Fact #19968

Robbie Robertson (guitarist, The Hawks) : We played joints...just joints.. and it was good, I mean one thing that really flashed me was that down there (in the USA) people listened to music differently. You weren't just playing for a bunch of young people... when you played, everybody would come, up to 50 years old, and they were able to appreciate the music just as much as anyone else, because they bad no sophisticated background. It was a unanimous thing. They'd been hearing that music all their lives, it was no surprise to them at all, but it was really new to me. I was used to people their age scowling on it... people were calling Elvis Presley the Devil in those days, but down there they didn't call him the Devil. He was just a good singer as far as they were concerned.
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