Pub rock

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As Pub rock a early 1970s in is England (especially in London and Essex ) resulting brand of rock called that primarily emanated from members of the working class and above all by a club atmosphere and the resulting possible close contact between musicians and Audience excellent. Musically, Pub Rock was primarily a return to the 1960s, when the beat and R&B music wave produced a brisk nationwide live music club scene. The first representatives of Pub Rock included the groups Eggs over Easy , Brinsley Schwarz , Dr. Feelgood , Kilburn and the High Roads, and Bees Make Honey .

Emergence

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The technological progress, the gigantomania of the stage shows and the larger number of spectators had led to a discrepancy between the musicians involved and part of the audience. The superstar rock around Pink Floyd , Genesis , David Bowie , Deep Purple had made an audience interested in simple music look for alternatives. This audience had little interest in increasingly complex musical structures and ever larger stage equipment. On the contrary, pub rock was especially successful in the underground - simple music, presented in small clubs and pubs, which got by without well-calculated stage shows and excessive solos, but was primarily designed to "jump the sparks to the audience" through solid musical virtuosity. allow. Groups like Starry Eyed And Laughing became audience favorites thanks to complex vocal arrangements and 12-string Rickenbacker sounds. Max Merritt & The Meteors, who emigrated to London from Australia, impressed with their multi-layered sound that combined borrowings from R&B, country rock and pop.

Pub rock and punk

Pub rock is widely seen as one of the forerunners of punk , which became popular in England from 1976 onwards. Lee Brilleaux helped found Stiff Records on a £ 400 loan , Joe Strummer played pub rock with the 101'ers before he was successful with The Clash . Eddie & the Hot Rods were initially a pure pub rock band before they were also associated with punk rock. From a commercial point of view, Pub Rock was unsuccessful with a few exceptions ( Dr. Feelgood came first in the charts with the live album Stupidity , Eddie & the Hot Rods landed a hit with Do anything you want to do ). This was partly due to the return of pub rock to the down-to-earth music of the 1960s, as well as the less spectacular appearance of the pub rock bands. On the one hand, Pub Rock was innovative, in that bands like The 101'ers or Dr. Feelgood the foundations for British punk rock were laid, but on the other hand too intellectual to be commercially successful. One of the most successful bands that were among the forerunners of pub rock and for a time could be attributed to the scene was Rockpile around Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe .

Pub rock served a wide musical spectrum from rhythm & blues to country rock and power pop. Despite all the musical and stylistic differences, pub rock and punk had a direct reference to the audience in common, which was no longer evident in the so-called progressive music scene.

Important representatives of Pub Rock

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