Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:03:48 -0400
From: mogleyb@aol.com
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: McCartney is God Get over it
Message-ID: <8C954E455AAA409-B18-7D28@FWM-R08.sysops.aol.com>

  Imo <<


Since it was established in pop culture years ago that "Clapton is God",
I guess that this makes us all polytheists.

Seriously, the only thing I've gotten over where McCartney or his three
'60s associates are concerned is the feeling that I'm somehow expected
to give obeisance to the unblinking Beatles worship still widely
practiced within pop culture -- and I say that as someone who has an
abiding love of the Fab Four's music. Paul McCartney has thoroughly
established over the past three decades that he has feet of clay as both
a songwriter and a creative force in the studio, and I can't understand
why anyone would still subscribe to the credo that Macca somehow
operates on some other plane above everyone else as a recording artist.

Perhaps it's a generational thing. I'm not a child of the '60s (I was a
child *in* the '60s), so my allegiance to the era of the Beatles is
neither hyperbolic nor suffused with the type of nostalgia that deadens
the critical faculties. I consider myself lucky to be a child of a
decade (the '70s) that didn't have an artist or group who was so
overwhelming both in terms of cultural impact and musical regard that it
made such imperative demands upon my loyalty. I don't think we're ever
going to see many fortysomethings post messages to Audities entitled
"Fleetwood Mac is God Get over it" or "Kiss is God Get over it".

(I'm holding out hope that Bruce Brodeen sends us a post called "Foghat
is God Get over It", though. ;-) )

At this point I view Paul McCartney as a very good songwriter and
recording artist ... but, given his highly-erratic success rate, I can
think of numerous other people I rank above him in both of those
categories.

Sorry to dump a teaspoon of heresy into your morning coffee, but that's
how I roll.


Greg Sager