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Originally Posted by MelZ
Hmm I bet you not the only baby boomer here, HM don't you remember Alan Fried getting arrested for playing Rock and Roll. HM Don't you remember ministers calling Rock and Roll "The Devils Music".
BTW I am a big fan of Doo Wop (street corner music) which was the start of Rock and Roll and I do remember Rock's history.
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I'm with you, MelZ, and everyone else who remembers our parents and other adults negative responses to early Rock. It even extended into the mid-60's when I joined my first Rock band. I remember distinctly my father saying something like "Why do you want to play that crap? It's just a lot of drums, loud guitars, and words you can't even understand!" Luckily for me, my Mom recognized that I was going to find a way to play it anyway, so she got my Dad to let me trade in my acoustic guitar (they approved of Folk Music) and get an electric. But many of the parents and other adults of that time, especially ones that were older, hated rock n roll as much as some of the posters here hate Rap. Not all of them, of course, but many. I'm also a big Doo Wop fan and hope to find some folks to sing with when we get to TV sometime early next year.
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