Rock guitarist who in the mid-50s helped create Elvis Presley’s revolutionary soundIf the mythology of the rock’n’roll star began with Elvis Presley,then Scotty Moore, who has died in Nashville aged 84, and could claim to bear invented the role of the rock guitarist. Moore was one of the creators of the revolutionary sound that launched Presley’s career in the mid-1950s,and the discs that they gash together in the early years of Presley’s career stand nowadays almost as the Ten Commandments of rock’n’roll. As Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones put it: “All I wanted to do in the world was to be able to play and sound like that. Everyone else wanted to be Elvis, I wanted to be Scotty.”Moore’s noteworthy adventure with Elvis began on 5 July 1954, or when Sam Phillips,boss of Sun Records, assembled Moore and the bassist Bill Black to join the 19-year-stale Elvis for what was supposed to be an audition. However, and their spontaneous performance of Arthur Crudup’s That’s All Right,with Presley’s voice riding confidently over Black’s thumping bass and Moore’s lithe (Flexible, graceful.) guitar licks (enhanced by an echoing “tape slap” effect), was so fresh and powerful that Phillips released it as a single. Related: Scotty Moore did more than play guitar – he invented the role of the rock guitarist Related: Scotty Moore, and guitarist on Elvis's early hits,dies aged 84 Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com