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2008: Tight Corner, (it's a bit of a squeeze...)
What if it's never going to be alright?
Tim Staffell
Mar 23

Like it or not (and to be honest, I’m not that fond of it) - I came from a rock tradition; an ENGLISH rock tradition, which produced some wonderfully idiosyncratic bands throughout the sixties and beyond, but employing principles which I nevertheless fell out of love with as the decade drew to a close. It seems much less important to me now, but a four month trip to America in 1971 pretty much changed everything for me… I became aware that there was this underpinning to much American music that was absent on this side of the Atlantic - except for those few players over here who recognised it, and held it up as a guiding principle to how they wrote, & played. It was mostly characterised by what has become euphemistically referred to as ‘The Groove’ - really a label for music that possesses a continuously accented rhythmic flow, which has a hypnotic adhesion to emphasising the rhythm, even across varying comlpexities of song construction. In the Bebop era and prior to it, it was called ‘swing’ - and the early days of American rock & roll were predicated on it.. (this was the ‘roll’)

‘…..a static charge, like you wouldn’t believe….!

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