[quote=OrderOfTheDragon;5779342]   Anyone claiming rock and roll is black is an idiot.    Exactly! :clink    And yes I am singling out a few individuals. Early rock and roll took more influence from country music than blues (which was just a black attempt at recreating white music).   Up until the 1940s & 50s there was no distinction between Blues and Country, a Blues song was just a particular type of a Country song. It wasn't until the late 1940sand50s that the Blacks developed a unique style that is Now recognized as Blues. Up until that time there was Hillbilly music and Race music. The only thing that separated these two categories were the race of the performer. But in the 1940s, the record companies changed it from Hillbilly music to Country/Country&Western, and from Race music to Blues/Rhythm&Blues. From that point on the Blacks proceeded to develop a unique style which we now recognize as Blues music. The Blues was a spin off of Country, Appalachian Folk and Southern Gospel music, Black music or not, it is still Western music, I will eat my hat if someone can show me an African Blues musician:rofl   Even the jigaboo poster boy of 50's rock Chuck Berry admits it. Maybellene, his first hit, is a complete rip off and reworking of Ida Red, a traditional (aka white) folk tune   At first, people thought Chuck Berry was White. The record promoters didn't release pictures of him and so White people who showed up to his concerts were surprised to see that he was Black. His nickname was the Black Hillbilly. And he himself in his autobiography admits that his biggest musical influences were Country, Hillbilly music and Bluegrass. He was a huge fan of Bill Monroe, Hank Snow and Hank Williams.    Early rock artists took country music and sped it up and gave it a back beat. I fail to see how that makes it black music.   It's not. That's modern day afro centrist revisionism.    Rockabilly, which was the original name for what we call rock and roll, is completely white.   If you go listen to 2 hundred year old traditional British and Irish Folk music it will sound damn near like Rock n' Roll music, there is no 2 hundred year old, traditional Black African music that is even remotely similar. Coincidence?? Nah, of course not:rolleyes: Rockabilly/Rock n' Roll is basically just Hillbilly music with electric guitar, a little more bass and piano thrown in. All of which are European/White instruments by the way.    Even the playing styles are different. Take a I, IV, V progression and let a black bluesman solo overtop of it. Take a white rockabilly player, say Scotty Moore, and you will have a completely different sound. Why? Because their influences and playing are completely different.   Like I always say, all Black American music is still Western. Blues, Motown, Funk...etc...it is all derived from White/Western influences and played with White/Western instruments. Show me a Black African Jazz musician, Bluesman, Motown singer or Funk musician and I'll eat my hat.:)    This media lie that rock and roll is black music is so idiotic and unfounded it makes me sick.   Likewise.