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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2006 at 07:19
Originally posted by RoyalJelly RoyalJelly wrote:

     I hate to resuscitate this tired topic once again, but I found such an
interesting quote today, I had to reproduce it here. If anyone had any
doubts of the importance of the Beatle's influence on the main creators of
progressive rock, this may dispell them:

"The multiplicity of levels evident in Beatles music continued to be an
ideal that haunted Fripp in composing Lizard, even if he wasn't interested
in copying the Beatles' style per se. "The only thing that worries me," he
said, "is that perhaps it [Lizard] won't be given enough of a chance. We've
made it so that the 24th time things'll really begin to go Zap. At the same
time, when the album starts it should really hit you, so that you'll think
perhaps there's something worth getting into." The problem here - I said
something like this already - is that the Beatles managed to make their
music likeable and infectious and seductive and entrancing on the first
hearing; by the twenty-fourth hearing you were into the subtleties, but
you listened to it twenty-four times because you wanted to."

from Eric Tamm's book on Fripp


Interesting quote. I'd also like to add this one from VdGG's David Jackson -
"I remember vividly Sgt Pepper coming out - there was this incredible buzz of sheer disbelief. Wherever you went people would be playing it.Suddenly with this astonishing music anything seemed possible"

I think people are missing two things in this debate about the Beatles on ProgArchives -
1) the impact the Beatles had on music at the time. You may think Sgt Pepper is just a normal pop album now, but only people who are old enough will be aware of the effect it had in 1967 (see above quote).
2) the Beatles are here not because they are a prog band but because of their influence on prog.
This is my last word on the subject.

Possibly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 01:39

Proto-Prog is a pretty clear term, and The Beatles being a very big influence on the genre theres no reason why Deep Purple should be mentioned here and not them, and Proto-Prog dosent really mean prog anyway, just the music that preceeded it, its good for this site, it is to help people learn more about progs history and influences.

That being the case, maybe we should add some neo-romantic/impressionist composers and jazz virtuosos to the archives?

j/k



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2006 at 10:44
Sorry to bring this one up again.

I don't have any doubt that the Beatles influenced a whole lot of bands and gave a new dimension to rock music.
Yet, looking at their music only I find it OK, maybe even good, but nothing that great to get excited about. And really nothing that great to call it the best band ever.

So, I mean the Beatles started it all, but didn't it get soo much better afterwards? Yes and KC in my opinion are miles ahead of them.
Am I too young (17) too fully appreciate them?

(btw, I'm not saying anything against their inclusion on the archives, don't get me wrong!)
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