The Beatles - Now And Then (Official Music Video)

Permit me to scribble in an upsidedown hook over that 'period', and see if I can't turn it at least into a question mark (?):

2 selections of my favorites (somewhat comparable) from both respective artists, side by side:

 

Led Zeppelin ll is the album that got me into rock and roll. It’s like it just reached out and grabbed me by the throat, demanding that I listen.

 

This triggers another point for the Beatles imo--I'm surprised by their staying power so long after their breakup. I stil hear regularly, kids being totally ito the Beatles, year after year.

Zep's star has largely faded; Stones maintain a following but they're also around to nurture that flame (ditto Springsteen, who similarly surpises me with how many strong he meaintains his following--but again, still around to stoke the flames...).

...but for the Beatles to generate such a following so long after they broke upj (and members died)--truly impressive.

jmho/fwiw.

 

There is probably some Malcolm Gladwell-ism about their residency in Hamburg where all they did was play pub band stripper music on uppers for 12 hours a day for months at a time. They were probably the worlds greatest bar band before they got their recording break.

 

Probably? He expressly used the Beatles as one of his key examples in his landmark book, Outliers. (Maybe that's what prompted the association to you?)

 

Maybe? I listened to the audiobook like 20 years ago, give me a break haha.

 

Wasn't really busting your chops, just figured you'd probabl read it but not remembered, which was probably what prompted the association (though I had to ask, to allow for the possiblity that maybe I was missing sometihing, or misread your post).

 

Well, if any of you want to join me look into a second mortgage or perhaps the going rate for a kidney.....

6 tickets on pre-sale ended up being like $3,300. lol.

 

I thought you had to drive to Micanopy for those

 

I know, I remember nothing about the book TBH other than his thing about 1000 hours of reps or whatever

 

Whoa! I'm afraid I'll have to content myself with YouTube vids, and wait with baited breath to hear your review, and enjoy it vicariously through you.

(...but I'm sure it will be an excellent show, and worth every cent you paid for it. Dude's legend!)

 

You can throw in the Doors in that type too. Cut short by Morrison's death.

 

Ironically one of the reasons Peter Cetera left the band was because he hated all the horns.

 

Yeah, I think that was the second chapter, the first being all the hockey players born at the start of the calendar year. The Beatles got 10,000 hours in like 4 years because they were playing like 5 hour sets like every night.

 

George Strait the actor doesn't quite hold a candle to George the singer.

 

Yet he basically toured with orchestras until retiring a couple years back..