Favorite style of Rock (country, indie, instrumental, jazz, psychedelic)

cardboard adolescent · 10-23-2006, 06:51 PM

Yeah, but rap evolved from R&B.

Merkaba · 10-23-2006, 07:16 PM

I may have written a thread on rock somewhere but I can't remember where I put it.

Cardboard layed it out pretty accurately though.

Spike*Spiegel · 10-23-2006, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Even though Prog musicians tend to be much more versatile, and much much more interesting and creative in my opinion.

which is why i picked prog

tdoc210 · 10-23-2006, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

I think rock is a very hard to term to define, but in general it's used as an umbrella term for mostly guitar-oriented music that has its roots in country and blues, however detached it may be. Basically, I can't define rock, but I know it when I hear it.

ooh i can

rock-mineral matter of variable composition, consolidated or unconsolidated, assembled in masses or considerable quantities in nature, as by the action of heat or water.

cardboard adolescent · 10-23-2006, 08:56 PM

boo boo · 10-23-2006, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by swimintheundertow

Music that directly or indirectly evolved from blues and R&B.

True, yet oddly enough Prog is still accepted as being a kind of Rock (hence "prog rock"), even though it shares more in common with Classical and Jazz, but it did envolve from Psychedelic Rock which (in part) evolved from R&B, so that might be the reason.

cardboard adolescent · 10-23-2006, 09:18 PM

If you can indirectly trace it back to Chuck Berry, it's probably rock.

boo boo · 10-23-2006, 09:22 PM

Probably can't do that with Prog... The Prog band that has come the closest to Rock N Roll is Hawkwind.

cardboard adolescent · 10-23-2006, 09:27 PM

Maybe not directly, but if you trace their influences I'm sure the ones that aren't Stravinsky or Coltrane were probably influenced somewhere along the lines by first wave rock n' roll.

A lot of prog bands, for instance, would claim The Beatles or Zappa as influences, and I'm sure both of them were influenced by Chuck Berry.

boo boo · 10-23-2006, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

Maybe not directly, but if you trace their influences I'm sure the ones that aren't Stravinsky or Coltrane were probably influenced somewhere along the lines by first wave rock n' roll.

A lot of prog bands, for instance, would claim The Beatles or Zappa as influences, and I'm sure both of them were influenced by Chuck Berry.

Good point.

Didn't think about The Beatles, but Yes, KC, Genesis and many others have listed them as influences so they count I suppose.

But I dunno, everyone influenced by Chuck Berry probably shouldn't qualify as Rock, because I believe there are Reggae and Country musicians who are influenced by him, and by similar logic, if being influenced by John Coltrane makes you Jazz, The Doors would be Jazz.

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10-23-2006, 07:16 PM	#212 (permalink)
Merkaba Whitewater! Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,885	I may have written a thread on rock somewhere but I can't remember where I put it. Cardboard layed it out pretty accurately though. __________________ She thinks I'm a reclusive genius, she's going to be very disappointed when she finds out i'm a reclusive wanker

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cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	Yeah, but rap evolved from R&B.

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10-23-2006, 09:18 PM	#217 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	If you can indirectly trace it back to Chuck Berry, it's probably rock.

10-23-2006, 09:27 PM	#219 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	Maybe not directly, but if you trace their influences I'm sure the ones that aren't Stravinsky or Coltrane were probably influenced somewhere along the lines by first wave rock n' roll. A lot of prog bands, for instance, would claim The Beatles or Zappa as influences, and I'm sure both of them were influenced by Chuck Berry.