FEBRUARY 5th - We All Stand on Shoulders



On this day in 1957, The American Invasion began. I’m not talking about Vietnam. I’m talking bout music, man. I’m talking about Bill Haley and the Comets at Waterloo Station and the pandemonium that ensued. Much has been said of the British Invasion of the 60’s when The Beatles and The Stones took America by storm. When young teenage girls stalked after mop-headed Brits from Liverpool and screamed their throats raw. But you can’t get from A to C without B. And although the Comets were old news in America by '57, England had yet to see them rock around the clock. Without Bill Haley’s tour who knows if Paul gets that rock n’ roll fever. Or if Jagger gets satisfaction and doesn't need rock n' roll. Of course we could trace things back further. Back to the blues masters, Muddy, BB, and Howling. And why stop there. Could go back to Leadbelly. Or we could go back to Mozart. And if you go back to Mozart why not jump although back to the first time a humanoid picked up a stick and started banging to make a cool noise. Credit is always given to pioneers, but they are easily forgotten in our current culture of fast paced hullabaloo. But the truth is that we all stand on shoulders. So here’s to the pioneers, be they Bill Haley or the humanoid who started banging a stick.

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