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Excellent story - you really nailed that one! I had a similar experience with the Fabs back in 1978 or so cruising in a friend's Mercury Bobcat loaded with dateless losers (not nearly as nice an environment as you were in, I'm sure!). He popped in the cassette tape of their live show at the Hollywood Bowl, turned up the volume and I'll never forget how completely the music took hold. My brother thought I was nuts, but I've been a rabid fan ever since!
Don said:
To write the Beatles's success off as depending on corporate marketing is to not have been there. Today one cannot imagine the effect their music had on the minds, souls and loins of a teenager back when they first appeared on the airwaves.
I was such a teenager. Already a working musician. Not into TV at all. Not into hype. But let me tell you the effect that hearing She Loves You had on me...
I was with my girlfriend in her bedroom. Her parents were out. We were doing the stuff that curious teenagers do at such times.
This girl was a gorgeous blue-eyed Swedish blond. My attention was not easily distracted.
Suddenly this sound came on the radio. I simply sat up, frozen in time and space, completely and totally mesmerized. I had never heard such a thing. Never been effected like that by any music. Electrified. I at that time had no idea of who the group was.Today there is no way to simulate that effect. That of something totally fresh and new. Something that entered one's very soul and spirit.
Others may have been effected by other music like that. Perhaps some reacted that way when they first heard Elvis. That I cannot say. But never to my knowledge has it happened since. And if you grew up with Beatle influenced RnR as the soundtrack of your life you truly cannot even imagine what it was like to hear that music for the first time.
-Don
PS - Lynn - if perchance you are reading this - I really do apologize! :D~
Permalink Reply by John Battles on May 20, 2012 at 12:21am That's great. This was many , many years ago ,like , more than 25 years , that I'd read Lemmy saying he also saw The Beatles in Hamburg. It's not improbable , I guess....We yanks are not so vain that we don't have to be reminded you could fit England and Germany in Texas and have room for a few tax shelters.
Permalink Reply by Rocco on May 21, 2012 at 6:12pm RIGHT ON!!
DEEZEN said:
Some like the Beatles, some like the Stones, but we all love the Kinks!

Permalink Reply by Old School Hero on May 21, 2012 at 8:41pm It depends what I'm in the mood for.

Permalink Reply by Steve on May 21, 2012 at 10:55pm
Permalink Reply by smokedeels on May 22, 2012 at 4:52pm Can I vote for The Kinks?
Permalink Reply by The Pygmies on May 22, 2012 at 7:15pm If I had to choose I'd go with The Beatles. Though I love (Brian Jones era) Stones.
Bob Spitz does a good job covering the early years of the Beatles (Ringo doesn't even appear until about half way through, and the book is 1000+ pages). They were definitely a lot rougher than their Fab Four image. Great stories about John bangining 15 year old twins, Brian Epstein having to get doctors to deal the with the lad's VD, and Paul having to leave town to avoid the angry father of a girl he knocked up. Good read!

Permalink Reply by swt on May 22, 2012 at 10:00pm Not true. I grew up in the 60s listening to and loving both and so did most the people I knew. I never even heard this either/or absolutism until nearly 20 years after The Beatles broke up.
Now that I'm older, I like The Animals better than either.
RJFait said:
It's funny that you ask this. I've always said, there are 2 kinds of people, Beatles and Stones, and they don't mix well. I am definitely Stones, my wife is Beatles. If only I'd asked 11 years ago...
Permalink Reply by RJFait on May 22, 2012 at 10:06pm Hey thanks. If you hadn't just taught me that opinions don't matter, I might have had another one.
swt said:
Not true. I grew up in the 60s listening to and loving both and so did most the people I knew. I never even heard this either/or absolutism until nearly 20 years after The Beatles broke up.
Now that I'm older, I like The Animals better than either.
RJFait said:It's funny that you ask this. I've always said, there are 2 kinds of people, Beatles and Stones, and they don't mix well. I am definitely Stones, my wife is Beatles. If only I'd asked 11 years ago...

Permalink Reply by swt on May 22, 2012 at 11:36pm Don't mind me. I'm just old and cranky. Now get off of my lawn.
Permalink Reply by Modern Convenience on May 24, 2012 at 10:45am I would have to say the stones hands down
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