it's a pretty bizarre measure of serious musicianship if you think about it for even a minute. like, suddenly virtually all classical musicians aren't real musicians. neither is Louis Armstrong. nor most folk musicians who play traditional music.
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"why doesn't my favorite prog rock shredder technician get the respect they deserve" the tweet
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The Beatles codified this, but it's a change that was always going to happen with the advent of recorded music. Virtuosity was suddenly accessible to everyone and once one great performance existed it didn't really need to be repeated.
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What could be new, and of course what could be sold as being new, was the song. Live music is the opposite: there are tons of great songs and what's unusual is being able to play them effectively.
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I feel like you're using the Beatles as a synecdoche for 60s rock because they're the modern face of it. You could blame Bob Dylan or the Beach Boys as easily. Consider white 50s rockers & British blues & the questions of authenticity around them. It was a genre-wide issue.
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sure. Dylan's certainly important too. I think the Beach Boys have had much less influence here. (though they're great.)
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I’ve never thought of the Beatles as punk, but ... yeah.
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That’s not even true. The wrecking crew, mussel shoals musicians were virtuosos. They “wrote” their own parts to other ppl’s original music. While the Beatles were happening. The voice is an instrument. Virtuosos like Aretha Franklin don’t count? Stevie wonder?
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They wrote their own music and were virtuosos This bad take is about only white music? Not understanding, why make such a strange assumption?
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Paul McCartney's bass lines were excellent. Even John Lennon said more people needed to be aware of that skill (while he belittled much else about Paul in that same 1980 interview).
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