Steve Ripley grew up in Oklahoma graduating from Glencoe High School and Oklahoma State University. He went on to become a recording artist, record producer, songwriter, studio engineer, guitarist, and inventor. Steve worked with Bob Dylan, playing guitar on the Shot of Love album and on the ...
“You see, rock ‘n’ roll was and still is a big thing to me. I can’t even begin to describe how important it is to my life and our society in general. But just like with anything that makes the kids use their brains, the mainstream comes along and reshapes it into some MTV ...
Rock stars and drugs go together like football and beer: you could have one without the other and it would still be fun, but you would sense that something was missing. And in the world of rock and roll, musicians being whacked out on drugs and alcohol can be pretty entertaining (...
"It is with great sorrow we are letting the world know we have lost our brother: CJ Snare, the rock and roll warrior, lead vocalist, and a founding member of Firehouse," the band wrote on theirFacebookpage. "CJ snare passed unexpectedly at home Friday night, April 5, 2024. He was a...
Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music—as we know it—to the early 1950s, and a little seaside resort town called Wildwood, New Jersey. Long before Elvis stepped inside Sun Studio, Dickerson says it was a criminally underrated musical act
Protest music in rock & roll is a tool to call for political and social change. As a form of activism, protest music inspires and unites people to take initiative against oppression. VIEW COLLECTION COLLECTION Music & Protest Protest music in rock & roll is a tool to call for political...
In Part 1, Deke Dickerson lays out his belief that the template of Rock & Roll was forged by the jumping Rhythm and Blues combo The Treniers in the early 1950s. That magic spark happened in the seaside resort town Wildwood, New Jersey, in the summers of
I'm gonna rock and roll (I was born I was born) To satisfy your Always wanted to be a fireman Just to steer the hook and ladder from behind Then I thought I'd be a great inventor But I found it might be too hard on my mind ...
One rock and roll thing about Bangs was his gift for juicing commonplaces–hype! alienation! spontaneous bop prosody! (youth! sex! the big beat!)–with the freshness of his idiom and the intensity of his convictions. That’s why I believe his language subsumes his ideas. But he was also...