drpickle said:
In the 70's the white rock and roll establishment had trouble including Black artist. It was a machismo, testerone laden, white suburban elitist movement and it was wrong! Obviously, some people never abandoned their old views. And , these old hippies continually say they were for civil rights. It's the biggest lie out there. All these white suburban hippies were sitting in their bedroom getting high listening to ELP. They never cared about Civil Rights! And the so called liberals have now become the Bush loving neo-con PTA attending Soccer dads and moms. They sold out and they were full of it to start with!
Let's take one point at a time:
The rockers that came from the 60s/70s were ALL covering blues songs, ALL written by black artists. It was the
pre-1960s labels that screwed the black artists.
Sure, some of us in the 70's were getting high to ELP...and sometimes we got high to Stevie Wonder, Stax Bands, Tower Of Power & James Brown...singing their stories about civil rights. The "white establishment" as you call it, didn't want to promote it to Anytown USA because most of the white kids weren't interested in the subject matter. Artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard & Fats Domino made the labels rich and sold alot to the white audience...because they weren't singing about civil rights, they were singing about having fun and getting laid. THAT's what the white rock and rollers have always wanted. When they want "civil rights", they'll listen to Neil Young.
Not sure what to make of your "sell-out" comment. What's wrong with being a soccer mom or dad that attends PTA meetings? Even long-standing liberal rockers like myself know that being involved in your kids' life isn't "selling out". ???
