Great thread, looking forward to reading the rest. This also reminds me, I took a leap back into my childhood the other day... And watched the school of rock on Netflix. Stick it to the man! Thats what rock 'n roll is all about. :lol:
Les Paul? If you want slow, heavy and clunky, play a Les Paul. If you want smooth, sleek, and sexy, Leo Fender's Stratocaster is the only way to go.
To be historically accurate, the Fender Telecaster was the first mass-produced electric guitar. The popularity of the Les Paul waned in the 50's and 60's until British bands like Cream began to use them. Hendrix was a lifetime Strat player.
You gotta include the debauchery of The Pistols and Cid Vicious. The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, plus God Save the Queen. That kicked off a whole new era. Banned in the UK. FlipSide" magazine was a good rag documenting this stuff.
Anyone else accidentally read the end of the first paragraph as "erotic flavours" and then struggle to focus on the rest of the thread because of it?
Excellent thread. Quick shout out to mc5 and the stooges for laying the foundation of punk in the 60's. Keep it real keep it sonic youth
Intro riff from Kashmir plays CHAPTER 4: THE INNOVATORS The 70's The 1970's was the Apex of Rock period.. Led Zeppelin alone would beat the quality of any other decade.. The decade produced absolute monsters of albums that casted a long shadow over anything that came afterwards.. Let's pick it up where the 60's ended.. All the pioneers from the mid 60's contributed some of their best and most influential materials in the 70's.. Elvis, The Stones, The WHO, Johnny Cash to Diana Ross went all out, producing their most complex music But Rock was going in a harder, more experimental and sonically rebellious direction.. Stadium Rock and the birth of Heavy Metal.. Once upon a time, 3 of the all time top 10 Rock guitarists played in a band called the Yardbirds.. And when they broke up at the end of the 60's, a passionate disciple of the delta blues, Jimi Page, went searching for new members for his band.. As fate would have it, he found a young singer whose voice would become an instrument of its own and a gonzo drummer who would wield the hammer of the gods.. And in the 70's Led Zeppelin ruled the Rock music and Rocked all the Stadiums.. Among the many things that Led Zep contributed to the evolution of Rock ranges from double necker guitars to bring complex songs like Stairway to life at a live concert, having John Bonham play his drums inside a castle! to amplify the monster beats, infusing mysticism and occult to the lyrics and atmosphere of Rock songs, to taking the violin bow on the Les Paul.. Oh.. And some groupies and a shark *Frog made sure I put it in as a significant moment in Rock history Deep Purple, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Journey, Peter Frampton, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Ted Nugent, and Styx were all massively talented and raw stadium Rockers who brought the high decibels to the masses.. RUSH Toxic Twins of Aerosmith Birmingham was a tough place to grow up in the 60's.. Especially if you worked in a sheet metal plant.. Well one young man got his finger tips cut in an industrial accident and deciding to keep playing the electric blues, tuned his strings to three semitones below standard tuning so that he could press on them easier.. ...and like the bats out of hell, out came the gnarly heavy sounds that heralds the occult and the apocalypse.. It just so happens that his best friend is the prince of darkness.. They formed a band.. And went on to influence whole genres of Rock from Heavy Metal to Goth Rock.. Black Sabbath From Alice Cooper to Nazareth, the dark heavy metal was on the rise.. Pop Rock was also grabbing all the mainstream attention.. One young man who was really good at playing Chopin (Remember Chopin?), started hanging around with the Beatles at Abby Road studios in the 60's and went on his own with mellow but heartfelt melodies and lyrics to shape pop rock.. Elton John was unique, and his rock piano chords are memorable foundation of rock ballads.. Billy Joel, Chicago, Don McLean, Steve Miller, Cher, Tom Jones, ELO and James Taylor churned out popular Rock songs that still reverberates when played today 70's being the decade of the 'Fro, the Motown movement went branching out with power as well.. Jackson 5 Motown basically contributed to two major evolutionary branches of music in the 70's.. One is DISCO, which I will not go into at all in this thread! The only DISCO pic I will allow in a Rock thread.. Anyone who mentions the Bee Gees will be farmed The other is FUNK.. JAMES BROWN showing off the moves FUNK was an evolution of Soul.. It's unique blend of Caribbean and Cuban infusion (Bongos played a huge part in the primal sounds of Funk), electronica (synthesizer keyboard pieces), and reliance on extended chord grooves and syncopations (as opposed to the chord progression melodies of RnB and Soul) were also performed by an dynamic and athletic singers who went on to influence from Michael Jackson to Usher.. The pioneers of Funk were also it's masters.. James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Barry