The year was 1977 and my father probably still had a full head of hair. Besides that‚ 13-year-old Dad was able to witness one of the greatest album releases of all time. On the verge of breaking up due to divorce (Christine & Bob McVie) and the on-again-off-again relationship style of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham‚ Fleetwood Mac released their best album and one of the most legendary albums to this day. This throwback Thursday let me take you through Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. “Second Hand News:”
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When I think of term rock and roll‚ I remember watching MTV and seeing Axel Rose scream into the microphone with his whinny voice the lyrics of “Paradise City” while dancing across the stage in his ridiculous outfits. My father would nostalgically reminisce of the epic guitar solos of the Eagles‚ Don Felder. My father being a teenager during the height of the rock music era afforded him certain opportunities to see the big hair bands perform live during their prime. When I was still a boy‚ he would
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Chuck Berry "School Days" One song that personifies the raucous‚ feel good party vibe of the fifties would be Chuck Berry’s "School Days" which was released in 1957. He truly made a hit with rebellious teenagers with a song about the occurrences of a school day and all of the trials and tribulations that go along with it. Chuck was also known as one of the most influential blues guitarists of his time. In this particular Chuck Berry song there are 4 different instruments present; guitar
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Many of us know “The Rock” (Famously known as The Rock‚ Dwayne Johnson) as a legend and one of the biggest stars of the 90’s and early 2000’s. Johnson’s father was a professional wrestler‚ so he got a fast track to the WWE. He has been one of the wrestlers who performed many dangerous and life killing tricks at different WWE matches. Although a lot of new wrestlers came to this field‚ but still he managed to maintain his level of appreciation. The Rock is extremely well known both in and out of the
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Pop Rock in the Nineties The nineties were a decade of enhancement. It was no longer fit to have anything the way it was originally made. It needed to be enhanced. The tastes and wants of society changed as technology changed. Every time technology advanced it would have a ripple effect to everything around it. This included music. Alternative rock was glorious in its day‚ but in the society of the nineties something more was needed. There are some alternative bands that embraced this change and
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Rockin’ Las Américans: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin America by Eric Zolov investigates the “systematic pattern of harassment and abuses” towards rock n’ roll in South America during 1960-70s. It questions how and why rock became so controversial‚ what was rock in Latin American contexts‚ depictions of race‚ class and gender in music‚ and what makes Latin American rock truly Latin American rock. Using first hand knowledge from “rockers” themselves as well as help from ethnomusicologists‚ and
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The Center for Popular Music For information on specific research collections: Sheet music and Broadsides Rare books Sound recordings Periodicals Reading room collection Archives Music Trade Catalogs Posters Playbills and Programs Photographs Background: The Center’s collection documents the diversity of American music. We take as our starting point the European and African origins of American culture‚ selecting items which document the music of our national vernacular culture. From
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Have you ever gone out on Saturday night to hear someone sing the blues? Have you ever gone to a Baptist church the next morning and heard a joyful gospel song? You may think the two musical expressions have nothing in common‚ but if you listen closely and study their histories‚ you will find some surprising similarities. When you first hear gospel music and the blues‚ you can’t help noticing how different they are in mood and in the stories they tell. Blues songs are sad‚ full of heartbreak and
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In the middle of Manhattan‚ a non-descript building produced some of Rock and Roll’s iconic music of the 1950 and 60s. The period is steeped in harmonious girl bands‚ teen idols and probably the quintessential hallmark of this time period of Rock and Roll was the professional produced sound. The two titans of music producing hit after hit during this time period were the duo of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and the other was once a student of Lieber and Stoller‚ Phil Spector and his infamous wall
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Veronica Perez Ms. Ramirez AVID II Per. 5 30 May 2013 Aesthetic Experience On Saturday March 8 I attended the rockabilly festival that took place in Pitzer College. This was a great experience because I had the opportunity to feel what it was like during the rock n roll times. I was invited to go through Mr. Molina in MECHA to help out with fundraising. I was there all day selling raffle tickets to people who attended the festival in order to raise money for the MECHA scholarship
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