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Thread #77965   Message #1398159
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
03-Feb-05 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: Folk Rock the next steps
Subject: RE: Folk Rock the next steps
I am all for that Crystal.

I am amazed at how many times the guitar band has been re-invented since the 50's. I think each generation of young people have to re-create rock for themselves.

Guitar rock is so accessible and so easy to get into as a player, remember the punks - here's a chord, here's another, now form a band? And live music is always the best.

Perhaps its too soon to move on from the current cohort of Libertines, Strokes, White Stripes and Franz Ferdinand et al.

I seem to remember an Oyster Band(?) album called English Rock and Roll - The Early years. Perhaps as musicians endlessly return to the Blues for inspiration a generation of youth will return to our old songs and tunes and do something fresh, I certainly hope so.