rock evolves

Rock Evolves: 1970s

English Blues Bands Evolve into Metal

Educated Musicians Using Their Skills Into Progressive/Art Rock

Folk Into Singer Songwriters

Blues & Honkey Tonk Into Southern Rock

Garage Bands & Lit Into Punk

Dance Music Disco

Many Streams Into Rap/Hip Hop

Rock Evolves

•Early Metal: Blues Riffs•Muddy Waters Mannish Boy, Satisfaction, Sunshine of Your Love, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida•Distorted Guitar Sound, Feedback•Shouting/Screaming Vocal Style

Early Metal

Jimi Hendrix Evolved the Concept of Guitar/Amp Sound

Developed New Guitar Techniques

Played in R&B Bands Gaining Experience

Animals Manage Brought Him To England

Performance at Monterey 1967

Americans Thought HE Was British Invasion

Early Metal: Hendrix

Are You Experienced: Purple Haze – LSD

Out Did The Who & Burned Guitar at Monterey

Early Metal: Led Zeppelin

Former to Fill Yardbirds Contracts

Jimmy Page, Guitarist, Performed With Many British Invasion Bands

Blues Riffs Turn into Metal

Blend Acoustic & Electric

Stairway To Heaven Staple of FM AOR Radio

Early Metal: Black Sabbath

Grew From Blues Band

Named from Boris Karloff Movie

Dividing Line Between Blues & Metal

Heavy Riffs/ Distortion, Pleading Vocal Sound, Satanic Iconography

Early Metal: Theatrics

• Psychedelic Light to Makeup and Props

• Alice Cooper (Vince Furnier) Eye Makeup, Mock Hanging, Goullotine

• Kiss, Kabuki-like Face Painted Cartoon Characters

• DJs & Music Pros Hated Them First

• GWAR, Monster Costumes

Early Metal:Art/ Progressive Rock

Evolves Beyond the 3 Minute Song

Tried To Emulate Classical Music

Long Improvisations

Multi-Sectional Song Forms

Moody Blues Developed From Blues Band to Combining Rock and Classical Music

Early Metal: Progressive

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Legnthy Improvisations, Rock Versions of Classical Music (Pictures At An Exhibition)

Yes: Bordered on Jazz Fusion, Long Improvisations

Genesis: More Literary, English Mythology, Phil Collins Huge Solo Career

Pink Floyd: long Career Before Dark Side Of The Moon

Metal: Zappa

Frank Zappa, Enigmatic Figure, Blended Doo Wop-Satire-Avant-Garde (Edgard Varese)

Mothers of Invention, satire & Complex Musical Forms

1982 Valley Girl w/Moon Unit

Critic of Music Censorship

Rap/Hip Hop

Streams: African Griots, Rhythmic Sermons, Jazz Vocalese, Beat Poetry, Gil Scot- Heron, James Brown, Jamaican DJs All Coalesce In the Bronx

Jamaica: Power Owned Radio Stations, Portable DJs Brought Music to the Poor

Rap

Toasts: Social/Political Commentary over Instrumental Sections of Records, Sampling

DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican Moved to New York, Entertained at Parties & Clubs

Grandmaster Flash Developed Record Scratching to High Art

Rap

First Recording: Fatback Band: King Tim III (1979)

Sylvia Robinson (Love Is Strange) Started Sugar Hill Records & Sugar Hill Gang: Rappers Delight (1979)

Kurtis Blow: Christmas Rappin’ (1979)

First Rapper on A Major Label

Rap

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message (1982) Influential Recording

Rock Evolves: Singer Songwriters

Folk Singer Category Morphed into This One, Still Pop Music Hits, Often Acoustic Guitar Players

Texture: Voice Upfront, More Melodic, Less Guitar Distortion, Subtle Rhythm Section

Lyrics: More Complex Than Rock, More Personal, More Melodic

Singer Songwriters

Paul Simon, Many Hits After Split With Garfunkel

Combined With World Musicians, Brazil & Africa

Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard (1972), 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (1975), Still Crazy After All These Years (1976)

Singer Songwriter

James Taylor & Carly Simon, Married/Divorced

Both From Musical Families.

