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Originally Posted by billywatson
Now I love The Beatles as much as anyone...but, um, they didn't invent "everything", nor did they do "everything first".
You might wanna start at Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, and Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry.
Then, back up to all the blues dudes, which are too numerous to list here.
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Quiet there whippersnapper. LOL But I know what you mean and of course you're correct. I wasn't really talking the roots of rock, or the blues or jazz either. More like, from 1963 on until they split in '70, they did everything first with the possible exceptions of Dylan (words) and The Byrds (Dylan's words + jangle, tho it can be argued Buddy Holly beat them to it). But in terms fo their contemporaries, they did (almost) everything before anyone else of their generation: distortion, multi-loops, vocal distortion, instrumentation, on and on....plus, you can dance to it (mostly). LOL
Oh don't get me started.....
