[BigAls87Z28]

Are you all bloody serious? Stones overrated?
Stones brought you Rock and Roll as you see it today. It transformed blues music sung here in the US, and they cranked it with thier own British twist.
Without the Stones, and the Who IMO a lesser extent just due to longevity, you dont have Led, you dont have Metalica, you dont have the White Stripes or Jet.
I think claiming the Beatles as a inspiration is a cop out. Nothing Dave Mustane has ever writen or played would come near anything that sounded like a Beatles song.
Beatles might have "inspired" him, but the Rolling Stones layed the tracks down for the road he followed, as with everyone else that considers themselves part of the Rock and Roll world.
Beatles have thier own world, and they deserve thier fame.

Nirvana and Pearl Jam are innovators just in the same way teh Beatles and the Stones were. But they will never ever live up to either of those two bands.
Lots of men went to the moon, but everyone remembers the first one.