Week 35: 50 Albums That Changed Music

[3-LockBox]

I just meant that Sha Na Na and the Ramones were similar in the way that I could care less about either...

Its easy to see how Bowzer influenced The Ramones style and delivery.

[Resident Loser]

I just meant that Sha Na Na and the Ramones were similar in the way that I could care less about either...

Its easy to see how Bowzer influenced The Ramones style and delivery.

..."...hails of derisive laughter, Bruce..."

jimHJJ(...and then some...)

[Resident Loser]

...for the fu-fu-fun of it...Just got around to reading a review in the NYT Book Review concerning Sister Rosetta Tharpe, entitled Shout, Sister, Shout!. In it, the reviewer mentions that this lady "...didn't quite fit their secular, guitar-as-phallus ideal..."

Here's a little YouTube for your perusal...wait for the break, how many rock phrases can you hear...(even a little bit of Pete Townsend's propeller spin!)...so Johnny, Joey, Zeke and/or Choo-Choo, eat yer hearts out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnIJR3PWTT8

Rock...before there was a rock...

BTW and FWIW my best guestimate re: her guitar is that it's the more sculpted Gibson Les Paul with three humbuckers and a Vibrola tailpiece. It was produced for a time after the ubiquitous "arch-top" single-cutaway model, but before it morphed into simply the SG...

jimHJJ(...just some more useless information...)