name a band/musician before your time that you would have loved to have seen live...
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I am honestly not sure.
It would probably have been someone like Bill Haley & The Comets.
After all, I became the pimply adolescent type as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Searchers, etc were coming into their prime.
In fact I saw the Searchers live only last year - with two of the original members, and they started touring two years before The Stones!
My first two gigs, other than the school's end-of-school-year Valedictory Dances (always live) were by Led Zeppelin and (separately) Family.
(That was a generation before school dances down-graded to discos and the American term, "Prom"[enade]!)
So what existed in popular music prior to the 1950s Rock-&-Roll era, which was a bit before my time? The stagnating American big-band and crooner styles - Dad's and Grandad's music to which Rock-&-Roll arose partly as a reaction and shocked all the "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" .
Though the Disgusteds were no more impressed by the up-coming, long-haired, musical illiterates as they saw them, like The Beatles! And as for the Rolling Stones....
It would probably have been someone like Bill Haley & The Comets.
After all, I became the pimply adolescent type as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Searchers, etc were coming into their prime.
In fact I saw the Searchers live only last year - with two of the original members, and they started touring two years before The Stones!
My first two gigs, other than the school's end-of-school-year Valedictory Dances (always live) were by Led Zeppelin and (separately) Family.
(That was a generation before school dances down-graded to discos and the American term, "Prom"[enade]!)
So what existed in popular music prior to the 1950s Rock-&-Roll era, which was a bit before my time? The stagnating American big-band and crooner styles - Dad's and Grandad's music to which Rock-&-Roll arose partly as a reaction and shocked all the "Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells" .
Though the Disgusteds were no more impressed by the up-coming, long-haired, musical illiterates as they saw them, like The Beatles! And as for the Rolling Stones....
