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Monday 19 December 2005 Bands That Changed The World! The opening guitar licks on "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" signaled that something very fundamental had changed; that the world would never be the same! It was 1965, and The Rolling Stones sensed the change and embodied it into a song; but more than that, they were pioneering a new musical genre! Early
Rock and Roll
From the early 1950s until the mid 1960s, American musicians were still developing, and dominating the new music that they had created. Allan Freed coined the name for this music, with its powerful new energy and rhythm, in 1951. This "Rock & Roll" recognized, and channeled the overwhelmingly positive mood of that time into mostly happy, upbeat love songs. Although this music was embraced and enjoyed by a large segment of the public, it struck a chord in the most profound manner with young girls who connected with its focus on the enjoyment of dancing and dating, and the whole realm of romantic fantasy. These songs were all about the vocals. The solid-body electric guitar was there, along with the electric bass and drums, and often a piano, but in those days, the role of the instruments was to back up the singers! These early artists did not seem to grasp the potential of what these instruments could really offer! This meant that the instruments, for the hit groups, were often played by anonymous stage or session musicians, who were not considered part of the band, unless they also did vocals. Sometimes, when they played on stage, these musicians were put behind the curtain while the vocalist, or vocalists, performed in front of it, in view of the audience. The Tipping Point
A "Counter Culture" made up of those who opposed traditional American Patriarchal values, and who were followers of Karl Marx, and other collectivists, had strengthened their Matriarchal culture to the point where it began to control the country in the mid 1960s. Their economic policies spelled the end to the long post-war boom, and marked the historic high-water mark of many measures of the financial health of American households. This Matriarchy, with its new world view, and resulting dictates, brought forth changes in the government, the educational system, social services, the medical profession; and most importantly the family, that set loose all sorts of social ills such as Dependency, Illegitimacy, widespread divorce, and drug use. In short, 1965 was the Tipping Point where America reached its high water mark in almost every important measure except its technological capabilities. Those who stood on this crest, and looked ahead, saw a long painful decline into a dark abyss from which no return seemed likely. The mood turned very dark, so Rock & Roll musicians had a choice to make. Some continued churning out happy, upbeat love songs, since they would provide an escape from the darker reality setting in. After 1965, these tunes offered a brief respite from the changes taking place, but seemed to be more like cotton candy. Very sweet, but with little substance! Another choice was to reflect the dark mood ahead with more darkness. America and the other Western nations were slipping into a spiritual crisis, and some would choose to embrace and wallow in the dark side, but others sought a path to redemption; a connection to the Power of the Universe in the midst of the darkness. Fortunately, there would be a source of light in the abyss, and it would come through the new musical genre that The Rolling Stones introduced to the world! It's All About The
Guitar!
America invented Rock and Roll, so it was no surprise that American musicians dominated the early years. The music flowed in one direction, from America to the rest of the world, because there was little that others could offer in return. British musicians listened to what they heard, and copied and emulated American artists. However, one school of British Rockers were also heavily influenced by another American musical form; The Blues. They sought to marry Rock & Roll to The Blues. These musicians gave their instrumental work equal prominence to the vocals, and, after a time, developed a guitar-driven form of Rock & Roll that is often called Hard Rock, but more accurately might be dubbed Blues Rock. Since the instruments were now important, the musicians who played them were, too, which allowed self-contained bands to develop. The guitar player, the bass player, and the drummer often became as important as the vocalist or vocalists. These new units also began to write their own music, as opposed to early American Rockers, who often relied on outside songwriters, at places like the Brill Building, for their material. Blues Rock is not simply guitar driven; it uses the electric guitar in ways never dreamed of before its inception! Players employed a wide range of effects to achieve the plaintive wail, the haunted searching sound, the scream of pain or joy, and the cry for help from the gods, that characterizes their guitar work. However, even as the guitar gained prominence, the bass and drums were emphasized in the music much more than in the past, too. Later, some bands added keyboards and synthesizers, as well as a variety of other instrumentation to achieve an even fuller effect. Even though vocals were not the sole emphasis in Blues Rock, they were still the primary component of most songs. This genre merely added passages to most tunes where the guitar had the opportunity to step out and play a solo part, which often became the most compelling section of the entire piece. The bass, keyboards and drums were each also allowed to have a distinctive voice and contribute in such a way that they became MUCH MORE than background decorations! The subjects of songs, and their lyrics entered new territories, too! There were still plenty of love songs, but most explored the darker side of human relationships, along with the positive. "Satisfaction" lamented about how difficult it was to achieve Peace of Mind in the New Era that The Rolling Stones were writing about. "Dazed and Confused", "Purple Haze", "Comfortably Numb", "You Can't Always Get What you Want", and "Can't Find My Way Back Home" expressed similar sentiments. Many songs dealt with the social problems that began to develop like "We Don't Need No Education" and "Wooden Ships", while other tunes directly addressed spiritual issues such "Simple Man" and "Stairway to Heaven". The Invasion
 With
the
cultural divide, and its resultant vacuum already reaching critical mass in 1964,
the time was right for British
musicians to
invade America. The
Beatles
were the dominate
force in The
British
Invasion, and they set loose a firestorm with their appearance
on The
Ed Sullivan Show on 09
February. They brought the British
concept of
the self-contained
Rock band
to America,
by not using
session musicians
to backup their vocals, and by writing many of their own songs, but
they were still like most of the early
American Rock bands, because
their primary
emphasis was
on their vocal work.
