaning put the ball in the bloody net. But could they find a way through could they Bollocks. A Nani shot went wide after some good work by Rafael.
But to be honest Wolves deserved there victory for there shear hard work. They should be applauded for that. We have lost for the first time in this premier league campaign did we deserve to lose yes we did.
We didn't do enough in the second half maybe we were complacent and took a win for granted who knows? Arsenal drew so we could of improved are lead over them and this is the most disappointing thing.
I just hope it doesn't lead to a few losses on the trot. With city next up and the champion's league starting in a few weeks we just need to keep are focus and concentrate and lets be honest it won't be the last time we lose this season.
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The race for Republican nomination has created a culture war that has bled into foreign policy, writes the Economist's Democracy in America blog.
Last night, my esteemed cerulean colleague and I got into a short discussionabout the place of culture war in this year's primary. At its centre was a question: did the recession put the Republican base in the mood for a good old culture war, or has the improving economy left the Republican candidates with no real battleground other than culture war? Was it the first and then the second: did a faltering economy, as my colleague via Benajmin Friedman suggested, foster "a mean sort of wagon-circling mentality" that, because of demographic shifts and Barack Obama's cultural uniqueness, simply became entrenched as the economy starting improving? Or was it neither: is it simply how demography and habit have pushed the Republicans? Whatever the ultimate answer to this chicken-egg question, one thing is startlingly clear: culture war ain't what it used to be.
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This was George Harrison's first recorded song. It was his response to critics who claimed he was not an important member of the group because he did not write songs.
Harrison never regarded this song very highly, stating, "I don't think it's a particularly good song... It mightn't even be a song at all, but at least it showed me that all I needed to do was keep on writing, and then maybe eventually I would write something good."
A Harrison-penned song would not appear again until the 1965 album
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This song has a darker, more pessimistic mood that was uncommon of The Beatles main sound, but would come to be Harrison's trademark stamp. This is actually part of what made the Beatles' formula work: McCartney was the chirpy, positive one, and Harrison was the melancholic counterpart.
George wrote this when he was down with the flu in a hotel room in the Northeast of England. The Beatles chauffeur kept various tapes which the band were working on. Years later these were sold off at one of the London auction houses. This song in it's very earliest stages is available on bootleg and features George working the music and lyrics out as he goes along. George stated, "I wrote the song as an exercise to see if I could write a song. I was sick in bed. Maybe that's why it turned out to be 'Don't Bother Me.'"
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George, have felt like this more than once myself. and if anyone wants to know, it wasn't on the US LP of Help or Hard Days Night, it was on the Meet The Beatles LP.
Jennifur Sun - Ramona
what now. you just got served stupid critics
Julia - Milton, Pa
HA! take that critics!
Amanda - Gretna, Vt
One of the best solos by Mr. Harrison.
David - Los Angeles , Ca
I really wish John, Paul and George Martin would have given Harrison the amount of respect he deserved. The ability was definitely there for him to write songs as good if not better than John and Paul, but he was never encouraged. "Don't Bother Me" is one of my favorite songs of the Beatles' early career. At worst, it's on par with what John and Paul were putting out at the time.
Adrian - Gettysburg, Pa
This is NOT his first RECORDED song. It's the first song he wrote that they recorded as a band (Though "Cry For A Shadow" was a Lennon/Harrison compilation")
This song is also in one of the better sequences of "A Hard Day's Night". Watch Ringo's poor attempt at dancing.
Rick - Mount Ephraim, Nj
Ah well for all you critics... George would obligly say "Don't bother me...arseholes"
Lateeka - Kelowna, Canada
I could not agree more about the "Concert for George" Lee. It is really fantastic !! Espescialy the part when Ringo and Paul go on stage, it is really emotive the credit the audience gives to those men that are actually music's living history !
George - Athens, Greece
A pretty good start for George.
Sam - Portsmouth, Va
It's a good song. George was a very good songwriter, like John and Paul, but he was often pushed aside, so-to-speak.
Stefanie - Rock Hill, Sc
I think Georg is just as prolific a songwriter as John and Paul. Was it not Frank Sinatra who called 'Something' the greatest love song ever.
