Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Rock And Roll Es

Great Rock Musicians Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll     The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll and roll. Rock directlyhas mutated so much that the basic blues practice sessions have been all but lost.The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of, and evolution of rockand roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of thesixties and seventies.     The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slavesin the unpolished ignominious areas of the south, where most of the people worked on share-cropping farms. Musically the blues are defined as a 12-bar chord progression,harmonized with the corresponding scales and patterns. The chord progressionpattern is four measures of tonic chords viewed by two measures of sub- surmount chords, two more measures of tonic chords, one measure of dominatechords, one measure of sub dominate chords, and finally two measures of tonicchords.Blues performers would travel around the south singing about their loss oflove and family, and the pains they were forced to endure. The music became usual because nearly every one who heard it could identify with its message.This type of Blues later became known as country blues because it was rooted inrural areas. The Blues became more main stream and popular in the 1920sbecause of the recording industry coming into existence. More instruments wereadded much(prenominal) as pianos, organs, and wind instruments.Big raft and Rhythm and Blues stemmed from City Blues.Rock and Roll then stemmed from Rhythm and Blues, in fact, many of thefirst recorded "Rock" songs where precisely white musicians re-recording Rhythmand Blues songs originally written by black artists.It took Bob Dylan 23 years to realize that he wanted to become a rockmusician. Bob Dylan, whose birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman, had arelatively uneventful childhood in a Minnesota mining town. He adopted hisnom de guerre when he went to the University of Minnesota. "Dylan" came from theWelsh poet Dylan Thomas, with whom Zimmerman was frequently compared in theUniversity folk circles. After leaving the University, Dylan moved to NewYorks Greenwich Village to follow his folk hero, Woodie Gunthrie. In fact, hismain aim of moving to the Village was simply to meet his hero. He not only metthe fo... ... Lady Land, which containedhis most successful single Dylans "All along the Watchtower". Hendrixs mostmemorable performance was in 1969, at Woodstock, where he played his immortal"Star-spangled Banner", however it is still unclear if he played the song insuch an unpatriotic, angry style in protest of the war, or from the pressurefrom black militant groups. In 1970 Hendrix died from inhaling his own vomitafter an intoxication of barbiturates. The debate has never been put to restover whether it was suicide or carelessness. "Jimi Henrix was and original, and,unlike most great rock musicians suffered no imitators" (Rock Giants).     Rock and roll has become one of Americas greatest musical culturecontributions. Indeed, America would not be the same if it did not have rockand roll. One of the reasons rock has become so great is that rock groups inmore present time have tried to follow the highly creative musical standards setby the musicians in this paper. If rock continues to follow the trends setfourth by the greats, Neil Youngs lyrics may prove true, "Hey, hey, my, my,rock and roll will never die."