They
brought their
version of traditional
Rock and
Roll to America, but was it that
different? The fans loved the intimacy
of knowing the whole unit, the
vocalists, AND the musicians, and their songs were "fresh" compared to
what American groups
were
churning out in 1963
and 1964,
but they were not as
innovative as those
who were fusing the Blues with Rock
& Roll!That is why it wasn't until 1965, with those opening fuzztone riffs on "Satisfaction" that it was clear that the 6-string electric guitar would be the dominate force in the New Era of Rock & Roll. This instrument would become the "spiritual device" that would provide comfort and direction in the dark days ahead. Vocal-oriented groups did not see this! A new type of High Priest or Shaman was needed to play the electric guitar in such a way that the Power of the Universe would flow through him; and out into and through the listeners! These High Priests would lead a new raw, gritty and edgy music form. One that was more masculine, mature and tough; one that spoke to the harsh realities of life after society's high-water mark, rather than romantic fantasies. "I've Got You Babe" was replaced by "Under My Thumb"! The Bands
1965
 The
Rolling Stones may not be the best band
to ever to play Blues
Rock,
but their success with "Satisfaction"
(#1 in the US) opened
the door
for the other British
Blues Rock
bands to ply their
trade. However,
when a band is founded in 1961,
and is still in
business in 2005,
with the
core of its original
members in tact, it makes them the longest
running Rock & Roll
band in history! They have now cast their shadow on this
genre
for over four decades!
When
you also consider the unprecedented
catalog from the Jagger/Richards
songwriting team, which has generated sales that rank
in the top ten
in the
history of Popular
Music;
it is hard to overstate
their influence on the guitar-driven Blues Rock sound
they helped to
pioneer! The segment of the British Invasion that brought Blues Rock, or what is often called Hard Rock, to America, was lead by The Rolling Stones, but three other bands also had a profound, although less widely recognized influence, on this new genre.  The Kinks
can be credited with having a Blues
Rock song on the
charts even before
"Satisfaction"! "You
Really Got Me"
was on the
charts in late 1964,
complete with the loud distorted guitar riffs that
would characterize this new musical form. Other hits followed, but it
wasn't long before The
Kinks
began to stray
from the Hard Rock
format. The Who
added weight to the Tipping
Point
with their release of the "My
Generation", another prototypical Hard Rock tune.
This is a band
that has
sustained their roll in the music business for decades, and
developed
the Rock Opera format. The
Yardbirds brought three
major High
Priests of the
6-string
guitar into prominence in the mid 1960s: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck
and Jimmy Page.
They were
a bit heavier
on The Blues
than they were on Rock
& Roll, compared to The
Stones, and their three noted lead
guitarists, who were with the band at different times, were pioneers in exploring what
the electric guitar
could really do.
They experimented
with fuzz tone,
feedback,
distortion and different
amplifiers. Their
hit "For Your Love"
added
to the Hard Rock
momentum
that was still just
beginning when it was released. After Eric Clapton had left The Yardbirds to Jeff Beck, and Beck had departed in favor of Jimmy Page; it wasn't long before Page turned The Yardbirds into a little-known band called Led Zeppelin!  It
is somewhat ironic
that the primary
force behind the development and
popularization of Hard
Rock
was these four British
bands,
who invaded America
between 1964
and 1966,
and yet the first
Hard Rock song to
become a hit was "Louie,
Louie"
by an American band,
The Kingsmen!!
