Do You Think ELVIS Deserve To Be A KING?

[Jocke]

Originally Posted by Jimbits76

I think you'll find it's not just influence...many could say Elvis was a one man white boy cover band. He took a more obscure type of music and reproduced the sound with just enough pop feel to bring it to the masses. If we are talking about the King, the real king would be the legendary Robert Johnson. His music and art was the wellspring from which all these other artists flowed. His sound today may be a little impenetrable but he was the originator and the true king or blues, R&B, Rock and Pop. People such as Jagger and Richards, Lennon and McCartney, Dylan, Clapton and probably Elvis himself would agree or would have agreed.



Considering they were label mates at Sun alongside Orbison and The Killer, I'd probably say yes.

J

Jim, Robert Johnson´s music is not just some music. Crossroads for a example contains
some real interesting things.

Robert Johnson have been a ground for nearly all the famous blues and rock´n´roll musicians.

So to call a guy that works in the middle of the 19th century for the king (of music)
is a little over the top in my opinion.

Jocke

[Jimbits76]

OTT Jocke?

I think he is the source. Without him, there may well be no modern music as we know it.

Not only was he a true music great (Fifth in Rolling Stones top guitarists of all time), he also set the Rock and Roll lifestyle going, with his drinking, drugging, womanising and generally hellraising antics and the whole live fast die young ethos.
Of course the Devil at the crossroads legend hasn't hurt his mythology as Rock's true pioneer either.

Listen to his works...Crossroads, Sweet Home Chicago, Hellhound on my trail, Terraplane Blues, Travelling Riverside Blues and so on and so forth.

This guy was doing things with his guitar and voice that was unheard of on vinyl at the time. This was 71 years ago!!!!!

No Robert Johnston:

No Blind Lemon, No Blind Willie, No Skip James, No Elmore James, No Wolf, No Muddy, No Elvis, No Stones, No Beatles, No Clapton...It's rock and roll history.

J

[Jocke]

Originally Posted by Jimbits76

OTT Jocke?

I think he is the source. Without him, there may well be no modern music as we know it.

Not only was he a true music great (Fifth in Rolling Stones top guitarists of all time), he also set the Rock and Roll lifestyle going, with his drinking, drugging, womanising and generally hellraising antics and the whole live fast die young ethos.
Of course the Devil at the crossroads legend hasn't hurt his mythology as Rock's true pioneer either.

Listen to his works...Crossroads, Sweet Home Chicago, Hellhound on my trail, Terraplane Blues, Travelling Riverside Blues and so on and so forth.

This guy was doing things with his guitar and voice that was unheard of on vinyl at the time. This was 71 years ago!!!!!

No Robert Johnston:

No Blind Lemon, No Blind Willie, No Skip James, No Elmore James, No Wolf, No Muddy, No Elvis, No Stones, No Beatles, No Clapton...It's rock and roll history.

J

Jim OTT was mean to Elvis, of course not Robert Johnson.

Sorry my grammar didn´t work always.

Jocke

[Jimbits76]

Sorry buddy, it aint your grammar, it's my reading ability...boy got me up at 6am this morning, brain hardly functions and I feel like playing the blues right now, I tell ya!!!!

J

[JRWoOo]

Elvis brought rock and roll to the masses. Without him the genre might not have grown in popularity and could have fizzled out. Artistically speaking, he never introduced anything new or really experimented outside of the sound he was comfortable with (rock, gospel, later in his career country western). But despite his artistic short comings (I can’t think of one song that he wrote by himself) His voice is instantly recognizable to nearly everyone familiar with rock and roll. Furthermore, almost everyone in Western society has at least seen his image and can probably associate it with either Elvis himself or the rock and roll genre in general. These are the reasons why he is the king of rock and roll.

[Trurolexer]

Originally Posted by JRWoOo

Elvis brought rock and roll to the masses. Without him the genre might not have grown in popularity and could have fizzled out. Artistically speaking, he never introduced anything new or really experimented outside of the sound he was comfortable with (rock, gospel, later in his career country western). But despite his artistic short comings (I can’t think of one song that he wrote by himself) His voice is instantly recognizable to nearly everyone familiar with rock and roll. Furthermore, almost everyone in Western society has at least seen his image and can probably associate it with either Elvis himself or the rock and roll genre in general. These are the reasons why he is the king of rock and roll.

100% Agree!!!

[Jimbits76]

Furthermore, almost everyone in Western society has at least seen his image and can probably associate it with either Elvis himself or the rock and roll genre in general. These are the reasons why he is the king of rock and roll.

The King of Rock and Roll or the Mickey Mouse of Rock and Roll?

J

[Dan Pierce]

Originally Posted by OYSTERMANN

Good post, Dan.

I wonder if Elvis got any inspiration from the Man in Black, Johnny Cash?

I sure have been. When we're all dead and gone Johnny Cash's music will still reverberate forever. Another iconoclast.
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