What factors contributed to The Beatles' bitterness?

2- Their relationship with the record companies was always terrible. Basically the reason they got millions was because a few other people got billions. Brian Epstein’s death and at that particular stage in their careers had turned all their allies into yes men, because the men in charge were not there because they were Simon Cowell first, but Paula Abdul first and Simon Cowell second. Simon appreciates brute evil honesty from the shady male guests who the woman judges yell at for being penises who freak them out. Paula does not have such appreciation. Who knows the ways Epstein would have smoothed and tempered and prevented and properly LEVERAGED. And without the kind of personal extra extra that causes unnecessary rifts. Imagine Paula McCartney here when he sees you with a roast beef sandwich at your secretary’s desk.

3- Their relationship as wealthy Englishmen to the English department of taxation was not only terrible but fatal. Trying to get out of giving away 9/10th of their profits to the government is what opens the door for #2. World War II caused countries all over that part of the world to start going socialist during the 1950s and 60s under the guise of capitalism in order to rebuild Europe. Even after 1970, Lennon found New York City to be a better place to live in privacy and frugality even with the FBI watching him AND New York City prices for tiny closets for rooms AND tourists bumping into you and wanting things.

5- Metallica, just like the Beatles, try to balance their home life with their work life. It’s impossible. Because you’re turning your brain off as well. Fuck that. As such, the Beatles tried to have girlfriends and wives who liked singing and making suggestions about their jobs. James Hetfield is like a normal dude or a girl you might be seeing — she wants it all to come to an end at 4 PM because not only is he going home to the kids like they don’t have fucking Playstation like normal kids with busy dads and it’s totally cool they’re busy, who are these fucking kids who want us around for a single moment anyway — but here’s where Hetfield gets wifey…the rest of Metallica was not allowed to listen to the tapings after 4 PM either. So they jam…then go home until the next day. Fucking asshole. So Lars and Kirk can’t go over their jamming. Because James explicitly feels like things are moving without him. Lars…THAT motherfucker Hetfield is WORSE than Napster. At least John brought Yoko to the studio since he had to see her so bad.

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4- Four dudes who make art or sports or anything…always find themselves fighting and then splitting up. The only exception is Phish because Phish has a stupid “no criticism” rule. So you can’t then compliment them either because — true story — Trey says it’s like saying other things suck because they didn’t compliment those things. This might be why their first five albums are so amazing and then it slipped with some exceptions. Metallica in 1986 lost their bassist Cliff Burton in a freak bus accident, and then they got Jason Newsted from Flotsom & Jetsom and just murderously hazed him until he left. I would have beat the SHIT out of those Metallica guys. He tried to form a new band while with Metallica and they did what they could to kill that too. But the new guy Robert Trujillo is so cool. They should just call the band Trujillo. In the documentary for “St Anger” I saw, they select him out of many and then offer him one million dollars up front to show him they’re serious. But here’s the thing—

6- Yoko and Linda wanted to see what they could get their men to do on their behalf. John might have wanted out, and that’s Yoko’s plausible deniability when people wonder why she was the only woman on Earth who wouldn’t voraciously discourage a break-up when it’s amidst. And women from what I’ve seen have an alarmingly hard time acting lucky or so much as amazed or surprised when they get with Paul McCartney. Linda was like a truck driver and Paul was a new big rig. To you and me, this might be a daunting relationship to maneuver. He can lay anybody. But Linda just hops in and turns the story of the Beatles into fucking Pacific Rim.

7- The premise that they got high and then their music changed…means that they discovered something faulty about their music, to their estimation. That creates bitterness. Because just like there’s no 100 percent mutual break-ups…who was the first person to say “we should make something better then this shit?”

Why is it difficult to get a job?

1- The effects of the particular drugs they enjoyed the most are evident in their production. You go go go in your twenties, and everything outside of heroin sickness is a motivator. Then in your mid-thirties if you’re still alive you basically just dream of naps. Since John got into depressants and Paul got into stimulants, Paul is orchestrating the group in the later stages while in the early ones is not as creatively commanding as John. That’s depressants and stimulants. Then you see how John is burnt out at 24 after just a library of attempted material?