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Post by Mattsby on Apr 1, 2020 21:41:14 GMT
Thoughts/rank 'em if you want. These guys could put on a damn good show.
Am I forgetting anybody? Kinda amazing Lewis (84) and Richard (87) are still alive!
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 1, 2020 22:12:50 GMT
Love them all but 50s Rock and Roll comes down to form vs. function - Chuck Berry literally invented the form but he was 30 singing songs about high school kids - still he's the first triple threat in Rock - great singer/songwriter/guitarist. He wins.........BUT:
Jerry Lee Lewis was the function though more than anyone.....a genuine dangerous kid (to himself, to others) like Iggy Pop 10+ years later. He was only in his early 20s when he recorded and he made the single best 50s album but in 1964 (!) - Live At The Star Club, Hamburg which is a greeeeeeeeeat album where he does songs by every 50s icon (except Buddy Holly) and he destroys them all. It's in my top 100 albums easily - and depending on my alcohol intake a whole lot higher....
This is him doing Carl Perkins' Matchbox from that record and he takes this simple uptempo catchy rock song and turns it into something slow, weird and that sounds so left-field lascivious well......everybody lock up your female cousins to be safe.
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 1, 2020 23:12:36 GMT
Jerry Lee Lewis was the function though more than anyone.....a genuine dangerous kid (to himself, to others) like Iggy Pop 10+ years later. He was only in his early 20s when he recorded and he made the single best 50s album but in 1964 (!) - Live At The Star Club, Hamburg which is a greeeeeeeeeat album where he does songs by every 50s icon (except Buddy Holly) and he destroys them all. It's in my top 100 albums easily - and depending on my alcohol intake a whole lot higher.... This is him doing Carl Perkins' Matchbox from that record and he takes this simple uptempo catchy rock song and turns it into something slow, weird and that sounds so left-field lascivious well......everybody lock up your female cousins to be safe. "If you don't like Jerry Lee's peaches....."  Love that album - it's like sonic caffeine, Lewis growling and purring, you can practically visualize him at the club. |
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 2, 2020 0:09:37 GMT
Buddy Holly
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Post by countjohn on Apr 2, 2020 4:31:27 GMT
I'll go with Berry just because he was such a good guitarist. I probably listen to him most of these guys.
With Elvis, From Elvis in Memphis is very good and I like a lot of his "mid period" poppy stuff like Can't Help Falling in Love and his Christmas album. Not really as big on his early rock and roll recordings but I am not a particular fan of early rock and roll so I'm not the one to ask.
Not really a Jerry Lee Lewis fan and I haven't heard much of Little Richard.
If Buddy Holly had lived he might take this, Chirping Crickets is my favorite early rock and roll album. But he doesn't have enough material for me to put him ahead of Berry.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 9, 2020 15:16:40 GMT
RIP Little Richard: 1932-2020
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Post by morton on May 9, 2020 15:51:36 GMT
RIP Little Richard: 1932-2020Just saw the news about Little Richard's passing, and remembered this thread from just a short time ago and was coming here to post about it too. His music always brought me such great joy, and he was a great performer too boot. Hope he's up there jamming in Rock and Roll Heaven right now. |
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Post by Mattsby on May 9, 2020 18:58:33 GMT
 RIP  Hendrix plays guitar on this one, a beautiful song |
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 29, 2020 17:29:20 GMT
Happy 85th to this fireball
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