That’s exactly the same for me…

 

 

 

“…. He (Phil Lesh if The Greatful Dead) told me I had to hear Revolver by the Beatles. So I listened to it and I like it but I couldn’t name you a tune that’s on it. Sgt Pepper came out, and I heard A Day in the Life and I thought, wow, these guys are really remarkable, but it didn’t have any influence on me. They were really bright, intelligent musicians with a vast capability and enormous talent and a lot of charm. But Coltrane, I listened and said: ‘Wow, thank you very much, I’ve learned something.’ That never happened with rock and roll.”

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The Beatles were nice dudes who wrote nice tunes… but meant nothing to me.

Coltrane changed my life…

/Thomas, Bangkok listening to Reich ReMixed

 

 

Read Alexis Petridis interview with Steve Reich in The Guardian 1st March, 2013