The Beatles were 'The worst musicians in the world', apparently! The shock is... I get it!

Have you all watched "Get Back"? Paul comes in, tired. Sits down. Starts faffing on the bass. 10 mins later, a riff is starting to appear. Then he suddenly sings, "Get back!". George and Ringo join in. George joins in on guitar. Ringo starts drumming. John comes in and he joins in. All the parts start to come together (right now). A few days later, "Get Back" is recorded and it's #1 in UK for 17 weeks. #1 in 15 countries. Quincy Jones can bugger off.

I'm an ex session player .... I'm " technically" better than all my heroes. But I didn't innovate or write any hit records ...Ego is a hell of a thing.

I met Quincy Jones on a flight into Washington, DC. We were both sitting in the front of the plane and as we landed and were disembarking he dropped an old leather portfolio full of music sheets. The paper was strewn all over the floor on the plane. I felt sorry for him and stopped to pick up the sheets to help him. Instead of being grateful he screamed at the top of his lungs at me yelling “DON’T TOUCH THAT!” I looked at him and shrugged my shoulders as if to say “Have fun picking up your paper pal!” And walked off the plane. Needless to say, I came away from the experience thinking he was a royal jerk! It doesn’t surprise me that a guy like him couldn’t keep his rude opinions to himself!!

With all due respect to Q, he's about the last producer I'd ever want working on a rock and roll record.

I work in a music store, and there's a joke we tell: "The difference between a jazz musician and a rock musician? A rock musician plays 3 chords to 3,000 people, while a jazz musician plays 3,000 chords to an audience of 3 people. :-))

I remember reading an interview of Paul McCartney a few years back. Paraphrasing the gist of it... he was playing Guitar Hero with his granddaughter and she was smoking him. In typical 10 year old girl style, she picked up the nuances of the game fast and was teasing her grandpa that she was better. At which point it looked at her and said, "Yeah, well I wrote all these songs." Game Over. So basically Quincy has the maturity of a 10 year old girl.

I was working from home on Monday, decided to have a Beatles day, played back to back records for eight hours straight. It was an absolute joy from beginning to end, that's what music should be.

My goodness, I can’t imagine my musical world, or popular music in general, without The Beatles, I certainly can’t say the same about Quincy!

Glenn Campbell was a monster player

The craziest part of this video is finding out Buddy Rich said Glen Campbell was a poor musician. The man was a member of The Wrecking Crew & universally acclaimed by fellow guitarists.

McCartney himself in an old Beatles interview from the sixties admitted they were not great musicians but they described themselves as just adequate. When asked why he thinks the fans love their music, he replied I guess they love adequate music.

I appreciate how fair and non judgemental you are. So refreshing and nice.

"Worst musicians in the world." That is ridiculously stupid to say.

Quincy Jones saying that is the jazziest quote I ever heard. I even met many jazzmen in my musical journey who pretended to be able to write an entire Beatles album in one night. They never composed one interesting song to this day.

Creating a great melody and harmony that is interesting, original, and conveys emotion is much more challenging than a technical showcase. If you can do both, that's even more impressive, but many of the "shredders" seem incapable of the former.

I remember Steve Vai said something like this: You can be a good player, but creating music is another different muscle. Even Al dimeola made a CD Tribute to the Beatles... He is a fan... We are not worthy

Seems like a silly, attention seeking, argument from Quincy. It's akin to criticizing the world's best author for being a mediocre typist.

It's completely different styles of music. You don't expect a Rock & Roll musician to excel at Jazz, just like you don't expect a Country singer to excel at Opera. They all require different skills.

Exceptional video, well done mate! I have to say that the nuances between being a instrumentalist and a singer songwriter are totally different, and something that most fans and musicians don't really appreciate. it is also the difference between communicating and showing off. Absolutely love this video and will quote it in a response video, I will do this week on my tiny channel. Great job on explaining all of this in a fair, concise and clear way.

In one of the Miles interview, John, when asked about their instrumental ability, said they were "average, just average," but that Paul was one of the "most innovative bass players ever."