08-20-2017, 03:44 PM
(08-20-2017, 03:42 PM)tvguy Wrote:(08-20-2017, 03:22 PM)Juniper Wrote:And they were the first to focus on the blues and rhythm from our black culture and modify it to something we now call rock and roll.(08-20-2017, 03:12 PM)tvguy Wrote:(08-20-2017, 02:45 PM)Juniper Wrote:Yep. I found it useful to learn their really old stuff because like me at that point they were not all that good LOL.(08-20-2017, 02:04 PM)tvguy Wrote: I'm talking about their first songs. Love me do was their first hit. It's a three cord simple song that virtually anyone could sing and play, even the harmonica part.
Sure innovative I guess But I don't see much skill or talent. Just like the Monkees were extremely successful who were even less skilled and talented.
The same goes with the rolling stones if you look at their first songs. The lead guitar they played back then was pathetic compared to what they learned later.
Yes, they were self taught. They just figured it out as they went a long. As innovators that would be the Studio work. They grew as they grew. They didn't fail. They were just kids when they they started.
I remember sitting next to a record player and playing the Stone's "heart of stone" song over and over until I could figure it out. As well as other songs.
That was before the internet and Youtube.
That's exactly what they did. Listen to a record. figure out the chords and play it till they had it. All the Hamburg stuff was covers. Nothing original.
A lot of popular rock and roll songs can be more easily learnedly by listening to the old more simple versions from the original black musicians.
Those and B sides of R & B artists.