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"There was a moment in time where the Beatles had the opportunity and they seized it. I don’t know that there had ever been that moment . . . they were the ultimate pop band but they had the vision to go, No, there’s more than that. "I watched the Beatles transform record by record. It kind of coincided with my life and my taste. I mean, I loved every record. Once it got to Rubber Soul and Revolver, I was really loving the change in direction with each record. "I remember when I heard 'I Want You (She’s So Heavy)' for the first time . . . I was frightened by it. It was so dark and heavy that it literally scared me. Everything about it was so different than anything they had ever done. And then it eventually became like my favorite song. It was so indicative of their journey from starting out as a pop band to becoming this force that changed history and changed music, and changed the music business. "When I go listen to the Beatles and even try to learn some of those songs now, they're even heavier than they were when I first heard them. That’s one of the things too that’s deceptive. Since I started listening to the Beatles before I knew how to play an instrument, I never thought of them from a musician’s standpoint, I only thought of them from a listener’s standpoint. And now when I go back and try to learn them, it's amazing to me how the songs are deceptively hard to figure out. "To me the Beatles stand alone, in the way that Miles Davis and Bob Dylan stand alone. What they did to music — what they did for music — can never happen again." --#WarrenHaynes #GovtMule #AllmanBrothers #TheDead #GuitarHero @TheWarrenHaynes #Songwriting #Beatles #TheBeatles #Influence #Evolution #GOAT Sources: Interview with Ken Dashow, 2019; SiriusXM, 2019