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  • #21
    Beatles

    Hands down

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    • #22
      I would have my hands up in the air at a Beatles concert.

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      • #23
        Originally posted by Mags
        Beatles

        Hands down
        oh yes.. without question.
        who in their right mind would NOT want to see the beatles??

        Originally posted by Stark Evade
        I would have my hands up in the air at a Beatles concert.
        that deserves a "lol"

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        • #24
          I wouldn't mind seeing the Beatles. They have good stuff. But they are overrated and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd are much better.

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          • #25
            i wouldnt mind seeing rolling stones in concert, and eric clapton- i really like his music too... o o and you cannot forget Poison

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            • #26
              If music was a rose, Poison would be a thorn.

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              • #27
                Originally posted by Stark Evade
                I wouldn't mind seeing the Beatles. They have good stuff. But they are overrated and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd are much better.
                led zep is absolutely incredible... i totally trip on them. they are one of the first bands who introduced me to the concept of actually "tripping out" on music.

                pink floyd is great, but their music is depressing.. i cant think of a time in my life where i thought "hey, i feel like listening to something depressing right about now..." but i HAVE listened to pink floyd, & thats how great they are..... but they're depressing nonetheless.

                but the beatles.... oh my.. they are the reason both led zep & pink floyd & countless other bands like them ever existed. are they overrated? bahh everything is overrated in the entertainment business.... remember: You're never as great as they say you are & you're never as bad as they say you are. that applies to almost anybody. to the point that even in the olympics, they eliminate the highest & lowest scores each time (when there are judges & scores involved)

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                • #28
                  They are relatively over-rated. Anyway, a lot of people were influenced or inspired by The Beatles because they had such a presence not because they were musically phenomenal. I listened to an extremely talented drummer (one of the best ever) answer the question who influenced you when you were young. Ringo was one of the two or three drummers he named. But he was not passionate about Ringo and even said he wasn't technically very good. Why was he influential? Because he was a Beatle. He was in the spot light and he got the attention and people wanted to be him. Now remember, I like The Beatles ok but when it comes to seeing bands in concert, I can think of many other bands I would put over The Beatles, because seeing them in concert is seeing them for the music. Led Zeppelin, The Jimi Hnedrix Experience, Pinkfloyd, the proggers, etc. were worlds better than the Beatles and drew there inspiration from many sources, and most significantly from straight blues. Led Zeppelin, for example, was a seemless culmination of motown, blues, and funk.

                  I never got depressed listening to Pink Floyd. As a matter of fact, lying down listening to "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" loudly in a dark room is like taking a week long vacation.

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by Stark Evade
                    They are relatively over-rated. Anyway, a lot of people were influenced or inspired by The Beatles because they had such a presence not because they were musically phenomenal. I listened to an extremely talented drummer (one of the best ever) answer the question who influenced you when you were young. Ringo was one of the two or three drummers he named. But he was not passionate about Ringo and even said he wasn't technically very good. Why was he influential? Because he was a Beatle. He was in the spot light and he got the attention and people wanted to be him. Now remember, I like The Beatles ok but when it comes to seeing bands in concert, I can think of many other bands I would put over The Beatles, because seeing them in concert is seeing them for the music. Led Zeppelin, The Jimi Hnedrix Experience, Pinkfloyd, the proggers, etc. were worlds better than the Beatles and drew there inspiration from many sources, and most significantly from straight blues. Led Zeppelin, for example, was a seemless culmination of motown, blues, and funk.

                    I never got depressed listening to Pink Floyd. As a matter of fact, lying down listening to "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" loudly in a dark room is like taking a week long vacation.
                    but they were musically phenomenal. now keep in mind, there's a line between musical greatness & technical greatness.. & its not a thin line, its a big fat-ass line. the beatles were among the greatest songsmiths of all time, & that is not arguable. indeed, ringo was not a great technician of his instrument, but he had a huge groove. he held it together. paul wasnt a mind-blowing bass player either... he was initially a guitar player. but he wrote some classic song material & his bass playing complemented it perfectly. even his piano playing was perfect for the style, & its not even his main instrument. if they had gotten Liberace to play crazy technical stuff on beatles tunes, it would be disgustingly unfitting.. unmusical. & thats the kind of musicality that im talking about when i say the beatles were musically phenomenal.. even tho they werent technically pristine, but it's a kind of music that u dont need to be. if they wrote technically demanding songs, they wouldnt be so catchy.. & they wouldnt be so great.

                    think about how many songs they've written & recorded which have become "greatest hits" in the soundtrack of modern society. how many styles & directions they have explored with their music... & dont forget that they were the first to do most of it. they were the first to go in many of those directions. psychedelic music initially spawed from the beatles. true, led zep, pink floyd & hendrix pushed the enveloppe way further, but they had to. they wouldnt be who they were if they didnt. but somebody had to start that up. somebody had to devirginize pop culture from the traditional song forms. & that was the beatles' work.

                    great musicians dont name another musician as one of their 3 or 4 influencial predecessors simply because they were in the spotlight. ringo starr offers a LOT for a beginner or an up-and-comer or even an established professional drummer to learn from. like how to just hold a groove together & not blow ur load over every song u play. unfortunately, tasteful musicality is losing its significance... ppl are starting to no longer realize that when u play at 100% intensity throughout every song, its no different than if u were to play at 50% intensity, or 5% intensity. whereas, if ure playing at 60% intensity, then when an appropriate part in the song comes up, u jack up the energy up to 80%, that 80% is much more significant than if ure constantly at 100%. thats why a lot of really old & experienced musicians can blow us away with their intensity & u think "where is he getting the power to play like that at that age???" its all in one's manipulation of dynamics & intensity. something loud sounds louder when uve been playing soft until then.. whereas, if ure playing hard & loud all the time, its the same thing as if u were playing soft & dull the whole time.

                    sorry, i went off there... lol i hope u know what i mean. (i hope u didnt decide NOT to read this msg because its too long... lol)

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                    • #30
                      I know what you mean; they are fine as song writers. They have good stuff. But they don't have the timeless quality that other music does. Not for me. It is arguable because it's an opinion. And I just have an issue with how much credit you give The Beatles for influencing the bands I have mentioned. Between classical music, jazz, motown, blues, and funk, for a lot of those bands that I would be more interested in seeing, The Beatles had a small role. Jimi Hendrix's monumental contribution "Are you Experienced?" came out in 1967, around the same time as "Sgt. Pepper..." and before "The White Album," "Yellow Submarine," "Abbey Road," and "Let it Be" and before all of that, The Beatles were pure pop being chased by 16 year old girls. Pink Floyds "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" was a 1967 release also and, although I'm not a huge fan, The Who released their first album in 1965. There was so much happening at the time that it's a very unstable position to give so much credit to The Beatles.

                      Oh, and believe me, I know the difference between musical quality and technicality. You missed my point there.
                      Last edited by Stark Evade; 08-31-2004, 11:44 AM.

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