Rock music needs to make a strong come back ...

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I like it. The first song Solar Fire brings it.

The Old Vids are not a pissing contest.

One pic shows a fledgeling band already one album with original songs behind them playing in a glorified garage. No fancy stage, no fancy costumes, just some electricity and lots of practice. Same members. Same simple drum, bass, lead. Did they rock the crowd?

Chuck Berry up top, charming the Matrons of the symphony with Johnny B. Good and gyrating onstage in a manner quite apart from the ballroom dance WASPS of the period would commonly associate with musical appreciation.

Some Musicologists would credit Chuck as the midwife of Rock and Roll.

They are free to argue that crap ad nauseum.

The dude did attend as an active participant in the Dawn of Rock and Roll, and so is a meaningful contribution to this thread. Tho he is so old now that he is pushing up daisys as we speak.

His "spirit of the age" lives beyond him but time marches on.
 
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"spirit of the age" included nightly news with Viet Nam death counts and footage of conflict zones in play at the time, stretchers and all, right there with that greenish hued TV Dinner. The Draft put some on the shelf and others right in the middle of something that had no defined outcome.
Fortunate Son:

Today's version of this out there somewhere in the Rock and Roll genre?
 
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"Fortunate Son"

Some folks are born, made to wave the flag
Ooh, they're red, white and blue
And when the band plays, "Hail To The Chief"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one

Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves? Yoh
But when the tax man comes to the door
Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yeah

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
And when you ask them, "How much should we give?"
Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more"
 
Standing in the rain
with his head hung low

Couldn't get a ticket
it was a sold out show.
Heard the roar of the crowd
he could picture the scene.
Put his ear to the wall
then like a distant scream.
He heard one guitar
just blew him away

Saw stars in his eyes
and the very next day.

[Ryder:]
Bought a beat up six string in a secondhand store

Didn't know how to play it
but he knew for sure
That one guitar
felt good in his hands.
Didn't take long to understand.
Just one guitar
slung way down low

Was a one-way ticket
only one-way to go.
So he started rockin' ain't never gonna stop

[Finn and Ryder:]
Gotta keep on rockin'

[Ryder:]
Someday he's gonna make it to the top.

[Finn and Ryder:]
And be a Juke Box Hero got stars in his eyes

[Ryder:]
He's a Juke Box Hero.
Yeah

[Finn:]
He took one guitar

[Finn and Ryder:]
Juke Box Hero got stars in his eyes
Juke Box Hero he'll come alive tonight.

[Ryder:]
In a town without a name
in a heavy downpour

Thought he passed his own shadow
by the backstage door.

[Finn:]
Like a trip through the past
to that day in the rain

And that one guitar made his whole life change.
Now he needs to keep

[Finn and Ryder:]
rockin' he just can't stop
Gotta keep on rockin'

[Finn:]
that boy has got to stay on top.

[Finn and Ryder:]
And be a Juke Box Hero got stars in his eyes

He's a Juke Box Hero
Yeah
Juke Box Hero ([Finn:] Oh)
With that one guitar he'll come alive

Come alive tonight.
([Finn:] Yeah) He's gotta keep on rockin'

[Finn:]
He just can't stop

[Ryder:]
He just can't stop

[Finn and Ryder:]
Gotta keep on rockin'

[Finn:]
That boy has got to stay on top

[Finn and Ryder:]
He's got a real Juke Box Hero got stars in his eyes.
He's a Juke Box Hero ([Finn:] Yeah)
([Ryder:] Just one guitar) Juke Box Hero with stars in his eyes

Yeah, he's a Juke Box Hero
Juke Box Hero
Juke Box Hero his got stars in his eyes
Stars in his eyes



Ridin' down the highway
Goin' to a show
Stop in all the byways
Playin' rock 'n' roll
Gettin' robbed
Gettin' stoned
Gettin' beat up
Broken boned
Gettin' had
Gettin' took
I tell you folks
It's harder than it looks

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
If you think it's easy doin' one night stands
Try playin' in a rock roll band
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll

Hotel motel
Make you wanna cry
Lady do the hard sell
Know the reason why
Gettin' old
Gettin' grey
Gettin' ripped off
Under-paid
Gettin' sold
Second hand
That's how it goes
Playin' in a band

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
If you wanna be a star of stage and screen
Look out it's rough and mean

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll

Well it's a long way
It's a long way, you should've told me
It's a long way, such a long way
 
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