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Originally Posted by AndrewG
Regarding their performances they lacked emotion at times and I regard them more like a boyband with an amazing song catalogue. For the emotion side I don't really buy the time (60s) excuse as we had Janis Joplin singing her guts out round that time too.
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The way they were marketed once they were beginning to become popular reminds indeed of a "boy band" but how many boy bands have played for several hours with hardly getting any sleep in bars full of sailors and hookers? Imagine the Backstreet Boys on the Reeperbahn.
I agree with the comment on Janis Joplin - amazing woman, no other female vocalist sang like that, except maybe Maggie Bell (Stone the Crows) and Annisette (The Savage Rose). But then again, The Beatles were primarily songwriters and stopped doing concerts in 1966 while Janis was a true
performer.