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| From | "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: __________ are my Beatles |
| Date | Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:11:43 -0400 |
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From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@verizon.net>
> 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.
Damn, and I had a great answer. I'll be hangin' with Marty in the bummer
tent until a less discriminating question comes along. :)
b
ps - but if you really want to know about the 70s, and you won't count the
Kinks because they started too early, I'd have to say John Hiatt by a nose
over Graham Parker and Elvis Costello. But as much as I still like all three
of those, I think youth is usually when music gobsmacks you the hardest. I
lived vicariously through the words of Ray Davies, and still do - as much as
I loved the Beatles (and the Stones even more so), The Kinks were the real
soundtrack in my life. And I'm glad to say that I can still get walloped by
something like Ian Hunter's "Read Em And Weep" even at my (and his) age.
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