Musicianship

Other than my voice, which I despised, the guitar and piano are the only instruments in my repertoire. For a musician, this seemed relatively less since most musicians take on and master a variety of instruments. When I was young my mother taught me how to play the banjo and later bought me an acoustic guitar. From my knowledge the United States has dominated popular music since the end of World War II. In the Western world, jazz, blues, and rock-and-roll had been by far the most popular music forms. All these music styles originated in the United States and these forms later spread around the world, inspiring other artists who then altered the music in their own way. This certainly happened in the same manner as the Beatles, who were inspired by major American figures of music. In turn, our tour of the United States affected the young Americans to take up music and sing for a living. This began to seem like a chain reaction as the Cold War progressed and music became an integrated part of people’s lives. Especially noticeable was the spread of rock-and roll, which has my vote for best music genre. The period from 1967 to 1973 has been considered the golden age of rock. The Beatles and I were amongst the first to experiment with rock music and even before rock-and-roll took its effect on the world population, I knew that rock would prove to be revolutionary.

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