Elvis de Pelvis and Rock & Roll

Buona sera!

I hope you are all enjoying my blog until so far! Today I'm going to add one more article and it will be on the new subject of music class : Rock & Roll. I like that so much, especially now that I saw Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. It is just such happy much on which you can dance very good and sing along, nice! So, the first couple of lessons we would be focusing on Elvis Presley. We did that by looking at a documentary about his recordings, called Classic Albums: Elvis Presley. It was very interesting because before I did not know anything about the early stages of his career. I knew Elvis as the crazy, but great, musician with the strange hairdo and glittercostume. The music he made than was nice but now that I know more about his music I definitely like his first albums better. He was so less obsessed by being famous and alcohol back then, he really concentrated on the music and made "black" music popular by white people, quite an accomplishment.

After we watched the documentary Mr. Weisser told us about blues. About blues being the actual basis of the modern music, it was the beginning. We listened to Crossroads by Robert Johnson, which is a very complicated but fantastic song. (John Mayer covered it on his last album, Battle Studies). We compared the blues music made by black people to the blues made (usually stolen from the black people) by white people. The white music was much more neat and flawless, easy to dance on and play along. The black music had very difficult rythms and was fure, music from the heart, from deep within. I thought it was so fascinating to see the clear difference. I definitely favour the blues by the black people, no white person could ever play the blues with so much feeling and intensity.

Unfortunately I missed the lesson which followed, so when I get updated I will write more.

Ciao!

Stella