Alan - Liverpool, England
Sorry. Underrated should've had two r's.
Ian - Lethbridge, Canada
Such an underated song! For George's first song, it's fantastic!
Ian - Lethbridge, Canada
A pretty darn good first song for George...I agree with Lee that the DVD tribute to George is excellent. There probably hasn't been that much talent on a stage since the roof top concert at Apple.
Steve - Fenton, Mo
I love this song so much! George rocks, and the song does too.
Sylvia - London, England
Hey, Everyone, I just heard and watched the tribute to George on dvd. It was quite an experience, great! It is definately worth the $30.00. Eric Clapton, Paul Mccartney, and alot of other people contribute to a fantastic celebration of George's life. I never saw so much talent on one stage. George's son looks so much like him! He is right there with the others, playing his guitar, and joining in on all the songs. At first I wondered what I was in for, because the beginning was not what I had expected at all. There was a great deal of Eastern musical influence, at the beginning, and then all of George's songs after that. I am not a big fan of the sitar, and the sound, but even I was impressed with the music at the beginning of the dvd. Of course, I enjoyed George's songs alot more. The accumulated talent on that stage is breathtaking to say the least. My two favorites were Mc Cartney and Clapton. No one has ever seen either of those guys do a so so performance! The dvd is well worth the cost of admittion. If you were a fan of George's, and if you like Paul and Eric, you are in for one heck of a show. It runs about 2hrs and 20 minutes, and the time goes by too fast as far as I am concerned, and I am a pretty "pickey" customer when it comes to being entertained. (especially by a disc!) If you are staying home on NYE, this dvd would be a perfect way to spend an enjoyable evening. I guarantee you that you will watch it again and again. With a good sound system, it will rock you out. I am very sincere. enjoy!
Lee - Clearwater, Fl
The Led Zeppelin thing was in reference to a comment Keith Moon made about the success of the band... in that it would "sink like a lead zeppelin". Harrison is definitely underrated and this song shows some of hit hidden talent.
Alex - Naples, Fl
Proof that George could write. Then there was Here comes the sun, and Something, proof that George could write very well.
Lee - Clearwater, Fl
Nathan is correct. The first Harrison composition the Beatles' recorded was the instrumental "Cry For a Shadow", which was the same time period where they performed with Tony Sheridan. They recorded "My Bonnie" with him also, which was the song that led to their coming to the attention of Brian Eptstein.
Charlie - Cape Girardeau, Mo
I personally think that the guitar was very effective and ahead of it's time --with a C&W feel to it.
Gussy - New Delhi , India
This isn't a great song, but the Into's OK.
Ben - Cheverly, Md
As stated before this was the first recorded Harrison tune, though I've heard that in the early days in Hamburg, Harrison actually penned the first original Beatle song.
Nathan - Defiance, Oh
I agree harrison is greatly underated but what's this about "sunk like a Led Zeppelin" nonsense?
Nathan - Defiance, Oh
this is a very good song BEN. it doesnt matter that it is georges first studio recorded song. george is very underrated. how many songs that he did were loved by people all over the world.
tons of people say "Here comes the sun" is thier favorite song by the beatles. without george they would of sunk like a led zeppelin. And if somebody doesnt agree with me tell me why.
Paul - Flagstaff, Az
I think this is a great song. Does anyone notice the resemblance to "The Night Before" in parts of the melody?
Marina - Seattle, Wa
Yea, Dave. I love the bass, too. The Hofner 500/1 is such a wonderful instrument. They have such a rich, warm tone and they look handsome. Too bad they cost 2000 dollars.
Does anybody know where you can get an actual hofner bass (not an imitation or copy) cheaper? I play bass in a band that plays a lot of beatles covers and beatlesque original music (though we're not a tribute band) and I would like to get that Hofner sound though i'm in college and running a tight budget!
Loretta - Liverpool, England
This was a great tune. I remember wanting to hear George do it when I saw him in concert but he didn't. It took him a few albums to get another song on an album.
