VK>Re: Beatles Rule!
VK>> MH>The Beatles basically invented ProgRock...no matter how you look at 
it.
VK>> No, I can't concur there, although I LOVE the Beatles, but Prog-rock is
VK>> just a few steps further than where the Beatles went, IMHO.  They
VK>> started to make the turn, but then they backed up, and reverted.  They
VK>> were great though, whatever they did, and I concur, they "rule".
VK>Exactly where in there recording carrer did they make that turn?!
The turn off the path-to-Prog-Rock started during the White Album
Sessions and came to completion in the "Get Back" sessions, which were a
blatent attempt to return to roots-rock.  The only other album they did
after that was "Abbey Road," which Paul asked George Martin to produce
"Like we did in the old days....."  And that was it, no more Beatles.
And if we listen to all the solo Beatles' projects from then on, there's
nothing "progressive rock" about their music.  And once there ws a
definte Progressive Rock scene in the early 70's, John, Paul, George, &
Ringo had no part in it.  They did Rock, Pop, Pop-rock, whatever, and in
Ringo's case some country.  In the 70's, none of them WANTED to do
Prog-Rock; they had their own agendas, their own genres, their own
things, man.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, but the 4 solo Beatles
in the 70's did music much more in the mainstream than those bands we
considered Prog-Rock, such as Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Genesis,
etc.
VK>Without them music would be nowhere today.
Now that is nonesense.  Good music would still have been made.  There
was good music before the Beatles, there was good music after the
Beatles, and I don't want to burst your bubble but not EVERY musician
was influenced by the Beatles; jazzers even considered them naive &
primitive.  History was kind to the Beatles.  There was an element of
the "Right place, right time" syndrome in their success story too, and
Geeeeeorge Harrison himself will thell you that in his opinion a lot of
the early stuff they did was rubbish.  Hell, their first album for
EMI, "Please Please Me," was recorded in a day.
Having said all that, let me make it clear that I am a HUGE Beatles fan;
I love 'em.
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