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rollmops
Elvis Presley like The Rolling Stones started by playing the music they loved and felt confortable playing.It was not obvious at the beginning of their careers that "blues" music played by white dudes was going to lead to notoriety and success. They both helped popularized the blues and the originals musicians who created it more than anything else.In that regard they "helped themselves" but they also gave back quite a lot. No stealing for me.
Rock and Roll,
Mops
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scottkeef
As far as actual STEALING of Black Music I have to give the honors to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.....
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Justin
Regarding the subject of "stealing black people music" I've always thrown it back:
You think Elvis stole black people's music? So, in other words, black people should sing "black people music" and white people should sing "white people music." So, who's the racist here?
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Justin
Regarding the subject of "stealing black people music" I've always thrown it back:
You think Elvis stole black people's music? So, in other words, black people should sing "black people music" and white people should sing "white people music." So, who's the racist here?
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rollmops
Elvis Presley like The Rolling Stones started by playing the music they loved and felt confortable playing.It was not obvious at the beginning of their careers that "blues" music played by white dudes was going to lead to notoriety and success. They both helped popularized the blues and the originals musicians who created it more than anything else.In that regard they "helped themselves" but they also gave back quite a lot. s
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angee
Mops, I quoted most of what you said here, am in much agreement with your wisely stated words.
I think the issue that might be hard for a lot of us to understand is the sadness and anger while watching how others profited from music originated by those
who were getting neither the credit nor the money.
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Brue
I feel sorry for the kids today because music is so segregated by race. When I was a teenager in the '70's, the top 40 included music from all different types if artists. There was a bonding there, I think, at least for me it was.
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lem motlow
stupidguy2 this is a great post and a very good point you are making.
for years i believed the myth that rock and roll was taken exclusively from the blues and yes,that it had been pretty much stolen.the truth is that country music and jazz had just as much of an influence on the creation of rock and roll than the blues had.
some of the elements of rock such as the swing beat in some of it[charlie watts] come to mind as well as the huge country sound buried in some of the greatest songs.if you listen to real old country from the 30s and 40s the faster songs are basically rock and roll and alot of the musicians were rock stars before it was called that.theres nobody in the modern era that went through more booze, drugs and women than those guys.there was definitely a "rockabilly" before it was called that.just like rock roll itself, elvis is an amalgam of alot of different things.he didnt"steal "anything.