{"id":2267,"date":"2009-08-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-19T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:29:16","slug":"mal-evans-had-more-charisma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mal-evans-had-more-charisma\/","title":{"rendered":"Mal Evans Had More Charisma Than the Lesser Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otSs3hVH8HU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I love The Rolling Stones, but when confronted with the all-important <em>Are you a Beatles or a Stones guy?<\/em> signifier, I go with The Beatles without hesitation. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a &#8220;comic book guy.&#8221; Rock &#8216;n roll has always been my comic book scene. I know some of you crossed over to rock from the comic book scene. That&#8217;s cool, but my super heroes have always been drawn from rock &#8216;n rollers and athletes &#8211; &#8217;70s baseball players, in particular. The Beatles may have had more Rock Super Powers than any band in history. The only thing they were lacking was a magnetic manager, although <strong>Brian Epstein<\/strong> was dedicated and tragic enough of a figure to fit into a super power dynamic. <\/p>\n<p>The Rolling Stones, which at best contained maybe 3 super heroes combined out of six or seven key characters (Jagger and Richards claiming a full share each with Brian Jones and Andrew Loog Oldham splitting a share in the early days), were never a match for The Beatles among rock fans seeking comic book-worthy super powers. Hell, Beatles&#8217; lackey <strong>Mal Evans<\/strong> had more charisma than most of the Stones! Perhaps it&#8217;s no suprise that a lot of rock &#8216;n roll fans who call themselves <em>Stones guys<\/em> also have a childhood past collecting comic books. The comic book kids got their money&#8217;s worth of super powers before turning to rock.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who appreciate bands chock full of Rock Super Powers, <em>what bands do you think rival The Beatles for top-to-bottom Rock Super Power strength?<\/em> One band that immediately comes to mind for me, despite my not liking much of their music (sometimes that&#8217;s a secondary concern), is <strong>Cheap Trick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love The Rolling Stones, but when confronted with the all-important Are you a Beatles or a Stones guy? signifier, I go with The Beatles without hesitation. I&#8217;ve never been a &#8220;comic book guy.&#8221; Rock &#8216;n roll has always been my comic book scene. I know some of you crossed over to rock from the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mal-evans-had-more-charisma\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}