Comments on: What does “Rock” mean? https://www.preservationsound.com/what-does-rock-mean/ information and ideas about audio history Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: bafflegab https://www.preservationsound.com/what-does-rock-mean/#comment-194548 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:05:24 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7419#comment-194548 Before ” rock and roll” was used that way, they said “jazzing”. That’s what my grandfather and his cronies called it: though they certainly never talked about it with us, we had better hearing than they suspected and overheard a lot.

Nick Tosches is a smart guy and a creative writer: in fact, a little too creative sometimes. He’s too much a fabulist to be considered a historian. Much of what he writes has to be taken with a grain of salt.

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