Beatles

[daveasdf]

Man, I can study guitar techniques and burn my hand to dust. Listen to amazing guitarists to improve my techniques and hammer some ideas into my head. But when it comes down to it and when I've got to rewind and sit alone small-pupil eyed it's the Beatles that really takes me away. It's so different it's incredible. There's no word for it except

[chris mood]

Their songwriting skills were really great, there's a lot to learn about chords and melody by digging into their repetiore.

[Jolly McJollyson]

As Paul McCartney once said, "You look at the Beatle's career and it's like looking at Picasso's career. You go 'man, that was good.'" Perhaps a little egotistical, but he earned the right, I'd say.

[iiholly]

How can one not love The Beatles?

[kingdavid]

Yeah,how can you not?

[Gainer]

I love listening to the "White Album" and "Sgt Peppers..."
There sonwriting was great and their music was way ahead of their time.

[Axl_Rose]

I dont like the beatles...

[daveasdf]

You mean you've never bothered to listen to them before - for any number of reasons, quite possibly becuase it would clash with your image.

Anywhere close with that analysis? ..Because we all know there at least one Beatles tunes that everybody likes lol.

[Axl_Rose]

No... my parents love them... Ive heard pretty much everyone one of there songs.. but they just dont do anything for me. 'Let it be' is good, and .... well I only really like Let it Be :)

[Leedogg]

What impact do you feel that George Harrison had on modern Rock Guitar? This guy was pre-Hendrix! :eek:

[the fool]

I'm a big beatles fan- they got me started playing the guitar in the first place (just like they inspired almost everyone to play). I like George as a guitar player very much. He's one of the best. Like Ringo, he's not very technical with what he do, he doesnt play ga- billion notes per mili second and do 3 hour solos but his solos are so simple, exact, and full of emotion- its what matters.

[Jolly McJollyson]

Originally posted by Gainer
I love listening to the "White Album" and "Sgt Peppers..."
There sonwriting was great and their music was way ahead of their time.

Sgt. Pepper's was genius. "Day in the life" is my favorite Beatles song!

[daveasdf]

Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right. Then they hid away for a while and came up with music of a kind never heard before to win back the fans.

... I like the use of the bass in some Beatles tunes, it's like an actual instrument and not part of the percussion.

[iiholly]

Originally posted by Axl_Rose
No... my parents love them... Ive heard pretty much everyone one of there songs.. but they just dont do anything for me. 'Let it be' is good, and .... well I only really like Let it Be :)
Maybe the reason you don't like The Beatles is because your parents love them. I know its the same case with me with lots of other things. For example, my parents are religious. I'm not, or atleast thats what I choose to tell them.

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by daveasdf
Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right.

I wonder about this too. When did they go from the "I wanna hold your hand" Beatles, to the "Strawberry Fields" drugged-out beatles? Were they just taking a cue from the civil unrest of the late 60's? Vietnam perhaps?

[iamthe_eggman]

I think it was around the time that they taught Dylan about electric guitars in exchange for his knowledge of LSD. This actually did happen....

[chris mood]

It was around Magical Mystery Tour that they started to get all phsychedelic.
My favorite 2 Beatles albums are the 2 transitional ones leading into the phsyc period....Rubber Soul and Revolver.

[the fool]

Originally posted by daveasdf
Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right.
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It's part of it. I believe they started coming up a lot of ttheir innovative stuff when they decided to stop touring and just be a studio band.

[Pantallica1]

Did he actually diss the religous folk?

I thought they were mad because he said something along the lines that the Beatles are bigger than Jesus Christ right now.

[Fruitbat]

I never got into the Beatles myself and..I'm originally from Liverpool. Im not saying they were bad or overrated, they just didnt float my boat, nor for that matter do the Stones. It's just that to me the playing on many of their albums often sounds sloppy and that's something I cant deal with.

[daveasdf]

Yeah, he said they were bigger than Christ which got everybody riled up and they started burning their albums in big bon fires and such. I read a Beatles ... I forget the word, similar to bibliography.. called With all my Love or something about 12 years ago but I forget pretty much all of it.

[Trent J Liberty]

...biography? ...autobiography?

[daveasdf]

lol yea that's it

[iiholly]

Originally posted by daveasdf
Yeah, he said they were bigger than Christ which got everybody riled up and they started burning their albums in big bon fires and such. I read a Beatles ... I forget the word, similar to bibliography.. called With all my Love or something about 12 years ago but I forget pretty much all of it.
Not all of it though, and thats all that counts.

[Leedogg]

Times sure have changed. Lennon got everyone up in arms just by a casual statement comparing beatlemania to the popularity of Jesus. Look how much harder Marilyn Manson had to work to piss people off a mere 30 years later. As a society we're becoming very desensitized (probably a good thing, I'm sure Bill O'Reilly would disagree though) to meaningless shock value.

[iiholly]

I want to be sensitive, so I could actually get scared by scary movies :(.

[Axl_Rose]

Dont laugh... but I prefer the Bee Gees to the beatles... Im not jokin!

[chris mood]

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least you didn't say Barry Manilow!

[iiholly]

Originally posted by chris mood
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least you didn't say Barry Manilow!

Barry Manilow scares me... *shudders*

[Leedogg]

Tom Jones scares me. What's new pussycat, whoooooooaaaa whoooaaaaa owhoaaa! Tom is creepy.