06-29-2020, 04:00 AM
(06-22-2020, 10:43 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Indeed.
Half of Rock is ripped off from Blues and R&B (don't get me started on how THAT has been distorted lol) as well...
The best era of rock is taken directly from the blues. Most of the icons of the time will tell you as much. Zeppelin and the Stones are massively indebted to blues artists. Sabbath, too.
Others are more "progressive". Floyd and The Who for example.
I've argued with you on this board more than once, and have held back countless times, but I agree with you about one major fact: The Who are probably the best pure rock band that ever played. I never understood them when I was young, but now when I hear them, I hear both perfection in songwriting and risk-taking. Pete understands what rock is better than any human ever has. Also, John Entwistle is probably my favorite "rock star" of all time. Sometimes it seemed like, incredibly, even with Pete directing everything, The Ox was playing the lead. They are the only band I know that more or less had 4 frontmen, lol.
Anyway, that's what's called a tangent, but I wanted to get that in.
