Hey, Early sixties..this style of music was played mostly by Lonnie Donegan..in Belgium there was a fellow called Ferre Grignard..who played a mixture skiffle/blues... in skiffle music a simple washboard was used.. here some links..Ferre Grignard..was a beatnik from Antwerp.. who refused to pay taxes to the government... I saw several live concerts of him late sixties... some of his best known protest songs are... 1/Ring ring..Iv'e got to sing.. 2/My crucified Jezus.. 3Drunken Sailor etc... Some links http://www.tsimon.com/donegan.htm http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/grignard.htm Anyone any comments on skiffle music?? Emiel
I know the Beatles were sort of a skiffle band before they went pop, but i'm not that familiar with the genre edit: oh ya, thank you for being concerned with me, old tiger! it meant a lot
Queen, Thanks for your reply.. Beatles...skiffle..perhaps.. Donegan really introduced this style of music.. Emiel
you people! skiffle is a mainly british musical style, (folk, with jazz and blues influence) which began in the 1900's and went right upto the early 60's in main stream popularity. It involved the band playing on a variety of instruments, including a washboard a teachest with a broom handle on it with string forming the bass sound and a banjo, guitar or a variety of other home made instruments lonnie donegan was indeed a great skiffle player (but didnt invent, nor dominate the genre) and the beatles did start off as a skiffle band called "the quarry men" eddie clayton's skiffle band: and a wikipedia article on skiffle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle
Spyder.. Thanks for explaining about skiffle.. I did not know it was from early 1900's.. thanks for the links.. Ska..is as well typical British..Madness etc.. I really liked Ian Dury and the Blockheads.. Emiel
accccually! ska is a formation of reggae with originated in the 50's in jamaica, jamaicans in the 50's used to have mainly american R&B, but as that lost its rawness jamaica began to begin its own styles, ska was born out of things like rocksteady and R&B skas early artists were people like, lord tanamo, arthur 'duke' reid, the skatalites, desmond dekker the original ska sound got dubbed 'reggae', because, its very simular, however true reggae is more heavy than ska which sounds far more upbeat and pop esq ska was very big in britain and people like desmond dekker went down really well, especially his hit "(007) Shanty town" the 70's saw a decline in interest in ska, up untill the ska revival braught because of punk mainly, punks took heavily from ska, and bands like the specials, the selecta and madness all reinvented the ska sound.
Wasn't The Munge Jerry Band a skiffle band? Because, if so... I really like that one song "In the Summertime" and would be extremely interested in hearing more skiffle music.
Yeah.... but it's an awesome song... I haven't heard anything else by Mungo Jerry, thogh I would like to.
Skiffle was ALWAYS dire. Thankfully, it's peak of popularity was relatively short-lived. By the early 60's bands like the Stones and the Beatles made skiffle look like it was; dated, painfully elementary, and irritating to listen to.
hmm still vital to the development of popular music you may not like brass bands, choral societies or bell ringing but without them popular music would never have developed as it has done!
Hey, Got some skiffle music today.. Van Morrison+Lonnie Donegan+Chris Barber... live at Belfast..sounds like blues style.. not bad..but my daily cup of tea... is rock'n roll all the way Stones,Creedence Clearwater Revival etc.. Emiel
