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This is the place for Serious lovers of Real ROCK music. Heavy emphasis on ROCK. If you got it, bring it!




(RIP Freddie)

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Here comes Johnny singin' oldies-goldies
Be-bop-a-lula baby what I say...



He got the action, he got the motion
Oh yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
He turnin' all the nighttime into the day
He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman
He do the song about the knife
An' he do the walk
He do the walk of life
Yeah, he do the Walk of Life.

Here come Johnny gonna tell you the story
Hand me now my walkin' shoes
Here come Johnny with the power an' the glory
Backbeat, we're talkin' blues...

And after all the violence and double-talk
It's just a song in all the trouble and the strife
He do the walk
Yeah, he do the walk of life
Mm he do the [Rock] of Life.



ROCK and ROLL. I.e., that specific subset of spunky-funky rhythms and attitude that lifted Rock 'n' Roll out of its roots in Rhythm and Blues, Boogie, Jazz, Country, Big-Band and Western Swing, and a handful of other music traditions that preceded Rock Music. (Well, mostly "out", but not entirely. There's still a little of all that stuff sprinkled in and around Rock music, and vice versa.)

Snappy verse-chorus lyrics, at least 1 but often 2 or 3 electric guitars, maybe a sax and/or piano, and always-always-always, drums. 4/4 backbeat, downbeat, off-beat, snare drum, snap, clap, toe-tap, the beat-beat-THUNDER that ROCKS your feet. Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay, I Love Rock 'n' Roll, the music incessantly praises itself, and we don't mind one little bit, 'cause we just "Can't Stop Rockin', baby till I lose my mind."

Let me repeat..




Rock, Pop Rock, Blues Rock, Ballad-Rock, Folk Rock, Country Rock, Chicano Rock, Punk Rock and Psychedelic. Soft Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy (Metal), Garage, Grunge, Retro, Progressive, Alternative, Indie(-pendent), Hip-Hop, Reggae, New Wave and Rave. Rockabilly, Southern Rock, Heartland, Uptown, Downtown, Motown, Euro, Emo, Screamo. Goth Rock, Brit-Pop, Synth-Pop, Disco, Techno, Electro-Swing and all Up Around The Bend.

Tin Pan Alley to Long Tall Sally. USA, Canada, Britain (and back), and then all the little nooks and crannies of the whole freakin' world. True Rock 'n' Roll is that "International Noise Conspiracy" that our parents used to warn us about. But we're past that now. True Rock won't make you pregnant or demonically insane, but it can and will make you go deaf long before you die. You hope.

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However: This thread is not necessarily about everything listed 2 paragraphs up. This is about what makes us ROCK. "If don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." Like that.

And this:

Some HISTORY.

How far back in time can we go? When the Levee Breaks was written about 50 years before Led Zeppelin was born, so we had to wait a little while for that one. The point is, the "history" of Rock is almost a circular argument, and I'm gonna forego most of that.

As for separating (time-wise and otherwise) the genre of Rock from R&B, etc, I prefer to depend (as much as anything else) on how the music charts back in the day "measured" and classed the song as (for example) R&B or not.

But now just to mention a couple of high points in the timeline:

1949: The 45 RPM record.
1951: A Jukebox to stack and play the 45's in.

What else? Oh yeah, The Les Paul solid-body electric guitar in 1952, and Leo Fender's Stratocaster a year or 2 later. And we got the basic drum kit way before that, somewhere around 1930.

"So let's play some Rock 'n' Roll!"




And if I don't do this real quick, I might be accused of rock-history-heresy. Written in 1953, released and charted in 1955:




In another vein, I would feel myself at fault if I didn't mention that Rock had a substantial part of its beginning in the American South. For example (name, birthplace, year first charted a "Rock 'n' Roll" song):

Fats Domino, Louisiana, 1949.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNC1BF_nmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbLcOBfxmU

Bo Diddley, Mississippi, 1955.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-rf4EgAm8

Elvis Presley, Mississippi to Memphis, 1955.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk

Buddy Holly, Texas, 1955. At the Apollo? Oh Boy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzf-S7EVM58

Chuck Berry, Missouri, 1955.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSkhrRw3LE4

Little Richard, Georgia, 1955. "Rhythm 'n' Blues had that baby, and they called it Rock 'n' Roll."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrvsQwBljc

Jerry Lee Lewis,[/b] Louisiana, 1956.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI1ihrGem2I

Everly Brothers, Lentucky, 1957.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kRtZPnLTQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wsee44FiyU

Little Eva (born and died in North Carolina), 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNNW0SPkChI

In later decades: Black Oak Arkansas, Blackfoot, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet...

