Always ask, Can you whistle or hum to it? Can you tap to it? Rock and Roll is fun and its simple. Curiously, the more diminished musical sense some people have, the more affinity towards loud, long, noisy, poor quality music pieces! Melody and rhythm together is Rhythm and Blues.
This causes general opinion to forget the beautiful pages of this important music genre. Every group has made noise to some extend some less than other. People tend to associate R&R music with loud, crappy music and lots of annoying noise.
You have to dig a little but, they keep coming. Among todays works I keep finding wonderful pieces of good and pure R&R music. Its been said, from the very beginning, Rock and Roll is here to stay, and its still going on. In 1972, I built my own electric guitar from instructions published in Popular Mechanics Magazine. From there on, work has never stopped, even working my fingers right done to the bone figuring out the correct chords and tabs for my favorite songs, hunting, wherever, a particular missing chord to a song. With Hughs help, I got the first chords for my lyrics. In 1970, I asked my parents to have a guitar for my birthday. In the early 70s, another beautiful, new and exotic sound came along as well: the Moog Synthesizer! Notebooks and scrap paper started pilling up with all my handwritten song lyrics. Wow, its still an indescribable thrill every time. One of my passions: electric guitars - their sound and effects (reverb and tremolo back then), their curves and designs (I later became an Architect and designer), their beautiful color bursts and shinny buffed finishing. Thats when I began jotting down song lyrics and started friendship with classmate Hugh Watts Taylor another Rock and Roll fan at only ten years of age. In 1964 I started taking R&R music more seriously with the apparition of a new a Go-Go radio station dedicated to this kind of music. A keen listener since early childhood, I remember enjoying many songs from the early Rock and Roll years and early 60s Highschool Honeydrip. I was born when Billy Haley and and the CometsRock Around The Clock was at its top popularity: 1955.
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