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12/04/2003 5:24 am
Man, I can study guitar techniques and burn my hand to dust. Listen to amazing guitarists to improve my techniques and hammer some ideas into my head. But when it comes down to it and when I've got to rewind and sit alone small-pupil eyed it's the Beatles that really takes me away. It's so different it's incredible. There's no word for it except
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12/04/2003 4:53 pm
Their songwriting skills were really great, there's a lot to learn about chords and melody by digging into their repetiore.
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12/04/2003 8:56 pm
As Paul McCartney once said, "You look at the Beatle's career and it's like looking at Picasso's career. You go 'man, that was good.'" Perhaps a little egotistical, but he earned the right, I'd say.
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12/05/2003 1:31 pm
How can one not love The Beatles?

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12/05/2003 1:44 pm
Yeah,how can you not?
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12/05/2003 10:32 pm
I love listening to the "White Album" and "Sgt Peppers..."
There sonwriting was great and their music was way ahead of their time.
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12/09/2003 12:21 am
I dont like the beatles...
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12/09/2003 2:01 am
You mean you've never bothered to listen to them before - for any number of reasons, quite possibly becuase it would clash with your image.

Anywhere close with that analysis? ..Because we all know there at least one Beatles tunes that everybody likes lol.
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12/09/2003 11:06 am
No... my parents love them... Ive heard pretty much everyone one of there songs.. but they just dont do anything for me. 'Let it be' is good, and .... well I only really like Let it Be :)
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12/09/2003 9:41 pm
What impact do you feel that George Harrison had on modern Rock Guitar? This guy was pre-Hendrix! :eek:
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12/09/2003 10:39 pm
I'm a big beatles fan- they got me started playing the guitar in the first place (just like they inspired almost everyone to play). I like George as a guitar player very much. He's one of the best. Like Ringo, he's not very technical with what he do, he doesnt play ga- billion notes per mili second and do 3 hour solos but his solos are so simple, exact, and full of emotion- its what matters.
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I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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12/09/2003 11:46 pm
Originally posted by Gainer
I love listening to the "White Album" and "Sgt Peppers..."
There sonwriting was great and their music was way ahead of their time.


Sgt. Pepper's was genius. "Day in the life" is my favorite Beatles song!
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12/10/2003 12:11 am
Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right. Then they hid away for a while and came up with music of a kind never heard before to win back the fans.

... I like the use of the bass in some Beatles tunes, it's like an actual instrument and not part of the percussion.
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12/10/2003 2:04 am
Originally posted by Axl_Rose
No... my parents love them... Ive heard pretty much everyone one of there songs.. but they just dont do anything for me. 'Let it be' is good, and .... well I only really like Let it Be :)

Maybe the reason you don't like The Beatles is because your parents love them. I know its the same case with me with lots of other things. For example, my parents are religious. I'm not, or atleast thats what I choose to tell them.

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12/10/2003 11:53 am
Originally posted by daveasdf
Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right.


I wonder about this too. When did they go from the "I wanna hold your hand" Beatles, to the "Strawberry Fields" drugged-out beatles? Were they just taking a cue from the civil unrest of the late 60's? Vietnam perhaps?
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12/10/2003 2:47 pm
I think it was around the time that they taught Dylan about electric guitars in exchange for his knowledge of LSD. This actually did happen....
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12/10/2003 4:04 pm
It was around Magical Mystery Tour that they started to get all phsychedelic.
My favorite 2 Beatles albums are the 2 transitional ones leading into the phsyc period....Rubber Soul and Revolver.
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12/10/2003 5:03 pm
Originally posted by daveasdf
Corect me if I'm wrong, but the Beatles didn't start coming out with decent music until Lennon dissed the religous folk, right.
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It's part of it. I believe they started coming up a lot of ttheir innovative stuff when they decided to stop touring and just be a studio band.
"Lets see… well I play the guitar and when I'm not playing the guitar, I think about playing the guitar. My other favorite instrument, is the guitar and if I aspired to play any other instrument, it would be the guitar...

I can’t sing so I sing through my guitar. So when the sound guy says: “Your guitar is too loud!” I think: "Why does he never say that to the vocalist?"
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12/10/2003 7:41 pm
Did he actually diss the religous folk?

I thought they were mad because he said something along the lines that the Beatles are bigger than Jesus Christ right now.


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12/11/2003 11:34 am
I never got into the Beatles myself and..I'm originally from Liverpool. Im not saying they were bad or overrated, they just didnt float my boat, nor for that matter do the Stones. It's just that to me the playing on many of their albums often sounds sloppy and that's something I cant deal with.


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