RE: Beatles Who and Scooby Doo

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

 >Would The Who, or any of the "British Invasion" bands really have happened 
in such a massive way if there'd been NO Beatles kicking down some doors and 
if it'd had been, say for example, the Beach Boys instead?  WHO KNOWS?? 
Let's not get twisted about this, let's be grateful for what we've had /got!

The Beatles definitely opened the doors of opportunity for British bands in 
the US.  I'd bet their managers set up the reception (the screaming girls 
and the hype), but it caught on, and a procession of bands followed that got 
the same reception.  It didn't really matter who they were or what they 
played, they got a chance, and it was a while before it sorted out who had 
staying power and who didn't.

The Beatles and The Rolling Stones appeared to take an early lead as far as 
being contenders went, likely because they were able to modify their style 
to appeal to young men as well as teenage girls, and to create something 
beyond that first bubble-gum pop that got them in.  The Beatles were always 
favored by moms as the cuter and more wholesome, and it was something of a 
shock to find later that they were drug users as much as the RS.  If you'll 
check around, Paul McCartney still has that squeaky-clean image, regardless 
of intervening time and events.

The Who brought up the rear guard of the British Invasion, arriving fairly 
late on the Smothers Brothers Show and then dropping pretty much out of 
sight until Woodstock, where they suddenly launched into music history.  It 
was the Seventies Who that captured the US, not the power-pop Sixties 
version.


keets

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