History Of Rock And Roll

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Bob dylan

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-Most important Amer. contributor to rock music
-artistic sig. not commercial
-leader of folk movement 62-63
-popular in NY early on college campuses
-1st poet of mass media

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peroids of bob dylan's music

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acoustic and electric
-showed that folk is rock
- fusion of country folk blues R+R and poetry

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Content of Dylan's lyrics

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social awareness, emotional close to personal life
-expressionistic emotive
-clasical cerebral

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Dylans ACOUSTIC period.

TIMES ARE A CHANGIN ALBUM

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1st album (65)
most overt protest album
-gives feeling of dust bowl era
-grapes of wrath ** fans known as hippies

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With god on our side

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acoustic= anti war song w/ clear religious elements
-war history lesson

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Electric period

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catalyst for drug culture+antiwar
- lyrics never intended to be pure poetry
-65/66 world tour booed=worshiped and debated

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More electric period

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electric band formed (robbie Robertson)
-set scene for folk rock

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Electric= Subterranean homesick blues

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his last top 50 hit
-one of first electric pieces

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Electric=Like a rolling stone

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lyrics based on a short story written by dylan
-debutante becomes loner
- considered his"magnum opus"
-lyrics promoted awareness and reality checks

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The birds

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group synthesized dylan and the beatles
-covered his mr tambourine man (65)
declared first folk rock band in history **ticket to ride**turn turn turn

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8 miles high**

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unusual harmonies
-banned for drug suggestion
-heralded as first drug tune= led 60's music to psych rock

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For what it's worth**

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one of most representative sounds of the 60's
-Writted by Stephen stills during aftermath of infamous sunset strip riots of 66-67
-commonly labeled as a protest song

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Frank Zappa

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One of the most accomplished composers of the rock era

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Zappas music

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combines understanding of and appreciation of
1 20th century composers"stravinsky, stockhausen
2 late 50's doo wop R+R
3Social satire
4avant garde jazz
5. guitar heavy R+B
6.Collages of many styles

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More Zappa

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Satirist+ wicked sense of humor
-over 60 records made
- his band= Mothers of Invention formed in 1966
-His album freak out was a key inspirations for sgt peppers...
++st alfonzo pancake brkfst

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LED ZEPPELIN

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formed from ashes of yard birds
-Considered first heavy metal
-concept of album oriented rock
-stairway to heaven never a single
**good times bad times

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Jimmy Page

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-Along w hendrix expanded vocab of electric guitar
-huge bass frequency
-rarely overplayed
-**heart breaker solo

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Velvet underground & Nico (1966/67)

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largely ignored upon release but has become on of the most influential and critically acclaimed rock albums in history
-#13 on rolling stone 500 greatest songs
**Heroin** (abum)

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Lou reed

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music achieves a balance of compassion and outrageousness

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Lou reed style

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-sing speak vocals and gripping narratives
-helped define street savvy rock and roll
-analyzes subjects of personal experience rarely examined so openly in R+R
-evaded mainstream success

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**walk on the wild side** (1972) transformer records

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reeds best known solo work
-song recieved wide radio coverage despite its touching on
"unusual subjects"
-About a series of individuals and their journeys to NYC
-About a series of individuals and their journeys to NYC

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Punk

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returned rock and roll to the basics
-three chord and a simple melody

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70's punk

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became its own genre
-American punk remained an underground sensation
-In the UK it was a full scale phenomenon

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Two most popular punk bands

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Ramones (US NY) and Sex pistols (great britain)

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CBGB'a means

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"Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers"

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Regulars of CBGB

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velvet underground richard hull(television) patti smith and the ramones.

