The first rock and roll song that rocked your world?

[editec]

Imagine a five or six year old editec, finding himself thust upon the back of a full dress Harley.

Imagine that toe-headed kid wide eyed as he finds himself tearing down a two lane blacktop road, the Harley's pipes trumpeting into the shimmering summer heat of a Pennsylvania July morning.

The man driving that iron horse?

A jet-black duckbacked hair, engineer-boot shod, blue jeans and white teeshirt, motor cycle jacket (complete with chrome stars!)-- full blown Philly greaser named (I kid you not!) Sal, tearing down those softening -in--the-sun two land blacktop tarred roads with a young editec hanging on for dear life-- half in terror, half is complete AWE -- that anyone on EARTH could be that fucking cool!

Now imagine that quintesstial 1950s rocker maniac on his baby-blue, full dress 64 cubic inch hog singing at the top of his lungs as we leaned into those hair-pin turns, and rode oblivious to what was over those blind hills that day.

And THIS was the song that Sal sang whch gave me my first inkling of what R n R was really all about.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgHgIZxV658&feature=PlayList&p=C4AA989676E31BD4&index=35[/ame]

And SAL?

Whatever his last name was, (something Eye-Talian, for sure) he will forever be my benchmark for what we mean when we use the term: rebel without a cause.

The Fonzi?

The Fonze wouldn't make a Valtalis grease stain on Sal's rat-tailed comb folks.

The Fonze TRIED to be cool.

Sal wasn't trying to be anything.. he couldn't help himself!

 

[eots]

imagine young eots with 2 Alice cooper tickets.. a date with the first girl in school to get breast or do..it ..a Micky of jack daniels he stole out the ol mans liquor cabinet and a chunk of hash purchased from a insane Hippy vet with one leg and a huge pit bull...he cut it off a huge chunk with a big buck knife ..so we nicknamed him buck...it was the best night ever

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp4B-RBK3ME[/ame]

 

[edthecynic]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkR8Yx-PXA[/ame]

 

[del]

i was five
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[Meister]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuLxijDrOw[/ame]

 

[eots]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeP220xx7Bs[/ame]

 

[kakarothusain]

The first rocking song that i ever heard was given up of the album minutes to midnight sung by linkin park.I became a lover of rock music after listening to this song..

 

[DiamondDave]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRbPWcLode0[/ame]

'Nuff said

 

[Gunny]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qx3fuTUHM[/ame]

 

[Dis]

The first rock and roll song that rocked your world?

That would have been Phantom Lord (Metallica).. I was a whopping 13...

Not really rock, tho.

 

[Againsheila]

That would be "Henry the 8th I am" by Herman's Hermits...hey, I was 7.

 

[xsited1]

I was just a young platypus living on the shores of Lake Elizabeth when a boat passed by with a boom box that was playing this rockin' and rollin' song from America...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmYqQ-sthA[/ame]

 

[Dis]

I don't feel so old anymore...

 

[Iriemon]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7PNZiKjTE&feature=related[/ame]

This song blew me away. First record I ever bought. In this video, George playing a Les Paul that Clapton gave him, Lennon playing his newly naturally finished Epi Casino, McCartney playing is classic Hofner bass.

 

[driveby]

Black Sabbath ....... War Pigs

 

[dilloduck]

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[tigerbob]

First song I remember really getting into was age about 11. I'd liked a few before that (T-Rex's 'Get it on' was the first I really remember liking), but none of them had really "spoken to me". Then in about 77, a British Band called Status Quo released "Rockin all over the World". Everyone at school loved it, me included.

Nearly a decade later, Quo opened Live Aid with that song. It wasn't their best version of it, but it captured the spirit of the moment. The audience was about ready to explode with energy by the time they came out on stage.

It wasn't the best gig I've ever been to, but it ranks as one of the 5 or so best days of my life. FYI, there's a view of the stage from the crowd about 25 seconds in which is pretty much exactly where I was standing, about 30 yards from the stage, very slightly to the right.

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About 8 hours later, we were all exhausted, sunburnt and hoarse. Then it started to rain very gently and Elton John came on and played "I'm still standing". If ever there was a song for a particular moment....

The guy who posted the video on youtube notes that it seems like there was no sound check. Duh! There were dozens of acts and they were each on stage 20 minutes after the previous one. But by about 8.00 in the evening we were all too tired and happy to care.

I was 20, young, single, and had my whole life ahead of me. Fuck me, that was such a good day.

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[tigerbob]

Actually, this was the best moment of the show, and possibly the best single gig moment I've ever experienced. The Radio GaGa handclaps were quite an astonishing thing to be part of. The ENTIRE STADIUM did it.

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[American Horse]

The first rock and roll song that rocked your world means a rock song, not your ordinary "Love" song or "Country" song. And the early 50's were the first years of "Rock" music. Here are the first of those. I began paying attention a little in 52 when I was 11.
1952 - Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
1954 - Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
1955 - Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
1956 - Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
1957 - Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly

All those got my attention, but none like Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly did in 57; I was 16.