HW:Space rock...IT IS! DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!

Carl Edlund Anderson scylding at CARLAZ.COM
Sat Apr 14 16:45:18 EDT 2001


At 19:26 +0100 14.04.2001, Jon Jarrett wrote:
>         I've been thinking about this because although I've often thought
>about how Chuck Berry's family would do if they sued generally for prior
>invention of The Riff, I can't quite see him as space-rock before its
>time. Nor the MC5, quite. The Floyd thing threw me, but now I have thought
>and I know what I think I would say about this, and it is this. Songs
>about space aren't the whole thing. I think what made the difference at
>the beginning was the drugs

Not that Chuck Berry was a stranger to drugs ... :)

Moreover, "Maybeline" would make an awesome "stoner rock" song :)

Cheers,
Carl

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