Alan - New Baltimore, Mi
I like the bass part during the held out "me" (As in Don't Bother ME).
Dave - Springfield, United States
There is a tape of George's earliest version of the song recorded in an hotel room whilst George had the 'flu.
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Studio bien situé au coeur de Toulouse. Cependant, il est assez petit mais reste fonctionnel tout de même. Toutefois le canapé convertible n'est pas pratique pour dormir à deux. De plus une fois déplié, celui-ci bloque quasiment l'accès à la salle de bain.
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The apartment is located in a very nice area, its good for 2 people (a bit small for more than 2, is more like a big "hotel room" with a kitchen, but right downstairs you can find restaurants coffee shops and many things right at your doorstep, walking distance to everywhere you need to go to discover downtown, and even the river is not far if you want to go for a run in the morning. Flexible key delivery and pickup, good communication with the host. We had a good stay, thanks Pierre.
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Is he a rapist or a pawn in a military game to discredit the Air Force Academy sex scandal? For the first time, Douglas Meester answers the charges.
It was after midnight, and Jacqueline Woods*, an 18-year-old freshman at the United States Air Force Academy, was feeling too ashamed to sleep. She flicked on her computer and saw that her brother, an academy senior who lived in a neighboring dorm, was also online. As they began exchanging instant messages, she decided to tell him what had happened - at least what she could remember.
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NH Listens is running around the state training "facilitators" to advance a decidedly left wing agenda. And why not? The 'interim' directer of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire–which runs NH Listens–is not only a well connected left winger, he doesn't even live in the granite State.
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Is it just me or does it sound like this project is more interested in telling New Hampshire what it needs by using one of the oldest tricks in the book?. Pitting trained professionals against amateurs.
I am reminded of a seminar in which a police officer and a lawyer tell you why you should always remain silent and ask for a lawyer, whenever you are likely to be questioned by law enforcement. Years of cop shows have taught us to distrust people who "lawyer up' but the reason is actually very simple. The police are trained experts at interviewing. You, more than likely, are not. It is therefore unfair for you to enter into any conversation which could lead you to accidentally incriminate yourself simply because you do not have the same skill-set as the person across from you. And seeing as the outcome could result in your being under suspicion or even detained–literally denied your freedom–you should never engage law enforcement in such circumstances without a trained interviewer on your side of the table.
In the typical town meeting or board and committee format, the people elected or appointed may have better skills, or may feel like thy do, but at the end of the day they are accountable to you, your money and even your votes. While there may be factors that give the town officials a turf advantage this is easily mitigated by the fact that these are still your neighbors.
NH Listens is not accountable to you, even when some of them are your neighbors, and is the social justice equivalent of the trained interrogator facing off against those with lessor skills. The NH Listens 'facilitators' are taught how to use human nature, group dynamics, body language, interview and word choice to not just drive the discussion toward a pre-determined goal, but when possible to get the group to believe that they came upon the decision themselves.
Whether brought in my a board or committee member or elected official or not, they are not there to help you figure out what is best for your town, or your kids–in the case of Education, for example. They are their to manipulate the conversation, and therefore policy, towards a set of preferred priorities that fit their political and social agendas.
Now this has been going on as long as man has used language, so the Carsey Institute at UNH, which runs NH Listens, is simply using these methods to help advance a decidedly progressive agenda by offering to "help' mediate discussions or debate so that people are convinced to arrive at policy decisions more geared toward their agenda than your own. They are also increasingly found advising your town boards and committees, using their source pedigree – NH Listens and the Carsey Institute, to legitimize them in that role.
It behooves you to become aware of them and to find out if and what affect they may be having on your local government.
From Tim Carter at Moultonboro Speaks wrote this regrading his experience with Dr. Mallory (the Democrat donor who runs the project) after an NH Listens session in his area.
Dr. Mallory asked me to call him after the meeting. I did, and we set up a subsequent face-to-face meeting. While sitting at the outside tables at Burrito Me in downtown Laconia, NH, Dr. Mallory wanted to know what I and the Tea Party felt about NH Listens.
