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To: eddie willers
Yep....I'm saying without them, Rock and Roll would have never have matured into "ROCK", there would have been no Who, Stones, Traffic, or Steely Dan etc.

Oooh, I'd love to hear Jagger or Townshend say they wouldn't have made the music they did without the Beatles.

The good stuff follows a straight line from Memphis TN and Muscle Shoals AL to Sun Records and The Rolling Stones; and from blues artists like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters to Led Zeppelin and heavy metal. Do you think the Yardbirds got more influence from the Beatles? Or did they get it from guitar greats Albert King, Howlin Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, etc.?

And I'd love to see musical lines of influence drawn from the Beatles to Traffic. The idea of it baffles me...it sounds almost silly.

153 posted on 11/17/2003 4:50:18 PM PST by Petronski (Everybody calm down . . . eat some fruit or something.)
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To: Petronski
Whoa, that bit I said about connections from the Beatles to Traffic....scratch that. I wasn't thinking of Traffic, I was thinking of someone else. In fact the Traffic sound started out openly copying guitar rifts from psychedelic Beatles stuff.
163 posted on 11/17/2003 4:56:22 PM PST by Petronski (Everybody calm down . . . eat some fruit or something.)
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To: Petronski
Do you think the Yardbirds got more influence from the Beatles?

No....they, and everyone else you mentioned, got Air Play.

Capish?

170 posted on 11/17/2003 4:59:40 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Petronski
BTW... The Rolling Stones first hit was Ringo's "I Wanna Be Your Man".
174 posted on 11/17/2003 5:00:55 PM PST by eddie willers
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