Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of‚ and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and seventies. The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slaves in the rural black areas of the
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The Hippie Legacy. - Counterculture movement; began in US‚ spread to UK; big from 1965‚ declined in 1970s; white‚ 15-25 of age‚ mostly students; seen as wasters‚ druggies‚ idiots‚ green-freaks; heavily influenced by music (Jimi Hendrix‚ The Beatles); easily identified by their style - tried to distance themselves from conventional‚ structured styles. Britain: in Britain‚ there had always been an artsy‚ bohemian underground; widely known as ‘the underground’‚ even though media tried
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A Brief History of Rock and Roll and The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 Throughout history‚ major social transformations have taken place that has changed how people perceive themselves and the world around them. With each social reformation‚ cultural forms and institutions also change as well as their meanings. For Example‚ the development of recording and electronic communication within United States capitalism spurred the unique coming together of music traditions in twentieth century United
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era of the flower power‚ and the Woodstock music festival. Rock music replaced folk music as the face of protest culture‚ and cultural protest combined with political demonstrations. American flags were destroyed on the platform at Woodstock‚ and Jimi Hendrix played a strange version of the American national anthem that turned many older generations’ heads. The protests got even stronger after four students were shot and killed during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State‚ Ohio‚ in 1970. On May 4
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Cited: Clark‚ M. "LSD and the Drugs of the Mind." Newsweek 9 May 1966: 59-64. Country Joe and the Fish. Woodstock. Saugerties‚ N.Y. June 1969. Gitlin‚ Todd. The Sixties. New York: Bantam Books‚ 1987. Hendrix‚ Jimi. "If 6 Was 9." Axis: Bold As Love. MCA Records. 1987. Rubin‚ Jerry. We Are Everywhere. New York: Harper and Row‚ 1971. Steinbeck‚ John IV. Marihuana Reconsidered. Cambridge: Harvard UP‚ 1971. Sutton‚ H. "Summer Days in Psychedelphia." Saturday
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club in which popular musicians have become a member after they’ve died at age of 27. In the following I will look at the question of whether the theories and speculations of this ’’curse’’ are right or wrong. You probably know the deaths of Jimi Hendrix‚ Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse. They all died at the age of 27. These three and many other popular musicians died of an overdose of drugs or alcohol. But do they have a connection? And is it right to put them and their deaths in the media or in
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joined PYE Studios which was 2 track studios‚ soon he was running first PYE four track studio. In 66’ he joined Olympic Sound Studios where he recorded many great artists including Traffic‚ The Beatles‚ The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. He had great collaboration with Jimi engineering every album from “Are You Experienced” to “The Cry of Love”. He worked with Led Zeppelin and many great artists of modern music.2 He’s inspiration was by Bob Auger and Keith Grant. They thought him many great techniques
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intelligent and talented‚ Janis never found it. Janis took her own life one night and overdosed on drugs. This is something about her I do not respect or admire. She was very depressed about it and her friends could tell. Jerry Garcia once said‚ "Jimi (Hendrix) and Janis were both very lonely. There was no one there for them when they went home." This could be part of the reason that Janis made that fatal mistake. It may have seemed that she didn’t have any happiness in her life‚ but I think that she
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If you don’t wish to hear explicit language‚ state that up front. You may also find that your children and grandchildren are big fans of your music. Rock is still the favored genre for all groups up to age 65. The Beatles‚ the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix are popular among all age groups. So while Coldplay may leave you cold‚ you may still be able to find some areas of agreement in the oldies category. Improving Social Tolerance Correctly or incorrectly‚ older people are perceived as being
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million hippies gathered on the 600-acre dairy farm. Woodstock of 1969 showed peace‚ love and music with surprisingly no violence at all. Some of the performers were Santana‚ the Grateful Dead‚ Janis Joplin‚ Sly and The Family Stone‚ The Band‚ and Jimi Hendrix. What made Woodstock historically significant was not the concert‚ but the event itself. Organizers never anticipated such a huge turnout.
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