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View Poll Results: Who was the most influential? | |||
The Beatles | 38 | 22.09% | |
Elvis Presley | 25 | 14.53% | |
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band | 102 | 59.30% | |
I'm going to make a case for someone else because I'm a moron | 7 | 4.07% | |
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09-15-2012, 10:14 PM | #166 |
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Only a Deejay would confuse the influence of these two artists.
Visit any Pro Audio/Engineering/Producing forum, whether it's Gearslutz or ProSoundWeb or Dave's Place or PSW and do a web search on Elvis or The Beatles. You'll get literally TEN MILLION threads about the Beatles, their recording process, overdubbing process, questions and answers from guys like Ken Scott and so on. You'll find very few about Elvis. Elvis was an AMAZING entertainer. He was and still is the coolest singer/frontman of all time, IMO. He's been copies but never duplicated. The man was a True Original. The Beatles, on the other hand, not only changed popular music forever, they changed the way popular music was recorded and delivered. From syncing up multiple four-track machines to Abbey Road to George Martin to their competitive nature (Sgt. Peppers was a direct response to Pet Sounds) to visiting the Maharishi to using acid to expand their minds, to the British Invasion to the introduction of Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and countless other "American" artists, The Beatles influence is unparalled. I could spend hours commenting on innovations in sound recording and songwriting as it pertains to The Beatles but I won't. This is not the proper forum. |
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Show me where your other examples changed the landscape of music... then or ever.
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But most importantly, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Why and who you ask? A&M Records. I'll leave it up to you who I'm referring to and how it changed the music business forever. |
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09-15-2012, 10:19 PM | #171 | |
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Some people here just argue so they can look smart in their own minds. Show me the Geffen Records album genius.
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How long have you been in this business that you don't know that Geffen broke Nirvana? JFC Dude, half the A&R people in this town were fired after Nirvana blew up because they had all heard Bleach and dismissed it as crap! Seriously, you're out of your element. If you'd like me to embarrass you, fine. That wasn't my original intention. |
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09-15-2012, 10:23 PM | #173 | |
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Jerry Moss is right up there with the Beatles and Elvis though. Seriously you and a few others should get a point now and then.
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It's gotta be the Beatles. You could probably spend hours talking about how they changed music.
And I would give a nod to the Beach Boys as well. I've heard various artists refer to them positively. To tie it back to the prog thread believe it or not... I've heard the keyboardist of Genesis, Tony Banks, mention the Beach Boys in interviews before. Obviously musically it would seem a million miles apart, but I've seen him mention how the Beach Boys would do musically complex things and make them sound very simple, among other things. So you never know. |
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I've seen stupid before... then I've seen CP morons fighting to the last possible point.
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I never claimed to know everything. If you can find where I did please enlighten all of us. I program 2 stations. One is in mid Illinois. The other is in Chicago. I do it from hicktown though so feel free to make your idiot assumptions.
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The genre was dead almost as quickly as it began. Alanis Morrisette had a bigger and longer lasting impact on the music scene than any of the Seattle bands. Soundgarden disbanded in 1997 after a lackluster release, Pearl Jam's appeal faded dramatically after Vs. and Nirvana died when Kurt died. "Grunge" is nothing more than a footnote in Rock & Roll history. You of ALL people should know that. The band that benefited the most from the "Alt/Grunge" era was Smashing Pumpkins and even they couldn't sustain it. |
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Nirvana killed poodle rock and make the 'punk' attitude in music main stream.
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Well, the guy IS an audiophile, by which of course I mean he diddles kids.
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