I pulled out a print out of the home page of the NH Listens website. Right there was a list of their Board of Advisors – a veritable Who's Who of the most liberal people in New Hampshire.
My response was pretty simple. If I recall, I said something like, "Dr. Mallory, until such time as you put an equal amount of conservatives on your Board of Advisors as you have Liberals, NH Listens is suspect of advancing a liberal agenda."
Dr. Mallory denied that NH Listens used the Delphi Technique at the meetings they facilitate. But you know the old saying, right? If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and squawks like a duck, then it's a duck.
As soon as he saw the print out of his website with this damning information he told his right-hand woman attending the meeting, "We need to remove that from the site." And sure enough they did. They completely remodeled the website and scrubbed away any reference to any person whatsoever on the site. That alone should cause you great consternation.
Why would such a public group hide who they are, who runs the group and how they get their funding to advance their agenda? When you visit the NH Listens About Us page, there's nothing there but smoke and mirrors.
Emphasis mine.
And he's right. To this day you have to chase links back to UNH and the Carsey Institute to see the rouges gallery of liberals who are perpetrating this fraud; a procession of professional professionals who just "know better." And look at all the psychology "experts' that work at Carsey. Expert experts in manipulating humans with psychology and social justice, who train people to help you agree with them or the goals of whoever has brought them in, all working under the cover of good intentions and their public University associations.
But they are literally 'from the government and here to "help" (r trained by them)…and they want to help you agree to the need for more and more government," or this and that program, even if it has a history of failure, makes no sense, or is simply ill-suited to your local circumstanced.
But they want to homogenize policy and link your towns up with wider ranging government programs that inevitably tie you to Federal programs as well. But once you accept Federal money you accept their rules, and their oversight, regardless of what the "facilitators" have to say. They are not there to be honest, they are their to politely manipulate you into agreeing with them and their programs and they are wheedling themselves into local boards and committees as consultants and advisers.
And they are or will be showing up at your town meetings.
You would do well to learn more about their methods, and how to spot it and counteract it. You would do well not to trust their intentions.
If New Hampshire listens carefully they will discover that NH Listens is not about New Hampshire at all.
You are reading "NH Listens? No They Don't. They Tell!" by Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)
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BART changes safety rules in response to deaths
SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area Rapid Transit trains will be required to slow down or stop as they approach track workers following the deaths of two inspectors who were struck during a labor strike last weekend, the agency said Thursday.
BART Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier said the new rule will replace the previous practice of holding workers responsible for their own safety as they perform simpler tasks.
The move "addresses the No. 1 issue surrounding this incident," Oversier said. "Fortunately, the fatalities we have are few and far between. That said, obviously one is too many."
The two experienced transportation engineers had received what BART calls "simple approval" on Saturday to inspect an above-ground section of track between two stations in the Easy Bay city of Walnut Creek, where a dip in the rails had been reported.
Under that process, one worker is to stand away from the tracks to warn the other of an oncoming train. Teams also are required to have a plan for getting to safety in 15 seconds.
Federal safety investigators have said the train that struck the workers was going 60 to 70 mph. Train operators now will have to slow to 27 mph or less until they know it is safe to proceed, while track workers would highlight their presence with flags and portable track switches.
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A common myth about back pain is that you need to rest and avoid activity for a long time. In fact, doctors do not recommend bed rest. If you have no sign of a serious cause for your back pain (such as loss of bowel or bladder control, weakness, weight loss, or fever), stay as active as possible.
Here are tips for how to handle back pain and activity:
- Stop normal physical activity for only the first few days. This helps calm your symptoms and reduce swelling (inflammation) in the area of the pain.
- Apply heat or ice to the painful area. Use ice for the first 48 to 72 hours, then use heat.
- Take over-the-counter pain relievers such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB) or acetaminophen (Tylenol).
- Sleep in a curled-up, fetal position with a pillow between your legs. If you usually sleep on your back, place a pillow or rolled towel under your knees to relieve pressure.
- Do not do activities that involve heavy lifting or twisting of your back for the first 6 weeks after the pain begins.