White, Tower of Power and Chaka Khan went divergent from the days of Disco.. The Boss In the face of waves of British Invasion, American Rock innovators also broadened the branches of Rock that were pioneered in the 60's... In New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen wanted to make the best Rock Album for the working class heroes, and in "Born to Run" he came very near to nailing that.. In the dusty open roads of the Midwest, Bob Seger, CCR, to Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard blazed the outlaw rock and country spirits.. Harley, open road, Bob Seger songs.. But the biggest, absolute monster collision of Rock and Country and American Spirit happened when a talented and innovative Linda Ronstadt who was experimenting with the country rock sound, hired Glen Frey and Don Henley to her band.. The Eagles were formed, and went on to dominate the 70's Rock scene with hit after hit of magical blend of country heartbreak, freedom of the open road, and rocking melodies like the warm breeze coming across the Rio Grande.. Sometimes you wonder how in a period of 10 years, how so many of innovations were crammed into the music scene.. In the southern U.S., a unique branch of Rock was also forming.. While the major Rock mega bands were mastering the laying of tracks over tracks to bring the rich sound from 4 person Rock groups, these Rockers from the south brought another approach to spicing up the delta blues... Their solution was simple.. Bring guitarists.. Lots of guitarists.. Lynard Skynard and their army of guitars Allman Brothers, and Lynard Skynard brought absolute sonic hurricanes of multiple rhythm guitar Rock songs that few Rock bands in history before or since have successfully tried.. Going back a bit to the British Invasion, two mega bands that fused the Gypsy rhythms to the electric blues and blew away their audiences with majestic performances need to be mentioned here.. The Show must go on! QUEEN was one of its kind.. Behind the greatly charismatic and energetic Freddy Mercury, lay one of the best underrated Rock guitarists of all time in Brian May, massive infusion of exotic rhythms stretching from Bulgarian folk to Moroccan music, oh and Opera and Orchestra to boot.. Such is the versatility of Rock music, to weave other forms of musical arts into its fabric.. And let them out unabashed and unapologetic in its power.. The other mega band from the 70's that wove Gypsy rhythms into the mainstream Rock consciousness.. was FLEETWOOD MAC FLEETWOOD MAC is quite possibly the greatest Gypsy Rock band.. It drew strands of rhythms and syncopations from Dvorak to the ancient Gypsy melodies stretching the Danube and Rhine.. And belted out in a rare two female vocalists in hypnotizing Stevie Nicks and mesmerizing Christine McVie (a lot of people do not know Christine sang some of their big hits) OK.. We're nearing the end of this absolutely explosive decade of Rock and its evolutionary branches of Rock.. Let me cover the last big three that originated in the 70's.. Andy Warhol, Nico, Lou Reed, and the Velvet Underground Glam Rock is a broad experimental genre that ignited between New York and London in the mid 70's.. Artists and bands like Lou Reed, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), T.Rex, and to an extent Blondie (even though most would say Blondie belongs in the next category coming up) were heavily influential to the the incorporation of style, architecture, visual arts and visual lyrics with a Rock base.. There is another black sheep musical cousin that was born in the 70's.. Sex Pistols PUNK ROCK was pure adolescent rebellion to the mainstream anything.. Musically, it threw the wrecking ball to the intricately arranged multi track Rock pieces and stripped the power chords to its minimal, raw sound.. Three chords was all you need to be Punk.. The Ramones, The Clash, Blondie, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, The Stranglers and The Sex Pistols all saved Rock to a degree in the late 70's by shedding its musical weight and burdens and plugged back into the youth The Ramones At last, we reach a branch of Rock that grew out of the Psychedelic slumber of the 60's and inched Rock music closer to the primal psyche.. There were musicians and bands ranging from Frank Zappa, to YES that experimented across all fronts of Rock from musicality to lyrics and performance.. But one band brought its maniacal experimentation, plugged it into the masses, crawled into our psyche and never left.. PINK FLOYD is the Picasso of paintings, the Götterdämmerung of Operas.. And in the today's world of individual music song downloads, the best Rock music to play in its entirety while hand washing your car.. ...What! You don't hand wash your car anymore!? Stay tuned for the Hair Metal and the 80's..
He didn't.. The "black guy" (Robert Johnson) supposedly sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the gift of playing a mean guitar..
That was Robert Johnson.. A blues player with a myth of making a deal with the devil.. My apologies if that offends anyone.. ️
Elvis not from Memphis,though that's where he lived an died he actually from Mississippi. other than that misinformation twas a nice read