This was a tune that had been around since 1955. It was
written in the
style of a simple Jamaican
ballad,
and it had been covered by dozens of
bands. However, it wasn't until 1963,
when The Kingsmen
gave it
their gritty
guitar-driven
arrangement, that the first
Hard Rock tune can be
said to have been played! The Kingsmen must be given their due respect and kudos for their accomplishment, but these one-hit wonders hardly had the sustained influence of The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Yardbirds, or other Hard Rock bands that followed them. 1966 This was the final year that British bands dominated the American music scene the way they did in 1964 and 1965, so the British Invasion was waning as American musicians were inspired to form new bands in the Hard Rock tradition, and other developing genres.  However,
the biggest news of the year was
the little known invasion
of
Britain by an American
guitar player named Jimi
Hendrix.
On 01 October,
Jimi
sat in with Cream,
at a live performance,
and Eric Clapton's
hold
on the title of the top Blues
Rock guitar player in the world was
immediately shaken! As Jimi
began to play the local clubs, with The
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Britain's
top guitar players became his
biggest fans. 1967
With the release of "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze", first in the UK, and then the US, the center of gravity in the Blues Rock world shifted back to America. Jimi's influence, until his death in 1970, simply can not be overstated. Widely considered the best guitar player of all time, Jimi Hendrix pioneered the use of guitar amplification and effects, including the early use of Marshall amplifiers, the wah-wah pedal, axis fuzz unit, the Octavia octave doubler, and especially the UniVibe.  But that wasn't all that was
happening this
year! Back across the Pond, The
Doors had
developed a distinctive
Hard Rock
sound that highlighted
the organ
along with the
guitar! They were also unique in that they did
not use a bass guitar, for live performances, but rather had Ray
Manzarek cover those parts on the organ, as well as his
leads,
while Robby Kreiger
added
his powerful guitar work! "Light
My Fire" and "People
Are
Strange"
were hits this year, but "The
End"
really
exemplified the new
subjects
that the Hard Rock
genre
was starting to
address. Like Jimi
Hendrix, Jim
Morrison died prematurely, a year after
he did, in 1971,
which
ended The Doors
influence
on the Hard Rock
scene. At the same time, an offshoot of the Hard
Rock movement was developing
in the San Francisco
area.
Their Psychedelic
form of Rock
offered a
mellow reprise from a steady diet of pure Hard Rock. Jefferson
Airplane burst upon the national scene with "Somebody to Love"
and "White Rabbit",
and
others, such as Quicksilver
Messenger Service,
added to the genre. 1968
 The
British were back with the Power
Trio,
Cream. "Sunshine
of Your
Love" and "White
Room"
gave Eric Clapton
the
chance to share the world
stage again as one its great guitarists, along with Jimi Hendrix. Cream
is considered one of the best
Blues Rock bands of all time, but it didn't last long,
so Clapton
moved on.1969
 Early
Rock
& Roll had come out of the rural South, and
so
had The Blues,
but The British
Invasion, and the
new music it inspired,
gave a much more urban
feel
to some of the new Blues
Rock,
so it was
time for the South
to reassert
its influence. Credence
Clearwater
Revival arose out of Northern
California to pioneer a new
branch of
Hard Rock that spoke of and to the rural South
directly. Their hits "Proud
Mary", "Bad
Moon Rising" and "Green
River" launched Southern
Rock, but "Born
on the
Bayou" became one of the anthems
of this genre.
That a band from California
should
re-discover Rock
& Roll's
Southern roots is no less ironic than the British
re-inventing this American
art form in 1964!1970
 Although
their first two albums were
released in 1969,
the hit
single "Whole Lotta'
Love"
did not make it onto the US
charts
until the next
year. It may not have been a second
British Invasion, but Led
Zeppelin
set a whole new
standard
for Hard Rock bands!
Eventually, they became
universally regarded as the most
influential Hard Rock band of all
time. While other bands often strayed from the Hard Rock genre,
Led
Zeppelin stayed true to its roots, and became one of the top-ten
recording artists in history. Other hits from their
voluminous
catalog
are too numerous to mention, but "Stairway
to Heaven" is one of the
most requested, and popular tunes ever played!  Originally
called The Santana
Blues Band,
Carlos Santana added a Latin
flavor to Blues Rock.
"Evil Ways"
and "Black Magic
Woman" made it onto
the charts, introducing another great guitar player to a national
audience. He later made a big hit out of an old standard, "Oya Como Va". Starting
as a Blues Rock band
in 1967,
Black Sabbath
pioneered a
sub-genre of this musical form that came to be known as Heavy Metal.
Their lyrics dealt more directly with the darker issues of
the times,
and included direct, but tongue-in-cheek references to
the occult
and black magic.
