Soul Train 1... Rock n' Roll...

A Photographers Voyage... into the heart of darkness...

The History of Black Rock-n-Roll...

Bo Didley - Road Runner...

Listen to that guitar... some intro... underlying sex oozing... YouTube black & white... a blast... Back in Time... Back to the Future... an Electric Clip... builds to a Climax... The begining of Rock... sorry white boys... Rock's black music... here's the proof... and check out the black chick on guitar... so Cool... years ahead of women rock guitarists... and check out the next clip of her playing with Bo Diddley in that sexy black girls' shimmy dress... how they shimmy... wonder where these chicks are today?

black chicks always knew how to shake it...

Bo Didley - Hey Bo Didley / Bo Didley

Unbelievable sexual confidence in their own physicality... and Bo had good taste hey... he must have had some serious fun on tour...

You can just see it, can't you..?

Bo Didley...

Not just a great rock track... he gives a great performance... more than just a song... and this guy can dance... black people dance huh..! Always... love watching them dance.

Bo isn't the greatest technical guitarist but what he lacks in finess he makes up for with his street wise bad boy shit... so does the chick... you just know he's given her one... and she can play... it's as much about show as about music...

Roll over Beethoven... Don't step on my blue suede shoes... Ain't got nothin' to loose... Chuck Berry...

A brown eyed handsome man...

and check out the dancers in the next clip... see how the black chick on the left moves like she's got all the time in the world...

and she's always on the beat... she's always on the beat...

Chuck Berry - Johny B. Goode...

Amazingly accomplished... creamy smooth... black & white clips from Bobby Kennedy's heady Camelot days... The birth of Black + White T.V... beaming a signal out across the land... selling blackness... about to change the world... about to turn into a staggering and incredible new age phenomena...

the youth market..! it started here..!

Chuch Berry - Reelin and Rockin...

This guy can play... consciously manipulating milliseconds... a rock version of that lazy sounding Miles Davis Black Funk... He has all the time in the world... like the good dancer... and he does... Black Rock... the birth of rock... Live & Direct... a sexy back story... born out of shebeens and Louisiana whore houses... always sassy... good at being bad... surrounded by staring white faces... giving it to them... whatever it is... you don't see it with this much charm these days.

And then there was the "Prince...

Little Richard... a hundred thousand dollar pink suited black rocker... a lot of gay in this... quite naturally an influence that started in rock from the start... and this is it...

Little Richard - ''Tutti Frutti'' B.B. Kings 1/5/07

If you didn't know you might not guess unless you were gay, maybe black women would notice... I like the kitch glossy movie thing he does...

again everything is about performance as it is about the song...

Little Richard - Tutti Fruitti (classic rock & roll video)

I'm not sure about the dancers in this clip... and I'm sensing the presence of a producer with two left feet and no sense of rhythm... maybe the chick's got something...and he's a big boy and he's at least moving... so respect...

I live in Africa and if you watch different tribal dancers... particularly the women you start to see that there is a kind of anthropology of black dance... the moves give shape and form to the music... part of an african closeness to the earth powers... still today in the house music clubs in Africa you see dance moves you could never imagine in London or New York...

Meanwhile if the birth of rock was sent into space in a lead cascket and it didn't have Lucille or Tutti Fruitti inside... it wouldn't represent... and like the man says he helped midwife rhythm & blues into rock 'n roll... And at the rock & roll Hall of Fame concert in 1995... the guys singing the same song forty years later...

still rockin' after all these years... easy now...

Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly...

Performance Art is a core of black music I guess... they say Africa is a continent of celebration... it travelled to America with the slaves... when this guy shouts "are you havin' a good time!!?" he means it...

Black, White, Gay or Straight... this guy rocks... you can feel his power... like the dancers in the other film clips...