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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.