After watching and re-watching the HBO RnR Hall of fame 25th Anniversay special its easy to point out all the genres, sub-genres and legends omitted, missed, left out. I know we didn't see every performance nor the entire show BUT one thing is obvious, RnR means a great many different things to a great many different people and artists. What's your definition? To my knowledge, Rock and Roll was a term coined by jump blues piano players where in the bass rocked on the pedal and the right hand rolled or trilled some octave's higher. A classic example, the piano work on Big Joe Turner's "Shake Rattle and Roll".

Is there a definition? Does it need to be re-examined in "post splinter" popular music? Just askin'....

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