Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
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Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.
In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.
The music became secondary to being rock stars.
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.