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Old 01-28-2014, 04:58 AM   #312 (permalink)
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Hardcore is supposedly founded more in jazz than rock. Wasn't Bad Brains a jazz fusion group at first? That may explain it. Aside from that, there is plenty of 50s rock that I wouldn't call simple, but it isn't what I'd call progressive rock, or free jazz, either.
There's a jazz influence in some hardcore but as a genre it's definitely more rock based than jazz based. The instrumentation, song structures, song lengths, vocals, etc. all come from the rock family tree.
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