What country owns rock'n'roll?

[deftron]

Tough one

US:
Chuck berry
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
Velvet Underground
Ramones
Elvis Presley
Aerosmith
Lynyrd Skynyrd
ZZ Top
SRV
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Guns N Roses
The Doors
Van Halen
The Eagles



etc..


UK:
Rolling Stones
Beatles
Black Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Led Zeppelin
The Who
Eric Clapton
David Bowie
Sex Pistols
Pink Floyd
Radiohead
The Clash

etc..



Honorable mention:
Australia (AC/DC)

 

[Platypus]

UK owns rock and roll, Sweden/Norway owns metal

edit: also, sabbath is british and hendrix was born in england.

 

[deftron]

My bad on Sabbath ... put them in the wrong category.

Didn't Hendrix pretty much grow up in the US?

I thought he was from Seattle

 

[deftron]

My bad on Sabbath ... put them in the wrong category.

Didn't Hendrix pretty much grow up in the US?

I thought he was from Seattle

 

[imported_Hi]

US is more country in the south and rap in the west

 

[Platypus]

Got that wrong, born in Seattle, but the Hendrix Experience formed in England and therefore isn't US

 

[deftron]

Just Googled


Hendrix was born in the US ... he died in the UK

 

[BeauJangles]

UK. As good as Hendrix is....

Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Clapton, the Who


/thread

 

[deftron]

I moved Jimi ...

Guess England really made him

 

[grrl]

Tough question, but I'm leaning towards the UK. Maybe up til the late 60s the US, but then the Brits really came into their own.

As for the last decade, I can't say....

 

[Pepsi90919]

any particular reason you're discounting anything made past 1990?

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
any particular reason you're discounting anything made past 1990?

Because 50% of it sucked?

Add another ten years and multiply that 50% by 1.85.

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
any particular reason you're discounting anything made past 1990?

Haven't listened to much of it so can't really make a judgement. What I have heard has left me largely unimpressed though.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber
UK. As good as Hendrix is....

Zeppelin, Beatles, Stones, Clapton, the Who


/thread

For some reason I always thought Zeppelin was an American band. With that said I believe that rock and roll was invented by Americans (Chuck Berry basics, Elvis Presley popularity, Jimi Hendrix solos/style) but perfected by British (Zeppelin basically sums that up). Even John Lennon and Eric Clapton credited Chuck Berry with the invention of rock and roll.

 

[DannyBoy]

UK.

 

[quakefiend420]

uk imo

 

[amol]

UK

Hahah, as a matter of fact, I'm listening to "Baby, You Can Drive My Car" by The Beatles right now

 

[nageov3t]

we started it, so doesn't the US get owning right?

 

[Squisher]

UK by a long margin, but remember that, "The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll."

 

[dug777]

UK, USA, Australia

 

[cavemanmoron]

Replying to Topic: What country owns rock'n'roll?
Created On 03/21/2005 01:43 AM by deftron

Nobody "owns" rock and roll,
its for all to enjoy.

 

[Schadenfreude]

US, no question - even though a lot of the big rock groups may have started from the UK, they really took off once they got to the ol' US - nevermind the fact that most, if not all of the music heritage of rock is derived from US music . . ..

 

[dug777]

literally, i guess the US owns the most rock'n'roll, but spiritually, its true home is pommieland.

 

[sandorski]

UK, though the US is a close second.

 

[tmaestro]

i think the history goes something like (correct me if I'm wrong):

irish folk music + african rhythmic traditional tribal stuff => slave tunes, prison songs which evolved into (& coexisted with) blues.

old country folk and traditional gospel music picks up blues technique & rhythm and rock & roll is born.

America mostly forsakes the blues (rock and roll) for Pop (Beatles, somewhat) and Motown, the Brits pick up the blues (rock & roll) and reinvigorate it with limeys like the Yardbirds, the Stones, etc. (thank God for that)


So I guess my answer would be, America brought the influences together and invented (blues) rock (blues) & (blues) roll (blues), the Brits took it to a new level. If I had to survive on a desert island, I'd take Brit Blues/Rock over any other.


Maybe being a kid growing up under daily Nazi bombardment gives you the blues, though you don't know what it is. When you're old enough to get your musical sh!t together, the blues has come across the pond and it suits your taste perfectly.

lol nevermind