On Jul 29, 8:42Â am, Harry Palms
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>>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:02:28 -0700 (PDT), Raja
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>>>>When was the last time Beatles rocked? How many of their songs have
>>>>improvisations? Sure they could make tons of cutesy melodies and
>>>>harmonies. But that is not what I expect from a ROCK band. I need some
>>>>jaw dropping solos and riffs, some thunderous drumming and screaming
>>>>by the singer. Â In the pop and singer/songwriter world, Beatles are
>>>>unmatched. But how exciting were they? May be for the 60s they were
>>>>very exciting (and probably even hard rock for the early 60s) Â but
>>>>most of their songs nowadays sound like nursery rhymes or plain
>>>>constipated or "Hare Rama Hare Krishna" influenced snoozefests.
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>>>>Inspite of making tons of songs with brilliant melodies, The Beatles
>>>>made only very few songs you can rock out to. That doesnt mean they
>>>>were not great. They were truly a great band, but extremely boring.
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>>>>These are the only Beatles songs I can seriously rock out to.
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>>> Dude, you're completely missing the element of "time" here. Â If you
>>> put them in FOCUS, like when they started, there weren't many ROCKERS
>>> out there.
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>>> Damn, you young 'uns have a different mindset. Â hehehehe...
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>>Is it me or Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, Who etc all rocked harder and
>>they were pretty much from the same period. In fact Beatles were quite
>>loud in their earlier albums and then went into a Hare Rama Hare
>>Krishna phase in the mid 60s and never recovered. Abbey Road was a
>>half arsed attempt at rocking but they did try to get back to the
>>roots there.
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> I guess you never heard Helter Skelter or even Birthday from the White
> Album. Our band is covering those right now and theres some terrific,
> angry hard rock riffing on those. Helter Skelter has an almost
> punk-style guitar line in certain sections.
It is still a horrible song with no memorable melody and go nowhere
screaming.
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> Your protests are futile and your logic is fruitless. You have no time
> frame experience to compare apples to apples, and even funnier, at
> this point, you are comparing apples to oranges.
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> Its obvious to any working musician, or anybody who was there at the
> time, that the Beatles could definitely rock WHEN THEY WANTED TO.
Unfortunately they didnt want it much.
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> Its also obvious that they wanted to do many different things as well.
Or took too much drugs?
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