BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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MOST of you are listening to the "Beetles" from the wrong perspective due to your history. (they were old music before you were born)
I'm an old bastard and remember VERY well when they first his the USA. (their music...much before their first tour)
OMFG! No one had heard anything like it before. it was on the cutting edge of rock & roll. Consider that before the Beatles, musicians like Buddy Holly and Bill Haley were the big influences on Rock music...
Yes, they were more or less the "Good Boys" to the Rolling Stone's "Bad Boy" image, although their early music was relatively similar...simplistic according to some here, but much different than what we were used to.
During Beatles concerts, it was nearly impossible to hear the actual music because of all the screaming (and swooning) girl fans...It was fucking ridiculous. Even "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" were so "screamed over" by girls in the audience that you couldn't hear the actual dialog during most of the movies. Every time one of the Beatles was shown, "EEEEEEEEE" went the deafening screaming.
As they matured and Rock & Roll changed, (and drugs became more prevelant) the Beatles music changed. They went through something of a psychedelic period, (Rubber Soul through Sgt. Pepper and Yellow Submarine) then back to more rock-type music.
Their style was never "headbanger" or heavy/hard rock, just good music.
Of course, I look back on much of it as the music of my childhood and teen years, so I have a MUCH different perspective.
I'm an old bastard and remember VERY well when they first his the USA. (their music...much before their first tour)
OMFG! No one had heard anything like it before. it was on the cutting edge of rock & roll. Consider that before the Beatles, musicians like Buddy Holly and Bill Haley were the big influences on Rock music...
Yes, they were more or less the "Good Boys" to the Rolling Stone's "Bad Boy" image, although their early music was relatively similar...simplistic according to some here, but much different than what we were used to.
During Beatles concerts, it was nearly impossible to hear the actual music because of all the screaming (and swooning) girl fans...It was fucking ridiculous. Even "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help" were so "screamed over" by girls in the audience that you couldn't hear the actual dialog during most of the movies. Every time one of the Beatles was shown, "EEEEEEEEE" went the deafening screaming.
As they matured and Rock & Roll changed, (and drugs became more prevelant) the Beatles music changed. They went through something of a psychedelic period, (Rubber Soul through Sgt. Pepper and Yellow Submarine) then back to more rock-type music.
Their style was never "headbanger" or heavy/hard rock, just good music.
Of course, I look back on much of it as the music of my childhood and teen years, so I have a MUCH different perspective.
I could go on and on, but a couple thoughtfull posts in this thread trump all the nonsense posts. <LOL> NKOTB <LOLOL>
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