{"id":22096,"date":"2014-11-05T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22096"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:26:12","slug":"distinctive-personal-musical-styles-that-should-be-copied-and-known-by-their-creators-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/distinctive-personal-musical-styles-that-should-be-copied-and-known-by-their-creators-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinctive Personal Musical Styles That Should Be Copied and Known by Their Creator&#8217;s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkLSKj3Q8y8\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We all know what we mean when we refer to a\u00a0&#8220;Chuck Berry lick&#8221; or the &#8220;Bo Diddley beat.&#8221; These musicians made popular distinctive musical styles that taught the world a useful approach to arranging a rock &#8216;n roll song. It&#8217;s only just that \u00a0the musical devices they made popular should be known by their name. Are there other examples of musical devices being known by a particular musician&#8217;s name?<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Garcia and Keith Richards do some distinctive things that could probably lend themselves to a device named after them, but I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s happened yet. My bandmates and I have our own terms along these lines that have not caught on, such as <strong>The\u00a0Foxton<\/strong>, as we call it, when suggesting we add the standard harmony that Jam bassist Bruce Foxton enthusiastically sang\u00a0at the drop of a hat in\u00a0every Jam song.<\/p>\n<p>Is Micky Waller the drummer on Rod Stewart&#8217;s\u00a0best songs: &#8220;Every Picture Tells a Story,&#8221; &#8220;Maggie May,&#8221; &#8220;You Wear It Well&#8221;&#8230;? Stewart&#8217;s best songs from that period (and not his Faces ones &#8211; Kenny Jones didn&#8217;t do this) have an extremely deliberate, plodding, non-drummer feel, like he set me down behind the drums and simply said, &#8220;Keep the beat and don&#8217;t fuck it up!&#8221; To me, that beat should be named after the drummer who pounded it out.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know what we mean when we refer to a\u00a0&#8220;Chuck Berry lick&#8221; or the &#8220;Bo Diddley beat.&#8221; These musicians made popular distinctive musical styles that taught the world a useful approach to arranging a rock &#8216;n roll song. It&#8217;s only just that \u00a0the musical devices they made popular should be known by their name. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/distinctive-personal-musical-styles-that-should-be-copied-and-known-by-their-creators-name\/' 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":[596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22096"}],"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=22096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}