Wow Court, everyone is entitled to their own taste but to call them overhyped is really wrong.
Im like you mate, i love all music be it Elton John or Pantera.
I love different styles, types that call for a guitar solo and others where it would be wrong.
Ray Charles once said "Everybody needs the Beatles in their life" its since been re-said over the years by Zakk Wylde, Dave Grohl, BB King, EVH and Lemmy. Now these people know what they are talkin about when it comes to music right?
I agree with you that Liverpool somewhat does hype the Beatles up but you tell me one band, one band thats come close to what they achieved? People tend to forget that when all is said and done, these were just 4 lads.
4 lads from Liverpool who changed music in SEVEN years of being mainstream.
Seven Years.
Now i cant think of one band who made such an impact in 7 years. The Foo’s are probably the biggest band in the world right now but they have been going for 16 years, and in 40 years will people call Dave Grohl a genius song writer or just a nice guy who could write a good rock song?
Like i said, everyone is entitled to their own views and regardless of music you like or hate you have to accept that it was a huge part of the music we hear today (I cant stand U2 but i will stand up for them as making an impact) ” - Just because you hate something doesn’t make it useless. Case in point Manchester United, as much as we hate and loathe everyone associated with the club we cant say they are crap. Its a false statement.
To call the Beatles overhyped and to say that only 2 of them were “Beatles” is as Wacko Jacko would say in South Park “Ignorant”
Sure Ringo wasn’t the most talented drummer but he was a great Beatle, as annoying as he is now back in the 60’s he was the man to have drumming. His style is looked upon as brilliant by a lot of my friend drummers who play in thrash metal bands. Dave Grohl said the other day “I don’t have to sit here and defend Ringo, he was the drummer of the Beatles and like it or not if he wasn’t their drummer, they wouldn’t sound like the Beatles”
As for Macca, I think i may stand alone here im a huge McCartney fan he was 1 of 2 in the Beatles as a major songwriter, if you think he didn’t have lungs on his just youtube “Golden Slumbers” of Abbey Road and that will shut up even the most avid of Paul haters. He has gained a lot of bad press due to that skank Mills lately but through it all he is just a guy who has lost 3 very important people in his life.
He is just going on a tour (26th June – Cardiff, i will be there) He doesn’t have to do this, he can sit in a mansion and wipe his arse with £1,000,000 bank drafts but he chooses to stay in the game. The 80’s were not his best efforts i will admit, but Flaming Pie, Chaos and Creation in the backyard and Memory Almost Full as well as The Fireman have gained MASSIVE critical acclaim and it must be hard for them to do that as the majority of critics nowadays are Paul bashers.
George was a jem, my favourite not because he was the quiet but i believe his solo career to be far superior to the other 4. He is probably one of the most under rated guitarist in history, ask any true guitarist, mate some of the stuff he was doin in 67 was unreal, not fast, but skilful and inventive. I was so gutted when Cancer took him but his solo work is second to none, please check it out and don’t just listen to his Beatles stuff like “Here comes the sun” “Taxman” or “Something” - as great as they are it doesn’t touch what George did in the 70’s and 80’s
As for John yes he was an artist, course he was, he went to an Art college, he was a genius sure and a great guy. He wasn’t responsible for the Beatles breaking up, neither was Yoko, they just got tired of each other. Things like this happen. Look at Pink Floyd
I think im more or less done with this rant now, remember that there was an awful lot more to the Beatles than Love Me Do and Yesterday, if you haven’t listened to Revolver, White Album or Abbey Road you haven’t lived.
No one will come close, no one can try, everyone will always be second best to the 4 lads who wrote their own stuff, played their own stuff and lived it. 7 years that took them from suited and booted, acid trips, hippies then rockers leaving everybody involved beathless
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