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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: _____ are my Beatles - am I missing something here? |
| Date | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:43:19 -0400 |
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From: "Michael Myers" <mmyers1446@yahoo.com>
>But to me they helped me realize the possibilities of my LIFE... to
>be creative, to oppose the Viet Nam war while in college, to think
>outside the box, to realize there was this whole material world out
>there that I did not necessarily have to conform to... I need to be
>redundant here and say that for me, they were a life-altering force
>more powerful than my professors, my employers etc etc
So...in that case, my parents were my Beatles, but unfortunately, my
mom couldn't carry a tune and my dad lost interest in music when Patsy
Cline's plane went down.
>I have been reading a lot of the replies, and it seems that many of
>the posters have picked bands that made them think of new musical
>possibilities, or perhaps some act that really struck a chord with
>them (sorry, bad pun).... but most of the comments seem to be more
>about the quality of the music that these other bands have devised...
>am I totally off-base here?
>I guess what I'm saying is that the Beatles were so much more than
>the music to me... and I haven't read too much along those lines in
>these other thoughtful replies...
Can't speak for anybody else, but in my own case, I never looked to
pop music to teach me the big life lessons. Not to say it's not
important to me -- obviously it is, given that I've built a career
around it -- but music is important to me in and of itself, not as a
philosophical conduit. Even the musicians who I *do* consider
influential in how I've shaped my worldview, it's more about the ideas
underpinning their music than the music itself, if you get what I'm
saying.
S
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