Artists
This artist was known as the King of Rock and Roll
Who is Elvis?
This style of rock is named so because it sounds like it was recorded in a garage.
What is Garage Rock?
Which electric instrument allowed the performer to play many different percussion instruments at once in a repeatable rhythm?
This radio personality coined the phrase "Rock n' Roll".
Who is Alan Freed?
This was the first way you could listen to music in your car.
What is the Radio?
This band originally called themselves the Quarrymen.
Who are the Beatles
ABBA and Donna Summers were two big names in this Genre of Rock.
What is Disco?
This instrument is the electric version of a piano or organ.
What is the Synthesizer?
These were three ways to Listen to rock in the 50's/60's.
What is Radio, TV, and In-Person?
The three formats in the 70's and early 80's where you could choose which song you listened to in your car.
What are 8-Track, Cassette, and CD?
This artist, who died in his twenties, is still widely regarded as the greatest rock and roll guitar player off all time.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This type of Rock would be included as one of the main early styles of Rock. Think the 1930's/40's.
Every rock band featured in our video had one of these instruments slung around the neck of AT LEAST one of the performers.
What is the Electric Guitar?
This TV show launched in 1957 and featured different rock groups each week all over the U.S.
What is American BandStand?
This TV Channel launched in 1981.
What is MTV?
This is one of two artists we talked about who played Heartland Rock.
Who is Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty...?
This is one of the styles of music that influenced rock and roll.
What is Jazz, R&B, Blues?
Essentially for keeping the beat in jazz, this instrument is the loudest of the unamplified rock and roll instruments.
What is the Drum Set or Drum Kit?
These two bands are considered the great rock bands of all time.
Who are the Beatles and the Rolling Stones?
This Band sang "Back in Black"
Who is AC/DC?
This Musician was big in chicano and latin rock and died in a plane crash at the age of 17.
Who is Richie Valens?
The Pacific Northwest is mostly associated with this type of rock, including bands like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
What is Grunge?
This reeded instrument played a big role in many rock bands of the 30's 40's 50's and 60's.
What is the Saxophone?
This was known as the Birth place of Rock and Roll.
What is Cleveland, Ohio?
This was the transporting medium through which people moved from New Orleans to Chicago during the evolution of R&B into Rock.
What is the Mississippi River?