Are the BEATLES vicariously responsible for the mediocrity of mainstream pop music?

[louisthebass]

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Love your avatar Now go and fetch yer f***in shine box!
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"I'm just breaking your b*lls a little bit" - gotta love the ill fated Billy Batts!

[xilddx]

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1370692337' post='2104443']
"I'm just breaking your b*lls a little bit" - gotta love the ill fated Billy Batts!
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He's such a funny geezer. Have you seen him in Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee?

[louisthebass]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370692462' post='2104444']
He's such a funny geezer. Have you seen him in Do The Right Thing by Spike Lee?
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Yep - plays the part of the bloke who doesn't want his convertible soaked? Frank Vincent's a bit of a legend - got his own website where he sells his Billy Batts merch - I want one of the talking dolls! .

And he got his own back on Joe Pesci in "Casino" .

[xilddx]

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1370693091' post='2104452']
Yep - plays the part of the bloke who doesn't want his convertible soaked? Frank Vincent's a bit of a legend - got his own website where he sells his Billy Batts merch - I want one of the talking dolls! .

[b]And he got his own back on Joe Pesci in "Casino" .[/b]
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That's a horrible scene that!

[Billy Apple]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1370650792' post='2104097']
and that Lydon was too cynical to be a punk, and that Sid was the real punk in the Pistols.
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Steve Jones was. Couldn't read or write, from a broken home on a council estate in Shepherds Bush.. Had nothing. Stole all the Pistols gear, most likely would've ended up in jail if not for the band. He did not have the intellectual capacity of Lydon, or the Satorial elegance of Vicious, but he was the real McCoy. The biggest outrage on British TV at the time was the Pistols appearance on the Grundy show, and it was all Steve Jones work.

He took the nothing, if not less than nothing that he was graced with and made someting of himself on his own terms. Succesful broadcaster now, and by all accounts a thoroughly nice chap to boot.

[grandad]

I was born in 1948. Then there were only youths. By the sixties we were teenagers.

Hearing the Rock n Roll and the Rhythm n Blues music from the States lit the fuse for that sixties explosion of creativity. The Beatles happened then and every album was a different eagerly awaited knockout. For those few years they were a progressive pop group amongst many great artists.

By its nature Art is eclectic and they in turn influenced others.

The music around in your formative years I think stays with you all your life. A lot of listening is together with friends and memories remain of the times and the places and the faces. I am so pleased that mine was the sixties and that is pretty much what I still play and I am loving it.

Edited June 9, 2013 by grandad

[geoffbyrne]

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