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To: nickcarraway

Elvis Presley’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’, The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’, and The Who’s ‘My Generation’.

I’ll have to go back and give a re-listen.


2 posted on 02/10/2024 7:45:11 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Elvis Presley’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’, The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’, and The Who’s ‘My Generation’.
I’ll have to go back and give a re-listen.


The Who admitted to being influenced by Dave Davies of the Kinks when they wrote Can't Explain, and that was before My Generation. Dave Davies did a lot of interviews. Many of them are on YouTube. I've never heard him credit Elvis Presley for that.
8 posted on 02/10/2024 8:14:16 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

For the benefit of non-musician readers / listeners, please diagram the first and fifth note making up the power chord in various keys.


9 posted on 02/10/2024 8:23:21 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah, this is an interesting pop quiz. My fill in the blank answer would be the intro to Zappa's Dancin' Fool, the two-measure guitar chord with drum riff, repeated four times.

"I don't know much about dancin' / That's why I got this song..."

Anyway now I've got an earworm for the day.

46 posted on 02/11/2024 5:08:05 AM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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