History of Rock and Roll

[Fast Forward]

Anybody catch the History of Rock and roll that was on VH1 for about 7 hours today,basically covered 50 years of music History!jam!

[no1maestro]

I used many of those tapes in teaching my course of Rock and Roll. I always got a charge out of exposing my students to something that they "thought" they knew.

I got a chance to relive my own history along with teaching them the real story!!

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I used many of those tapes in teaching my course of Rock and Roll. I always got a charge out of exposing my students to something that they "thought" they knew.

I got a chance to relive my own history along with teaching them the real story!!I learned a lot myself, and I was around for the start

[Des-Lab]

Didn't get to see it, but for all intents and purposes, good, "classic" rock-and-roll was basically dead by the start of the 90's. As far as I'm concerned, the last great rock album was Tom Petty's "Into The Great Wide Open" from 1991.

[Fast Forward]

The most interesting part of the series was the early evolution and and who the artists were who brought it to the forefront,,,

[no1maestro]

I totally agree with Fast Forward; I was a small part of the beginnings and I wouldn't trade that for anything that has come along since. The early days were as exciting as it goes. I shared a booking agent with Chuck Berry and Ike Turner; it doesn't get better than having Chuck's Cadilliac sitting in my parent's driveway on a Thursday afternoon and then explaining it to the neighbors!!

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I totally agree with Fast Forward; I was a small part of the beginnings and I wouldn't trade that for anything that has come along since. The early days were as exciting as it goes. I shared a booking agent with Chuck Berry and Ike Turner; it doesn't get better than having Chuck's Cadilliac sitting in my parent's driveway on a Thursday afternoon and then explaining it to the neighbors!!
Must have been quite a site,Rock just exploded in the late 50s,, Mono turned to Stereo,, Am was what your parents listened to Fm was for Rockers Tv stations like The Hit Parade were for Squares Can you Imagine Snooky Lansen trying to sing Tutti Frutti, The Horror

[clhboa]

I saw it back in the 90's. If I remember correctly it was a pretty decent series.

[no1maestro]

Snooky would have been bad enough but who did we get?......Pat Boone..LOL

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Snooky would have been bad enough but who did we get?......Pat Boone..LOLOh God I forgot about that

[clhboa]

I was picking up some groceries at King Soopers last night when I saw a box of vhs tapes in the dollar days section. I got 2 different volumes of this series. They were "Guitar Heroes" and "Plugging In". They were a dollar a piece.

[TheReeler]

Another good documental serie is "Seven ages of Rock" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/). I watched only one programm, but was really amazing and pretty well done.

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I was picking up some groceries at King Soopers last night when I saw a box of vhs tapes in the dollar days section. I got 2 different volumes of this series. They were "Guitar Heroes" and "Plugging In". They were a dollar a piece.
So who did they have listed as Guitar Heroes

[clhboa]

Let's see...

Les Paul, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page, Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Slash among others.

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Let's see...

Les Paul, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Clapton, Jeff Beck, Page, Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Slash among others.Probablly a whole bunch that could be added to that list,, i think Rolling Stone did a list a while back