Is There Anyone Else Here Into Rockabilly

Hey there, thanks for bringing my ghost town thread too life, since I created this i have come across a couple of other people into. a few have been into it & never even knew. what's ironic too me is, that many Americans don't know what it is even though that where it originates. But as soon as I tell them certain bands & artists then they realise, but had never heard the term Rockabilly. I love the Stray Cats, it's what started it for me really, they toured Europe about 2 years ago, & I went to see them in London, the show I was at is available on dvd "Rumble In Brixton"

Sure, I'm a musician & have played in endless bands, so played most of the various genres around rockabilly,cow punk etc www.myspace.com/quiff_head Thanks for replying to my thread :)

A technique to get you to out in the open...

i wasn't hiding

Ummm whats that then?

But music is continuously evolving, without that artists are left with nowhere to take it to make music theirs. It's all been done before. Playing Rockabilly never did Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash or Roy Orbison any harm, & that's just to name a few. The majority of early Rockabilly was as close to Hillbilly you could get, Johnny Horton, he even used Banjo's & Harmonica, & Carl Perkins was known as the Hillbilly Cat. So to say the 2 don't mix is an oxymoron, what 2 would this be?

You may be right. But I grew up in an atmosphere much different than today. We were calm, cool, and collected. Today's youth and their taste is just too much for me to swallow. I grant you that you have the right to your tastes as much as I do and I will not fault you on that. Just because music evolves, or has to, does not necessarily mean that improves. For example, can you compare rockabilly to Beethoven, Tchaikovsy, Brahms, Verdi and the like. Of course not. I will not put down rockabilly if you won't put down the past. However, I cannot accept that the classics have evolved to rockabilly, rock and roll, rap and the like.....it just aint so.

Where did I put down classical, I'm a guitarist & studied Classical for 7 years

I enjoy Guy Mitchell very much but I never considered him as a hillbilly or rock star. He was more country and western to my my way of thinking. His My Truly, Truly Fair was one of the first of his that I remember....and I go back a looooooooooooooooooong way.

I remember all those old fifties songs too. When Guy Mitchel visited Melbourne in the fifties he rode a horse from his downtown hotel to the venue, and remember Melbourne has trams. I go back a fair way too.

The Punk side & Psychobilly is fine by me, I grew up with Demented Are Go, it doesn't get much more punk than that :)

The discussion may be old, but that doesn't mean it's over. It's always nice to meet new people that appreciate similar music. Obviously you're more into the new side to things, Psychobilly etc, but it's all relative

There's a good girlie, you have taste :P