Topic: PING PONG MUSIC
God's ways are "mysterious". People like Jimi Hendrix USA citizen, became famous when he went to Great-Britain.
But it is at least very mysterious that the blues, coming from the USA, became popular after being performed by English Players. I was told that the problem was caused by the, I talk about the sixties, blues and rock were BLACK PEOPLES MUSIC (don't take this as an offence please), and there were a lot of "charts", and radiostations, radiostations refusing to play that kind of music. We can't imagine NOW, how it was back than. We are so used to CD's, MP3, and all the music and songs you can show and hear, just by a click on the INTERNET. Before that there was television. I just want to say that 40-50 years ago, it was impossible to know what was really going on. A country, the same country, was 5000 miles away from other countries, and now, if the pope is farthing in Brazil, we will hear and see (not smell) it here almost at the same moment. The world became a small place. If our ancesters should return, we will be back in an inquisition period: I am still amazed sending a fax. You write something down here on a paper, you put that paper in a "kind of device" and 10.000 miles from here, another person reads what you wrote, same with email. If you start thinking about all this, you are loosing controle.
BUT back in the sixties, there was a kind of hype in England, they discovered those "blues records. Brian Epstein, the later and late manager of the beatles, sold records, imported from the USA, same, even more I should say, the rolling stones, together with Clapton, Page, Jeff Beck, all coming out from one "stable", like John Mayall, covered a lot of those songs, like the STONES classic, route 66, and so the original US music, returned to their country, wher they discovered the potential of the songs.
I do hope that you bring me your opinions and conclusions.
A very nasty remark: the SOUTH AFRICAN problem: the USA : big boycot against South Africa, concerning "apartheid" starting not even 20 years after black people had the right to vote in the USA. I don't know, but you do me a favour by discussing thiis point, especially because of the music "exceeding and trespassing" all the borders and bringing people TOGETHER. If I am a black man (IN my family my brother in law is coloured) and I like to have a drink with a gorgeous, super beautiful woman, in let's say ALABAMA, or GEORGIA, in a regular bar full of white people, is there still being, or do I still create a problem entering that bar with that kind of girl?
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]