Meanwhile, just up the road:

The Diamonds, Canada, 1957... and 47 years later (2004), it's incredible they still sounded so damn good:



Chubby Checker, Philadelphia, 1960.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh189-uIEg

Danny & the Juniors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egmIP5BkqPI

Del-Vikings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvNi8zAA0Lo

Eddie Cochran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGIfic5sUA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiZyqrDN6Vc


Rock 'n' Roll. Dance Dance Dance.




Write a song about it, and dance some more.



Well you can rock it you can roll it
You can slop and you can stroll it
At the hop (hop hop, hop)
When the record starts spinnin'
You calypso when you chicken
At the hop (hop hop, hop)
Do the dance sensation
That is sweepin' the nation
At the hop (hop hop, hop)

Let's go to the hop
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop (oh baby)
Let's go to the hop
Coooome ooooon, let's to the hop

Well you can swing it you can groove it
You can really start to move it
At the hop (aaah ah-aaah)
Where the jockey is the smoothest
And the music is the coolest
At the hop (aaaaah)
All the cats and chicks
Can get their kicks
At the hop


The Chicken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua1f2sxMDZM

Little Eva: Come on, come on, do the Loco-Motion with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNNW0SPkChI

Dunno how I forgot to "highlight" this one under "Dance" ...

Just try to sit still. Don't nod your head, don't even wiggle a toe.

Ha! Can't do it.

So what's next on the playlist?

omg omg omg!!

How's this?

So I got inspired by you

Originally Posted by MoonRide*r*

... and always-always-always, drums

and found the correct vid for my first post

[AtZ0_DXvy80]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtZ0_DXvy80[/video]

This great drummer has given only a couple of interviews btw...
[2cEPydnb0Ns]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEPydnb0Ns[/video]

[WnJgdyaJ2BQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnJgdyaJ2BQ[/video]

Originally Posted by Teshka

How's this?

It'll do

Originally Posted by Amethystos

Dude!
And thanks!

Originally Posted by Amethystos

This great drummer has given only a couple of interviews btw...

"Let's talk about something else..."
"Bunny rabbit."
"Do you like bunny rabbits?"
"Like bunny rabbit."
"Would you like a bunny rabbit?"
"Like bunny rabbit."
"A big bunny rabbit?"
"Small bunny rabbit."
"A small bunny rabbit?"
"P'ease."

"ok let's listen up now."

(doo wahp)

[Qxz3hMf0PhI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxz3hMf0PhI[/video]

'Fabulous' UFO they were one of the bands that started pulling me toward Metal when I was in college. First i really liked some stuff on their Walk On Water album like this song....



Then went further back and really got hooked. Love the way that this opens...



But I mean 'light' metal. I didn't start getting into the German groups and metal opera like Kamelot until about 5 years later. I'm looking for some of that now....would also like it if some of the guys in Lyrics Review will step up and add a little something to this thread

Great spotting Teshka never heard of "Knock, Knock".

Can't remember KISS wearing no heavy makeup ..... but then again

[lGkkh13zhHY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGkkh13zhHY[/video]

Thank you and thx for reminding me about UFO

No makeup, maybe that was just when he was running late

'Rock Opera'......that's an old term I think......whose music was it first used to describe??



The audience <3

Originally Posted by Teshka

'Rock Opera'......that's an old term I think......whose music was it first used to describe??

As far as I know, it was first applied to the album "Tommy" by The Who

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Z4atC9Atc

Originally Posted by Amethystos

Can't remember KISS wearing no heavy makeup ..... but then again

Is that what he looks like???

My girl. The original riot grrrl.



Sweet dreams baby

Original release by The Contours, 1962.
Covered in 1964 by The Dave Clark Five... and The Hollies?