"These Go To Eleven" - March 13, 2020

[pddigi]

Was also hoping for a Spinal Tap song or album - maybe Listen to the Flower People or Stonehenge. Oh well. I have the first step (maybe the only step?) so count me on shore...

Shark Sandwich (which gave rise to a succinct 2-word review!)

[pddigi]

I was bummed while at work that it wasn’t posted at the usual time. I am trying to get to sleep but I thought to check for the meta before turning in. Rare grid + meta solved in <15 minutes performance by me. Still waiting to hear from Dom.

[Eric Porter]

I'm on shore. The Beatles are before my time, but it was easy with some help from Google.

[Dow Jones]

Solved and submitted. Off to wash my hands !!

[Softie]

I'm on shore, but I have a quibble.

[maprasad]

Ashore (unless I'm missing 2nd and 3rd steps)?!

[lacangah]

On shore! (but standing at least 6 feet away from you all)

Thanks - this was a nice pick-me-up in a week that's been rather extraordinary. A toast to your good health.

[DrTom]

OK, so the Beatles were distinctly my generation, and since I was a military brat stationed in England I saw them before everyone here. The song seemed to leap out at me, BUT I've gotten burned a few times by thinking I knew it and not going the one step extra. The aha moment is there but is anticlimactic because I cannot tie it all together.

Oops, the AHA light JUST went on when I realized something that I should have picked up immediately. Ah Michael, you are the tricky one...

Count me with dry feet ashore and glad to be away from the ship in these circumstances. I'd say pour me a Corona, but considering the current pandemic (which I am now certain is the combination of panic and epidemic) I'll settle for that other Mexican Restaurant standard - Margarita please, rocks, in a LARGE glass. Oh. and make sure the tequila is at least 140 proof, I'm trying to protect my insides from the virus.

[DrTom]

Lounging on shore, sipping a cold beer.

But not a Corona.

Dang, didn't see this before I posted my own Corona play on words! Should have known that, of anywhere, this forum would not miss any obvious tie ins.

[WDunbar]

On shore. Was very shocked when someone recently pointed out that the Beatles have been broken up for 40 years. They made most of their famous music all within one decade.

[sharkicicles]

On shore. Was very shocked when someone recently pointed out that the Beatles have been broken up for 40 years. They made most of their famous music all within one decade.

Actually 50 years.

On shore.

[howardl]

On shore and quite confident, but I'd feel better if I had one more subtle hint or affirmation; so I think my answer is right, but I'm not confident my analysis is whole and complete.

[Tom Wilson]

On shore ... with the earworm that hitched a ride.

[boharr]

On shore. Got it before I finished the grid, a first for me. Actually, I was expecting the puzzle to be upside down, as that's how the world turned this week.

[Kas]

Heh! On shore.
In a world gone mad, nice to take a moment with the grid and my trusty ball-point. Best to all you muggles out there.

[Bird Lives]

My memory of this song: A “group dynamics” course in college where a student one day brought in a cassette recorder with this song on repeat, got up and started dancing, and tried to get the others to join. Just trying to get others to share his wonderful experience. With the same justification, he had had a party at his house and had laced the tea with LSD without telling anyone. Ah, the sixties.

[CallMeShane]

On SOME shore ...

Hello ... Yoo hoo ...

[PeterLeea1a]

Nice and tidy! Ashore.

[femullen]

At least got off this ship this week, but good thing I brought a life jacket. Bobbing around the reef now, humming all the Beatles tunes I can recall. I was young; don't recall many. Sharks circling.

[Ann]

Solved!