{"id":1837,"date":"2008-12-03T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:17:49","slug":"musicians-outside-the-blues-rand-b-trad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musicians-outside-the-blues-rand-b-trad\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Outside the Blues\/R&amp;B\/Jazz\/Country Traditions Who Should Have a Greater Influence on Rock &#8216;n Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVKzpkueTIQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWe ran a poll recently that asked &#8220;What musician is cited most frequently among rock nerds based on their relation to a famous band long before anyone has heard said musician&#8217;s own music?&#8221; The most frequent response was <strong>La Monte Young<\/strong>, the minimalist composer under whom John Cale studied and who presumably was a great influence on the music of the Velvet Underground. Young is a good example of what I&#8217;m seeking from you: <strong>Musicians <em>outside<\/em> the blues, R&amp;B, jazz, and country (ie, North American) musical traditions who you would like to see have a greater influence on rock &#8216;n roll.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be creative or call for greater influence by a previously cited influence, such as Pete Townshend&#8217;s &#8220;Baba O&#8217;Riley&#8221; influence, <strong>Terry Riley<\/strong>. How do you hear these non-North American sounds fitting into your rock &#8216;n roll? Paul Simon&#8217;s dipped outside the North American well with success. Prog-rockers have dipped into the European tradition with varying degrees of success. I know some of you listen to non-Western artists. Have you ever wished more of a particular artist&#8217;s sound could be worked into rock &#8216;n roll?<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your visionary comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ran a poll recently that asked &#8220;What musician is cited most frequently among rock nerds based on their relation to a famous band long before anyone has heard said musician&#8217;s own music?&#8221; The most frequent response was La Monte Young, the minimalist composer under whom John Cale studied and who presumably was a great <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musicians-outside-the-blues-rand-b-trad\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[96,33,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}