Posted on 10/13/2012 11:15:11 PM PDT by djf
Coast to Coast tonight has discussions with four of the heavyweights of rock.
First hour, interview with Paul Rogers, of the band Free and Bad Company.
This hour, the second hour, Leslie West of Mountain.
Next hour, and something I am especially looking forward to, is Jack Casady, famous bassist from Jefferson Airplane.
Final hour, Sir Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame.
I wasn’t talking about Jethro orJefferson Airplane
are you telling me that Mountain was in your rock and roll hit list??? I call BS. Heavy metal was never considered rock and roll
“Jack the Ripper” wasn’t a hit in the US, but at Darmstadt American School in Darmstadt, Germany, during the mid-1960’s, many students were singing the words. They might have heard it over Radio Luxembourg or perhaps it found its way into a local juke box; or maybe a student brought a recording back following a visit to England. In any case, the song had a cult following.
really???how many Mountain albums did you ever have???
Whoa, that’s insane. Every metalhead knows these famous bands. I’m disappointed to see your post. Have you heard of Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Brian Setzer?
Hey, J. Geils is really a Hungarian Polka band, doncha know?
;-)
Sometimes people their heads just get stuck in this kind of “ARGUE” mode.
That’s when I ignore them...
It more commonly is known as Classic Rock.
This is very interesting. Casady discussing his family and his father in law was amazing. Talking about the political types from Berkley co-opting the bay area rock scene was an eye-opener as well. Listening to KFI streaming.
That was very moving. Casady is no leftist.
“Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock ‘n’ roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s,[1][2] primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz,[3] and gospel music.[4] Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s,[3] and in blues records from the 1920s,[5] rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.[6][7]
The term “rock and roll” now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage: as synonymous with rock music and as music that originated in the mid-1950s and later developed “into the more encompassing international style known as rock music”.[8] For the purpose of differentiation, this article uses the second definition.
In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s.[9] The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter almost always provided by a snare drum.[10] Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit.[9] Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. It went on to spawn various sub-genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply “rock music” or “rock”.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll
Rock, as opposed to Rock and Roll
“Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “rock and roll” in 1950s America and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.[1][2][3] It has its roots in 1940s’ and 1950s’ rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.
Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature utilizing a verse-chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music. Rock places a higher degree of emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.
By the late 1960s, referred to as the “golden age”[1] or “classic rock”[2] period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion, many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock influenced by the counter-cultural psychedelic scene. New genres that emerged from this scene included progressive rock, which extended the artistic elements; glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power and speed. In the second half of the 1970s, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of other sub-genres, including New Wave, post-punk and eventually the alternative rock movement. From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop, and indie rock. Further fusion sub-genres have since emerged, including pop punk, rap rock, and rap metal, as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock’s history, including the garage rock/post-punk and synthpop revivals at the beginning of the new millennium.
Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures. Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music
Haven’t heard this song in years.
Mississippi Queen, If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
Way down around Vicksburg, Around Louisiana way
Lived a cajun lady, we called her Mississippi Queen
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine
While the rest of them dudes were’a gettin’ their kicks,
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was getting mine!
Mississippi Queen, If you know what I mean
Mississippi Queen, She taught me everything
This lady she asked me, If I would be her man
You know that I told her, I’d do what I can
To keep her looking pretty
Buy her dresses that shine
While the rest of them dudes were making their bread
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was losing mine!
You know she was a dancer
She moved better on wine
While the rest of them dudes were’a gettin’ their kicks,
Brotha, beg your pardon, now I’m getting mine!
Ohhhh, Mississippi Queen
Leslie West is still out there, and in my opinion better than ever. If you're a blues fan, check out his fairly recent Got Blooze CD. Classic covers, which even some of the naysayers on this thread would recognize as anthemic Rock 'n' Roll numbers ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Riot in Cellblock #9," covered as only LW can.) Awesome.
Up the Irons!
“It was all rock and roll son.”
lol. Sure. Who can forget Nantucket Sleighride?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqWqCuHR0Og
“Mountain is unknown to rock and rollers “
All the rock-n-Rollers I knew owned Mountian’s “Mountain Climbing” and “Nantucket Sleighride”
Mississippi Queen is a classic! MORE COWBELL!
Are you a C to C member? Willing to send me the MP3s from this show?
Leslie West rocks. I saw his act about 40 years ago, and was blown away by his chops and the quality of the sound. Hearing the studio albums does not prepare one for what he can do live. I suppose that not hearing of Mountain dates a person. I'd call it rock, not heavy metal. Very blues based.
You’ve never heard this???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5GXbk58R0
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