The Beatles in Context

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_Jersey Girl
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Re: The Beatles in Context

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MeDotOrg wrote:I always secretly hoped they would have a reunion tour, but Mark David Chapman killed that idea.



I think that after a some years away from the group, they might have done just that though I tend to see it on something of the order of the roof top concert and not a tour as we think of it.

I don't know. They had their place in time so it's hard to second guess what might have happened.

Yeah Chapman.

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Re: The Beatles in Context

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honorentheos wrote:
(Beatles and Stones) I guess for me they have different sounds but their song-writing and musicianship wouldn't exclude either from being bands I would listen.

That said, I've heard someone say that we as humans tend to compress periods of time into caricatures of what they really were, such that we combine bits and pieces of an era into a few symbols that people from the time would find confusing. The person who was commenting on this was talking about the way entire centuries of music have become largely symbolized by a handful of what we think of as classical pieces. And decades from the Twentieth Century are compressed into a few songs and a dance or two. They suggested that at some point in the not-too-distant future, people might reduce the entire Twentieth Century catalog of music to Johnny B. Goode.

I think my view of the Beatles and the Stones is an early stage of this where, minus the context of the period and focused on the music-only, I pick out what I like with my non-contemporary tastes and think of it as all coming from the 60's and early 70's. And that's one thing not two separate decades.


Honorentheos, I sometimes consider the social conditions which resulted in the oddity of two British groups playing American music out competing most all of the American groups for most of a decade. There are social reasons but there is also the consideration that the Beatles and Stones made outstanding music.

I was stunned by the image of twentieth century American music being compressed into Johnny b Goode. I get your point. I still feel bruised by so much forgotten music. I mean Johnny B Goode is special. It is close to or is my earliest rock and roll love.

Lets hope there will be music in the future to justify such compression of memory.
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