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Post by billhammond on Oct 6, 2023 17:16:29 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Oct 6, 2023 17:32:53 GMT -5
Such a perfect song. It occurred to me today that we may be losing the Beatles. I am not aware of their being popular in the XYZ generations, only Ringo and Paul are left, and the Boomers are dying off. Their music is played only on oldie stations, themselves a vanishing entity.
It would be such a shame if their incredible musical and cultural legacy were to gradually vanish.
Should we be worried?
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Post by Dub on Oct 6, 2023 17:46:33 GMT -5
What? Me worry? I’m not worried. There are lots of young people who embrace good music from any bygone era. |
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 6, 2023 17:46:49 GMT -5
Well, we haven't lost Eddie Lang or Bob Wills or Stephane Grappelli. . . .
Hell, I can point you to Eddie Lang accompanying Ruth Etting in a movie so obscure that I've never seen the whole thing.
YouTube has many pathologies, but it also is like a free museum.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 6, 2023 17:54:32 GMT -5
Well, we haven't lost Eddie Lang or Bob Wills or Stephane Grappelli. . . . Hell, I can point you to Eddie Lang accompanying Ruth Etting in a movie so obscure that I've never seen the whole thing. YouTube has many pathologies, but it also is like a free museum. Well, lots of stuff is accessible online via YouTube and other venues. My larger point is that I wonder what the Beatles' body of work will represent once all the Boomers have kacked. My dottirs appreciate and love the Fab Four from hearing them so often in the car and at home when they were kids, but I doubt they own any recordings of them. |
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Post by John B on Oct 6, 2023 18:11:39 GMT -5
No one owns recordings anymore, Bill.
Ringo and Paul are both selling out tours and releasing new music. I suppose I listen to about 15-20 hours of the Beatles channel every week, and although it's a biased channel I get the sense that the listening audience is larger than just me and a bunch of old people.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 6, 2023 18:21:09 GMT -5
No one owns recordings anymore, Bill. Ringo and Paul are both selling out tours and releasing new music. I suppose I listen to about 15-20 hours of the Beatles channel every week, and although it's a biased channel I get the sense that the listening audience is larger than just me and a bunch of old people. Ringo just played at a casino here and referred to the Beatles as "that other band" in deference to his backing band, and performed more covers of other groups than Beatles songs. I am not aware of what Paul's shows are like these days. I realize no one buys recordings anymore -- I guess what I'm wondering is how many online hits or listens the Lads will get once the Boomers are gone. |
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 18:46:18 GMT -5
My kids love the Beatles.
And the Beach Boys, Mamas and Papas, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Harry Chapin, Tom Paxton, Stan Rodgers, Blondie...
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Post by John B on Oct 6, 2023 19:33:37 GMT -5
No one owns recordings anymore, Bill. Ringo and Paul are both selling out tours and releasing new music. I suppose I listen to about 15-20 hours of the Beatles channel every week, and although it's a biased channel I get the sense that the listening audience is larger than just me and a bunch of old people. Ringo just played at a casino here and referred to the Beatles as "that other band" in deference to his backing band, and performed more covers of other groups than Beatles songs. I am not aware of what Paul's shows are like these days. I realize no one buys recordings anymore -- I guess what I'm wondering is how many online hits or listens the Lads will get once the Boomers are gone. Ringo's All Starr Band includes: Steve Lukather - Toto, amazing session guitarist all over the charts in the 80's Colin Hay - Men At Work Edgar Winter - The Edgar Winter Group Warren Ham - Kansas, Toto Hamish Stuart - Average White Band Gregg Bissonette - David Lee Roth, Steve Lukather, every single episode of Friends His modus operandi for the past several decades has been to feature songs from every person in the band, whose membership requirements include having been a member of a group with at least one (?) charting hit. He has always sung his Beatles songs in concert; but how many lead vocals did Ringo have? I don't think he wants to either (1) sing John, Paul and George songs or (2) have someone else singing those songs. |
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Post by epaul on Oct 6, 2023 19:41:15 GMT -5
To the point, I think "Here, There, and Everywhere" is the Beatles prettiest song. Prolly tied with "Yesterday" for my favorite. Both melodies are so sweet and neat.
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Post by John B on Oct 6, 2023 19:41:16 GMT -5
For Paul McCartney's most recent tour (he's hitting the road again this year):
Got Back (2022) Box Office
Total Revenue $105,077,787
Total tickets sold 423,659
Average revenue per show: $6,567,362
Average Tickets sold: 26,479
Average ticket price: $248.02
No. of Shows: 16
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Post by John B on Oct 6, 2023 19:42:00 GMT -5
To the point, I think "Here, There, and Everywhere" is the Beatles prettiest song. Prolly tied with "Yesterday" for my favorite. Both melodies are so sweet and neat. There are SO many candidates, but I think I have to go with "Something." |
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Post by billhammond on Oct 6, 2023 19:57:50 GMT -5
Another stunner:
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 6, 2023 20:07:17 GMT -5
Mike
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 6, 2023 22:49:20 GMT -5
This joke is pretty old: "You mean McCartney was in a band before Wings?"
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Post by millring on Oct 7, 2023 5:02:34 GMT -5
It's pretty hard for the art of one generation to maintain meaning in subsequent generations. In fact, I think it's improbable. It may maintain even a high level of popularity, but it doesn't mean the same thing to the next generation as it did to the generation that produced it. Usually, anyway.
But if any of our music endures, the Beatles will be among the most prominent. KC and the Sunshine Band probably less so.
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Post by martinfever on Oct 7, 2023 7:33:32 GMT -5
Yes It Is.
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Post by drlj on Oct 7, 2023 7:36:51 GMT -5
I worry that all my Charleston dance 78s won’t be as popular in 20 years.
Beyond that, I don’t give it a thought.
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Post by Marshall on Oct 7, 2023 8:19:25 GMT -5
Somebody famous (can't remember who) groused recently that after 55 million streams on Spotify they got a check for $1,700.
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Post by dradtke on Oct 7, 2023 10:24:48 GMT -5
I worry that all my Charleston dance 78s won’t be as popular in 20 years. Beyond that, I don’t give it a thought. LJ, is that you on the left? |
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