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From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
Subject | Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=20are=20my=20Beatles?= |
Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:54:28 -0700 (PDT) |
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OK. Sorry.
---- <audities@smoe.org> wrote:
>
> 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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