Black Sabbath
tried to become Rock
music's
answer to horror
movies; they
thought that scary music would purge the fears and
anxiety of the times. Their first US
hit, "Paranoid",
was
released this
year.  The
Allman Brothers continued the Southern
Rock tradition, pioneered by CCR, with an
even heavier Blues
accent to their
music, and the use of two
lead
guitar players;
Duane Allman and Dickey
Betts. Their hit "Midnight
Rider"
brought their first national attention.1971
 Jethro
Tull was another Blues
Rock band
that added an eccentric twist
by using a lead flute
along with its lead guitar. Their release of "Aqualung"
opened up
new avenues and subject matters in this genre.The live album "At Filmore East" was released by The Allman Brothers Band. It is considered one of the greatest live albums ever recorded. Duane Allman died later this year which marked the end of the band in its greatest form. 1972
 Clapton's
new band, Derek
& the
Dominos, recorded, "Layla", one
of Blues Rock's
most
immortal love songs,
in
late 1970,
with Duane
Allman playing dual
lead;
but it didn't make it on the charts in 1970
or 1971.
This classic Hard
Rock love song did not
become a hit until
this year!!1973
 Lynryd
Skynyrd released its first album,
containing the classics "Freebird"
and "Simple Man".
They
were the definitive
Southern Rock
band fusing the overdriven power of Blues Rock, and
a three-lead-guitar
attack, with the rebellious
Southern image, by appearing live with the Confederate flag
as a
backdrop! Skynyrd
was the
leader of this genre
until Ronnie Van
Zandt's death in
1977.Although it is widely considered one of the greatest Blues Rock songs of all time, few bands are willing to even try to cover "Freebird" at live gigs, even though it may still be the most requested song at local clubs and bars!! The triple guitar attack that Skynryd used is just too intimidating for most!!  Even
though they had been producing albums
since 1967, Pink
Floyd did
not attract any real notice until the release of their masterpiece, "Dark Side of the Moon".
A true Blues Rock
band
with a touch of Psychedelic
Rock, Pink
Floyd pioneered special
effects on their "concept
albums" and lavish
and elaborate live
concerts. This is
a band
who writes about almost everything but romance.1974
 ZZ Top
made its first album in 1970,
but it
wasn't until the release of "Tres
Hombres" that
they gained any national prominence, when the album
and the single "La
Grange"
made onto the charts. Since ZZ
Top
is the
last of the great Southern
Blues
Rock bands, it is fitting to use the
point, where they entered the national consciousness, as the end of the
timeline that started in 1965,
with the Rolling
Stones. With the demise of CCR, The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd; ZZ Top is the only band left to carry on the tradition of this genre, and they are the only band that has maintained it's original line up for 35 years! Throughout their tenure, they have continued to produce some of the best work in the Hard Rock genre! The Golden Age
It easy to make the case that the decade from 1965 to 1974 was the Golden Age of Rock & Roll, because it was the time that Blues Rock was created and developed by the greatest bands in the history of the genre!! Some of those mentioned did not last beyond this period, but others continued long after 1974, and a few are still in business today. Other bands that came along after this decade have done some excellent work, but the overall quantity and quality of the music produced between 1965 and 1974 has never been equaled!! It may also be true that the bands, covered in this article, that continued to work after 1974, did most of their best work during this decade. The reason that this period was so fertile was probably due to the changes that were taking place in society, at that time. The early 1950s up until about 1965 was a time of an overwhelmingly positive mood, which inspired musicians to produce the songs of that period. From 1965 until 1974, the mood in the world shifted drastically from a very positive tone, to a very negative extreme, as the Stock Market demonstrated, when it bottomed, at the end of a powerful Bear Market, in the Fall of 1974. The positive mood of the early 1960s has never been equaled since the 1974 low, and it will probably never be seen again! There was something very unique about the people who lived through this transition and captured it in music. It was music from people who started with great hope, but were then confronted by the deep despair of a long dark period. Blues Rock was needed to provide a lifeline to those who had known the good times, so that they could cope with, and make it through, the dark days. That the Golden Age ended around 1974 can also be confirmed by the emergence of Disco in 1973 and 1974. This music, designed to be played at clubs by a DJ, rather than a live band, went back to a style that featured prominent vocals, and it added a strong fast rhythm to encourage frenzied dancing. Disco usurped the preeminence of the guitar, the High Priest of the guitar, and the experience of a live band channeling the Power of the Universe through the audience. It was pure escapism from the bleak times of the 1970s Stagflation! Yes, the Golden Age was over! By 1979, the negative mood, that continued to prevail, gave birth to a new, now dominate genre called Rap. For the most part, Rap wallows in, embraces, and reflects the most negative elements and activities in society. It merely amplifies, echoes and justifies the negativity and anger with little to nourish