Posted on 12/15/2010 10:14:36 AM PST by JoeProBono
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland will induct Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Dr. John, and Darlene Love, according to the New York Times. Jac Holzman, who founded Elektra, and Art Rupe, who founded Specialty Records, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which is given to music-industry executives. Pianist Leon Russell will receive the Award for Musical Excellence. The ceremony will be held in March
I prefer Curly.....nyuk...nyuk...nyuk...nyuk...nyuk!
Frankly, I love his gravely voice.
Maybe it’s a chick thing....:)
/facepalm
Walked right into that one.
:-P
Not only rock, but the movies as well. I noticed a gradual decline starting then.
Thanks!
I can’t wait for Iggy Pop to get nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Mrs. Miller to get posthumously nominated for a Blues Heritage award...
Cherry Cherry wasn’t folk-rock. It was Brill Building hackwork. Fakebook Rock.
And I mean that. Leiber and Stohler were the aces in that game. Real rock and roll came before that. The Brill Building hopped on trends and manufactured bands. And the industry we have today came from that machine.
Oh youre “No Fun”
Yep.
Storm Warning (back when he was playing a guitar)
Junco Partner (Down The Road) (he fiddled around with the lyrics and rhythm for another 10 years)
“Small change got rained on, with his own .38”
Tom Waits— overrated fuax beatnik alcoholic-—unlistenable
Eh. There are those who will tell you that rock and roll was always kid-stuff. But it wasn't. Ike Turner and Roy Brown were writing songs for juke joints, not sodd-Y shops full of babyboom rugrats.
That was Leiber and Stoller doing their take on the hep sounds.
Big Mama Thornton's biggest hit may have been Hound Dog but what she did before and after that sound nothing like it.
And even then Elvis' hit had even more toned down lyrics.
Rockabilly was a barebones sound, but those songs were rockers. No more big bands. No more heavy production.
RCA had to try to duplicate the Sun Studio "echo".
Garage bands and later punk/new wave/post-punk/no-wave bands didn't have the luxury recording situations or need to play the "arena rock sound" with 5 minute solos while the audience sat on their hands.
Every generation tears it all down and returns to basics again.
It's the pop faux-rock that kills it. Grunge was the last gasp of a music industry that would take something that's growing a following a put it on radio to see what sticks.
After the canon was codified, the public was force fed a steady diet of poster idol pop singing groups (NSync, Britney, Christina, et al). Happened in the 1980s too (New Kids, Menudo, Paula Abdul...). Happened in the 1970s too (Osmonds, Leif Garrett,...). Happened in the 1960s and 1950s too.
Jerry Lee Lewis was interviewed for the documentary "All You Need Is Love" and had to laugh. He'd been shut out of radio/tv/movies after his scandal (and after the other stars had been jailed, died, drafted, or shamed into retirement). He said all you had left were a bunch of Bobbies. Bobby Vee, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Darin, Bobby this... He said that the Beatles sure changed their game.
That grunge and punk/new wave history is the real lineage of rock and roll. Bill Graham wasn't a friend of rock.
AND Englebert!
Would there be a Tom Waits without Screamin’ Jay Hawkins?
Woodstock killed rock and roll. It wasn’t even the only big festival that year. But it was the one with a movie and a soundtrack album. And a lot of non-rock acts.
The industry changed. They realized how much money could be made packing stadiums on regular ocassion (not just “Beatles” type events).
Hendrix didn’t have to play 2 shows at the Fillmore East in a night anymore.
Bands and audiences learned their roles. And the prices went higher. And the energy went down. And the 60s rock acts became adults and spouses and families and gave up the rock for moms&dads music. But they didn’t want to say that they were no longer rock and roll. So rock died a bit.
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