| rdfs:comment | - In the beginning, there was The Blues. After a hundred years or so The Blues got pregnant (Rhythm is assumed to be the father, but Country is also a suspect). The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock-and-Roll. It was a beautiful bloody fetus that everyone loved. At first R&R, a mere baby god, inspired mostly people with funny haircuts, like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry and Elvis Parsley. These guys used Fender Champs and other amplifiers that pulled less wattage than a dim lightbulb, and they had drummers that went bump-bumpety-click tish-tish over and over. A lot. Just be patient.
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| abstract | - In the beginning, there was The Blues. After a hundred years or so The Blues got pregnant (Rhythm is assumed to be the father, but Country is also a suspect). The Blues had a baby and they called it Rock-and-Roll. It was a beautiful bloody fetus that everyone loved. At first R&R, a mere baby god, inspired mostly people with funny haircuts, like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry and Elvis Parsley. These guys used Fender Champs and other amplifiers that pulled less wattage than a dim lightbulb, and they had drummers that went bump-bumpety-click tish-tish over and over. Rock-and-Roll found that unacceptable. So Rock created the talents of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker. Clapton played guitar through a huge stack of Marshall Amplifiers which browned out half of London when he turned them on, Jack Bruce had a Gibson bass guitar with 69 frets and he played on all of them, and Ginger Baker...well, he could do tom rolls so excellent that they caused granite cliffs to crumble, and he could do them with his tongue. But the three bandmates fought amongst each other a lot. A lot. In fact, their arguments probably caused the extinction of the last British dinosaur, the collapse of the Leamington volcanic caldera, and the agitation amongst the population of Welsh Wobbly Tits. We will have more to say about the band's personal relationships later on. Just be patient.
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