The British Were KICKING The Americans ASS When It Came To Rock Music In The 60's (You Agree?)

[SirReginald]

I think later generations feel that they have to like certain acts...regardless of the how well the music has aged.
I was a kid when the RS were still a charting act. That was an era when there were only a handful of music shows on tv, so everybody knew all the top acts.
As a kid, I didn't get it and thought that they were openly gay........everything about them screamed gay....especially the two guys singing into one mic shyt.....

I fukk with some of their songs though....."Sympathy for the Devil" goes hard.

Wait, you thought that they were gay

 

[get these nets]

yeah these dudes acted pretty zesty. im pretty sure mick jagger put up wilt chamberlain numbers tho

moves like jagger

 

[get these nets]

Wait, you thought that they were gay

uh, YEAH

 

[Kwabena]

Dude was the pioneer of heavy metal

No lol

 

[SirReginald]

uh, YEAH

Metrosexual. Even though it's been said that him and David Bowie were fukking/had a fling in the 70s. Jagger's wife caught them in the bed together.

 

[get these nets]

Keith Richards said the first record that really turned him on was "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis. He like many English kids during that time after listening to Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis worked their way backward to Muddy, BB, Buddy Guy, etc...

I don't know if you still post here, but I posted a doc. recently that I think you'd enjoy as a fan of rock music. It's about Record Row in Chicago and the impact and legacy that the Chicago Record labels of that era had on music history.

cued to Keith Richards discussing the Chicago based acts



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and while you're right about the Keith Richards quote from his book, he also mentioned that the first record he ever purchased was a Little Richard song, and that he grew up listening to his mom play Jazz records.

 

[get these nets]

REST IN PEACE TO LITTLE RICHARD

 

[Originalman]

British rock bands and artists OPENLY..........................OPENLY praised the fathers of their style....Black American blues and Rock n Roll pioneers.

They copied everything....put a white marketable face on it...and sold it back to American audiences.

And / thread.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

they were because the british whites respected the sources/roots of Rock that american whites downplayed due to racism




this in turn would be the same reason why the Brits were blown away by hendrix when he arrived in England because they got to see someone in the flesh that came/lived around those same sources, except he was playing Rock instead of Blues

 

[frush11]

The Beatles are fukking garbage. I don’t know why people think you have to like them in order to have good taste, fukk them no-playing crakkkas.

To this day, I have no fukking clue what exactly makes the Beatles music good.

Pure trash, from their voices, to their basic ass music.

 

[Dynamite James]

Vulturing and plotting

 

[IllmaticDelta]

you mean Elvis

you mean leadbelly

 

[IllmaticDelta]

To this day, I have no fukking clue what exactly makes the Beatles music good.

Pure trash, from their voices, to their basic ass music.

they did help advance studio recording



but for the most part you're correct; they get way too much credit /praise mainly because they were huge POP BOY BAND who appealed to masses

 

[get these nets]

Vulturing and plotting

Vulturing might be your take, but like I said all of the British acts openly credited and paid homage to the Black American Blues artists and Rock n Roll pioneers. Used their platforms to expose their audiences to these legends as well. Got them featured on tours, TV shows, record deals,etc.

The nature of the American music industry and the audience is to find the latest, newest thing. B.B. King said that when Chuck Berry came out, audiences sensed that there was something new brewing and that the Blues artists were seen as old news, and forgotten about.

He said that the commercial success of overseas Rock acts, and them publicly paying tribute to Blues artists helped to revive their careers.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The Motown movement>>>>>>>>>>>>>4 of the most overrated ass individuals that ever hit the music scene

motown was actually the source that gave the Beatles a style to run with

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