make way for the true King of rock n rollhttps://youtu.be/vDU9FP5_B2M?si=MuSK4yKAf5k7SnG_
I think it's cool that he was always threatening to shoot people.
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>>124454118cheap ripoff of elvishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAreFeTNpTU
>>124454118he ain't no Elvis Presleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY
>>124454118I'd have thought he was Italian but he was a Southern good ol' boy from Virginia.
Gene Vincent [Kama Sutra, 1970]Vincent was never a titan--his few moments of rockabilly greatness were hyped-up distillations of slavering lust from a sensitive little guy who was just as comfortable with "Over the Rainbow" in his normal frame of mind. And despite what the '50s revivalists believe, this comeback is a return to form only in the formal sense--simple songs, Tex-Mex backing. Some of it's very sweet--Doug Sahm meets "Over the Rainbow." But even when he slavers he does so quietly. B-
Elvis is so far ahead of everyone else you can't shitpost about it.
>>124454472>Vincent was never a titan--his few moments of rockabilly greatness were hyped-up distillations of slavering lust from a sensitive little guy who was just as comfortable with "Over the Rainbow" in his normal frame of mind.Everyone covered standards back then. So?
>>124454545oh you know how it is. critics like him are so hung up on their silly meme that rock people were supposed to smash the forces of darkness/their parents' music.
his Elvis rip vocals are a bit cringe and his songs were crawls that usually averaged 50 bpm but his guitar skills are underrated
too bad he did a shitton of drugs and alcohol so he destroyed his body and died at 36
>>124454677I wish I did that desu.
>>124454545Standard business practice. You had to record standards to prove you were a serious artist since R&R was seen as kiddie shit.
>>124454620He had a lot of upbeat songs, he didn't play guitar thoughThat was Cliff Gallup
since the rock era the meme is that you have to do acoustic stuff to be seen as "serious" but in the 50s you had to be able to do standards to prove you were serious
