[Dixielandjazz] What's The Difference between Rock & Roll and OKOM?

[Steve barbone]

> tcashwigg at aol.com wrote (polite snip)
 
> What is the difference you ask?  between ROCK AND OKOM,   WELL THE
> ROCKERS KEEP TAKING IT OUT AND PUTTIN IT IN THEIR FACES,   demanding
> attention and satisfaction and guess what they are gettin' it too.
> And the okomers  slipped away and hid it in Pizza parlors where
> somebody thinks it belongs.

Not much difference between the genres at all Rev Tom Bob.

They both be heavily into the Blues. And "Rock & Roll" meant the same thing
to the 60's kids as "Jass / Jazz" did to the 20's kids, good old sexual
activity.   

Perhaps more interesting if we look at the very early movies, video tapes
etc., of Rock & Rollers. What do we see/hear?

A band playing the blues to a bunch of dancing kids. What is the dance on
those early tapes? The Lindy Hop. What????

Yep, them sneaky Brits took the OKOM blues and played for kids doing the
lindy. While the OKOMers declared that Jazz was art, no longer played for
Lindy Hoppers and played for a bunch of pseudo intellectuals who demanded
quiet so they could hear . . . pseudo art.

Who won? Those that played for dancers. Whose fault? Not the kids. :-) VBG.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone