Conference rdvax::grateful

    
    I don't think there would be an appropriate answer for you to give,
    Lisa...unless one of the choices was 'eclectic.' :^)
    
    I don't like answering that (I had to fill one one when I joined
    Columbia Record Club, and didn't feel like any category really suited
    me).
    
    But....what is "Rock & Roll?"
    
    To me.....Rock & Roll is blues-based, but not pure blues.....kind of
    like a cross between blues and pop music.  I don't like to say "pop
    music", but say so because I think the effect is that it appeals to a
    larger, more general audience that wouldn't necessarily enjoy pure
    blues style.
    
    When I hear the term "Rock & Roll", the first group that comes to my
    mind is the Rolling Stones.
    
    Its a hard thing to describe, because it in itself is very eclectic and
    hard to describe or define.  VERY hard to really define!!!
    
    I wouldn't call the Grateful Dead a rock band, although my above
    description would call them such.
    
    I dunno :^) :^) :^)
    
    Hogan 

    Very interesting question Lisa
    
    You will always have trouble categorizzing artists,.. like saying
    that the grateful dead are a rock and roll band is really ignoring
    their folksy side, their bluesy side, their jazzy side etc.
    
    Its much easier to categorize other artists. For Rock and Roll, the
    first two images that come to mind are Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley.
    After that, The Stones sort of put the next hard edge,. and then things
    went the route of "hard" rock,. then "metal",.. then "heavy metal",..
    then,. I don't know,.. Nirvanna? which is like,. heavy rust! :-)
    
    Anyway,.. things are always changing. Rock as it was first
    invented/defined is pretty much dead. We see lots of offspring like the
    punk movement, and the metals, etc.... but very littel pure Rock and
    Roll coming out today. Black Crowes are the clo9sest current thing I
    can thank of that has a rock thing to it...
    
    To me, these are "rock and roll"
    
    	Chcuk Berry playing:
    		Johnny B Goode
    		Roll over Beethoven
    		Promised Land
    		and lots of other stuff from Chuck
    
    	Elvis Presley doing Jailhouse Rock, Bill Hailey and the comets
    doing Rock aroun the clock, the dead doing Alabama Getaway, The Beatles
    doing Back In the USSR,... those are rock and roll. 
    
    	Rock and roll has drums,.. big loud constantly beating drums
    so that its basically impossible to lose the beat:
    
    	Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
    	any old time you chose it
    	Its got a back beat you can't lose it
    	any old time you use it
    	its gotta be Rock and roll music
    	if you want to dance with me
    
    
    	But this is one of those things you can't define in words,.. you
    can just point to things and say "thats rocka dn roll" and point to
    others and say "that aint"...
    
    	As for your other questions,.. I'll let one of my distinguished
    colleagues on the panel try to sort it all out for you :-) :-)
    
    								/
    
    

    whats milk taste like ? thats what Rock-N-Roll is like , nothing like
    it to compare it to....:') but if you asked who is Rock-N-Roll, I'd say
    Buddy Holly !

The Grateful Dead IS Rock 'N' Roll.

;^)

(and pure chewing satisfaction ... no ... that's not it ...)

    RE .5
    
    	I don't think the statement "The Grateful Dead IS Rock-n-Roll"
    	can stand on its own without addendums or something like:
    
    	... and a whole lot more ...
    
    			OR
    
    	... but that aint all...
    
    	Branford Marsalis said it best after gigging with the boys,.. his
    words were something like "These guys can even leave a space for me,...
    theres a lot more to what they're doing than just rock and roll",.. or
    something like that...
    
    	I want/need to add these addendums when you think about songs
    they do like,... Dark Star,... or To Lay Me Down,.. or Victim or
    the Crime or ,... Friend of the Devil,.. all of which don't have a lot
    in common except they defy the 'rock and roll' categorization.
    
    re Marv,...
    
    	Yeah,.. I've been dabbling in rock and roll for N years,.. by now
    if I don't know I must be in trouble.... well,. I'm in trouble anyway
    come to think of it :-0
    
    							/
    

how's about this:

anything you played that your parents couldn't understand and
anything your kids play that you can't understand and everything
that falls in between.

:)

But I don't like milk!!!  (Hmmn, I wonder if that could explain my size,
or lack thereof ... but I digress.....)

    Brain dead topic.

 I know it when I hear it..:-)






 

The Blues had a baby.  That baby was named Rock -n- Roll.