The Band s legacy Beggar s Banquet etc An anonymous user is repeatedly misreading The Guardian source and insisting on adding a dubious tag to it Here s the direct quote The spark for Fairport taking this watershed turn was the Band s 1968 album Music from Big Pink the record that along with Bob Dylan and the Band s Basement Tapes bootleg brought about a widespread musical volte face in which what remained of psychedelia was replaced by a new rootsiness Among the rock aristocracy its influence was evident in the Beatles ill fated back to basics project Let It Be the Rolling Stones purple patch that began with Beggars Banquet and Eric Clapton s decision to call time on Cream The anonymous user takes issue with this statement claiming that Music from Big Pink could not have influenced Beggar s Banquet because of chronology i e that the Stones were almost done recording the album when Big Pink came out But read the statement it does not say that it influenced the recording of Banquet but the purple patch that began with etc This seems clear to me I would like to hear some other editor s opinions on this matter TheFortyFive