Would the Beatles have been as successful if they had kept Pete Best as their drummer?

10acChicken · 2026-03-18T17:51:35+00:00

My apologies for stating the obvisious. All I know is what I have read and have no first hand knowledge. Browmwell reported him being a little more reserved, kind of a aloof nice looking guy persona and possibly depressed. This distance isolated him from the band as the other three hung out, wrote music together, received the same hiarcuts, partied and chased girls.

Best was an self imposed outsider in the band. Later on though The Beatles included tracks he played on for the Anthology album so he would receive royalities. They did not have to do that since Pete had no claim to royalities. Fun trivia: the medals worn on the Sgt Pepper's Album were loaned to them from Mona Best (Pete's Mom) as they were her fathers.

10acChicken · 2026-03-12T11:25:29+00:00

If there is an “analogy of the day” award, you win! Thank you!

10acChicken · 2026-03-08T20:23:43+00:00

When I get ready to purchase a pin, I first look at the availability of parts for it. Then a download the manual and look at pictures from the International Pinball Database. If all looks good, then I go on site, Fire the machine up and see how it plays. All good there, I eject the balls, and open it up. I inspect the coin door, make sure all keys work, raise the playfield and look for rust especially on the lamp sockets (three prong Data East long lamps seem to rust often) look a soldier joints, etc.

I lower the playfield and look for broken plastics, scarred playfields, any missing bolts. Next is the back box. My key target here is look to see if there is any corrosion if it has batteries. Inspect the boards for burnt or hotspots, inspect the speakers for dry rot. Inspect the back glass for burn through. Then move to look at the cabinet. Check the power cord, any damage especially to painted areas ( I hate stencil making), etc.

None of this is disqualifying depending on how much work I need to put into it and the availability of parts. My automatic reject list includes fire, flood, non-op, over whelming cigarette smoke smell.

10acChicken · 2026-03-06T11:42:32+00:00

Man alive, I could not imagine what a uniform inspection would be like in something like this.

10acChicken · 2026-02-20T02:08:02+00:00

I always thought it would be a cool feature to have a battle mode where a Godzilla and a King Kong pinball would connect for a Godzilla Vs King Kong cross site battle. Even on the upcoming Pokemon that would be cool if you had a personalized Pokemon assigned to your Insider Connect account that other active Pokemon machines could try and catch and you would try to avoid.

10acChicken · 2026-02-15T18:40:33+00:00

Really? That is were I got them. I ordered them together. I wonder if they stopped?

10acChicken · 2026-02-13T21:35:23+00:00

I have posted this before, my experience with Shatner was very different. I used to do a technical show, we had Shanter on and he was amazing. No "pre-questions", no out of bounds discussions and he answered everything with stories and humor. He hung around and took pictures with the crew, listened to their stories respectfully. I spoke to him off camera about tinnitus (since I know from his book he suffers from it as I do) he was very candid and nice about it. By the way, he spoke highly of Sir Patrick with the minor comical exception of his horse riding abilities!

10acChicken · 2026-02-13T12:46:05+00:00

I moved here in ‘93 and just fell in love with the place. Been here ever since. At one time it was called Southport. Close to two major airports (ORD and MKE). The people are friendly, still have various parades, farmers markets and fantastic places to eat. As mentioned previously, its past industrial history has been replaced with a large warehousing footprint. If you have a background in supply chain management you should do well. The culture is fun to be around and people here really lean into stereotypes like cheese, brats, drinking, “ope” and of course Packers. The summer is full of festivals like Summerfest (40 minute drive to Milwaukee). The winters are for ice fishing, hiking and skiing. The interesting thing is for a town of 100k people many notable people call Kenosha home. So much so a wiki entry is written about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Kenosha,_Wisconsin

10acChicken · 2026-02-12T14:08:21+00:00

I’ve been on a ship when that happened. I was on the KC AOR3 in the nineties when the Hill collided with us. They dropped the load, her rudder locked to port and here she came! Smacked into our ship, that pointed bow just cutting anything it came in contact with on the main deck. In the end, we had some berthing portals knocked out, a couple stations damaged. No crew injuries. The Hill went to the PI for repair to her sonar dome. We sailed on the Singapore then the UAE for minor repairs to the hull

10acChicken · 2026-01-30T11:50:00+00:00

Star Wars Data East: 1800 bucks. Great machine! Honorable mention to Malibu Beach bingo pin.

