[QUOTE=Sparky812;13613645Bands didn’t tour, at least not like today. Touring has evolved into a massive industry and has become a requirement. Almost all artists/band spend months or years on the road either nationally or globally depeding on their popularity which takes away from their production of new material. New material is what keeps you current and on the radio, and on the charts.
It’s like trying to mount a comeback with each subsequent release every 2-4 years (or even longer in alot of cases).[/QUOTE]
The way I heard it was that musicians used to tour to support their record sales. Now they make records to promote their tours.
Yeah, where are the Earth, Wind, & Fires, the Sly & the Family Stones, the Commodores, etc. of today? Now it’s all solo rappers, solo R&B singers, and bass players.
Not only did they change the direction of music, they did it twice.
I wonder if the people who say the Beatles weren’t important can post their age, since anyone alive at the time could never think that. The only recent event I can see as similar to the Beatles coming to America the first time was Michael Jackson dying.
I’ve listened to rock and roll since about 1960, and it was in terrible shape before the Beatles, with lots of novelty records making the charts and manufactured groups. The Beatles didn’t use session men, and, more and more, wrote their own material. Notice how after they became big it became necessary for successful groups to write their own material, not even close to being true before.
Dylan was as important to music but nowhere as near popular. He made it possible for folksingers to break out of singing only traditional songs and, if they were daring, Woody Guthrie. And when Dylan returned to rock and roll, he helped enable the break from the old fashioned love song.