blastingas10

The Stones weren't influenced by the Beatles, really? What about the song "I wanna be your man"?

I'm not so sure that chuck could play the pants off of the Beatles, and even if he could, the Beatles had a lot more versatile "pants" than chuck did.

NYSPORTSFAN

I agree with you and Neopolitan can have his opinion.

People like Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, and Ned Rorem praised their music, and it was unheard of for classical composers of that stature to say anything good about rock music.

Pretty much every jazz musician can play rings around the majority of rock musicians. Does that make jazz music "better" than rock music? Not if you're not a fan of jazz. There are no absolute standards in music, only relative ones. The best music is the music you like the best.

The Beatles, to a man, played with a remarkable level of "feel", which is the sort of skill that non-musicians have difficulty grasping, let alone quantifying. They were extraordinarily attuned to playing (and singing) as a unit. They played together as a group, not as four individual musicians, and unless you've spent a fair bit of time playing in musical groups, you have no idea how rare and precious a skill that is.