With musicologists still arguing over which was the first rock n roll song, finding the origin of the term rock n roll can be just as challenging.
The origin of the name 'Rock n Roll'įinding the origin of rock n roll as a term is a 5 decades long journey through the music mad masses, musicians, marketing men and DJs in America. Perhaps better known for the popularization of the phrase is Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed who used the phrase when playing and promoting this genre of music on his radio show in 1951. It enjoyed more widespread use in the 40’s when in 1942 the term “rock and roll” was used by Maurie Orodenker to describe certain albums in his reviews in a Billboard magazine column. Throughout the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s it popped up in many recordings and referred to either the motion of the dance or was sexual in nature. Later, the words “rock” and “roll” began to take on more of a sexual meaning in music (which had been around for quite some time as seen in the phrase “a roll in the hay”). It is the case that this phrase developed at different times in history within a different context.Ī prime example of this is found on a 1904 phonograph recording by the Haydn Quartet that contained the words “We've been rockin' an' rolling in your arms/ In the arms of Moses”. RE: That’s what I used to tell them in trying to get more money but I quickly learned it doesn’t work that way.In the beginning, "rock n roll" was used to describe the movement of ships at sea, but with respect to music it really described the kinds of movements you would see from a gospel choir singing and experiencing a spiritual rapture. Goldmine: Your particular instrument is a little more physically demanding than the others. I was just talking about that to Craig who asked me, “Do you remember how fast you used to play?” I told him I did but certainly couldn’t do it anymore.
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That’s when I realized was playing so f**king fast! Obviously, I didn’t know how to put the brakes on a little bit. I would then sit and listen to the tapes of each show at night. RE: They used to yell back at me on the drum riser, “Rog, you’re playing too quick!” I used to yell back down at them, “but it feels so good!” I had the bright idea to do our first live album in 1977 ("Foghat Live"). Goldmine: Depending upon what drug you take, you’ll either speed up or slow down the song! These days, he prefers to keep the beat slower, but always rock steady. And making this last album was a lot of hard work with my brother.īack in the day, drummer Roger Earl was known to challenge Foghat's musicians with ridiculously fast tempos that had his bandmates yelling at him to slow down. He’s been very kind to me over the years. We had recorded it to get the changes down. I always remembered there was a couple of instrumentals they used to play and I asked him to play this particular one. Occasionally, when I would go over to England, I would sit in with his all-boogie band. To give credit where credit is due, it was my brother Colin who came up with it. Primal, basic and primitive: everything rock ’n’ roll should be with no affectations, auto-tune or embellishments. Goldmine: You keep on keepin’ on, don’t you? I dig the new single, “The Word Of Rock ’n’ Roll.” It’s like the DNA of rock ’n ’roll itself. Recently, I was lucky enough to get to talk with Foghat co-founder and drummer Roger Earl - more than 40 years after I started listening to that band.
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