Dry the Rain

so-treu:

unaguerrasinfondo:

so-treu:

when i was at the Stax Museum they had footage of Otis Redding performing in England, and i was looking at his energy, which was just, even beyonce will all her million dollar lights can’t touch this potent shit, and i don’t know that much about the development of punk music in the UK BUT i have a hard time believing that something like punk would have been invented without this. like, to me it seemed to be a direct line between the raw energy of his performance and the raw energy of early punk.

this has been a thought.

so-treu, this is a brilliant post. Black Rock N Roll musicians from the USA heavily toured in the UK throughout the 60s/70s and UK rock/punk culture is HEAVILY influenced by their music and performances. I think around 70 or 71(?) little richard and chuck berry headlined a rock n roll festival in the UK- which was during a time period when their popularity was waning in the USA. I think little richard might of even had a full UK tour a few years earlier as well… anyway, rock n roll/punk culture in the UK really does owe its existence to these musicians. - also anyone reading, don’t bother debating this. its fact. get over it.

^^ exactly. (and thank you!) plus not to mention the uptick of West Indian immigration to the UK in the 70s, bringing with them ska (which is also influenced by black american r&b/rock), rocksteady, reggae etc. so yeah. punk would NOT have happened if it weren’t for black folks.

See also: Don Letts. Who was very heavily involved with the original punk bands and the scene overall, a friend of Bob Marley’s, and got a whole generation of British kids hooked on Reggae music. He’s the reason The Clash is so reggae influenced, he took Johnny Rotten to Jamaica, and he managed the female punk band The Slits.

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