Post by thejeez on Sept 20, 2009 20:49:12 GMT
Hello everyone! This is my first time posting to the forum. I have spent the past few days reading this forum and the related sites. I have to say, I find the photographic evidence compelling. I also find many of the postulates made, however, not as believeable. It is an interesting subject, and am much in favor of hard evidence available, in a scientific process of researching it. One such recurring doubt I come across is the issue of right vs. left handedness. It may be a red herring to speculate on the issue, as I can personally testify. Perhaps my perspective can shed some light on the issue.
I am left handed. I write, draw, paint, use a computer mouse, eat, and smoke left handed. In many other facets of life, however, I am right "bodied". I swing a ball bat, punch, shoot a basketball, throw a football, carrying a guitar case, etc. with my right hand. Another interesting point is that I play guitar and bass right-handed. This may be because it is the way I started playing was on a right handed guitar, but it puts my "smart" hand fretting the instrument and my "dumb" hand plucking the strings, which is the opposite of most guitarists. I have met others with the same issues I have, so it occurs to me that the handedness of Paul/Faul in photographs is not a "scientific" method of determining who is who. I know, for example, that on the cover of Abbey Road, Faul is smoking with his right hand. That really doesn't say anything, though, as I have just expressed. What could be done, i guess, is some evidence gathering from photos to document what hand JPM used for different things. Without this, though, it is not striking evidence.
What I immediately think of as a USEFUL experiment to perform regards the catalog of Beatles and Paul songs. What I have read so far is that one professor of linguistics analyzed Mccartney songs and came to the conclusion that he heard 3 Mccartneys on record. He could not determine that they were all the same singer. Then he "clammed-up". This seems like a *relatively* easy experiment to duplicate. The method i would like to see is to set up a control group of John Lennon songs from the early 60's and late 70's. If a forensic voice analyst can determine that these are the same person, then you would begin to looke at Paul songs from different periods. If 2-3 voice analysts came to the conclusion that there were different voices present, I can almost guarantee that you would get a show on television about the subject, and the money for research that would include!!!
I said that this would be relatively easy. I am not sure how to go about starting a project such as this, but that seems to be where connectivity on the internet would help out. I must say, though, that I am happy to be here and interested to read about any new developments as they come up!
Jake
I am left handed. I write, draw, paint, use a computer mouse, eat, and smoke left handed. In many other facets of life, however, I am right "bodied". I swing a ball bat, punch, shoot a basketball, throw a football, carrying a guitar case, etc. with my right hand. Another interesting point is that I play guitar and bass right-handed. This may be because it is the way I started playing was on a right handed guitar, but it puts my "smart" hand fretting the instrument and my "dumb" hand plucking the strings, which is the opposite of most guitarists. I have met others with the same issues I have, so it occurs to me that the handedness of Paul/Faul in photographs is not a "scientific" method of determining who is who. I know, for example, that on the cover of Abbey Road, Faul is smoking with his right hand. That really doesn't say anything, though, as I have just expressed. What could be done, i guess, is some evidence gathering from photos to document what hand JPM used for different things. Without this, though, it is not striking evidence.
What I immediately think of as a USEFUL experiment to perform regards the catalog of Beatles and Paul songs. What I have read so far is that one professor of linguistics analyzed Mccartney songs and came to the conclusion that he heard 3 Mccartneys on record. He could not determine that they were all the same singer. Then he "clammed-up". This seems like a *relatively* easy experiment to duplicate. The method i would like to see is to set up a control group of John Lennon songs from the early 60's and late 70's. If a forensic voice analyst can determine that these are the same person, then you would begin to looke at Paul songs from different periods. If 2-3 voice analysts came to the conclusion that there were different voices present, I can almost guarantee that you would get a show on television about the subject, and the money for research that would include!!!
I said that this would be relatively easy. I am not sure how to go about starting a project such as this, but that seems to be where connectivity on the internet would help out. I must say, though, that I am happy to be here and interested to read about any new developments as they come up!
Jake