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Originally Posted by Sir Huntington
LOL I've heard this my entire life even from my own father and his generation. I grew up with that generation of music cuz it was my dad's music, I've never heard any R&B or blues on the same level as rock. It's more like an evolution of the music cuz it's not the same music at all.
They definitely got influenced but rockers from that generation including Hendrix evolved the music and lit fire under their own ass to grow. If it was just imitation it would just dead ended, instead they lit that rocket and landed on another planet with their music.
You have a point, in that the Stones, though always essentially an R&B act (and Sir Mick has always sung in a fake American accent, which the Beatles decided to stop doing -- which makes quite a difference, you know), also imitated the Beatles. Their second hit was a Lennon-McCartney cover, I Wanna Be Your Man. They did it proud, too, but it was a Beatles cover.
And throughout the Sixties, the Stones were always playing catch-up with the Beatles, never the other way around. In April '63 the Beatles dropped in on the Rollin' Stones' regular gig at the Station Hotel, Richmond (the Stones didn't use the G on 'Rolling' at that time) and the Stones were flattered as heck and had a few drinks with the Beatles afterwards and the Beatles invited them to their Albert Hall gig the following Thursday. And Jagger, Richards and Jones carried the Beatles' guitars into the Albert Hall to get out of buying tickets. No question who was top.
Even in '66, the Stones' album Aftermath wasn't up to Rubber Soul or Revolver, and Jones admitted it was because their music 'wasn't very original.' In January '67, Between the Buttons peaked at No.3 and was likened by the band's biographer Philip Norman to 'a vaudeville show in an almost empty hall.' And a few months later the Beatles released Sgt Pepper, which I'm not mad about, but it created an enormous impact and made the Stones look dusty. In July the Beatles hit No.1 with All You Need Is Love and in August the Stones tried to copy them with We Love You and got consigned to No.8.
And in '69, the inclusion of the London Bach Choir on You Can't Always Get What You Want was due to Mick trying to copy the anthemic effect of Hey Jude. The Stones reached great heights, and since the Beatles broke up they have clearly been the biggest and best band in the world. But they were propelled to those heights by the Beatles. You can call the Beatles twee, you can cite John's view of 'Paul's granny music' -- the songs that even your granny liked, which is uncool -- but the Stones only became what they are because of the Beatles. And not the other way round.
Last edited by 57 On Red; 10-28-2018 at 02:59 PM.