Archive for February 4th, 2010
Rock and roll has been around for a little over 50 years. From Elvis Presley twanging his acoustic guitar shaking his hips in the 1950’s, to the 60’s and 70’s bringing us The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who.
Rock has given us many great front men like Freddie Mercury with Queen, Jim Morrison of The Doors, and of course Ozzie Osbourne just to name a few. Rock has also afforded us the pleasure of some extraordinary musicians like Mark Knopfer with Dire Straits who plays an electric guitar a finger picking style that most would use on an acoustic guitar, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton and many more, names that are still familiar today.
Many of the bands and single artists like Elvis can be heard today and are still popular, not just with men and women in their 50’s and 60’s but by kids and younger adults also. This is possible because these were skilled artists with a sound that was unique to themselves, they weren’t lifted to star status based on a popularity contest like so many so called artists and bands now-a-days.
Fifty years has brought us these great musicians, but can they endure another fifty years, that’s what they are gonig to have to do, There’s noone within the last twenty years that’s qualified to carry rock any further. I guess AC/DC can never retire and The Who will wind up doing the half time show for the Super Bowl about every ten years.