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today at work i was told that i was doing a great job that i was learning faster than any of the others they had tried hiring before me and that i didn't have to worry about what would happen at the end of my 90 day probation because i was in. so that was aload off my mind to bad it could'nt take the load off my shoulder from putting up rims of carpet. ouch!
I'm listening to Marty Robbins- Gunfighter Ballads and trail songs to relax as much as i can before i take a shower. if your not sure who that is he is the one who does the song "el paso" which was popular in 1959 when the album came out. if you still have no idea who im talking about i can't help you.
in my opinion the 50's not the 60's were the most exciting years for music. for a couple of reasons.
1. rock 'n' roll was born- the best of country, blues, rythym and blues, soul, pop and other influences came together to create the first (best) phase of rock 'n' roll it was the purest cause it was the first. Where every ingredieant was put together for the first time.
2. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Bill Haley and his Comets, intsrumental surf rock bands (The Ventures, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale and the Del-tones, Lonnie Mack, Link Ray, ect..)Eddie Cochran, Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Grady Martin, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Tiny Moore), Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley,
If not for these few names and many many more unnamed, we would not have any of the fingers of the evolution that music has expirienced. 2 quotes from legends of rock guitar chapter 1: the fifties (rock and roll begins)
"Was it with Chicago's notorious South Side bluesman, R&B "jump" bands such as Louis Jordan's, or as a result of Bill Haley's Texas swing, country, and blues experiments? Or was it Elvis Presley and the boys jamming at Sun Studios in July 1954. And what did Chuck Berry sound like before his first hit in 1955? Clearly, there was no first rock 'n' roller; like any great cultural movement, rock was a large-scale trend driven by artists working towards a common goal and propelled by outside (and often unconscious) forces"
"...the bare truth of the matter is that black blues and jazz, and white country, Texas swing and pop is where rock 'n'roll came from."
amen.
I'm listening to Marty Robbins- Gunfighter Ballads and trail songs to relax as much as i can before i take a shower. if your not sure who that is he is the one who does the song "el paso" which was popular in 1959 when the album came out. if you still have no idea who im talking about i can't help you.
in my opinion the 50's not the 60's were the most exciting years for music. for a couple of reasons.
1. rock 'n' roll was born- the best of country, blues, rythym and blues, soul, pop and other influences came together to create the first (best) phase of rock 'n' roll it was the purest cause it was the first. Where every ingredieant was put together for the first time.
2. Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Bill Haley and his Comets, intsrumental surf rock bands (The Ventures, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale and the Del-tones, Lonnie Mack, Link Ray, ect..)Eddie Cochran, Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Grady Martin, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Tiny Moore), Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley,
If not for these few names and many many more unnamed, we would not have any of the fingers of the evolution that music has expirienced. 2 quotes from legends of rock guitar chapter 1: the fifties (rock and roll begins)
"Was it with Chicago's notorious South Side bluesman, R&B "jump" bands such as Louis Jordan's, or as a result of Bill Haley's Texas swing, country, and blues experiments? Or was it Elvis Presley and the boys jamming at Sun Studios in July 1954. And what did Chuck Berry sound like before his first hit in 1955? Clearly, there was no first rock 'n' roller; like any great cultural movement, rock was a large-scale trend driven by artists working towards a common goal and propelled by outside (and often unconscious) forces"
"...the bare truth of the matter is that black blues and jazz, and white country, Texas swing and pop is where rock 'n'roll came from."
amen.