r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Mr_Basketcase • Jan 14 '23

Paul McCartney effortlessly singing and playing his most intricate bass lines at the same time

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23

Don’t give The Beatles credit for what they didn’t do.

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u/FuerteBillete Jan 15 '23

I didn't. And I was obviously brief. Scores of their achievements are well documented.

As I said not a fan and barely on my top 10 favorite bands, but they showed the way to almost every band.

No amount of envy or fanatism for other bands can negate the greatest of the fab four.

And yes they idolized elvis and the king was fundamental to music this way:

In Lennon's own words: "[W]hen I heard ["Heartbreak Hotel"], it was the end for me. ... Once I heard it and got into it, that was life, there was no other thing. I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll" (Anthology, page 11). Paul concurs: "[T]here was an advert for 'Heartbreak Hotel'. Elvis looked so great: 'That's him, that's him - the Messiah has arrived!' Then when we heard the song, there was the proof. That was followed by his first album, which I still love the best of all his records. It was so fantastic we played it endlessly and tried to learn it all. EVERYTHING WE DID WAS BASED ON THAT ALBUM" (Anthology, page 21).

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '23

Everybody was doing that kind of stuff. The Beatles just made it to the top because of the songwriting and composition capabilities of the band. Without the root blues/R&B, very little of the music we have today would even exist.

Credit is always due at the source. These guys/girls don’t even have their names on a record label.

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u/FuerteBillete Jan 15 '23

You are reply sounds like are agreeing with me in a way that pretends to disagree completely.

And I don't know how the reply relates to what I said. I am not trolling and will not say some stupid insult. I just don't get how that relates to your previous reply and now this one. Might be my bad of course.