I'd rather listen to 70s art rock or progressive rock rather than 60s rock, if that makes more sense. I'm not as familiar with the former.
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Rock n Roll lost something after 1959
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I’m not upsetI meant people don’t always necessarily bond with music of their teens. This may have been true with pop rock of the first post-war decades, during a unique period of pop musical culture effervescence.
Since the 1980s I think people learning guitar tend to look to the past.
My teenage sons and their guitar/drum playing friends and peers in 2004 were going back to the 1970s to find worthwhile things to play.
Teenagers learning violin have for a long time been going back to 18th century compositions.
That’s all, just my opinion, I don’t want to get anyone upset. Although that’s ok too
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That’s too bad, I was hoping you’d be, with all this teen nostalgia, all that’s missing is pointless arguments to make me feel young againI’m not upset
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LOL I can try harder!That’s too bad, I was hoping you’d be, with all this teen nostalgia, all that’s missing is pointless arguments to make me feel young again
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yep ... which is worse ... the 50s overuse of 3 chord progressions or Yoko singing like a feral cat in a dumpster
Don’t be hating on rockabilly now
Rockabilly is also where the first slap bass comes from.
Has-beens and fried-brains in 1970s pants doesn’t add much here. The Everly Brothers in their prime might.
It’s pretty obvious that most influential musicians in the 1960s and beyond
(Beatles, Beach Boys, Stones, Carole King, Phil Spector, Byrds, everyone at Woodstock, all their tributaries and offshoots)
were trying to recreate, rearrange, enrich if possible, the simple but searing chords, arrangements, melodies of 1950s blues folk soul and yes doo-wop.
This drive wore itself out eventually, it was inevitable. People will always play music. The music and entertainment business is thriving.
But the burst of creativity in the early post-war decades, fueled by the electric guitar, recording/playback technology, baby-boom bulge of youth, and widening economic prosperity, well this was a one-off come-and-gone phenomenon. I don’t think a 12-year-old today will be driven to pick up a guitar to play Taylor Swift or JayZ.
Well yes sorry, but I saw the video, and it was selected specifically to demean.
i think elvis was missing something after signing with rca. okay, i'll give you 'heartbreak hotel' ... floyd cramer represent
he flared again briefly in the early 70s (early j. scheff/tcb era). elvis's best rca tracks were trying to recreate the 'sun' sound, i.e. 'little sister' & 'hard-headed woman'.myself, i greatly appreciate the 'rock' varieties ... prog rock, psych rock, pop rock, blues rock, soul rock, jazz rock ... that's where my head is at. when it goes metal or punk, i lose interest.
i think elvis was missing something after signing with rca. okay, i'll give you 'heartbreak hotel' ... floyd cramer represent
myself, i greatly appreciate the 'rock' varieties ... prog rock, psych rock, pop rock, blues rock, soul rock, jazz rock ... that's where my head is at. when it goes metal or punk, i lose interest.
It sounds like you prefer harder rocking music.
I feel that the further back you go, closer to the blues and jazz era, when many studio cats were seasoned jazz players, there are more examples of a swing feel in the music. Not a bad thing, but definitely a mutation has occurred.
