only thing is, he was born in Washington, D.C.

I’m going to have a Redskins fan in the family now, I don’t know about that…

That was a pretty gigantic explosion he created.

that the difference between pre-Elvis and Elvis-era music is far greater than the difference between pre-Beatles and during Beatles or anything else.

I’m a huge Beatles fan, and would listen to them over Elvis any day. But without Elvis there would have been no Beatles. Elvis is really the Babe Ruth of music – you can argue whether he was the greatest ever, but there is no doubt that he was relative to his time and he’s almost certainly the most important.

And tapes, at WBOW-AM at the time. Junior in college, broadcast media major, working late hours music and news. Elvis created a relatively bigger outcry (for and against the “new” rock than any of the Brit bands that followed. He was also the first white entertainer to adopt one spectrum of delta and Memphis R&B into general audience availability. Most R&B was measured, message stuff, slower with no frenetic beat, but Presley picked up the ‘hot club’ sound, from places that were literally off limits to such as the military – and others! The next chronological shifts were adoption of Chicago jazz into southern R&B, or the Motown Sound. Then the Beatles, the Who, later Pink Floyd (introduced classically originated symphonic relationships between percussion and instrumental solos into a blended message plus messenger metaphor). The a sort of return to a Ray Charles led Gulf Coast R&B club sound. For instance, in 1960 I went to a dirt floor, mostly all black joint up the little Biloxi river called Si’s Place. Literally a converted barn. Amazing sounds and improvisation. Back on topic, I’d judge there were five phase shifts between Carl Perkins and Elvis, and the divergence to either rap or shock rock. Whew … too much info.

can’t leave him out, the man helped create feedback and the use of wah-wah peddles

I like Rockabilly style music.

And on Dwight doing it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3ydbvHkFU