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Andy_Copland

Elvis, why dont i get it?

By Andy_Copland, in The Bonfire

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skymama    37

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I have no desire to see Graceland



I don't either, but on a slow day in Tupelo, Mississippi, I did see his birth home. It's so small, it took about 2 minutes to tour it. A bathroom in Graceland is probably bigger than that house is! He certainly came a long way in life from his humble beginnings.
She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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I happen to agree with you.

It is very sad for music history that Elvis is credited with being the first 'rock and roll' artist. And even sadder that that myth lives on today.

Truth be told he was not. All Elvis did was make rock and roll acceptible to white suburban kids. Before him, rock and roll was purely race records. You had guys like Huey "Piano" Smith, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and countless others who were the true pioneers of rock and roll. But good white folks in the early 50s didn't listen to race records. Along came Elvis who did listen to those records, and all his music was heavily influenced by their style. And since he was a white kid, all of a sudden, it became acceptible.

As a result Elvis is credited with being the first - another tribute to black americans being held down in the late 40s and 50s [:/] Thankfully that opression didn't last much longer - but today, well... I don't call the majority of music black america seems to listen to as music.

Jen

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This explains things well: http://www.hoyhoy.com/dawn_of_rock.htm

"When you read most books on the origin of rock and roll, they describe an explosion that hit around 1954 or '55. All of a sudden, Elvis, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and others were playing perfectly developed rock and roll, as if it came out of nowhere. Some portray it as a magical moment in a recording studio, with musicians goofing around during a break and playing some unrehearsed jam, and somehow accidentally inventing a whole new type of music. Ridiculous. The more sober authors say, though also in error, that it was a mixture of country music and R&B (an accurate description of rockabilly, which was not the original form of rock and roll). When these books describe the "roots" of rock and roll, they usually start with the blues of the 1930's or earlier, artists like Robert Johnson and Charley Patton, and make references to Chicago blues artists like Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters, and then jump right up to 1954, completely skipping over the hard rocking sax-based R&B of the period 1948 to 1953. "
Arianna Frances

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The only good thing to come from all-that-is-Elvis is this picture of my friend and fellow dz.commer, Jimbo. :)
Blues,
Dave



damn.....everytime the word Elvis comes out on the internet anywhere, Todak trots that nasty fucking picture out.
That aint me......thank god.

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