Rock n Roll lost something after 1959

[LeonineAlpha]

Elvis was a great "fusion" artist, first song I taught myself was Fever (and I wrote my own lyrics too).

But much of the 50s stuff is just too same old same old, the style and technology adaptations after just inspired more varied approaches.

Redefine this to maybe 69 (that way Black Sabbath and Zeppelin projects are in the pipe, and the Beatles are doing crazy stuff) and you have a premise.

 

[rtslinger]

Give a listen to Hank Williams. He’s way more rock than most of us would give him credit for. He incorporated the blues form into his music but made it something a little different at the same time. And he did it without a drummer! “Settin the Woods on Fire” was a standout track for me off his 1953 Memorial Album.

Doesn’t help the post-1959 argument any!

My Dad's Favorite performer and I grew up listening to Hank Williams and I can agree that his honky tonk stuff rocked
Move it on over rocked for sure. Why don't you love me is also a great song
check what is being played under the slide guitar fiddle solo you'll be surprised

 

[butterfingers1]

As a teen in the late 1970s, the more I played guitar and bass, the more I discovered the essence was to be found in the 1950s and elaborated on in the 1960s. A unique period in music history, not much else since really.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

 

[Stan_da_man]

Rock n roll died when we lost Cobain.

 

[D.A.R.K.]

I think not.

 

[Cave Puppy]

Funny you should mention 1959 as the year Rock and Roll "lost something." Let's don't forget The Day The Music Died - February 3, 1959 - the day of the tragic plane crash on which Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens died. Arguably the biggest names in music at that point. Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Folkie and more "milktoast" artists became very popular after that day. Things wouldn't get exciting again until The Beatles shook things up.

 

[marchone]

1950s Rock and Roll music in the US laid the foundation for what was to come. From England, in the Sixties.

Something happened to Elvis in the Army. Was his spirit broken?

American Pie had a point. The loss of Buddy Holly was significant. Few people wrote rock and roll music like that afterwards. Maybe no one.

Hank Williams and Carl Perkins informed George Harrison’s guitar style to the end. Some things are timeless. It’s hard to separate Fifties Rock and Roll from Rockabilly.

 

[deff]

When I was younger I definitely loved the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, The Who, Led Zeppelin, etc. All the so-called classic rock.

But lately I've been rediscovering Elvis Presley and I love how he absorbed gospel and R&B, and combined it with his own rockabilly style.

I think there was a lot of good POP music in the 60s and after, but as far as Rock, it's just been missing something.

What do you think?

how to say, "I'm old and set in my ways", without saying "I'm old and set in my ways".

 

[micguy]

how to say, "I'm old and set in my ways", without saying "I'm old and set in my ways".

Set in his ways… since 1959. That’s a long time to be in a rut.

 

[GretschWretch]

how to say, "I'm old and set in my ways", without saying "I'm old and set in my ways".

And you kids get off my SVT.

 

[marchone]

If you come of age, at a certain age, in late puberty to mid-adolescence, you are likely to favor the music that turned you on then for the rest of your life.

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[deff]

If you come of age, at a certain age, in late puberty to mid-adolescence, you are likely to favor the music that turned you on then for the rest of your life.

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I see people make this comment a lot. I think it does inform your choices in regards to what you listen to, but I think it is up to musicians to expand their horizons a bit.

 

[marchone]

Of course, and we do as musicians, but not everyone in the general population does.

 

[Grinderman]

 

[Paul New]

How can you miss it? Rock and Roll started in the 40s!!

 

[Grinderman]

Rock n roll died when we lost Cobain.

Rock n roll just as likely died when Courtney Love stood up Corgan to hook up with Cobain.

 

[marchone]

How can you miss it? Rock and Roll started in the 40s!!

Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston/Ike Turner 1951

 

[Dincrest]

Ahh, the whole "rock is dead" horse.

Finn McKenty says in his YouTube channel, and I am inclined to agree with, is that rock fans are sometimes the biggest detriment to rock's success.

See, once a rock band gets big, rock fans abandon them as sellouts and/or start gatekeeping as, "this newfangled garbage isn't real music." On the other hand, when hip-hop artists get big their fans don't abandon them. They embrace their success, like, "Yeah, one of ours made it!!!"

So I don't think rock music was fundamentally better or worse in any era, but I feel like rock fandoms have exhibited that same kind of toxic mentality for decades now where they'll tear artists down as quickly as they built them up.

 

[bassdude51]

Rock n Roll lost something after 1959?............................sure did!