Who invented rock and roll? Ask Chuck Berry, he’ll inform you. It was Chuck Berry. Or was it Invoice Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard? Muddy Waters? Robert Johnson? Possibly even Lead Belly? You didn’t, however should you requested me, I’d say that rock and roll, like counattempt blues, got here not from one lone…
Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing each British blues guitarist to items the moment they noticed him play. As vocalist Terry Reid tells it, when Hendrix performed his first presentcase on the Bag O’Nails, organized by Animals’ bassist Chas Chandler, “there have been guitar players weeping….
It’s straightforward to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it for the reason that sixties, though the band has additionally are available for its share of reappraisals, particularly for his or her psych-rock album Head. (That’s the soundobserve from the 1968 Jack Nicholson-directed artwork movie of the identical identify: “One of many…
As a younger guitar player, perhaps nobody impressed me as a lot as Jimi Hendrix, although I never dreamed I’d attain even a fraction of his ability. However what appeal toed me to him was his near-total lack of ritual—he didn’t learn music, wasn’t educated in any classical sense, performed an upside-down right-handed guitar as…