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Urban Hat€monger ? 12-18-2008 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by spark10036 (Post 566023)
I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but I heard to Robert Johnson's compilation "The Complete Recordings" and I really wasn't that impressed

I wasn't either but it says something that virtually every song on that collection has been covered by some of the most important artists over the last 40/50 years.

Minstrel 12-18-2008 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 566025)
You don't have to be impressed at all. Acknowledgement is better. Virtually all the music that MB listens to in it's current form would not be possible if RJ decided to stay at home that day.

That's unlikely. One should give credit to precursors, but to assume that minus the precursor everything after that would never have happened doesn't strike me as at all reasonable.

It's also important to note that he wasn't the only hugely influential bluesman. Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf were contemporaries and also were a big part of the blues that led to rock and pop. Removing Robert Johnson may have had an effect, but surely not to delete from history all the pop and rock that followed.

LeavingAgain 12-18-2008 07:13 PM

March 17 1973

kida 12-18-2008 07:28 PM

When the first guitar was played while on some sort of psychedelic drug.

Janszoon 12-18-2008 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer (Post 566021)
The day that man heard a musical note through a piece of wire and didnt know what the hell it was. As for modern music-Robert Johnson sitting in a recording booth.

Finally some real contributions!

jackhammer 12-18-2008 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Minstrel (Post 566093)
That's unlikely. One should give credit to precursors, but to assume that minus the precursor everything after that would never have happened doesn't strike me as at all reasonable.

It's also important to note that he wasn't the only hugely influential bluesman. Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf were contemporaries and also were a big part of the blues that led to rock and pop. Removing Robert Johnson may have had an effect, but surely not to delete from history all the pop and rock that followed.

Of course not, but then we are moving into a whole new ball park. There was probably many more artists that none of us have heard about that were looking at studio technology. For better or worse we only have Robert Johnsons example for now. That is why I put it forward. Of course it isn't the only factor. Far from it. I was responding to the usual posts that seem to dismiss RJ from the progression of modern music.

frequentflyer 12-18-2008 09:02 PM

The obvious one is discovering electricity. IMO music evolved massively in the late 60's and 70's with keyboards/synthesisers, guitar effect pedals, bigger amps, sequencers, computers but none of these would exist without elec. we would still be banging drums and dancing around flutes & fidles.

Kamikazi Kat 12-18-2008 11:00 PM

If only I could find a video of the Family Guy bit with the 4 cavemen singing "For the Longest Time"..... I could post that video and everybody watch it and laugh at it and go "Man! You are so clever!!"

I'd probably say the biggest music innovation happened somewhere during the 1920s or 1930s. And like the above poster, the discovery of using electricity for music, which really opened alot of possibilities.

Janszoon 12-18-2008 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Kamikazi Kat (Post 566232)
If only I could find a video of the Family Guy bit with the 4 cavemen singing "For the Longest Time"..... I could post that video and everybody watch it and laugh at it and go "Man! You are so clever!!"

I'd probably say the biggest music innovation happened somewhere during the 1920s or 1930s. And like the above poster, the discovery of using electricity for music, which really opened alot of possibilities.

Yeah, even just amplification was a pretty big deal. I'd say it had a huge effect on singing styles for one thing.

Angstrom 04-07-2009 07:02 AM

...In Music History? I would have to posit that the Romantic period of music changed the way we view the world today. This was the period that artists stood up to oppressive views of the Aristocratic and Realism. In a sense, they were the rockers of their day. I say that this period changed so many things because it lead to the industrial revolution, emotionally based artwork, and freedom of expression.

Dont get me wrong. I do believe that every time Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughn lifted the guitar history was rewritten, but when you're asking about music history you have to be more ambiguous.


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