Why are some topics "locked"? | Fab forum

I found an interesting topic on George vs. Paul on bass and wanted to add a reply, but found it was "locked".

Why on earth would a forum lock a topic?  That kind of discourages new members.

I can see why a Politics forum would lock a topic, if it gets too heated or trolls start posting -- but a music forum???

Thanks for the welcome, meanmistermustard.

meanmistermustard said There is one topic (which shall remain nameless) that sends shivers down my spine at the mere thought of ever seeing it starting up again. I thought about getting counselling the last time.

That only whets my curiosity!

Funny Paper said

Von Bontee said
He's referring to this:

http://www.beatlesbible.com/fo…..l-or-john/

The topic is something of a joke around here, and gets alluded to in other threads occasionally.

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks Von Bontee, and thanks for the link.  (I just re-listened to "A Day in the Life" and it seems clear to my ears that all the "Ahhhs" are John's.  If it is Paul, he's doing as good an impersonation of John as Kevin Spacey does of Johnny Carson…)

 

I haven't read through that topic thread yet, but my curiosity will probably get the better of me!

Well, I just read the first page of it -- then I noticed there are FIFTEEN PAGES!!!  No way, I'm reading all that about that one tangent.  (What should irk those who feel passionately about it all the more is that there is one person who can settle the question once and for all, still alive!)

paulsbass said

Funny Paper said
 

Thanks Von Bontee, and thanks for the link.  (I just re-listened to "A Day in the Life" and it seems clear to my ears that all the "Ahhhs" are John's.

Just when I thought you were on MY side…

You don't need to go through all the pages, I explain all you need to know on page one, everything else is more or less redundant.

 

I know someone who asked about that on Paul's Facebook site but never got a reply.

Maybe someone should try on twitter??

Another user tried that with George Martin.

paulsbass,

The argument you articulate on page one is structurally sound, but it's not definitive.  Without the actual proof from McCartney or Martin, this debate resembles innumerable political or theological debates where both sides seem to be arguably possibly right, in a close but no cigar kind of way.  At any rate, the crux of your argument I think is the "chest" singing of Paul, which I agree he has; I just don't hear it sufficiently in any part of those "Ahhhs".  Voice amplification and close proximity to the mic also helps -- indeed,John's voice in most of his lines has a degree of depth and power that sounds artificially amplified to my ears.  There's something else about the difference between John and Paul's voices:  John even when young had a kind of "old man" quality to his voice, which Paul never had -- and I hear that "old man" in those "Ahhhhs" right from the initial point all the way through to when they fade.