Well, it must be a new year 'cause I agree with GfinS...*g*...

I mean, yeah, yeah yeah (sorry, couldn't resist, Capt'n) music had become predictable with surf music and Mo-town... Not alot of hooks in either tho some of the surf music had memorable ones ("Wipe Out" being one)... Seems that the Beatles were able to shuffle the chords just right so that almost all of their songs had a hook... That was very refreshing... And they we're ashamed to let the guitar do alot of the talkin' with some very creative (for those times) intros ("Paper Back Writer")...

Lookin' back, they certainly raised the bar and cleared the way for the Stones, Kinks, Doors, Zeppelin, Yardbirds, Cream, etc..

I think back thru my journey in music from starting out playing a 3 piece drum kit usin' brushes on the snare doing 50s stuff (remember those days) to playin' Dylan music on an old acoustic in the 60s to a Tele by the end of the 60s and, and , and... I mean, music has definitely been evolutionary and there have been these bands/musicians who over the years are/were the steppin' stones to where we are now...

Sure, thanks to the Beatles the 60s had its fair share of stepping stones... As did the 70s... The 80s (IMHO), not so many but then another generation of musicians came along in the 90s to rescue us from disco/musac...

So, like them or not is a matter of personal choice... But no one can deny they impact they had on music... We really owe most of everything that came after to them...

Well, that's the way I see it...

B~