Influences, memories and great musicians

[Lagado]

Thieves! It's all off the back of a truck, pop's truck. I love my Pop.

I get my carrot juice, refined and sweetened, daily. And I always raise a chilled glass to the music and to all those who've made it, and to all those dreamy, precious souls who'll make some more tomorrow

A lovely ode to carrot juice I must say. I feel the same about tomato juice, and all those precious souls who'll make some more tomorrow.

 

[Tom Bomb]

A lovely ode to carrot juice I must say. I feel the same about tomato juice, and all those precious souls who'll make some more tomorrow.

V8

 

[Lagado]

V8

Too much going on with it. I'd rather straight unconcentrated tomato juice with a dash of Worcestershire sauce. I miss the tomato juice Britvic used to make decades back that still had the little pips in it, that was the real deal.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Too much going on with it. I'd rather straight unconcentrated tomato juice with a dash of Worcestershire sauce. I miss the tomato juice Britvic used to make decades back that still had the little pips in it, that was the real deal.

Very nice. Or you could just go the whole pomme, straight out of the fridge

 

[Lagado]

Very nice. Or you could just go the whole pomme, straight out of the fridge

Usually sliced with mozzarella and a bit of basil, drizzled in olive oil. So easy. I grew my own toms last year, the difference between shop bought and those I lovingly tended to was miles apart. Those I grew out in the sun, tasted of that sunshine. Whole other animal.

 

[Michedelic]

Arguably the first recorded rock and roll song was Rocket 88 (posted below) by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats in 1951. The "Delta Cats" were actually Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm with Jackie Brenston, Ike's saxophonist, on vocals. However, the guy that busted it all wide open was Elvis. He was the one that made rock-and-roll popular (see what I did there?) and made it possible for all the others that followed including those in the OP's poll to change our lives forever.

So, you're going to overlook Bill Haley? As far as a white performer, playing to a white audience, is concerned, "Rock Around The Clock", as heard in the juvenile delinquent drama Blackboard Jungle, was the big bang, well before Elvis' Sun records(which were a regional phenomenon)let alone the RCA era. Even before that, he scored chart success with "Crazy Man Crazy". Granted, Haley's material, after the shock of the new wore off, ended up sounding all the same, and the pudgy guy and his band were old(30's!), so a raw, almost feral 20 year old Elvis was going to have a greater effect on teenage girls, who wanted him, and teenage boys, who wanted to be him. Little Richard and Chuck Berry were already cranking out revved-up R'n'R themselves as well(don't forget Big E covered "Tutti Frutti" on his first RCA album), but the exposure and reach of those two was hindered by, well, reasons.

 

[bassdude51]

Chuck Berry?

Chuck was the embodiment of Rock n Roll. Yes, he did some pop songs too but Chuck was R n R.

A triple threat. Singer, guitar player and song writer.

Maybe Elvis got R n R going but Chuck knocked it out the ball park!

A definite fine line between R n R, Rock and Pop. But true R n R is the 1-4-5 chord pattern.