King of Rock & Roll?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__cLfPbhhwmw/TEUKQ6vXF0I/AAAAAAAACUU/1xVfgQsgShA/s400/00+MillionDollarQuartet.jpg

[ElboRuum]

1. I don't see Iggy Pop on this list...

...so your poll fails.

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Ding! Iggy is godlike.

[A Simple Game]

2. I nominate Johnny Cash

as the king of Rap.

[trof]

29. Yeah, right.

[Bennyboy]

3. Bruce Springsteen

Had the crown for a while now.

[Bennyboy]

18. DING DING DING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf61K6ZKu_4

[Bennyboy]

19. DING DING DING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf61K6ZKu_4

[Iggo]

4. David Lee Roth.

[provis99]

6. Clown Prince of Rock, maybe...

[freshwest]

8. Don't hate! Bet you can't do that!

:hi:

[Iggo]

5. oops...

...

[quickesst]

7. The one and only....

... Elvis Presley. Don't agree? You were born long after rock&roll was ever born. Poor you. Thanks.
quickesst

[Kat45]

9. Who's the wiseass who voted for Kip Winger?

:rofl:

Though I would vote for him as the best looking of the bunch. That man was drop-dead gorgeous in his heyday.

[mulsh]

10. Chuck Berry is the king.

n/t

[Bucky]

16. Chuck Berry is a better & more innovative musician than Presley, but not the king

Berry's more like the deposed rightful monarch of rock n roll. But once you've got teenaged girls screaming the front row so loud they can't even hear you sing, you're royalty and deserve to live your whole life on the throne... and indeed, that's exactly where Elvis was when he died.

Speaking of music royalty, check out the Khan of Disco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQAKRw6mToA

[CBGLuthier]

11. Charles Hardin Holley

Honestly how can you forget him. In so few years he did so much.

[rurallib]

21. vote #2 for Holley

[Brigid]

12. Who else but Springsteen?

No muss, no fuss, just great music for more than three decades now. :)

[rug]

13. Watch this before you vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bEmJW2sOUs&feature=related

[Throd]

14. For me, it would be Jimi Hendrix

[Forkboy]

15. GG Allin

:hide:

[GReedDiamond]

20. I'll gladly second GG...

...to Numero Uno El Duce (lower left in pic below) of the Mentors.



Or whatever, who knows?

When I met and hung with El Duce at the cathay de grande, he was a pretty nice guy, we discussed our mutual possession of vintage 60s Camco drum kits.

He was not impressed when I informed him that I had acquired my Oak Lawn Badge Camcos from Dewey Martin, former Buffalo Springfield drummer. Nor should he have been, because, after all, Dewey was a currently washed up, future "Rock n Roll Hall of Famer"!

"They" said that it was weird El Duce got run over by a train, after supposedly being solicited by a certain somebody to off that certain somebody's (subsequently late) rock star husband.

Whatever, I'm just sick of the whole "rock star" bullshit.

[RebelOne]

22. Bill Haley

When "Rock Around the Clock" appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the "rock era" and the music industry that preceded it; Billboard separated its statistical tabulations into 1890-1954 and 1955–present. After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title "Father of Rock and Roll," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley

[Amerigo Vespucci]

23. The standard riff on Haley from rock critics...

...everything you've posted is true, but he didn't have the look. Teenage girls would buy the 45s, but they wouldn;t have pictures of this guy up in their bedrooms. Elvis provided the songs and the look and Bill made an early career conversion into "oldies act."

Sad story about Haley in later life, he got a little eccentric and did thinks like covering his windows with aluminum foil to "keep the signals out." I'm not a Haley scholar...I read that in a Rolling Stone piece years ago, but I guess for the time that "Rock Around The Clock" (and to a lesser degree "See You Later Alligator") were blasting out of transistor radio speakers all over America, it might have been cool to be Bill Haley. After that, not so much.

[elleng]

26. AGREE! if w/o 'king' there are no others, he's it!

[Tikki]

24. Long John Baldry....he knows....

http://www.wat.tv/audio/long-john-baldry-don-try-to-3fvtp_2flz3_.html
"Don't try to lay no Boogie Woogie on the King of Rock and Roll (1970)"..Long John Baldry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_John_Baldry

Tikki

[bluesbassman]

31. Haven't heard that tune in a while. Love it!

"a sort of boo-gee woo-gee music was being played". :rofl:

Thanks for posting it.

[canoeist52]

25. We don't have any kings. We're an "autonomus collective'.

[Bluzmann57]

27. Kip Winger?!

That's a joke right?
Charles Edward Anderson Berry. The King.

[trof]

28. So...where's Little Richard, "The Architect of Rock 'N Roll"?

Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:

He claims to be "the architect of rock and roll", and history would seem to bear out Little Richard’s boast. More than any other performer – save, perhaps, Elvis Presley, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties, laying the foundation for rock and roll with his explosive music and charismatic persona. On record, he made spine-tingling rock and roll. His frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals on such classics as "Tutti Frutti", "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" defined the dynamic sound of rock and roll.<2>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Richard

[av8rdave]

30. Neil Young

[valerief]

32. Good lord, man, did you purposely leave out Leo Sayer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rju9b_Uk8Sw