MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blues Shouter, Andrew Loog Oldham, Phil Ochs
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Rolling stones: raw sound; style of guitar playing; drumming, affected vocal sound blues shouter tradition, ironic distance, image: bad boys cultivated in opposition to the beatles by manager andrew oldham. Started out covering american blues, blues covers, wanted to be like eric clapton, blues purist. Created raw sound inspired from american blues players. Keith richard stable presence of guitar player: rhythm guitar: funky tuning, purposely off. Charlie watts lay back beat drumming, minimal drumming, raw sounding. Ensemble playing: instruments playing together is not tight, slick, precise, a little looser. Andrew oldham wants to construct opposite image to the beatles, dangerous alternative to other british. In news, lots of elicit events: drugs, relationship, bryan found dead: suicide, drug overdose. 1954 brown vs. board of education: desegregation of schools: blending of white and black schools. John f. kennedy: supporter of civil rights as president of united states, incredible lost for younger generations as well.
