Re: Savanna: a slow d

David Froehlich (eohippus@moe.cc.utexas.edu)
Fri, 29 Sep 1995 09:25:10 -0500

On 28 Sep 1995 Thomas Clarke wrote>
> Ah, what a profound suggestion! Could rock and roll exist without
> the electric guitar? Thus the seminal event that lead to Rock and
> Roll was Page's. Not one of the crowd of musicians whose opus
> gradually became rock and roll.
>
>
Are you honestly suggesting that Jimmy Page was the first person to use
an electric guitar or that nobody before jimmy page used it in the same
way? While I might accept the second, your view of history in music is
as biased and skewed as your view of paleoanthropology.

David J. Froehlich Phone:
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