20. juni 2015 arkiv

Chuck Berry – The Complete Chess Singles A’s & B’s 1955-61 (2015)

20. juni 2015

Vi taler om rockens DNA, når vi taler om Chuck Berry og hans bedrifter i rockens tjeneste. Han er – hvis man interesserer sig for rock and roll – ikke til at komme uden om. Hverken musikalsk eller tekstligt. Derfor må udgivelsen af dobbeltcd’en Chuck Berry – The Complete Chess Singles A’s and B’s 1955-61  interessere enhver, der holder af genren og ikke i forvejen har – fx de udgivne bokssæt med mesteren. Her finder man mange af Berrys højdepunkter – “Maybeline” (den første single), “Roll over Beethoven”, “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”, “Rock and roll music”, “Johnny B. Goode” og så videre. Det er den rene DNA.

 

 

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Gregg Allman og læren fra ‘de sorte’

20. juni 2015

Endnu et citat – fra Guardians interview med Gregg Allman (Allman Brothers Band):

“I learned to play mostly from black people: the clubs on Daytona Beach, Surf Bar, Paradise, all black dudes. Once Ma came in while we were playing with Hank Moore. He was teaching us “Done Somebody Wrong” and she says: “What you doing with a nigger in the front room?” But she was just having a bad day. We were raised not to hate black people, and Mother did a good job.”

 

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Johnny Marr og The Rolling Stones

20. juni 2015

Johnny Marr (The Smiths) har løftet sløret for sine favoritalbum i The Quietus, og det er interessant læsning (fordi det altid er interessant at læse om, hvad der musikalsk set bevæger andre – inkl. kendte musikere). Om Rolling Stones’ Out of our heads (den britiske udgave uden “I can’t get no Satisfaction”) noterer han til slut (og mange vil sikkert kunne genkende denne ‘forelskede’ optagethed af en bestemt gruppe eller kunstner:

“There was a point where I was into The Stones more than any other band on the planet. I found out everything there was to find out about them – about the band, about Andrew Oldham and how they made their records. That investigation was really good for me. When I formed The Smiths, they were probably the biggest influence in terms of the politics and the blueprint for a band, including the dynamic between the guitarist and the singer. When I was trying to get The Smiths together, I took the behaviour of Andrew Oldham and Brian Jones in their resourcefulness, desperation and ingenuity as the MO of The Stones as a working unit, as a source of inspiration – which was a pretty unusual thing to do in 1982.”

Og det giver mig så en anledning til at spille en af mine favoritter med Stones – The Last Time:

PS. Jens Unmack er også omkring Johnny Marrs personlige hitliste.

 

 

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