James Taylor: Fire & Rain (1970), You’ve Got A Friend (1971)

Carly Simon: Anticipation (1971), You’re So Vain (1972)

Singer Songwriter

John Denver (Deutschendorf)

New Christy Minstrels Alumni

Take Me Home Country Roads (1971), Rocky Mountain High (1972) (Colorado added it as a State Song in 2007)

Singer Songwriter

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Folksinger

Established Singers Recorded Her Songs

Woodstock (1969), Big Yellow Taxi (1970)

Help Me (1974)

Rock Evolves: Southern Rock

Hard To Define: Blues & Boogie Bands, Southern Iconography (Confederate Flag, Guns)

Extended Improvisations, Often Dueling Lead Guitars, Sometimes Two Drummers

Not the Same As CA Country Rock

Allman Brothers

Duane & Gregg

Signed to Liberty Records as The Hourglass Failed To Chart

Studio Musicians at Fame Studios Muscle Shoals AL, Recorded Soul Music

Formed Allman Brothers 1969

Live At Filmore East Big Success

Motorcycle Accident Death 1971

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Local Florida Bands Until Discovered By Al Kooper

Free Bird (1973) Sweet Home Alabama (1974) Rock Standards

Others: 38 Special, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band

Disco

Discotheques: European Clubs That Featured DJs Instead of Rock Bands

1977 Studio 54 Opens, “In” Place

Theatrical Clubs: Strobe Lights, Dicso Balls, Fog

Fashion: Men Open Collared Loud Polyester Shirts, Gold Chains, Cocaine

Disco

High Production Values, Emphasis on the Bass Drum and HiHat Open Upbeats

Movie: Saturday Night Fever (1977), Album Huge Success

Donna Summer, Bee Gees

Corporate Hit Factories: Even Beethoven

Disco Dies A Quick Death.

Dance Music Lives On in Lady Gaga

Rock Evolves: Punk

Search For First Punk Bands Ends With “One-Hit Wonder” Garage Bands

Several Punk Scenes: Detroit (Garage Band); New York (Avant-Garde); English (Social/Economic Futility)

Reaction Against Excess: Over-Produced Disco, Metal Instrumental Pyrotechnics Displays

Punk

English Punk: Amateurism Often Praised, Anti-Rock Industry, Purposely Insulted Journalists

Fashion: Purposefully Deviant, S&M Leather, Slashed Clothing, Body Piercing W/Safety Pins, Nazi Symbols,

Hair: Spiked, Colorful, Just-Got-Out-of -Bed

Punk

1960s Michigan

MC5 Kick Out The Jams MFs; Refused to Let Label Release A Clean Version, Put Ad In Underground Paper F—K Local Dept Store

Changed Labels, Released Pre-Punk Sound

Self-Destructed in 1971

Punk

Iggy Pop & The Stooges (1968), Ann Arbor MI

Self-mutilation With Broken Bottle, Raw Meat, Exposing Himself

Not Commercially Successful, But Influential With English Punks

New York

Velvet Underground: Lou Reed & Sterling Morrison Jammed at Syracuse U.

Reed Studies Poetry, Songwriter at Pickwick Records

John Cale (Leonard Bernstein Scholarship to Tanglewood 1963), Avant-Garde Music LaMonte Young

Andy Warhol Plastic Exploding Inevitable

New York

New York Dolls (1971) Rolling Stones W/Glitter

Manager Malcolm McLaren Also Assembled The Sex Pistols

The Ramones: Fast Songs, Catchy Lyrics Delivered in Cheerleader Style

Plasmatics: Wendy O Williams, Explosions, Chainsaws, Nudity

England

Sex Pistols: Anti-Social Image But Took It Too Seriously.