I'll join you in the walk of life right after we've installed some microwave ovens and done some custom kitchen deliveries. Then we've gotta move these refrigerators and also we've got to move these color TV's.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 7, 2017 5:33 PM MST
I guess if you get paid to play your guitar on the MTV then you were overpaid maybe? And so... No wait. Women really like guitar players I was told or musicians and vocolists in general and it is kinda like getting "Chicks for free" if you already like playing the guitar anyway. So yes, it all makes sense now.
Definitely better than the Beatles. The others are good too, but D.S. was tighter and had more chops. When I say solid I mean together. They were a lot tighter and more layered.
Knopfler > Harrison as a guitarist, but the man couldn't sing and as for songwriting and overall influence on the entire music scene, there really is no comparison. The Fab Four invented several complete genres. Pop. Psychedelia (seized and built on by Floyd and Airplane, but the Beatles did it first). Even heavy metal (Revolution 1 is a metal song, from the primal scream in the intro to the distorted, overdriven guitar throughout - George built the fuzz box in his garage, those effects pedals hadn't been invented yet).
I said the most solid and tight band. Not influential or experimental. The Beatles weren't all that tight or great. They were just open minded to experimenting that was their strength and why they bercame influential.
Revolution 1 is not the first metal song. The earliest elements of metal come from the Detroit garage rock scene of the 60's and the Who. Ringo was a crap drummer. John singing was mediocre. John and Paul were hit and missd lyric writers. They weren't as solid and tight as D.S. Put it this way. If you had songs written and wanted a band to play them you really thing the Beatles would be a better pick than D.S.? No way. The Beatles were good but the idea people romanticise them as " So great no band can ever be as good or better" is BS. People just put them #1 all the time because they think they are supposed to.
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 7, 2017 11:42 PM MST
I think the Beatles did the best songs. When you have 2 of the best songwriters in the world in your band, plus another who is also very good at writing, it's no wonder they had almost 10 years of prolific #1's. If you're not a fan of them, that's okay, they're not for everybody, but they're definitely for me and I was born nearly a decade and a half after they split up. I'm not kidding, if I was to compile a list of my favorite 100 songs, a big % of them are going to be Beatles songs.
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