So if Billy Preston was the so-called "Fifth Beatle", he did a lot of

[WCGreen]

Keyboard work on the last two Beatles Albums.

Does that Make Paul, from Tarsus not Liverpool, the 13th Apostle.

Or would Paul be like Ron Wood coming in and joining the Stones after they had it all going on.

But that would mean Mike Jones was Judas to Ron Woods Paul.

Or would Brian Jones be like Judas?

Anyway, Just some crazy ass musing on a very windy night here on the North Coast.

But wait, there is more.

This Stones analogy is wrong since Ron Woods actually made the Stones better where as it could be said that Paul from Tarsus screwed the whole Christian thing up right from the start.

[jobycom]

1. Well,

There were several "fifth Beatles," but none of them actually replaced a Beatle, as Ron Wood and Paul, ne Saul, of Tarsus did with the Stones and the Apostles, respectively. Preston added to the Beatles, whereas Wood and Paul transformed them, for better and/or worse.

If the Stones are like the Apostles, who is their Jesus, since the Apostles were defined by who they followed.

Paul wasn't the one who screwed up Christianity. He added a neo-Platonic element that give it an intellectual basis, thus making it more enticing to the Patricians and the educated of Rome. This prevented it from becoming a religion of rebelious plebians or of mystic pacifists, as Augustine's "Confessions" demonstrates. Many of Paul's ideas were later misunderstood or taken too literally by puritanical control freaks, like Jerome, and Christianity developed it's nasty fundamentalist streak. Some would argue this fulfilled a psychological need, as some people use religion as inspiration to higher thinking, and others as a replacement for the strict authoritarianism of their parents, unable to attain happiness without a dominating father-figure.

I don't really know the Stones enough to conclude anything about Mike Jones and Judas, but didn't Wood Replace Mick Taylor?

[Tom Kitten]

2. Murray the K was the first fifth Beatle

George Harrison said so...and Ian Stewart was the first sixth Rolling Stone. Add Stu Sutcliff, Pete Best,Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voorman, George Martin, Barnabas the real thirteenth Apostle and you have a real project going here...

And where does "Jamming With Edward" fit in?

[kwassa]

7. Jamming with Edward, and the Highland Fling

Nicky Hopkins!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPkSZ8YZbh0

[MilesColtrane]

3. George Martin was the fifth Beatle.

Billy Preston was the fifth Beatle once removed.

[driver8]

5. Ha Ha -- exactly!!

George Martin added more to the Beatles' music than Billy Preston could have ever dreamed of...

Not to say that Billy Preston wasn't talented -- he certainly was.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

10. That's what I thought, too.

:shrug:

[leeroysphitz]

4. You know what?

We are ALL the fifth Beatle.

[Swede]

6. Does that mean Randy Jackson is the sixth Blue Oyster Culter?

He played and recorded with them.

[Iggo]

11. No. Randy Jackson is the 7th Journy-er. (n/t)

[edbermac]

8. Billy Preston was NOT the Fifth Beatle!

He worked a few weeks on Get Back/Let It Be and a few Abbey Road tracks and that was it.

The Fifth Beatle was probably the road manager Neil Aspinall, with George Martin a close second.

[kwassa]

9. Ron Woods did not make the Stones better. Mick Taylor did

Get your apostles straight.

All Down the Line

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6rqlG8H7JA

[Ishoutandscream2]

12. Yes, Exile on Main Street and the 72 tour

The Stones' best. They were certainly at their peak, and Mick Taylor was a definite factor.

[Deja Q]

13. Will this thread go round in circles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpexAJTQWfk