rock

Ok maybe a bit out of left field here, but I believe this is likely a subject near and dear to many of our hearts. I'm currently reading "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination", by Jack Hamilton, which discusses how media marketing in the USA during the 1960s was...

In my revised alt-timeline scenario, KMT-ruled China of the 1960s is a Western ally that possesses a nuclear arsenal. As of 1967, it has a large GDP of 500 billion USD and a population of 700 million. Its territory spans OTL China, Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, and Western Xikang Province...

So I was reading about some of the insane things that used to go on in concerts (like Gitaur Sacrifice), and that made me think: Might there at one point have been some Hays code like regulation for what acts were allowed in concerts hosted in stadiums in the 60's and 70's?

As the only other thread has been dormant for 10 years, I chose to make another fairly straightforward thread. Dedicated to making up your own bands or songwriters. For example: Lies Of Our Allies Origin: Mishawaka, Indiana Genre: Novelty Metal Active: 1987 - 2015 One of the more unique bands...

The AIDS crisis claimed many lives. Few of its victims were as iconic as Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. One of the most influential singers in the history of rock music, Mercury left a profound legacy that can still be felt more than thirty years after his death. However, the band he helped...

Hello everybody! I want to think you for being here. I would like to express my thoughts on an alternate history of the band Pink Floyd. I have several ideas but I would like you all to vote on which scenario.

Right after Jimi Hendrix finished his recording of the album the Cry of Love in September 1970 he would spend a week or 2 in London and in the middle of that visit Jimi was hospitalized after a near fatal overdose of barbiturates. After that he would continue on with his legendary and creative...

Technologically, the first Electric Guitar which would have been capable of playing 80s-style Hard Rock riffs was invented in 1939, and the Hammond Organ, an early electronic, pre-synthesizer keyboard instrument, especially favored in Hungarian and other East Bloc countries' rock music style...

1967: Shooting at the Moon The Soft Machine, 1967 The year is 1967. Psychedelia is in full swing, The Beatles had begun working on their masterwork album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the clubs are a hotspot for acts providing a new sound for this new youth culture. Among the...

Johnny Rotten has said that the goal of the Sex Pistols was to kill rock and roll for good. The legendary group spawned moral panic and led to the rise of punk rock. Somehow, can we get the Pistols to destroy a genre that, while in decline, has survived to this day?

In an alternate world, this would be a thing. So what if he had lived? Would both be alive? Would they both be drafted in the US army? Who be the more popular one? How does this effect pop culture? Would Jesse die in 77 instead of Elvis? How would this affect Elvis? Would he had married...

Rock was essentially launched by the early forms of itself, namely rock & roll and rockabilly. The ancestors of rock music were many - jazz, blues, country, Appalachian folk music and gospel. Considering the popularity of jazz and country in the 1920s & 1930s, what if rock music ended up being...

Hi, do any of you think that it would be possible if John, Paul, George and Ringo decided to add a fifth member in 1969? To make the live performences better (Becuase they would probably tour in 1969-1970) and make the studio a more comfortable place, the infamous Get Back sessions got a bit...

Shoegazing is a derivate genre of rock music whose distinct characteristics are: -echoey, word-stretching vocals -distorted guitars with long riffs and feedback, which combine with the vocals to create a "mixed, melty" sound. The term was coined by british music critics to ridicule the bands...

In OTL, when the British working class of the Victorian era developed, many former folk songs, and naval sea shanties developed into work songs and tavern songs fit for the conditions and rhythm of urban life centered around small tenements, strenous factory work, inequality, the pleasures of...

I thought that the world will be surprised and divided in 2 teams the "Post 66' McCartney its better" and the "How the fuck can you accept that someone died and was replaced?" Im a PID believer.