Beatle vs. Beatle

bum bum bum bum Lucy in the skiiiy with diamonds...

Whether it's understated genius, lazyness, or just crap drumming I'm not sure... Well actually I am but I'll keep that to myself.

I've found that I worshipped them, and then lost interest like many others. But as I continued my exploration into the world of music, I was amazed at how often it all came back to them. And no, I'm not talking about bands like Badfinger, Oasis and Supergrass that deliberately tried to imitate the band. I mean those elements of popular production and songwriting that we take for granted today, but really didn't exist before the Fabs. One example: Modern rock drumming as we know it. Rock drumming before Ringo was quite basic; sure there were a few good players but they were essentially interchangable. And the vast majority of drumming was totally austere. Then the beatles came along and made the drums an interesting and important element of the music in it's own right, fine tuning the part in every song. And drummers have been taking a queue from him ever since. Of course, he had his contemporaries like Ginger Baker and Mitch Mitchell. But they were very much coming from a jazz tradition; I think Ringo was one of the first to use a distinctly rock style of drumming.