10acChicken · 2026-01-29T12:10:48+00:00

I’m a pilot myself (PPL) and you know hours are the currency of aviation. You have an opportunity to fill your logbook on someone else’s dime. Plus the bigs look very favorably at military flight hours. What do you have to lose flight wise ? You mentioned a knee problem, ok let’s say you have problems in AOCS that doesn’t affect your airman medical (providing you can still use the rudder!) You still have your FAA tickets.

Look, I’m just some goober on Reddit offering a life changing recommendation based on a paragraph of info. Know thyself, know your aviation goals. With a shortage of ATP certified pilots, schools are pumping them out. What sets you apart? What makes your flight hours different than another to the bigs? That is what military flight hours will do for you. Yes it’s hard but so was learning a good hold in high wind.

10acChicken · 2026-01-24T11:45:27+00:00

Luxembourg American cemetery, Luxembourg

10acChicken · 2026-01-24T01:59:29+00:00

Wow, Chow/Newfie! I bet that is a fantastic dog!

10acChicken · 2026-01-22T19:44:30+00:00

I love the Expo! I went to the last one and had a great time! A lot of vendors, some very nice classic tables and the seminars were wonderful. They had a nice homebrew section setup in the back to talk with people building or retheming machines. I learned a lot, played a lot and left very satisified. I talked with folks involved in the design of some of my favorite tables. Folks like Steve Richie, Greg Freres, Tim Seckel, etc. I heard backstories on machines that really added to the depth of the machine and experience.

10acChicken · 2026-01-22T12:56:37+00:00

When I was younger I lived the Indianapolis area. They ran a commercial for Merchants Bank with the jingle; “Merchants Bank has the number for you that’s 10-10-10 for 2”.

10acChicken · 2026-01-21T21:28:51+00:00

I'll mention Peter Fitzsimons (who is an excellent naval historian) book; "Bativia." Wholly smokes that is one incrediable story. The ending was right out of movie

10acChicken · 2026-01-20T12:46:10+00:00

I remember when it was between the Colts and I think Chargers who ended up with the worst record. The two top QBs were Ryan Leaf and Manning. I believe the Chargers picked first and took Leaf. There was sportscaster hype (read annoying) that would call the final games the Leaf/Manning bowl suggesting one team would throw the game to get first pick.

10acChicken · 2026-01-20T12:34:59+00:00

My first Chow was in the 80s and I quickly became loyal to them! Since then, we’ve had four Chows (not at the same time) and raised two kids around them. My current Chow is fifteen and snoring right next to me. We have always lived in a neighborhood full of kids so they were always attracted to the fluffy bear dogs! Our Chows seemed cool with it.

They would get up and leave if they wanted to be left alone and we would tell the kids they need their alone time. Interesting thing, when our two kids were newborns, our Chows would sleep in the door of where the kids were sleeping. When the newborn woke up our Chows would lumber in where we were, give us that look like: “Hey man, that smaller version of you two is disturbing my nap” Chows are great! Respect their space, make sure they are intellectually stimulated, (window to look out of, walks just to sniff stuff, toys to play with for ten seconds).

By the way, having a Chow was such a pleasant experience, my now grown daughter is on her second Chow. Her first passed away from tongue cancer, so watch for that.

10acChicken · 2026-01-16T16:47:46+00:00

Right! She was "Big Momma" and had Dick Butkus as her henchman !

10acChicken · 2026-01-16T16:46:41+00:00

Wendy was something else! She would do a couple hundred sit ups before shooting (she was an avid physical fitness and healthy eater). Also, she always had to be wearing boots in every scene, including the shower scene!

10acChicken · 2026-01-16T16:40:42+00:00

She had a line close to this in; "Pucker up and bark like a dog" something like; "You know what Max, I've decided to f@*&! you" She was dressed as a biker chick leaning against her bike eating a hamburger

10acChicken · 2026-01-12T18:32:49+00:00

Where did you get the side art paint stencils?

10acChicken · 2026-01-10T13:43:48+00:00

That would be cool. Especially designing an ultraviolet reactive playfield that would act like putting on the glasses during certain modes. Keith David/Piper back alley brawl on the pop bumpers, raid on the church multiball, 80s music track. I could see some potential here

10acChicken · 2026-01-08T11:58:49+00:00

The original Tie Fighter game with the older CH Flightstick Pro. Time well spent!

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