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I’m a fan if the Beatles - I liked em a lot and respect and appreciate them even more. George Harrison, with Ravi and Billy Preston (and a vey young Robben Ford it seems) was my first concert. But my tastes run heavily toward the blues and at least a heavy blues influence. So folks like the Stones and Clapton were a much bigger deal to me as I matured. But there’s a fair amount of that stuff that crept into the Beatles music in their later days. But my life would have been ok without em, whereas a life without an Exile on Main Street to lean on for nearly 50 years now is simply unimaginable! -Ray |
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People who are not Beatles fans dismiss the influence they had on the whole music world - players and listeners. Might as well try to argue with a flat-Earther.
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Particularly their early poppy stuff, which was the most influential of their music in terms of changing perceptions at the time, I find incredibly boring and saccharine now. I understand it was radical at the time, got them on Ed Sullivan, and changed the world. But to me it sounds completely dated. Whereas most of the later stuff, from the White Album on (and oddly Rubber Soul - not sure how they snuck that one in there), still sounds pretty good to me today. But that's not the stuff that changed the world - at that point the stuff they'd put in motion had overtaken them and they were just trying to keep up. Which they did quite well. We can have differing opinions, even on the Beatles, without being flat-earthers... |
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The trailer is interesting! I think it makes for a great concept for a "what if?" movie. I don't watch movies much anymore, but that is one I will try to see for sure! How do you play "Yesterday" for your friends and they have never heard of it or Paul or the Beatles! Imagine what must have gone thru the young man's brain! Mass confusion. Of course, the movie could bomb, but the concept intrigues me!
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It’s just that the jazz guys are blowing my head off these days for a change of pace/ shifting gears. |
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Well, we still would have had Brian Wilson, so things still would have progressed nicely.
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I "like" the Beatles, I mean, I can't remember the last time I put on a Beatles record, but I enjoy the music.
But to discount the fact that they LITERALLY changed the musical world--more than once? Craziness. |
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Yes absolutely. It may come as a shock to many that music existed before George Martin's production skills transformed a Liverpool band into an international and intergenerational phenomenon. A lot of other great music that was created contemporaneously got eclipsed as a result. And though they were a huge influence to what came after, they weren't the only influence. See Bill Monroe, Chet Atkins, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, etc. What The Beatles did was actually step back to melodic based music like the musical theater hits from the 30's and 40's. Rock n' roll is really rhythm based, not melodic based. But white American and western European top 40 audiences preferred melody over rhythm at that time.
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Anyone who says that music post-Beatles would have been remotely the same... Sorry, I respectfully and loudly disagree. I'm not a Beatles "authority " but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once or twice.
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The Beatles are and were so much more than a "Liverpool Band." Certainly artists who came before and after them influenced our so called popular music. None as much as the Beatles.
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Original poster provides the following threadline: "What if the Beatles never existed?"
Paul would have never died in the 1960s.
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I'm just a Gen-X'er who grew up listening to metal and cut my teeth on 90's rock. I never spent a lot of time learning the roots of rock-n-roll, and probably never will because I simply don't have the time. I work a lot, drive a lot, and play a crap-ton of music every week, and between all of this, I hang out with my family. The more I find out, the less I realize I know. Been this way for years. Carry on. |
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and, what if buddy holly had not died?
play music!
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What if Buddy Holly had lived? He was a big influence on the Beatles, their name is a takeoff of the Crickets.
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