Holy Rocka Rollaz

A 50s trio that plays high energy early American Rock-n-Roll.

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@ThatEricAlper Nick Drake.👓

[Vintage Rock N’ Roll 🎸 @RockNRoLL_85]

Before The Beatles & Rolling Stones

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@GrowingUpRetro A Honda Civic.

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@Super70sSports The High Llamas.👓

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@ThatEricAlper Used my allowance to pay up! $7.98 plus shipping was a lot in the late 70s.😉

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@GrowingUpRetro 👋

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@GrowingUpRetro Boston’s debut.👓

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@SteveLovesAmmo Conway Twitty & His Twitty Birds.

[Brian Setzer @briansetzer59]

Brian performing "Your True Love" with @bryanadams at the Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA in 1996! 🎙️

[OneOutOfFour @OneOutOf4]

Oh so sad, Donnie Iris has passed away at the age of 83. Rest in peace 🙏🏻

Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!

[Ramones @RamonesOfficial]

“It was a slow process, over a period of six months or so. But we got the uniform defined. We figured out it would be jeans, T-shirts, leather jackets and the tennis shoes, Keds. We wanted every kid to be able to identify with our image.” - Johnny Ramone 

📸: Roberta Bayley

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@MNLoserville @ProFootballTalk Yep.

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@silverfoxdude It’s sublime. I’ve loved this song for decades. Never saw this video until your wonderful post. Thank you!👓

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@silverfoxdude Loved Colin and this song for decades. Never saw this before, so thanks for sharing! This is special.👓

[Bill Haley @billhaleymusic]

Ain't she pretty? 🤩

[Trump Girl @TrumpGirlLove]

On a quiet Sunday afternoon along the Cumberland River, Jerry Reed was celebrating with his seven-year-old daughter Seidina.

She’d just hauled in the biggest carp her father had ever seen, using nothing but a tiny green pole. They were still laughing over the catch when a figure came running down the dock, calling for him.

Elvis Presley was in town.

At RCA Studio B in Nashville, the King had been trying all day to cut Reed’s song “Guitar Man.” He’d fallen for the original the moment he heard it on the radio—that driving, restless guitar line that felt like the open road.

The session players were Nashville’s finest: Scotty Moore, Chip Young, Harold Bradley. They could play anything. They just couldn’t play that.

Reed picked with his fingers instead of a flatpick. He tuned the guitar in ways no one else did—raising the B string a whole tone, dropping the low E so he could barre straight across.

The sound was his alone. Producer Felton Jarvis knew it. So did Elvis.

“If you want it to sound like my record,” Reed told them when they finally reached him, “you’re gonna have to get me.”

He left the river in his fishing clothes, unshaven, still wearing the old clogs he’d had on all weekend. When he walked into the studio, Elvis took one look and said, “Lord, have mercy, what is that?”

Then Reed hit the opening lick. Elvis’s face lit up. From that moment the session belonged to the two of them—Reed coaching, pushing, driving the band while Elvis sang with a fire they hadn’t heard in a long time.

They got the master on the twelfth take. Reed later overdubbed a little more guitar, and the track was trimmed, but the heart of it was already there: one man’s fingers on a strangely tuned guitar, turning a modest country single into the last country number one Elvis would ever have.

Nobody else in that room could have played it. The King of Rock and Roll had the best players in Nashville at his disposal that day.

He still sent them looking for the guy who’d just been out on the river with his daughter and a little green pole.

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

Doc Watson invented the idea of the guitar as a lead instrument in bluegrass. Decades later, Billy Strings carries that torch, and you can hear it here.

His cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” follows Doc’s arrangement, note for note.

The flatpicking lineage, alive and well.

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@20th_Centurygal XTC’s Colin Moulding.👓

[Evel Knievel @evelknievel]

Two men ahead of their time - a Tesla Snake River jump would surely be one of the most watched events in history…#pioneers #tesla #snakeriver #ElonMusk #EvelKnievel

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

On this day 100 years ago, the legendary Father of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry, was born.

He redefined rhythm and blues with his electric guitar and created timeless classics. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 90. Forever remembered.