Your Most Overrated Bands

[Blackened Soul]

Okay then.. Adding Rush to the list....

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Muse

[PeteeBee]

I used to think The Beatles was overrated, but then I started listening to The Beatles...

I used to think the Beatles were overrated, then my kids got into the show Beat Bugs. Now we sing a bunch of their songs together and they're interested in learning them on guitar. I still like the Beat Bugs versions more than the beatles though

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Just catching up on all the Quincy Jones stuff, he seems to agree about The Beatles and Hendrix lol

Wasn’t Hendrix supposed to play on Gula Matari?
He was supposed to play on my albumApparently, Hendrix was supposed to lend guitar work to Jones’s 1970 album Gula Matari, which arrived at a time when the guitarist was expanding his musical vocabulary beyond rock and blues and into jazz and funk. Sadly, he didn’t get far, dying of asphyxiation in September of that same year. and he chickened out. He was nervous to play with Toots Thielemans, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Roland Kirk — those are some scary motherfuckers. Toots was one of the greatest soloists that ever fucking lived. The cats on my records were the baddest cats in the world and Hendrix didn’t want to play with them.

What’d you think when you first heard rock music?
Rock ain’t nothing but a white version of rhythm and blues, motherfucker. You know, I met Paul McCartney when he was 21.

What were your first impressions of the Beatles?
That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don’t even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and RingoJones arranged a version of “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for Starr’s 1970 solo debut album Sentimental Journey, which was produced by the Beatles’ frequent collaborator George Martin. The song, and album, are more than a bit gloopy. had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-j ... ation.html

[raj007]

^^Love it.

[sears]

Quincy Jones

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[actual]

I know it's a joke, but how is a guy who's done like a 1000 projects, including the best selling album of all time, and can do notation in his sleep, overrated?

[Lurker13]

By SUCKING, that's how.

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Right, Frank Sinatra, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Barry White AND BILL COSBY, to name a few, all suck. Suuuure.

[Lurker13]

That's right, all of them are TOTALLY overrated.

[Blackened Soul]

I know it's a joke, but how is a guy who's done like a 1000 projects, including the best selling album of all time, and can do notation in his sleep, overrated?

[actual]

Are you saying that you are not the world? That you are not the children?

NSFW: show

Cheesy as the song might be, it did raise a fuckton of money for a good purpose.
"The promotion and merchandise aided the success of "We Are the World" and raised over $63 million (equivalent to $141 million today) for humanitarian aid in Africa and the US."

[dubkitty]

it's a choice he's making...he's saving his own life.

[$harkToootth]

I know it's a joke, but how is a guy who's done like a 1000 projects, including the best selling album of all time, and can do notation in his sleep, overrated?

No joke, most people over look this, but I will always be grateful to Quincy Jones for producing MAD TV. Don't care what anybody says. So much comedic genius.