Not great musicians bar perhaps George on guitar to a point.
Great music , great song writers bar Ringo , they will be playing Yesterday , Hide Your Love Away , Shes Leaving Home and Dear Prudence to name but four when we inhabit Mars to continue the human race which is the best way I think to sum them up.
If music takes you through the full spectrum of emotions we have crafted since coming to this planet then the Beatles along with many others achieve that.
There is little point comparing them to others but Rubenstein said She's Leaving Home was the best piece of music he had heard and Sinatra said something similar about Something.
That gives you some idea about how their music carried into the hearts and minds of others who were genius's at their particular craft.
Cat Stevens is still my favourite songwriter but as a group I listen to the Beatles as much as I do Led Zepp , Bad Company , Metallica , Collective Soul and Aussie bands like the Masters Apprentices and Country Radio.
Nice post......bar the first line! McCartney is one of the most talented 'natural' musicians this country has ever produced. An excellent bass player (not Entwhistle excellent, but pretty damn good) and proficient on guitar, keyboards, drums, you name it. And I say that as someone who habitually favours Lennon.....
I'd disagree with thatNice post......bar the first line! McCartney is one of the most talented 'natural' musicians this country has ever produced. An excellent bass player (not Entwhistle excellent, but pretty damn good) and proficient on guitar, keyboards, drums, you name it. And I say that as someone who habitually favours Lennon.....
Luckiest day of John Lennons life60 years ago today. The Quarry Men were playing at the St Peter's Church Fete in Woolton. John Lennon was one of the Quarry Men and his friend Ivan Vaughan was another member of the band. Vaughan brought along one of his school friends to see the band play and afterwards Vaughan's school friend showed them how to tune a guitar properly. And so Joh Lennon got to meet and become friends with Paul McCartney.
Crap ?They were crap until they started doing the proper drugs, then they became brilliant
That is an interesting list. Thanks for posting it. I am ashamed to say I haven’t heard of at least 50% of the top 20 but at least my favourites, John Entwistle and Jack Bruce make the list. I will away and educate myself.I'd disagree with that
Paul for me is second only too Jaco Pastorius
Some of the bass lines on Pepper are unbelievably inventive, and it got even better on things like Hey Bulldog, I Want You and Dear Prudence
It's like he was composing seperate melodies that fit with the songs main melody, listen to the bass on George's Something.
I can forgive him being behind Jaco as he was also writing and singing some of the best songs ever, oh and that acoustic playing on Blackbird.
Bass Player magazine puts him third.
http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/the-100-greatest-bass-players-of-all-time/61989
Crap ?
they were phenomenal, biggest band in the world, No 1 in every country that mattered
No English band had ever made it in America and they had top 5 positions on the US charts in the same week (never been done before or since)...even their albums got in the singles charts they sold so many.
and great live, so tight and clean.
Think you quoted the wrong post mate. I love all things Beatles. Grew up in Liverpool and went to Quarry Bank. The Beatles are in my DNA.
Crap ?
they were phenomenal, biggest band in the world, No 1 in every country that mattered
No English band had ever made it in America and they had top 5 positions on the US charts in the same week (never been done before or since)...even their albums got in the singles charts they sold so many.
and great live, so tight and clean.
Decent troll.Take that of their generation
I agree they were one of the first bands to make it big in America but Led Zeppelin were also huge in the US. They were very much an albums band but their tours broke records.
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Hardly think any of those bands had the world, music, social and political impact of the Beatles to be honest. As for comparing Mick Hucknel to John Lennon ffs. You have to understand that in my era you could not go out to a pub without it ending the evening in a Beatles sing along. They also sang about the City and places we knew and frequented. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who worked with or knew one of them. I have been to a Macca wedding for example. If i go to America i can still dine out on it and related Beatles stuff. The city has a whole industry built around them. Hardly the same as Simply fkn Red. Maybe you are too young to realise the reach of the band then and now or simply to bitter to acknowledge it because they dont come from your neck of the woods. And by the way, no one should like the Smiths, regardless of which City they come from ;-)I don’t get that. Why does it matter if you’re from Liverpool or if you went to John Lennon’s school? I went to the same school as Mick Hucknall but I don’t consider Simply Red part of my dna - should I like the Smiths, Joy Division and the Hollies because I’m a Mancunian? Not having a go I just don’t understand the logic
Hardly think any of those bands had the world, music, social and political impact of the Beatles to be honest. As for comparing Mick Hucknel to John Lennon ffs. You have to understand that in my era you could not go out to a pub without it ending the evening in a Beatles sing along. They also sang about the City and places we knew and frequented. Everyone knew someone who knew someone who worked with or knew one of them. I have been to a Macca wedding for example. If i go to America i can still dine out on it and related Beatles stuff. The city has a whole industry built around them. Hardly the same as Simply fkn Red. Maybe you are too young to realise the reach of the band then and now or simply to bitter to acknowledge it because they dont come from your neck of the woods. And by the way, no one should like the Smiths, regardless of which City they come from ;-)
I’m not having that. Take That are the Beatles of their generation, or at least the Freddy and the Dreamers.Decent troll.