This document summarizes the evolution of various rock music genres in the 1970s. It describes how blues bands in England evolved into early metal bands with distorted guitar sounds and screaming vocals. It also discusses the rise of progressive/art rock bands that experimented with classical music influences and longer song structures, as well as the emergence of punk rock bands that reacted against over-produced disco with a rawer amateur sound. Additionally, it outlines the development of rap/hip hop from influences like Jamaican DJs and beat poetry in the Bronx.

1. Rock Evolves: 1970s
English Blues Bands Evolve into Metal
Educated Musicians Using Their Skills Into
Progressive/Art Rock
Folk Into Singer Songwriters
Blues & Honkey Tonk Into Southern Rock
Garage Bands & Lit Into Punk
Dance Music Disco
Many Streams Into Rap/Hip Hop

2. Rock Evolves
• Early Metal: Blues Riffs
• Muddy Waters Mannish Boy,
Satisfaction, Sunshine of Your
Love, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
• Distorted Guitar Sound, Feedback
• Shouting/Screaming Vocal Style

3. Early Metal
Jimi Hendrix Evolved the Concept of
Guitar/Amp Sound
Developed New Guitar Techniques
Played in R&B Bands Gaining Experience
Animals Manage Brought Him To England
Performance at Monterey 1967
Americans Thought HE Was British
Invasion

4. Early Metal: Hendrix
Are You Experienced: Purple Haze – LSD
Out Did The Who & Burned Guitar at
Monterey

5. Early Metal: Led Zeppelin
Former to Fill Yardbirds Contracts
Jimmy Page, Guitarist, Performed With
Many British Invasion Bands
Blues Riffs Turn into Metal
Blend Acoustic & Electric
Stairway To Heaven Staple of FM AOR
Radio

6. Early Metal: Black Sabbath
Grew From Blues Band
Named from Boris Karloff Movie
Dividing Line Between Blues & Metal
Heavy Riffs/ Distortion, Pleading Vocal
Sound, Satanic Iconography

7. Early Metal: Theatrics
• Psychedelic Light to Makeup and Props
• Alice Cooper (Vince Furnier) Eye Makeup,
Mock Hanging, Goullotine
• Kiss, Kabuki-like Face Painted Cartoon
Characters
• DJs & Music Pros Hated Them First
• GWAR, Monster Costumes

8. Early Metal:
Art/ Progressive Rock
Evolves Beyond the 3 Minute Song
Tried To Emulate Classical Music
Long Improvisations
Multi-Sectional Song Forms
Moody Blues Developed From Blues Band
to Combining Rock and Classical Music

9. Early Metal: Progressive
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Legnthy
Improvisations, Rock Versions of Classical
Music (Pictures At An Exhibition)
Yes: Bordered on Jazz Fusion, Long
Improvisations
Genesis: More Literary, English
Mythology, Phil Collins Huge Solo Career
Pink Floyd: long Career Before Dark Side
Of The Moon

10. Metal: Zappa
Frank Zappa, Enigmatic Figure, Blended
Doo Wop-Satire-Avant-Garde (Edgard
Varese)
Mothers of Invention, satire & Complex
Musical Forms
1982 Valley Girl w/Moon Unit
Critic of Music Censorship

11. Rap/Hip Hop
Streams: African Griots, Rhythmic
Sermons, Jazz Vocalese, Beat Poetry, Gil
Scot- Heron, James Brown, Jamaican DJs
All Coalesce In the Bronx
Jamaica: Power Owned Radio Stations,
Portable DJs Brought Music to the Poor

12. Rap
Toasts: Social/Political Commentary over
Instrumental Sections of Records, Sampling
DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican Moved to New
York, Entertained at Parties & Clubs
Grandmaster Flash Developed Record
Scratching to High Art

13. Rap
First Recording: Fatback Band: King Tim
III (1979)
Sylvia Robinson (Love Is Strange) Started
Sugar Hill Records & Sugar Hill Gang:
Rappers Delight (1979)
Kurtis Blow: Christmas Rappin’ (1979)
First Rapper on A Major Label

14. Rap
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The
Message (1982) Influential Recording

15. Rock Evolves: Singer Songwriters
Folk Singer Category Morphed into This
One, Still Pop Music Hits, Often Acoustic
Guitar Players
Texture: Voice Upfront, More Melodic,
Less Guitar Distortion, Subtle Rhythm
Section
Lyrics: More Complex Than Rock, More
Personal, More Melodic

