this guy dave he has a rare talent.rockabilly influenced many musicians.from it bowels sprang carl perkin,gene vincent eddie cochran,elvis parsnips,buddy holly,charlie feathers,link wray,the everly brothers and countless others.these in turn inspired the rock generation.rockabilly was borderline country.the english equivelent would mayhaps be skiffle.early billy bands were three or 4 instrumments.a dog house bass,a snare drum and maybe two acoustic guitars.acoustic you say pc?yes accoustic because as you know folk and country were mainstream b4 rock and billy.anywhats say that most of the decadence of societies moral fiber start in mozarts day and even listz.....sorry lost that train of thought....anyway conway twitty was rockabilly at first and turn country???how do you turn country?is that like turning queer?? lol
but on with ......the u s in the 50s feared rock and roll more than the nazis.their kids from that war were growing up and the were start to have a voice...no more fathers knows best and leave it to beaver....it was horror movies and james dean.the amj(american moral majority)was going to loose control of what no generation has b4 them.....their kids.
what better way to deprave them than to control their music.give them dean martin,pat boone,tab hunter,ricky nelson and the like and keep people like little richard and chuck berry off the radio....stiffle gene vincent and rockabilly too.......
oh wait this was a dave edmunds topic...why the hell wasn't he a wilbury??did ringo ruin him???i love daves solo stuff.he was in rockpile with nick lowe and played kampachea with paul.he played on the carl perkins rockabilly special...a fantastic show.george and ringo were there too...no paul...sad because he was invited...
i love dave and albert lee together.and dave done right on his producing with the stary cats....
ok i ramble....just remember time is fragments of reality....