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Richard hull

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One of the original punkers to emerge from NY in earlu to mid 70's
-Often pointed to as a major influence by other subsequent punk bands

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Punk british-connection

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Brought to the UK by Malcolm Mclaren
-capitalized on look of punk clothes
-opened an SnM shop
-store patrons became the sex pistols
-Mclaren became their manager

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Sex pistols

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Anti british group
- represented young bored brits
-rebelled against the staunch upper class
-viewed as social deviance to government
-major influence on the clash

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anarchy in the UK

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(1976) Sex pistols debut single
-touched off a social musical firestorm
-Created fear of political instability+ youth going mad

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Bill grundy incident

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Sex pistols swore on telecision- their career faced demise in the following years=clubs wouldn't let them play

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God save the queen (1977)

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Lyrics contain gleefull snoty name callling
-declares the royalty innefectual and irrelevent
-poses britain is a country in decline
-public reaction was swift and hysterical

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Television

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-One of the most creative bands to emerge from N.Y’s punk scene of the mid 70’s
-Viewed to be the antithesis of the “happy culture” hippies
-Back to short hair and street clothes (replaced the extravagant
-guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd created an influential new guitar vocabulary
-Didn’t follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation
-debut album was Marquee Moon (1977)

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Marquee moon—

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Removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage
-added complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock
-music went in unconventional directions
-Laid the groundwork for many of the guitr based post-punk groups of the late 70’s and 80’s +see no evil ---- Marquee moon

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Patti smith

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-poet/rock singer who first gained notice when her reading poetry at gatherings in NYC in the early 70’s
-Improvised lyrics that reflected life in NY
-Combined 60’s garage rock with the literary writing styles of Rimbaud, Burroughs and Ginsberg
-Referred to as the “godmother of Punk”

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Patti smith album= Horses (1975)-Major influence on the NY punk scene

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Anticipates new wave music
-A hybrid of classic rock and post-Beat poetry
-spoken word/musical art form
-ranked #44 on Rolling stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
-Patti Smith: “dancing around to the simple rock&roll song”

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The ramones

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followed patti smith and television
-Most popular of punk bands
crystallized the musical ideals of the genre
-sang about youth boredom
-songs were short duration

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ramones style

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Cut rock and roll down to its bare essentials
1. four chords>>simple catchy melody>>irresistibly inane lyrics? fast tempos.

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quote about ramones style

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-Ramones created something that was rooted in earluy 60s pre beatles rock and roll and pop but sounded revolutionary. Their music has been labeled by some as “bubble-gum punk.”

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Pinhead by the ramones

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-Inspired after the band attended a screening of the 1932 film FREAKS
-Line in chourus Gabba Gabba hey,” based on the line from the film “gooble gobble, gobble, gobble , one of us, one of us”
-somewhat macabre and bizarre ode to the weird
-Longtime concert favorite at Ramones shows
++ pinhead++

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Ramones song I wanna be sedated

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-One of the best-known Ramones songs
-played and sung with gleeful abondonment
-Includes grotespue, absurd, and campy content:
-#144 on the rolling stones 500 greatest songs of all time ++I wanna be sedated

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JIM morrison and the doors

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looked at as one of the fathers of contemporary rock
-Attempted to marry rock with poetry
-Influence rockers such as Alice Cooper and even Marilyn Manson
-The doors represented the dread and gloom

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Themes+ style in music of jim morrison

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dread and violence, guilt with no redemption, Miscarriage of love, death +break on through
-groups name taken from poet William blake “when the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite”

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Morrison's decline

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-Antics on stage became a joke
-Increase of alcohol consumption resulted in uneven performances
-new Haven, conn—arrested by police for slandering them on stage
-Miami, 1969—arrested for exposing himself on stage +hello I love you.
-Left for Paris in 1971 seeking inspiration to write poetry
-died of a heart attack at age 27 in the bath tub.

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Solomon Burke

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Never made a major impact upon the pop audience
-stablished career with country tune +just out of reach
-Brought a country influence upon the rolling stones
-Had a smooth, lush voice with passion and power
-Burke never celebrated a number one hit on the pop charts but enjoyed many hits in r&b +cry to me, +if you need me

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Instrumental soul-memphis

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-Atlantic records merged with stax records
-Resulted in a group of top notch studio session players
-Formed Booker t and the MG’s
-became the back-up musicians for many of the Atlantic recording artists
-produced some big instrumental hits (green onions)
-featured in the film blues brothers.

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Booker t and the MG's

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-became the back-up musicians for many of the Atlantic recording artists
-produced some big instrumental hits (green onions)
-featured in the film blues brothers.