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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1362065545' post='1995240'] I play the intro on that one as a 2 handed tap. It makes it fun. [/quote] I do the same thing :-)

I wouldn't put him on No 1 either but I have to admit that the bassline on "Save a prayer" is fantastic...every now and then he added some real cool licks in the Duran-songs (that cool slap in "Hungry like the Wolf", the bass in "Rio", etc..).

Still glad to read "Everyone in this top 60 is a gifted musician, but Paul McCartney changed the world" (I'll get me coat)

Saw her in the Graham Norton show and liked it from the very start...cool arrangement and sounded fresh.

Funny to notice that we all play the same songs...setlist don't vary a lot from those in Belgium :-) (except perhaps for Dakota)

Great songs, saw him live in Belgium years ago... Nice chords, not the sort of thing you can play along with from the first time.. Just learned to play "Easy" yesterday..

I know what you mean but sometimes these instrumentals are all about energy and adrenaline... King has proven to be a real groove player if he wants to (people seem to forget how good he is fingerstyle) but I can dig these instrumentals where it's all about "can he pull this off at that speed". If a track like this is followed by Kansas City Milkman, I'm ok with it.

Not only in the UK.... when Level 42 came on the scene it was a bomb in the face of every bassplayer in Belgium. He was the talk of the town... his influence around here was and is amazing. I've always been a huge fan (people can love McCartney (look at my avatar) ànd King, it's all great music which is uplifting)

Saw this on YT and love the way Mark approaches the original song (which had fretless)... very characteristic fills. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXsQqnoHKo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXsQqnoHKo[/url]

Every now and then I put "Tubular Bells" in the cd player and every time it's just pure joy..I can recall every note by heart even after all these years. I even liked that "disco" thing he recorded "Guilty" (excellent music for air guitar or air drums or air bass or air flute or....etc) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c61cM9Tgglc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c61cM9Tgglc[/url]

Guess it's the same in the UK as anywhere around here in Belgium, Holland, etc..... people going on in trying to convince people how right they are in endless posts. Tiring to read the same opinions as in the other Beatles thread as if some of us can't stand the idea that those four musicians changed music forever. Just putting a metronome next to all these geniusses-to-be in studio 2 in Abbey Road might make them a bit more humble.. I enjoyed the program a lot..On Belgian tv there is nothing to see for musicians (we have a political program in which a band is allowed to play one song, that's all there is in one week) so I turn to the BBC to see all these great things I miss.. You don't know how lucky you are to have shows like Jools and all these fine documentaries... beats Belgian chocolate in my opinion, I'm ready to trade.

Reminded me of something they said about Burt Bacharach songs : if you forget to play or neglect all those small things (a tiny organ, a special guitarlick, etc) your brain feels alienated since it is used to those personal fills. I experienced the same thing yesterday while watching : things The Beatles did were missing sometimes though these are essential to the feel of the song (like in Please Please me or Do You want to know a secret)

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1361001294' post='1979534'] Stereophonics great, although horrid drumming [/quote] Glad you noticed it too...

Loved Mick Hucknall too and have to admit that Graham Coxon did a rather nice version of "Baby, it's you" with his hands in his pockets. You're right about the Stereophonics, what a voice..

"I'm still not local !!"

Well.. as far as influence : I think I have an argument which you don't have. I'm Flemish speaking and I learned English through Beatles records (I sat down with the red and the blue double album and started typing and writing the lyrics down and looked up the words which I didn't understand). I wouldn't have learned my English as quickly if they hadn't been around. It may be very normal to you but imagine that The Beatles were a French band and you would have to learn that language to understand them, then you would be in my world.. Consider yourself fortunate that you had this amazing band which you were able to understand..I couldn't in the beginning. I sang "Sheladooyeah yeah yeah"..

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1360921344' post='1978272'] I've been afeared to post on this subject as I'm not a musician, cannot read music, I know nothing of musical theory and do not want to be accused of trolling, stirring things up, being facetious or patronising. However, I started to attempt to play guitar in 1962 and could make a pretty fair fist of all the old rock'n'roll 3 chord 12 bar numbers with my mates and could make a reasonable enough noise to play at school dances and youth club hops. Then along came The Beatles...... In those days there were no easy ways of cribbing songs where I lived - no Guitar Institutes, no YouTube, no tab and the few bits of published sheet music we got hold of for the chords were wrong (I think they may have been transcribed for piano?). So we used to buy the records and sit round a record player and work them out. This led to a lot of head scratching, argument and frustration but we finally got there most of the time. I remember that "All Your Lovin'" nearly ended up in a fist fight. We found chords, shapes and what I think are called inversions which we could not find on any chord charts or in books at the time, but they sounded right and worked. Even our school music teacher admitted to us, just the once, that what we were playing was complex but it really wasn't music. Now I'm old and even more ugly, I still use this technique for working out new numbers and I look back and compare some of the stuff pre and post Beatles and I can't help but be amazed (in my view) on what an influence they had. I understand that a massive amount of jazz musicians in the 1920/30s and a lot of 1950/60s beat/pop bands (including The Beatles) had no musical training, couldn't read a dot and knew of no theory but they made some wonderful and long lived songs. Anyone tried to work out joint chords and bass line for "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Something" on an acoustic guitar just using a 45" disc on a record player with no other aids? Try it, assuming you can't play it already - an interesting exercise...... Please do not take offence as none is intended from this dinosaur. [/quote] Great post to read...not only because the love for music is so present.

Recently I wanted to have a tattoo and I wanted to have something which had never let me down on any moment in my life and which made it "better" (also because I picked up a bass because of Paul McCartney) so The Beatles were the obvious choice. I can't do anything but smile when people put down The Beatles..I think they were amazing songwriters and great musicians. No one can ever take that away from me...I'll just have another listen to their albums although I don't have to be convinced. That great feeling when "Penny Lane" comes through on the radio late at night when you're feeling depressed and suddenly you feel better..

I've uploaded a couple of videos of me playing bass (I can't really solo so I just play some random stuff) but the only purpose is to give an idea what a certain bass sounds... Some basses which I want to buy have these great looks but I'm unfamiliar with the sound so it's helpful to find sounds on YT. There's only song I play along with but that was only because I found out that other vids weren't doing the job properly imo... Still it's great to have these YT bass players on the internet.. there used to be nothing and now there's too much :-) But in the end it's all about finding your own parts.. copying isn't the ultimate thing I'm aiming for. I used to do that a lot but after a while you try to find your own voice and then you start digging in that melting pot where everything went into since you started to listen to bass.

You start to wonder what's the difference between Fagen and Steely Dan records...