- Do not exercise in the days right after the pain begins. After 2 to 3 weeks, slowly begin to exercise again. A physical therapist can teach you which exercises are right for you.
Through exercise you can:
- Improve your posture
- Strengthen your back and improve flexibility
- Lose weight
- Avoid falls
A complete exercise program should include aerobic activity (such as walking, swimming, or riding a stationary bicycle), as well as stretching and strength training. Follow the instructions of your doctor or physical therapist.
Begin with light cardiovascular training. Walking, riding a stationary bicycle, and swimming are great examples. These types of aerobic activities can help improve blood flow to your back and promote healing. They also strengthen muscles in your stomach and back.
Stretching and strengthening exercises are important in the long run. Keep in mind that starting these exercises too soon after an injury can make your pain worse. Strengthening your abdominal muscles can ease the stress on your back. A physical therapist can help you determine when to begin stretching and strengthening exercises and how to do them.
Avoid these exercises during recovery, unless your doctor or physical therapist say it is okay:
- Jogging
- Contact sports
- Racquet sports
- Golf
- Dancing
- Weight lifting
- Leg lifts when lying on your stomach
- Sit-ups
To prevent back pain, learn to lift and bend properly. Follow these tips:
- If an object is too heavy or awkward, get help.
- Spread your feet apart to give you a wide base of support.
- Stand as close as possible to the object you are lifting.
- Bend at your knees, not at your waist.
- Tighten your stomach muscles as you lift or lower the object.
- Hold the object as close to your body as you can.
- Lift using your leg muscles.
- As you stand up while holding the object, do not bend forward.
- Do not twist while you are bending to reach for the object, lifting it up, or carrying it.
Other measures to prevent back pain include:
- Avoid standing for long periods. If you must stand for your work, place a stool by your feet. Alternate resting each foot on the stool.
- Do not wear high heels. Wear shoes that have cushioned soles when walking.
- When sitting, especially if using a computer, make sure that your chair has a straight back with an adjustable seat and back, armrests, and a swivel seat.
- Use a stool under your feet while sitting so that your knees are higher than your hips.
- Place a small pillow or rolled towel behind your lower back while sitting or driving for long periods.
- If you drive long distance, stop and walk around every hour. Do not lift heavy objects just after a long ride.
- Quit smoking.
- Lose weight.
- Do exercises to strengthen your abdominal muscles. This will strengthen your core to decrease the risk of further injuries.
- Learn to relax. Try methods such as yoga, tai chi, or massage.
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Local Christians honor Good Friday
Good Friday marks the day Jesus died on the cross.
At Saint Willebrord Parish downtown Green Bay the cross was honored.
"We are remembering the crucifixion of Christ and that is a solemn occasion" says Fr. Andrew Cribben, The Pastor at St. Willebrord Parish.
"Well the torture that Jesus went through on his journey. He died for us and our sins" says worshiper Jean Hunsader from Sturgeon Bay.
While the services are somber, Good Friday is also a day filled with hope for Christians.
"Today we gather together and recognize not only our limitations, but also the possibilities that we have through Christ who gave us new life" says Fr. Cribben.
The scriptures tell a story thousands of years old, that helped build the tradition of the church.
"Good Friday is special because I have been doing it since I was a child" says Hunsader.
"We were taught from kids on, brought up Catholic religion so we came" explains Richard Christensen, a parishioner from Green Bay.
In addition to the prayers offered up at church, Good Friday is also a day of fasting for Catholics and some other Christians.
As with all the Fridays of lent, Catholics are instructed to abstain from eating meat.
"It is important. The rituals help us remember who we are" says Fr. Cribben.
The Easter message is with worshipers like Richard year round.
"I say prayer, I come to church every day either at 7:15am or noon mass" he says.
"We are about to remember the peace and forgiveness that Jesus gave us and that is what today is about, it is what Easter is about" says Fr. Cribben.
Local 5 also stopped by Celebration Church for its Good Friday service.
The eastside campus pastor was glad to see more than 600 people attend the mid-day service.
He wants people to remember that Easter is not just about one day.
