"When the modes of the music change, the walls of the city shake" (Plato, circa 300 BC)

Rock is... and it is not. For that reason it is pure art and it is not pure art. There are no rules and there are rules. It is illusion and it is reality, because the illusions exist to make them reality. It is emotional, it is magical, it is mystical. It wants to be social and political but not wanting. It wants to be sexual but wanting-wanting.

Your Rock'n Roll Heroes are those who were going to be bakers and mechanics. Perhaps for a similar reason the first thing that the multitudes did in the French Revolution when they took the Palace of Versailles was to seat in the throne of Mary Antoinette a street hooker and render her tribute. Rock is challenging, irreverent, iconoclast. Nevertheless it is religious, has its own rituals. A rock concert is an electrical church where gives rise to an orgy instead of a lecture - which one do you prefer? - The parrochians interchange sweat, rub their bodies, all between strangers. They may not know each other but they have trust between all. Otherwise, how would you dive onto the crowd and float suspended on your back by a sea of arms. All uniting in a single feeling, perhaps a pain in common. For that reason "Rock Kills Pop."

Rock 'n Roll is a slang term used by the Afro-American people of the 40's that meant to copulate. Yes, to copulate. That is to fuck, to screw, to poke, to get your wick wet, to have sex. Ah, also means to make love. Because the first thing that the Establishment tries to regulate is Sex. That primal feeling to which you will owe your life for the rest of it and which is the main catalyst of so much creativity. Creativity that produces human things such as the poems that you write to your boyfriend/girlfriend all the way to world-wide wars caused by dwarves with " small dick complex " - like Napoleon, Hitler and some other idiot who unexplainably walks the Earth on two legs. Freud has said more truths than the priests, brother. For that reason Rock guitars hang underneath the waist. It is a symbolic defiance against this castrating society.

When did it begin? For several peer musicologists, Rock begins sonically with the Black piano player " Professor Long Hair " towards the end of the 40's in New Orleans. According to the Department of Police of Alabama, it begins at the beginning of the 50's with the arrest of Ike Turner's band (ex- pair of Tina Turner). That's because justice is for all and the COPS broke the band's speakers. But the COPS se chingaron, since that night the damaged horns caused that the Rhythm & Blues guitars sounded distorted. The audience liked the new sound and adopted it. For myself , without attempting to be a historian, I like to think that Rock begins when Marlon Brando, wearing a leather jacket and beret, in " The Wild One " (circa 1953) gets off of a Harley Davidson, walks into a small town convenience store and the lady at the counter asks him with a Southern accent: " So, what are you rebelling against?" And he answers: "what u've got?" Some say that it started in África. And they are probably very right, because anything that doesn't have enough African it's not worth much, brother.

When will Rock end? Some nerd in the BBC showed up on TV in 1957 and said that it was over. Some other nerd in the world of Techno in 2,001 says that it is over. Both need viagra, brother. Rock 'n Roll NEVER dies.