Compare this to any of the shit people call rock today. And let’s not even talk about rap “music”. How could Africans go from blues to soul to rap?
Alvin Lee. Awesome talent. I loved the 70’s!
Yannow there were 1K dislikes on this. WTF is wrong with those people? Booger eatin’ moh-rons. They prolly like rap.
I consider Alvin Lee one of the first shredders. He could play some grand blues like “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” or “I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes” and still tear up a guitar. Late 60s early 70s were the best of times for Rock. Bands like Humble Pie, Canned Heat, Grand Funk, Mountain, Uriah Heep, Traffic, and so many others. Greatest guitarists, like Joe Walsh, Leslie West, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower, Johnny Winter, with Alvin Lee leading the pack. As much as the bands try today to produce the best of Rock, and I like many of them, none can exceed the quality of Rock from the mi-60s to the mid-70s.
1K dislikes, that’s a lot of folks with their heads up their a$$es
Our betters like to lecture us and tell us that rap is genuine music of the streets and evolved from “rappin'” on the street corner. But I can’t help but wonder to what degree rap is part of a larger conspiracy to keep the black man down. It that was its intent it has been a huge success.
I was also hoping that when rap was imitated by suburban little white girls and became “Disneyfied” that it would just prove to be a fad and go away, but it’s had a lot of staying power.
The day real rock and roll died 12/31/79. The end of the 60’s and 70’s.
Add billy gibbons and Jeff beck to the list of best guitarist’s.
Bob…Don’t forget little known Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon. He was so ignored back in the day.
And he died last year. RIP.
Went to their concert in San Antonio in 74 while on leave from the Navy. Was an outstanding show. Today people have no clue what good music is. As far as rap – just plain crap, no talent, no skill and clearly no soul.
I always wonder what Rap would have been like if it grew up in the country Music genre…
You’re lucky… you apparently haven’t tuned into what passes for a “country” station in the last decade.
Still have the double disc live album. Scratchy but it’ll never be discarded.
Ron in Ohio Sez:
I’m not gonna’ comment, certainly not critically, about the “Sunday Metal” – It’s just not my thing. I could probably count on my fingers the “Heavy Metal” songs that I have liked, Starting with Guns n Roses’ “Civil War” in spite of its anti-war message. But, I do not begrudge anyone’s enjoying and listening to Metal.
No Denny, my first comment is actually an addendum to your question, “How could Africans go from blues to soul to rap?” – Further – How could they go from jungle dwellers to the U.S. and back to turning our cities into jungles?
As far as Rap, I’m an adherent of the old saying, “Ya’ can’t say crap, without rap.” And I love good Blues and always liked most of the Soul music too. But they were both from more sane times – I know, I’m a dinosaur! But again, I feel that Heavy Metal came along to rescue us from “Disco sucks!”
Weird Al was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno once. Jay asked him what he thought of rap. He said that it was a natural progression. Rock and Roll was created for kids who couldn’t sing well. Rap was created for kids who couldn’t sing at all.
My oldest grandson was once very impressed by the blues work of Lightning Hopkins ….Yep I have about 12 CD`s which I still treasure. Unfortunately as he got older & into High School he started spouting his version of Rap! All`s well that ends well ….he got over it.
I think the conversion began when my Son asked to hear some of his chants at my shop one day & gave him the name “MC MUMBLES”! Hilarious just down right Hilarious …..As my son said to his nephew as bad as Rap is, It gets far worse when a white kid tries to imitate any black Rapper, just cannot get the KneeGrow dialect to sound genuine.