First recording studio

Owned by Cosmo Matassa

Originally Sang by Big Momma Thorton

Written By Leiber and Stoller

First folk rock group

Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man

First Nonthreatening black rock artist

Sang Blueberry Hill

Owned Sun Records

Signed Elvis Presley

Created Rockabilly

Was the most famous recording artist for sun records

The Coasters

The Drifters

The Platters

Created Slap Bass

Played for Sly and the Family Stone

Considered to have redfined the guitar and guitar performance

Was a great showman

Himi Hendrix Experience was his first band

Black community wanted to use black musicians instead of his white musicians

First big hit was Light my Fire

Music catagorized as doom and gloom

Jim Morrison was the lead singer

Played in The Doors

"The father of contemorary rock music"

Created speak-singing

Music was a combination of music and art

Used S&M as art on stage

A combination of classical and rock n roll

Meant to be listened to from the beginning of the record to the end

Lots of symbolism, imagery and mysticism

Wrote Money

Name came from Pink Anderson and Floyd Council

Began as a psychedelic band

Biggest album was Dark Side of the Moon

Named his son Dwezel and his daughter Moon Unit

“Considered one of the most accomplished rock composers of all time”
Known as a satirist

Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground
“Walk on the Wild Side”
“Was a combination of music and art”

Was a reaction to the hippie movement
MC5
Iggy Pop

Alice Cooper
Was not very commercially successful
Did not have a big impact on the music industry
Involved S&M
Where speak-singing was created

Janis Joplin

Jim Morrison

Curt Cobain

Jimi Hendrix