16. Singer Songwriters
Paul Simon, Many Hits After Split With
Garfunkel
Combined With World Musicians, Brazil &
Africa
Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard
(1972), 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
(1975), Still Crazy After All These Years
(1976)

17. Singer Songwriter
James Taylor & Carly Simon,
Married/Divorced
Both From Musical Families.
James Taylor: Fire & Rain (1970), You’ve
Got A Friend (1971)
Carly Simon: Anticipation (1971), You’re
So Vain (1972)

18. Singer Songwriter
John Denver (Deutschendorf)
New Christy Minstrels Alumni
Take Me Home Country Roads (1971),
Rocky Mountain High (1972) (Colorado
added it as a State Song in 2007)

19. Singer Songwriter
Joni Mitchell, Canadian Folksinger
Established Singers Recorded Her Songs
Woodstock (1969), Big Yellow Taxi (1970)
Help Me (1974)

20. Rock Evolves: Southern Rock
Hard To Define: Blues & Boogie Bands,
Southern Iconography (Confederate Flag,
Guns)
Extended Improvisations, Often Dueling
Lead Guitars, Sometimes Two Drummers
Not the Same As CA Country Rock

21. Allman Brothers
Duane & Gregg
Signed to Liberty Records as The Hourglass
Failed To Chart
Studio Musicians at Fame Studios Muscle
Shoals AL, Recorded Soul Music
Formed Allman Brothers 1969
Live At Filmore East Big Success
Motorcycle Accident Death 1971

22. Lynyrd Skynyrd
Local Florida Bands Until Discovered By
Al Kooper
Free Bird (1973) Sweet Home Alabama
(1974) Rock Standards
Others: 38 Special, Molly Hatchet, Marshall
Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band

23. Disco
Discotheques: European Clubs That
Featured DJs Instead of Rock Bands
1977 Studio 54 Opens, “In” Place
Theatrical Clubs: Strobe Lights, Dicso
Balls, Fog
Fashion: Men Open Collared Loud
Polyester Shirts, Gold Chains, Cocaine

24. Disco
High Production Values, Emphasis on the
Bass Drum and HiHat Open Upbeats
Movie: Saturday Night Fever (1977),
Album Huge Success
Donna Summer, Bee Gees
Corporate Hit Factories: Even Beethoven
Disco Dies A Quick Death.
Dance Music Lives On in Lady Gaga

25. Rock Evolves: Punk
Search For First Punk Bands Ends With
“One-Hit Wonder” Garage Bands
Several Punk Scenes: Detroit (Garage
Band); New York (Avant-Garde); English
(Social/Economic Futility)
Reaction Against Excess: Over-Produced
Disco, Metal Instrumental Pyrotechnics
Displays

26. Punk
English Punk: Amateurism Often Praised,
Anti-Rock Industry, Purposely Insulted
Journalists
Fashion: Purposefully Deviant, S&M
Leather, Slashed Clothing, Body Piercing
W/Safety Pins, Nazi Symbols,
Hair: Spiked, Colorful, Just-Got-Out-of -
Bed

27. Punk
1960s Michigan
MC5 Kick Out The Jams MFs; Refused to
Let Label Release A Clean Version, Put Ad
In Underground Paper F—K Local Dept
Store
Changed Labels, Released Pre-Punk Sound
Self-Destructed in 1971

28. Punk
Iggy Pop & The Stooges (1968), Ann Arbor
MI
Self-mutilation With Broken Bottle, Raw
Meat, Exposing Himself
Not Commercially Successful, But
Influential With English Punks

29. New York
Velvet Underground: Lou Reed & Sterling
Morrison Jammed at Syracuse U.
Reed Studies Poetry, Songwriter at
Pickwick Records
John Cale (Leonard Bernstein Scholarship
to Tanglewood 1963), Avant-Garde Music
LaMonte Young
Andy Warhol Plastic Exploding Inevitable

30. New York
New York Dolls (1971) Rolling Stones
W/Glitter
Manager Malcolm McLaren Also
Assembled The Sex Pistols
The Ramones: Fast Songs, Catchy Lyrics
Delivered in Cheerleader Style
Plasmatics: Wendy O Williams, Explosions,
Chainsaws, Nudity

31. England
Sex Pistols: Anti-Social Image But Took It
Too Seriously.