any new Beatle fans because of the remasters?

Most over rated group of musicians in history.

I have heard that they 'changed music history' so many times, but it still doesn't change anything. It is simply a case of the cart leading the horse. Critics, fans, and everyone else jumped on that Beatle bandwagon. Did they change history or did history change to accommodate their run of fame? Everyone loves a winner, especially when there is money to be made! I think they would have nothing if not for the American music they lifted and adapted. Yes, they had some great innovations, I do not deny this. But greatest composer/musicians in history? Hardly.

It is probably touchy because of the 50 or 60 beatle posts already on this site. I am so sick of the beatles! It has been beaten to death.

Rja: That line made me laugh so hard I spit tea through my nose. A job well done!

Yeah, I like some of the Beatles later material. I intensely dislike the early stuff.
I just think there was much better rock n roll from that period, and I think their influence is blown out of all proportion. But yeah, I like them all in all.

Well Mapman, I think you will find the answer to this puzzle in the great repositories of record companies like chess, king, and sun, and many others. You certainly won't find any trace of it in today's popular black music. However jazz IS still alive...

It is amazing how the R&B of that period sounds so much more alive than so much of its British counterparts.

Take blues artists such as Slim Harpo, Howlin Wolf, Otis Rush and Sonnyboy Williamson for example. Stack them against their British blues counterparts and I think there will be some black vinyl 12 inch frisbees flyin' out the window in a hurry!!! I listened to some John Mayall recently and had to turn it off and immediately cleanse my palate with a whole lot of chess material to get that whiney sound out of my head. As much as I give grief about the beatles, I can give triple that on the subject of Eric Clapton (most over rated guitar player in history). Remember "Clapton is god"?

In the early 80's there was a 3 or 4 volume set of vinyl (sold separately) called "British blues" or something like that. It has more or less obscure British blues acts like Stone's Masonry, Savoy Brown Blues band, and of course early not-very-obscure Fleetwood Mac (and some rare stuff in this set).

The Brit stuff is fine, for an imitation. It is great when musicians breathe new life into something and make it uniquely their own, but it is always best to hear it in context with the original. I think the English guys didn't really do anything truly original until at least the mid-sixties, and then blues became something entirely different. LSD had something to do with that....

When I was a kid I heard the British stuff first, then discovered the originals. At that point I threw my early Rolling Stones albums out with yesterday's trash!

When I was about 9 I used to run home from the schoolbus every day to play my copy of Savoy Brown's "Street Corner Talkin'". I played it so many times on my cheapo Laffayette compact stereo that I wore it out almost completely. I still love that album for sentimental reasons, and am looking for a good vinyl copy of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J65HA5D1SGA