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Thread #155564   Message #3660688
Posted By: Musket
16-Sep-14 - 02:13 AM
Thread Name: 'Traditional' folk/rock - meaningless?
Subject: RE: 'Traditional' folk/rock - meaningless?
What makes it rock?

Back in the '70s I went to see Judas Priest. The support band were an Irish heavy metal band called Mama's Boys. They had worked out that jigs and reels certainly can rock!

I reckon they more than any Fairport or Steeleye influenced my own work, putting folk influence into my rock music and rearranging acoustic versions of my songs written for rock.

Therefore delighted to hear Martin Carthy sing Slade's Cum on Feel the Noize.