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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V2 #596 (8 msgs) |
| Date | Wed, 04 Aug 2004 10:47:03 -0400 |
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At Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 Pamalu wrote:
> >>In 100 years the Beatles will be but a footnote. There will have been
>more
>names and more FIRSTS to have overshadowed everything they did for those
>brief 8 years. Just as Wayne Gretzky overshadowed Rocket Richard and Gordie
>Howe...so too shall someone overshadow him.
>
>Jaimie Vernon
>
>Sorry, but IMO you're just WRONG!!!
As is the opinion that something will ALWAYS be the greatest. I think other
than the Pyramids in Egypt, there isn't anything on this planet that
subsequent generations have not "bested". I bet you believe the world is
flat too! They said that no one could fly, then they said no one could fly
across the ocean, then they said no one could fly the speed of sound, and
then they said no one could go to the moon.
They also said that no one could have more #1 hits than Elvis (The Beatles
broke THAT record)....and they also said that no one would have a bigger hit
record in the UK than the Beatles....and Bryan Adams did that with
"Everything I Do".
I have seen the Beatles' impact diminished in my OWN lifetime, what makes
anyone think this won't continue until they're trivialized into quaint
little historic footnotes? And the impact is impending once Ringo and Paul
finally pass away...because then the flag-wavers will have no one to
continue to harass for more inconsequential "updates" and nostalgia trips.
The fact that Sgt Pepper is no longer being treated as the epicentre of
music anymore shows that a new generation is looking elsewhere for its
influences.
It's not something I wish would happen, but I am a voracious observer of
history...and this is typical of how history remembers its
heroes....transiently.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPages
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