The events leading up to it are what help shape the Christian faith.
"We start the whole thing off with Palm Sunday, Jesus entry into Jerusalem. We come together Good Friday remembering his sacrifice for us and it all culminates with a big celebration Easter Sunday" says Bob Gustafson, East Campus Pastor, Celebration Church
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9 Eggs (White and Yolk)
1lb Sage Spiced Breakfast Sausage (Jimmy Deans Raw tube of sausage)
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In same pan, using sausage grease, saute elephant garlic and green onion till fragrant and soft. Add sausage back into pan and cook an additional 2 minutes.
Add beaten eggs to pan, scrape off bottom and cook uncovered at medium low heat for 5 minutes.
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12 ounces good-quality semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate
2⁄3 cup heavy cream or nondairy whipping cream
2 tablespoons Dutch processed cocoa powder
2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar
3 tablespoons finely chopped unsalted pistachios, almonds, or hazelnuts
1) Finely chop the chocolate by hand or in a food processor fitted with a metal blade, and place in a medium bowl.
2) Pour the cream into a small heavy saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil over medium heat. Pour the cream over the chocolate. With a wooden spoon, gently stir to melt the chocolate. Don't whisk or stir too strongly or you will incorporate air.
3) Cover and chill until firm, about 2 hours.
4) Line a baking sheet with parchment or waxed paper. With a small melon baller or ice-cream scoop, drop mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls onto prepared sheet. Freeze until firm, about 20 minutes.
5) Place the cocoa, confectioner's sugar, and chopped nuts into 3 separate shallow bowls.
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7) Cover with plastic and chill until ready to serve. Can be made 10 days ahead; keep refrigerated.
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1 1⁄4 cups firmly packed sweetened flaked coconut, divided
3⁄4 cup sugar, divided
1 medium pineapple, ripe
3⁄4 cup confectioner's sugar
large egg yolks
1) In a blender or food processor fitted with a metal blade, process 1⁄4 cup coconut with 1⁄4 cup sugar. Remove to a bowl or ziplock bag. Set aside.
2) Cut the pineapple out of the shell. Discard core and cut the flesh into chunks. Purée pineapple in blender or food processor. Transfer the puréed pineapple to a medium pot.
3) Mix in 1 cup coconut, 1⁄2 cup sugar, and the confectioner's sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook until all the liquid evaporates, about 30–35 minutes, stirring often to make sure the mixture is not browning on the bottom. If the mixture starts to brown, lower heat slightly and stir more often. The mixture will turn a dark golden color. Turn off the heat.
4) Remove 1⁄2 cup of the pineapple mixture and mix it into the egg yolks to temper them.
5) Add the tempered yolks into the pot. At medium-high heat, continue to cook until dry and pulling away from the sides of the pot, about 5 minutes. Place the pot in the freezer and chill completely.
6) Remove the pineapple mixture from the freezer. Using a tiny melon baller or 1⁄4 teaspoon measure, make balls. Roll in the coconut/sugar that was blended in the first step. If the truffles get too sticky to roll, place the mixture back into the freezer for a few minutes.
7) Place on parchment-lined baking sheets and place into freezer. Once frozen, remove and store in an airtight container in single layers separated by parchment paper. Return truffles to freezer.
Serve right from the freezer or place in little paper candy cups or on a platter 10 minutes before serving.
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Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves have welcomed their third, a baby girl. The couple's new arrival, who was born the morning of Dec. 28 in Austin, Texas, joins older siblings Levi, 4, and Vida, 3.
