Indeed, i guess you could say it was Joneses production talent. You certainly know your shit.
I still think MJ and Elvis are pretty important musically though, but maybe they are overstated, you might be right. Id be interested in your stance on the Beatles and Hendrix.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 45644382 The Beatles were the right band at the right time. Prefabricated rock and roll had started to take over, and the entire genre was about to die off, and they revitalized it..and their Ed Sullivan appearance came at a perfect time (shortly after JFK was killed) when American audiences needed something fun and smile-worthy.
But they, too, received far more hype than they could ever live up to, and it went to their heads. But that hype gave them license to do whatever they wanted, and still have people dub it 'genius'. Had they called it quits at the end of 1966, I think the music world would be a far better place today.
Hendrix was the politically correct guitar hero for a generation of people high on pot and acid and down on Western civilization. He was an offensive, incoherent noisemaker who would be completely unknown if he hadn't burned his guitar on stage. He wasn't worthy of so much as scrubbing Chet Atkins' toilet.
The sadly overlooked 60's band (in terms of actual artistic merit) is the Beach Boys...and Brian Wilson was *THE* genius of the rock and roll era.
