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Post by EmRR on Mar 10, 2021 16:26:59 GMT -6
I know the Beatles in the early days could whip any of our asses musically, apples to apples, coming off a long run of playing 6-8 hours a day in front of an audience. I don't care how virtuosic you may be, it doesn't happen evenly across an 8 hour shift! Virtually no one has an opportunity for that level of playing time in front of an audience anymore. That definitively renders the fat from the meat and makes a musician, no matter their apparent skill level, who can do their thing with eyes closed, walking backwards upstairs, WHILE eating a sandwich. There aren't many groups ever who've created a work like Please Please Me in a single day session, with an extra song outtake even! Akin to the famed James Brown 1-take sessions, but longer!
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Post by Martin John Butler on Mar 10, 2021 19:48:13 GMT -6
gravesnumber9, I don't recall if anyone actually said "crazy". He's one of the best drummers ever. It's' just that bullshitting can get away from you.
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Mar 10, 2021 20:37:18 GMT -6
gravesnumber9, I don't recall if anyone actually said "crazy". He's one of the best drummers ever. It's' just that bullshitting can get away from you. I'm just messing around. Dude certainly seems eccentric, let's put it that way. Haha. Not surprised that he might be the sort of dude to spin a yarn or two.
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Post by popmann on Mar 10, 2021 21:22:09 GMT -6
To answer the specific OP, never once.
I don't have the kind of religious reverence for the Beatles that so many seem to have. I like a lot of their work. I respect the influence....but, I think pop music got better as it evolved, at least up to some point decades later. That's not intended as a dig...but, it's taken as one often, since people have such idolatry towards them.
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Mar 10, 2021 21:40:55 GMT -6
To answer the specific OP, never once. I don't have the kind of religious reverence for the Beatles that so many seem to have. I like a lot of their work. I respect the influence....but, I think pop music got better as it evolved, at least up to some point decades later. That's not intended as a dig...but, it's taken as one often, since people have such idolatry towards them. The Beatle love can be over the top, no doubt. I'm not one of those. But what those guys accomplished in terms of creativity in the studio and originality in composition is insane. Actually, much of their catalogue really isn't my bread and butter to be honest, but it's still just incredible in terms of writing, arranging, and performing.
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Post by lpedrum on Mar 10, 2021 23:14:22 GMT -6
To answer the specific OP, never once. I don't have the kind of religious reverence for the Beatles that so many seem to have. I like a lot of their work. I respect the influence....but, I think pop music got better as it evolved, at least up to some point decades later. That's not intended as a dig...but, it's taken as one often, since people have such idolatry towards them. I hear you but....why the subtle put downs of "religious" and "idolatry?" I'm a big Beatle fan, having been old enough to see them on Ed Sullivan as a young lad. Decades later I'm still hearing new things that blow me away, and continue to appreciate their singing, songwriting, and studio chops more and more. But it has nothing to do with idol worship, nostalgia, or fanaticism. It's simply that the more educated I become about music and recording the more I understand their collective genius.
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Post by kcatthedog on Mar 11, 2021 5:17:14 GMT -6
It’s not idolatry to appreciate their musical skills: not certain music got better? There are not many bands who have achieved what they did and Paul still sells our essentially playing Beatle songs.
Sure, good music, is like beauty, in the mind (hearts) of the beholder ?
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Post by drumsound on Mar 11, 2021 10:43:56 GMT -6
Thanks sagefields, that makes sense. I think Purdie's statement just got away from him. He probably bragged about it, adding a little more to the story because of ego, never thinking he'd have to continue with the exaggeration or admit he was FOS. He was a great drummer, but he got more attention because of his Beatle's statements than he'd have gotten otherwise. Oh, welcome to the forum! As my good friend Mark Rubel likes to say "never let the truth get in the way of a good story."
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Mar 11, 2021 12:03:49 GMT -6
To answer the specific OP, never once. I don't have the kind of religious reverence for the Beatles that so many seem to have. I like a lot of their work. I respect the influence....but, I think pop music got better as it evolved, at least up to some point decades later. That's not intended as a dig...but, it's taken as one often, since people have such idolatry towards them. I hear you but....why the subtle put downs of "religious" and "idolatry?" I'm a big Beatle fan, having been old enough to see them on Ed Sullivan as a young lad. Decades later I'm still hearing new things that blow me away, and continue to appreciate their singing, songwriting, and studio chops more and more. But it has nothing to do with idol worship, nostalgia, or fanaticism. It's simply that the more educated I become about music and recording the more I understand their collective genius. This is what I was trying to say with the original post. Every time I revisit The Beatles (every couple years for me... see? I'm not an idolator!), I learn something new and mind-blowing that they're doing. The more I grow as a songwriter and an engineer, the more I appreciate what they really accomplished.
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