talking blues; arguing rock and roll

 

first issue of Rolling Stone magazine (John Lennon on the cover) - November 9, 1967

Jann Wenner situation -- a few more Reader Comments

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~  After the NY Times story, this became not about the selection of interviews in his book.

Wenner could have easily defended his choice of musicians.  Easily.  Just say, "These were some of my favorite interviews, so we put them together in a book."  Done. 

...His NY Times 'defense' was beyond a train wreck.  More like just setting himself on fire.

~  Wendy

Denver

Janis Joplin?  Chrissy Hynde?  Stevie Wonder?  Stevie Nicks?  Jimi Hendrix?  Prince?  Otis Redding?  Sam Cooke?  And that's just off the top of  my head.  The list goes on.  Jann Wenner was a gatekeeper who talked up artists he was friends with and wanted to impress.  His field of vision was very small.

~  Donovan

North Carolina

Yes.  But it's not just what he said.

This is an excerpt from Wiki, folks.  "Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.  It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, jump blues, as well as country music.  

        While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954."

~  Brock Landers

Van Nuys, California

If there were a Rock N Roll Hall of Shame, Grace Slick would be in there for everything she did after about 1969.  Jefferson Starship and Starship are crimes against humanity.

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Seems like the floodgates were opened to a variety of musical and informational dissatisfactions...

        (Grace Slick:  "How did I get thrown under this bus?!")

I think it was Jefferson Airplane in the '60s and then they had some personnel changes and also changed musical styles, and renamed the band Jefferson Starship and then later dropped the Jefferson and just became Starship, and I don't know all the ... I don't know.

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And, in other Music News, currently on Netflix there is a documentary series called Hip-Hop Evolution.  It's very interesting.

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Grace Slick (during the Airplane era)

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