Rock and Roll Music
For more than fifty years rock and roll has been the driving force of youth . . . even after youth has gotten older. Rock never stays the same, it constantly changes, but . . . it's still rock and roll.
We have a great selection of classic rock and rollers and well as entertainers from the new generation of rockers.
Suggested reading:
Huey Lewis Turns Back the Clock
ROCK AND ROLL QUOTATIONS:
"AC/DC’s 'Highway To Hell’ is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar and content I’ve ever heard. That’s what I aspire to."
-- Bonnie Raitt
"We never thought of ourselves as a 'heavy metal band' we've always regarded ourselves as a rock band. The big difference we've always thought we had a lot more feel for rock, we always went out for songs, not riffs or heavy, heavy sounds. But every now and again it does come on like a sledge hammer."
-- Angus Young, guitarist with AC/DC
"Ma'am, I'm not tryin' to be sexy. Ah didn't have any clear ideah of trying to sell sex. It's just my way of expressin' how I feel when I move around. It's all leg movement. Ah don't do nothin' with my body."
-- Elvis Presley to a reporter early in his career, quoted in: Joe Kohut and John J Kohut, ed., Rock Talk (1994)
"We weren’t too ambitious when we started out. We just wanted to be the biggest thing that ever walked the planet."
-- Steven Tyler
"Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day . . ."
-- Chuck Berry
Rock and Roll Collectable Spotlight
Chuck Berry Autographed Drum Head
We have a wonderful Remo 14" Drum Head, which has been autographed by legendary rock and roller Chuck Berry. It was signed several years ago after a concert in his hometown of St. Louis.
Born in Overland, Missouri, Berry was the third child in a family of six. He grew up in the St. Louis suburb of East St. Louis, Illinois, in an area known as "The Ville", one of the few areas of the metropolis where black people could own property, which consequently made it synonymous with black prosperity. His father was a contractor and a deacon of a nearby Baptist church, his mother a qualified principal. His middle class upbringing allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age and he made his first public performance while still in high school.
A pioneer of rock and roll, Chuck Berry was a significant influence on the development of early rock and roll guitar techniques and a major catalyst in the rhythm and blues to rock and roll transition. He was the first to define the classic subjects of rock and roll in his songwriting; cars, girls and school. His guitar style is legendary and many later guitar musicians acknowledge him as a major influence in their own style. When Keith Richards inducted Berry into the Hall of Fame he said, "It's hard for me to induct Chuck Berry, because I lifted every lick he ever played!". Richard Berry (no relation) drew on Chuck Berry's "Havana Moon" as an inspiration for his own song, the now classic "Louie Louie". John Lennon borrowed a line from Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" for his song "Come Together", and was subsequently sued by Berry's music publisher Morris Levy. Nevertheless, they became good friends and played together on more than one occasion.
-- Wikipedia
Anything that Chuck Berry has touched is truly something of rock and roll history.
To purchase our Chuck Berry Autographed 14" Drum Head - $128.00
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