the listeners or the musicians. In more recent years, Karaoke has added another way for clubs and bars to provide "entertainment" without live bands, which has helped to stifle the live music business. Without local live-music clubs in which to learn and hone their craft, new musicians can not be expected to be as creative or productive as those who worked in earlier times. Fortunately, there have been some bright spots in the last 20 or 30 years; Stevie Ray Vaughn, Creed, Joe Banamasa, U2, and Nickelback, to name just a few, but the two performers who dominated these times used lavish choreographed performances, where the musicians were mostly ignored and hidden in the background once again! A stage show can NOT replace the music! Michael Jackson and Madonna have both produced some good music, that is both fun and enjoyable, but it is a pale imitation of the days when The Stones first played "Satisfaction", Duane Allman and Eric Clapton did "Layla"; or three lead guitar players would speak to the gods at the end of "Freebird"! Spirituality
"Do
you believe in Rock
& Roll,
can music save your mortal soul?" Don McLean "American Pie" The Hopi Indians of Northern Arizona are universally believed to be the most spiritually evolved people in North America, by those who care about such things. The Hopis live in their simple homes, on their very remote mesas, but they have their most profound spiritual experiences in their underground pits known as Kivas, where they carry on secret ceremonies, lead by a High Priest or Shaman. They believe that when they go deep inside the dimly-lit Kivas that they are returning to the womb of Mother Earth. It was most interesting that shortly after the beginning of the Golden Age, "disciples" of the Blues Rock genre bought their vinyl, and then Instinctively started to play it in darkened rooms, that were often lit with Black Lights, shining on special posters, or by "Color Organs", whose lights danced to the beat of the music. This arrangement allowed them to be TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE MUSIC!! They didn't know it, at the time, but they were creating their own special ceremonies in a new type of Kiva where they could have a profound spiritual experience with this music! This analogy continued as "disciples" gathered in dimly-lit clubs to see live Blues Rock bands wail away, and provide even more profound experiences as the bands Channeled the Power of the Universe through themselves and out into the crowd. However, it did not take long to see the difference between the Power of the music, and the musicians who composed and played it! Few, if any, were anything like Hopi Shamans! These were, in the main, NOT highly-evolved souls! Their personal lives were usually train-wrecks, and their excesses with booze, drugs, sex, and other things were legendary. They could Channel the Power, but they were only the vehicle or instrument; NOT part of, nor the source of, the Power itself! In addition, most of the musicians, in the bands under discussion, were members of the Matriarchal culture that caused the decline from the high water mark in 1965. They were part of the problem, and NOT part of the solution, so it is doubly ironic that they served, and continue to serve, the spiritual function that they do. The ones with great talent seem Destined to fulfill this role whether they understood it, or really wanted to do this, or not. It seems that a certain type of music MUST come through them, and they have little choice in the matter. Conclusion
1965-1974 was an amazing time; a time that will never be seen again! It started with an invasion by a British band that had fused American Blues with Rock & Roll, so they taught the founders of this musical form a thing or two, and then it ended with that "little old band", that got its inspiration from the Life Force and Energy that begins in the muck and silt of the swamps, bays and bayous of the Southeast Texas Lowcountry, and finally produces a sound that is purely American, again! Those who despair about the staleness, artificiality and stagnation of today's music offerings would do well to load up on recordings, from these bands. It is not a good idea to try to live in the past, but with music, you can live in the Present, and play the music from the past. And if it's from The Golden Age, it will provide another chance to re-experience some truly awesome music! When you're ready to listen, turn out the lights. If you're feeling really adventurous, fire up the Black Lights or Color Organs, and go inside your own personal Kiva for a real Peak Experience! Post Script
The Beatles were clearly the dominate musical force during this period, but their vision was different than those who chose to develop Blues Rock. If they had stayed together longer, maybe they would have turned more in this direction. Their catalog of music was one of the great contributions to the 20th Century, BUT no matter how you look at it, "Hey Jude" is just NOT "Freebird"!! The excitement that the bands, mentioned in this article, generated during the Golden Age, was electrifying! Each day, everyone waited to see what new creation would emerge. What was even more extraordinary was the fact that there was also a tremendous amount of fabulous music created by dozens and dozens of other bands, that emerged during this period, who were not mentioned in this article. This made the overall quality and quantity of the music produced during these times even more amazing!! Remember:
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