The Beatles; best band ever to live or first of a kind?

The Beatles.

A band who creates hundreds of songs that drove millions of people into craziness of loving their music. Within these four very talented men; they made millions of pounds through their ability to release a lot of albums in a short space of time, tour like crazy and generally lead hell of a life through this.

I'm NOT going to rant on too much about all of this because I don't know a HUGE amount about The Beatles (like one of my best mates, Lewis Salter) but I was talking to my ridiculously stubborn brother and seeing huge amounts of online forums who claims The Beatles are the 'best band to ever be around'.

Facts and statics prove that they were in fact probably the most loved band and easily the most successful band that has ever lived. The dealio I'm taking with this is that I'm not sure whether they can be claimed as the 'best' band to ever live. I have nothing at all against The Beatles (before any of you haters say! I like many of their songs) whatsoever but I don't think this can possibly be true because the advancement in technology, sounds, genres etc etc. I can totally understand why people loved them or still love them but I think for a band these days to release the amount of songs that The Beatles did these days is virtually impossible because of money, time, other commitments, competitors in the industry, etc etc. This brings me to my title, The Beatles were (NOT the 'ONLY') one of the first of their kind and I think this gave them a natural advantage over many bands these days. The Beatles made so much money and popularity off being one of the first bands of their kind (and don't get me wrong, being talented also). These days competition for being the 'best' band is now impossible because the amount of genres and in general, the amount of bands that are actually out there.

The thing I have against the opinion of The Beatles being the 'best' band to ever been out there is with the advancement of music. What I mean by this is that obviously music has developed and gotten better through growing which makes music itself a lot better in technical terms, (I'm NOT saying you have to like it more because music has grown). I'm not going to go on acting like I know everything about music, because I certainly don't, in fact, I don't know a HUGE amount about music, instruments, industry, etc, but I'm always learning new things. I'm looking at it from a general perspective. For example; Windows 7 is better than XP because it's newer, it has more features, it's grown, blah blah. That is fact but opinion has a say for what YOU personally want to use. Some people may love XP because they know it which is totally fair enough but as things grow, they become technically far more advanced opening up other avenues of things to go (or there would be no point in growing, right?!).

I think if you look at The Beatles music and then you look at music now and the amount you can now do more with guitars, drums and adding other things such as not just basic keyboards and pianos but things like synthesizers (and loads more), a lot more is now available to allow music to become bigger, larger and if you want to put it that way - 'better'. The Beatles had undoubted talent, I can promise you that I'm not attempting to tarnish The Beatles abilities but I think claiming that they're the 'best' band to ever live surely can't be right because of what is now available and do-able with instruments, computers, live performances etc. Yes, I do accept it comes down to personal opinions, of course. Some people prefer older things despite not being 'as advanced' but I think the key word in saying they were the 'best' band to ever live is 'best'. 'Best' is like saying the new Adidas football boots are better than the previous ones that were released (not opinion). If someone were to say to me 'I think The Beatles are my favourite band to ever live', then okay because that's fair enough, each and every person has a right to their opinion and so they should and you can't argue with something like that. It's not your right and you can't chose what other people want/like.

Overall, I think people claiming that they're the 'best' band to ever live doesn't add up because there are many bands who could come up with songs that are equally as good.. 'Quality' wise, anyway. I'm not saying it could be as popular or pulled off in the same way because without a shadow of a doubt that it wouldn't be as popular or pulled off in the same way but you see many, many bands who have arguably pulled off albums that include a lot wider range of how instruments are (or can be) played and different instruments that have been included.

Finally, just to reiterate so I don't piss people off or they get annoyed with me; I'm not trying to tarnish what The Beatles achieved or anything like that. Just simply as things grow and develop, they become more advanced resulting in being able to do something even better than before. I'm NOT saying you have to like it more just because it's advanced).

Exciting times ahead but coming to the end of a year I will never forget, no matter how long I live.

I haven't blogged in a long time and I think it's about time to speak to you all again.

To be honest, I have a fairly good reason to why I haven't blogged. My life has been going a million miles an hour with things going passed me without even noticing.

On the face of things, this seems like a bad thing but it's all been incredible.

A few things that have been going on is as I've mentioned many times on this blog is my band. I'm not going to lie, I haven't shown what I've promised.. Yet. This idea has now changed in a way that allows us to achieve what we need. This, is what I call the 'HOPE' project. 'HOPE' is something that I truly believe in, I want it to say everything about what has happened over the last year. I promise that if you hold on to my word, me and the guys WILL deliver this E.P. and our debut show. With time being such an issue, when we're together we want to make it the very best thing so when it comes out, I can basically say to everyone who has questioned us that this it and we're actually very serious about it.

Secondly, I'm embarking on probably the biggest thing that's come from a simple idea to a full blown production. 'Lost Boy' was an idea that popped to my head after being hugely influenced by the Skins series 2 Tony Stonem's storyline. I began writing a script just to get this idea on paper. College FMP began and I had ideas coming to my head, including a proper film blitzed with a music video and a rockumentary on my band, taking influence from Start The Machine. Eventually, I got told that I could make a short film from a script I was writing. Firstly, the idea seemed too big and I was worried that I could never achieve it due to time, money and many other constraints. After I drafted a few ideas, I finally snapped into my usual mind frame of when I want something bad enough and lock into a task, I can get it done. So, I began seriously writing up these ideas and after about 3 weeks of planning, endless storyboarding, script re-writes, character designs, casting, crew, etc.. Finally, things are now all systems go, beginning on Thursday and will be spending three FULL days shooting things, multi camera'ed and having an assistant director to this project in Alex Gocher, also my guitarist and to a degree my sounding board for any project that I embark on.. He knows I'm crazy so when I put an idea across to him, Gocher is used to hearing it from being a small idea and helping me grow it into a full idea.

Filming begins Thursday and it's being treated very much like how a real show, movie, anything is put on. Sets, microphones, camera's, etc. I get to work with Alex Gocher who makes a brief cameo appearance and get to act with Jade Lloyd and Chloe Solman. I look forward to working with these guys but even after the three full days of filming and working together, it's still far from over with post production. I literally cannot wait to show everyone because this isn't just a script that I roughed up together, it's something that really means to me and I put my heart into writing it. I really hope it can come out how I want it to in my head and I'll do everything I can in my power to allow me to produce it to it's full potential.

As the title suggests, it feels like only yesterday I was coming out of this shit hole period in my life and walking into my new life at college. Absolutely rad. This whole year has gone incredibly quick and I've achieved everything I wanted to; meet new people, draw on my new blank canvas, do something I genuinely love doing and have a complete new surroundings. I achieved this all which is the most amazing feeling ever (which is all related to my bands 'HOPE' project). The downside is that I cannot believe that it's almost over. I'm not afraid to admit that during this group of people in my media class I've become attached to and it's gonna be a huge downer when a lot of us go our own ways. I mean people are jumping up on to the level 3 course, including myself now but we're such a tight group, in some aspects it's a massive downer that we're moving on.

I went to my interview yesterday and I was sitting in the same corridor that I was sitting in before my first interview, I was so nervous and I felt so apprehensive but this time, I couldn't help to feel like I did when I first started.. Only less nervous. It's hard to explain but I do know that I'm gonna miss this bunch of friends because having the one full-time course, you are ALWAYS with them.. There's only a couple of hours in a college week where you're not with them so without sounding too cheesy, they become really like a second family.

Still look forward to looking onwards but I sure will miss these guys, not seeing them on a daily basis. Anyway, blahhh blahhh! x