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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
| Subject | Re: __________ are my Beatles |
| Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:49:51 +0000 |
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Yeah, so pipe down, you self-absorbed hippies.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:33:36
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: __________ are my Beatles
All of which is nice...but my question was really directed at those who were
not old enough to have experienced Beatlemania as it was happening. I was
really trying to get an idea of a band or artist from the 70's, 80's or
later that had as strong an impact as the Beatles, the Kinks, or the Who,
etc. obviously had on you.
Mark E.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty Rudnick" <mrudnick@marturo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: __________ are my Beatles
> God bless this thread...I've never been so happy to be this old, and to
> have been 9 years old on Feb 9, 1964. I got to grow up with The Beatles,
> The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, The Hollies, and on and on...
>
> ...and to live in the Bay Area during the Summer of Love.
> ...and to be old enough to hit the Keystone clubs during the Beserkley
> heyday.
> ...and to have been in England in 1983 during the British new wave era (or
> whatever it was called).
>
> I would not trade it for the world. As a matter of fact, I envy those
> people who got to fully embrace the college folk/hootenanny scene, and the
> beatnik, bebop and west coast jazz scene. So I wouldn't mind having been
> born a few years earlier.
>
> Marty
>
>
> ---- <audities@smoe.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Well, like a couple of others, the beatles are my beatles. Was a
>> > five year old when I wanna hold your hand came on the car radio and
>> > things were never the same for me.
>>
>> My modern day beatles are easy to identify: Squeeze and anything that
>> has Neil Finn in it. Both evoke the melodicism and vocal prowess of
>> Lennon/McCartney and Tilbrook even sounds a bit like McCartney.
>>
>> The thing about the beatles solo careers that is a little unsatisfying
>> is that their post-beatle success relies heavily on their legacy. It's
>> not their fault, of course, but if Bobby Sherman sang Band on the Run,
>> would it be nearly the hit that it was? Or I'd Huey Lewis sang
>> Imagine, would it be iconic as it is now?
>>
>> Not to say the solo works of the beatles aren't good - I have
>> everything each of them has ever done. Yes, including ringo.
>>
>> But they were never as good solo, even in their best moments, as they
>> were when in synergy, slight though it may have been at times.
>>
>> When McCartney worked with costello and was pushed out of his comfort
>> zone, he produced some great songs (and a few clunkers).
>> Unfortunately, Lennon didn't collaoborate much, but when he did, it
>> was still lacking.
>>
>> McCartney and Lennon just happened along in the perfect storm and
>> their music will stand the test of time for decades to come, if not
>> longer.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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