Don't You Sometimes Wish?

Question

You could take all, well SOME of these kids who come here asking *legit*, but sometimes clueless basic question about rock music could all be sat down & made to watch a comprehensive, in-depth History of Rock documentary? Like, the birth of rock (1950s) all the way to today. & I'm talking All genres covered just so no one gets left out.

To my eyes, too many of them have no idea where their music came from.

Just hadda ask/rant. Don't mind me. I'm done.

Right on, Darth!

Master C -

Oh yeah- it to do rock justice, it'd Have to be a minimum of 6-8 hours long. I remember in the 90s, I *think* Vh1 (when it was a better channel) did a similar idea. They stretched it out over about a week. It was damn good. I gotta check my old vhs tapes to see who did it. They interspersed it w/ short comments from various artists from different genres.

Silver-

hehe! I'd be 1st in line to teach the Beatles/ 70s rock class, but thankfully, these kids *do* have access to tons of rock history info right online.

..Would just take patience to read it all...but Youtube'll keep their attention longer for examples etc,..

Rckets - the Gerard/Pete reason alone is enough!~

Jake- Def' not referring to you, bro. You've opened my hears to stuff I would've never *thought* of trying.

hermama65- sound like you've def' done your part for the next gen'! :)

googie-

Yes, it can apply to any genre of music, but this being the rock section, that's what I advocate. Someone else w/ much greater knowledge of old country could take that duty. :)

GK Dub- Excellent point about the t-shirts! I brought that up in a thread sometime back. Whenever I see kids in an AC/DC tee, I'm always So tempted to ask - "What're 5 of your favorite AC/DC tunes?" Anyway, regarding the 18 y/o, where her cluelessness begins is where people like *you* step in. hey- SOMEone has to do it! ;)

Bowzer- You're dead-on w/ the P-Funk, JB points. It makes me wanna shake em & then blast "Make It Funky"!

mike (lower-case)- While I'm not the biggest Elvis fan, even Little Richard gives the dude credit. I like a few Elvis tunes, but yes Chuck is The Man!

hh- I wanna shake your parents' hands! :)

ak6702- How cool about your dad! 1st hand accounts of rock'n'roll history for YOU!

wowwhatisthatthing- I see your point about going a bit further back than the 50s, but I'm really talking about "the rock era' proper. I'd probably have less than an hour's worth of "pre-50s" music leading up to rock.

╚ ™ ╗- Those Vh1 specials were good, but mainly done in a very entertaining style & approach. I'd wanna see something very in-depth. I hated it when Vh1 would invite B & C-list comedians to comment on rock music.

PAUL- Yeah, I'd heard about that BBC show, but afetr I read reviews, it sadly sounded like a great opportunity wasted.

Maddy- Thing is, we want em to ask....the right questions, that is. Not crap like "When's Gerard's birthday?"

Answer 1

I think it's a fantastic idea. So much could get accomplished with one swing of the bat. You educate the masses. You drastically decrease the amount of silly questions. Finally, such a documentary you speak of would be the perfect deprogramming tool to undo the effects of Gerard Way & Pete Wentz.

Answer 2

Fonzie, That sounds like an excellent idea, if only we could get them to stop playing there PSP's and Wii's long enough to pay attention. The only other thing I might add is that you need to go further back than the fifties.

mike: I don't agree with what you want to do to Elvis, he is and always will be the King to many people. I agree that Chuck was more rock than "E" but he didn't cross over to the white people until after Elvis exploded.
And on the subject of "white people and black people music...Ryan, you speak only half truths when you say that rock came from the black mans music. The blacks used their African rhythms but lyrically they used spiritual music learned from the many white missionaries that visited their continent over the years.

Answer 3

Perhaps your " sometimes wish "comment applies to all types of music whether it be classical,opera,New Orleans Jazz, 1940's Swing and big Bands,,Original Rock and Roll, Old Country Music, Progressive Jazz or Hard Rock. Music is one of the Arts available to all and very enlightening to others. How many times does one get up in the morning , starts to hear a tune or whistle a tune with no idea why that tune popped into his head.. History of a genre is important. The appreciation , love and use of music relieves much of the stress of every day living.

Answer 4

I totally agree with you 100%.

The BBC had a show earlier this year called "Seven Ages Of Rock". It covered many aspects of the history of rock but it wasn't as in-depth as i had hoped for. For starters, the series completely ignored the 50's and there was nothing about 70's glam rock. Although each episode was 60 minutes long (the 7th and final episode was 90 min), i felt that there was a lot of stuff left out, especially on the punk and heavy metal episodes.

Answer 5

Yep, I wish that all the time. I'm only 25, and I first got into music during the whole grunge thing, and yet I still managed to go back and educate myself on the groups from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. A good portion of my enormous CD collection is classic rock. What's more annoying is these kids today are wearing t-shirts of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Van Halen, but probably can't name more than a song or 2 by each group. Music is more of a fashion statement now. Kids today are so uncultured it makes me sick. My friend's sister is 18, and she had all her friends over at their house to hang out one time. My friend and I started talking about Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses, and that girl and her friends had no idea what we were talking about. They hadn't even heard of those groups!! I'll bet they sure know about 50 Cent and Kelly Clarkson though.......Makes me sick.

Answer 6

I really want to give you a hug right now, 'hold their hand and tell them everyhting is going to be ok', that is really cute :) and made me smile, so my answer is, i really wish i could give people real hugs, i am like a teddy :) And my girlfriend also said she want to hug you, i should watch out ? joking, but i don't think I would have the nerve sometimes to ask the questions i ask or to give people advice like i do on here so there is some pros ? camilla and ronnie xx

Answer 7

Amen to the homework point ^^^^, it's getting out of hand!

Part of the curriculum should be a compulsory Deconstruction class, in which they are faced with the awful truth that anything of value in about 60% of rap songs was lifted from 1970s funk and R&B like Parliament, James Brown and The Jackson 5.

On a different point, will Sean Kingston stop raiding other people's back catalogues for hooks to cover his inane lyrics, already?

Answer 8

We soaked this stuff up in real time. (real? time..hum)
How sweet it might have been had we had info on demand as today.
Imagine tryin to play catch up?
-whoa!-

No doubt there are young people out here pokin around for just what you're talkin about. Too bad they're subjected to so much clutter.

Back when VH1 was a force, I'd click through to their special series' "I Love the (decade here)" & "Behind The Music". It was great to get refreshed on stuff I'd forgotten and introduced to other stuff I somehow missed.

Since we're talkin tons of online content,VH1 has put a lot of work into their "classic" website and I'd recommend it as a starter course because of the navigational features and vid quality.
http://www.vh1classic.com/

Answer 9

Love it.I was a weird one back in high school.I did a report on how much swing and big band music was a American sound.
I mean Benny Goodman etc,but some of the lesser act's like Alvino Ray and his talking guitar.This was a easy A in U.S History for me.I was brought up to listen to all forms of music.I might love Old Metal but still love to listen to Sinatra he was the Man of his time.His voice(Not range)was awesome.
I also love true Do-wop(My dad was in the first inter-racial top 10 Do-wop group The Del-Vikings for their 1st album.).So music was passion for me when I was younger.
Kinda weird my Dad like Ac/Dc and Guns-n- Roses.
I would love to teach in your school bro.I could teach where it came from.

Answer 10

Amen, Brother. Lesson 1: F*ck Elvis, Chuck Berry is the king of rock