NileQT87
Billowy Coat, King of Pain
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis.
Jerry Lee Lewis played in my late father's high school auditorium back in the '50s in Allentown, PA. I subsequently grew up with this era of music. The Silent Generation was truly laughably named thanks to the Boomers.
Indeed, the Killer was the self-declared "Last Man Standing" from the original wave of rock'n'roll, defying all expectations about who would surely go first. He was the wildest of them all. He had been the only person left from the Million Dollar Quartet (or anyone else who was at Sun Studio that day) for a long time already.
It is truly the end of a generation of music now that he has left us.
That he was only inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame now is just embarrassing, regardless of his scandal. Beyond overdue. They waited until he couldn't even come to the event anymore. After his scandal, he reinvented himself as a country artist and indeed saw significant success again.
He used to easily command the stage any time groups of legends rocked out together, which was already apparent when he was the only one keeping up and commanding attention with Elvis Presley in the Million Dollar Quartet session. Artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to Kid Rock used to give all due deference to ol' Jerry Lee on piano. To be fair, Johnny Cash had already left to go Christmas shopping with his wife before tape rolled and Carl Perkins pretty much got reduced to backing guitar, leaving the whole thing sounding like a Million Dollar Duet and occasional Trio instead. He wasn't even signed to Sam Phillips' Sun Records yet (he was only there that day as a session pianist for Carl Perkins) when he dueled the King, only to get signed immediately after.
Jerry Lee Lewis played in my late father's high school auditorium back in the '50s in Allentown, PA. I subsequently grew up with this era of music. The Silent Generation was truly laughably named thanks to the Boomers.
Indeed, the Killer was the self-declared "Last Man Standing" from the original wave of rock'n'roll, defying all expectations about who would surely go first. He was the wildest of them all. He had been the only person left from the Million Dollar Quartet (or anyone else who was at Sun Studio that day) for a long time already.
It is truly the end of a generation of music now that he has left us.
That he was only inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame now is just embarrassing, regardless of his scandal. Beyond overdue. They waited until he couldn't even come to the event anymore. After his scandal, he reinvented himself as a country artist and indeed saw significant success again.
He used to easily command the stage any time groups of legends rocked out together, which was already apparent when he was the only one keeping up and commanding attention with Elvis Presley in the Million Dollar Quartet session. Artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to Kid Rock used to give all due deference to ol' Jerry Lee on piano. To be fair, Johnny Cash had already left to go Christmas shopping with his wife before tape rolled and Carl Perkins pretty much got reduced to backing guitar, leaving the whole thing sounding like a Million Dollar Duet and occasional Trio instead. He wasn't even signed to Sam Phillips' Sun Records yet (he was only there that day as a session pianist for Carl Perkins) when he dueled the King, only to get signed immediately after.
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