Understood. I just wanted to clarify that I was looking for input from those who were too young to actually have witnessed the Beatles first hand. If it turns out that the Beatles were your Beatles, that is cool. Mark E. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Lukoff" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:47 PM Subject: Re: __________ are my Beatles On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Mark Eichelberger < markeichelberger@verizon.net> 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. > > If it wasn't clear in my original response, I was born in 1975, so missed the Beatles when they were active, but no one active during my lifetime had nearly the same impact. XTC came closest. -- Benjamin D. Lukoff ÷ lukoff@gmail.com LinkedIn profile: http://www.lukoff.us blog: http://www.examiner.com/x-479-Seattle-History-Examiner articles: http://crosscut.com/account/BenjaminSPACELukoff/ photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/