The following morsels were extracted from the internet with a Google advanced search using the exact phrase, “rock and roll is”. Context was not considered.
Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay-Danny And The Juniors
Rock and Roll Is Dead -The Rubinoos
Rock and Roll Is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution JOHN SINCLAIR
rock and roll “is a kind of history” Bill Clinton
’Rock and Roll’ is about me. Lou Reed
“Rock ‘n’ roll is 99% sex.”…John Oates
“Rock and roll is over, don’t you understand? The Pistols finished rock and roll; they were the last rock and roll band”- Johnny Lydon
Rock and Roll is an American art form. Jeffrey Breinholt
rock and roll is becoming “an endangered species.” Steven Van Zandt
Rock and Roll is an unfiltered musical connection to our raw emotions, a uniquely American middle finger flipped up at anyone who tries to explain away inconvenient truth.
Steven Laffoley
Rock and roll is a museum piece. Sufjan Stevens
Rock and Roll is a vital part of the fabric and culture of America-SIRIUS President of Sports and Entertainment Scott Greenstein
Rock and Roll is whatever we say it is Flash Cadillac
Rock and roll is dead. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr
Rock and roll is a slippery term as is indicated by its profuse, ever-changing genres.
Dirk Dunbar
“Rock and Roll is an economic thing,” Jo Stafford
rock and roll is dangerous David Bowie
Rock and roll is a music of mechanized sexuality. That’s why ninety percent of it sounds like clocks fucking. J. D. Daniels
Rock and roll is used often as production music for films addressing subjects geared towards young people and as background music and music on hold for businesses that deal in products and services for a progressive generation. royaltyfreemusic.com
Rock and roll is usually reserved for the young, as musicians who are vital in one decade are treated as aging and obsolete in the next. Ethan Stanislawski
“Rock and roll is the sound of revenge, so make your enemies interesting.” –Bono of U2
Rock and Roll is just not what it used to be. Anonymous Student
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. Peter York
Does it look like rock’n'roll is dead?
It just smells funny sometimes….
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Lou Reed’s New Guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCre4HgPLU
I meant for that to be in there….
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Lou Reed’s New Guitar
“Rock and Roll Is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution -JOHN SINCLAIR”
Cultural Revolution?
This is incredibly coincidental; today I received a link from a colleague to an old Scots Paper Towels ad that claimed “harsh, cheap paper towels” were the cause of revolution. I thought he was just complaining about the bathrooms at work.
http://www.georgetownbookshop.com/georgetown/display2.asp?id=35
Looks like people will revolt over just about anything…
J’s last blog post..Schizzolate your twitter
Sans, are you in or out on the Arctic Monkeys?
J, Rock and Roll is Bolshevik
I’m in. Way in.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Lou Reed’s New Guitar
Rock and Roll is similar to Fugu Chef: Perfection meets Total Destruction
Rock and roll has a unique quality in that it can be listened to and learned by generally all musically inclined persons… compared to repeating a classical music that is perceived as difficult to play… more likely to hear Rock at the park, VFW and now most of the time on Country Western.
Therefore, as rock and roll is most often played at get together’s, [not excluding fashionable fondue at the Fonda's] it should be defined by its ability to be played at group gatherings of gregarious teenagers and young adults, say from 15 to 24.
Teens and Children and affirmative action young adults tend think they are being subversive when they are at parties. Developing minds could therefore free-associate what they perceive subversive with what is heard by tribute bands at the prom, frat party, boom box at the office party, radio, or DJ driven Sock Hop Disco Ball show your armpits dance… besides the best Thespians are the ones who dress like young women.
Social gatherings where-when, more likely, some form of social intoxication is being used despite banishment from rules of the gathering, age and stealthy delivery system of liquids or pills…
Rock and Roll is very similar to Fugu Chef delivery:
Dec 10, 2005 Eat Fugu or Die Tryin’. Fugu Sashi. The Hump Restaurant. Santa Monica, CA.
I hadn’t listened to the Arctic Monkeys much until this-good rock and roll band. I looked at several live clips too-they can bring it.
I had to go wiki on Fugu; this is what I found…
“The neutrality of this article is disputed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
I am returning to this post to see if my new definition of Rock/Roll fits in. This comes after several months study with the palikars of guitar, and the rhyming quatros. I promise to keep my shirt on.
Rock and Roll is Distraction
It has its seed in the first moments when human sex partners went face to face in the act of intercourse. A good example is in Quest for Fire, the movie, the missionary position is presented as an alternative to the nomad man ape by the home nesting she chimp. This position later called the missionary, did not allow the man to look around for predators while in the act. Therefore while he rocked and rolled with her he is distracted.
Some anthropological maps point to this as maybe the time/event when communication begins. Rocked and rolled into existence by mortals trying desperately, driven to distraction, to preserve their spirits through reproduction. No?
Pooht Barnsmell and Flames’s last blog post..BuzzKill Word for the Century: Levee
Rock and Roll is-bend over so we can both watch T.V.