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It was a game that created genuine fear in players not through plot devices and monster design, but by the threat of stripping a player of everything they accomplished between levels if they died.But in Dark Souls players can find safety as they wind their way through dungeons, working their way from one behemoth to the next, simply by camping out at a bonfire. z "Don't you worry you've made the game too easy," I ask Namco senior brand manager Brian Hong as my character dies for perhaps the fifth time? Advertisement Hong isn't worried at all, nor is developer From Software, he tells me, because the bonfires were simply a way for the developers to make the game harder."The best way to explain bonfires is that the developers wanted to make the game harder," Hong said. "Which they did, but they were also very concerned with game balance. With the increased difficulty of play it is much harder, but harder to the point of not being fun."So essentially the bonfires, which can replenish health and refill life-giving flasks, are a way for the developers to make a hard game even more difficult without creating something that only the most devoted of fans would want to play. Sponsored It's worth noting too that unlike Demon's Souls, Dark Souls is not a linear game that leads players along a narrow channel of adventure through a series of dungeons. Instead Dark Souls is conceived as an open world that allows gamers to explore, and die, at their own leisure. So in a way, the bonfires serve the same purpose that the breaks between levels served in the previous game."That makes this the hardest game. Harder than Demon's Souls." Advertisement And the bonfire isn't always a player's friend."If you're one of those players who get to the checkpoint and then fight ahead for 45 minutes to clear a level and then decide to go back to a bonfire to replenish your health and flasks everything will respawn," Namco brand manager Brandon Zien said.And when those creatures repopulate the dungeon you just made safe, they will come back tougher, angrier. Advertisement The bonfires are also pretty spread out. Zien tells me they are "strategically placed throughout an area.""Just when a game is kicking your ass you can find a bonfire," he said. "It balances the frustration, because they've toned up the difficulty in other areas: The bosses, the hit points, the spawning of mobs."That makes this the hardest game. Harder than Demon's Souls." Advertisement Advertisement From Software's decision to not just include save points, but to give them some teeth reminds me of some of the clever design decisions the team made when creating Demon's Souls.When you died in that game you were sent back to the beginning of a level, but if you paid attention as you fought your way through a level you may have opened back doors and short cuts. These new paths inevitably made getting back to where you died a much quicker journey. It was a clever way of getting around save points, something I'll miss if it doesn't find its way into this game.Hong declined to tell me if this sort of shifting level design was going to appear in Dark Souls, but said that From Software wants to "maintain all of the good parts that people remember" from the previous game. Advertisement "That feature you're talking about was a pretty important first for them," he said.There's a lot that Namco and From Software are keeping to themselves about Dark Souls. 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It went on to sell nearly a million copies, they said.Because of that relative obscurity, the game was able to deliver not only a bit of tough, throw-back gaming, but also a lot of design surprises.That's why the developer and publisher are still hesitant to talk about Dark Souls' story, some of the new mechanics, like the character's ebbing humanity and how it can be fed into a bonfire to strengthen it. Advertisement We don't even know all of the game's characters yet. So far the developer has said there will be a soldier, knight, witch and pyromancer. They also discuss a black knight and the Solaire of Astora.While much of the Demon's Souls experience was single player it had some interesting ways to interact with other players online beyond online cooperative play. You could, for instance, leave messages scrawled on dungeon walls and floors for others playing the game. These messages, shared automatically across the Playstation Network, would warn away from or sometimes trick players into ambushes and falling deaths.This ability returns in Dark Souls, which will now be coming to the PS3 and Xbox 360. Players will also still be able to "invade" another player's world, taking on the form of a Dark Knight to stalk and try to kill another player online.In Dark Souls there will be other ways to harass online players. The pyromancer, for instance, will be able to summon a gravelord to another players game. The gravelord's appearance in the other game brings with it a slew of new haranguing monsters. The only way to stop the flood of new enemies is to destroy the gravelord. While the pyromancer can summon this creature, he or she can't decide in who's game they appear or directly control them. When a player decides to invade another world as a playable character, there are also new and interesting ways to scare and attack the other player. Advertisement Advertisement "We're trying to put in as many surprises as possible," Hong said.So players will sometimes be able to hide in coffins and ambush other players when they walk by. They will also be able to temporarily become inanimate statues, blending in with the statues that already dot the game's landscape, and then break free of this form to attack another player.Namco wasn't able to show me any of the online aspects of Dark Souls in action, but the promise of endlessly helping and harassing other players in creative new ways sounds as inviting as the game's challenging level design. Advertisement I think I dread Dark Souls release nearly as much as I anticipate it. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. Return to the story. 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