The Rock and Roll Tree. What´s that?

Nice name for a blog, isn´t it?

But, what does it means? What does it have to do with Rock and Roll, or trees?

As a Rock and Roll fan, it´s sometimes very surprising to find out that this or that singer, guitar player, or drummer played in the same band once, or that after playing in that band, they started their own bands with sometimes even bigger success. Thats what Rock and Roll Tree means, a way to look at the rock band and their musicians as a tree, and their branches.

In this blog, we will talk about that Rock and Roll Trees and their branches, but also about other stuff related to Rock and Roll, news, releases etc etc.

And sometimes we will talk about trees.

Did you know?... The story of "Behind the mask"

"Behind the mask" was one of the unreleased songs on the last Michael Jackson´s record, and that´s the reason many people thinks it´s written by him, big mistake.

This song was originally written in 1978 by  Ryuichi Sakamoto for his techno pop band "Yellow Magic Orchestra" almost instrumental, with no lyrics at all except some at the chorus.

How this track got his way to Michael Jackson? Thanks to Greg Phillinganes, keyboardist than during the 80's was playing with many artists like Eric Clapton or Michael Jackson. He released his own version with some lyrics that sounded like this:

When touring with Eric Clapton, Greg Phillinganes used to sing that song, and Eric Clapton decided to record his own version, that you can listen in this video with Mark Knopfler and Elton John:

Michael Jackson also recorded his version when working with Greg Phillinganes, but never got to release it. After his death, as usual with the music industry, many unreleased material sees the light of day, like his own version of "Behind the mask"

GREATEST HITS: SUPERTRAMP

Today´s greatest hits comes from Nico Gómez, from Cádiz, Spain, excelent composer and musician with two good records released. This time we are talking about Supertramp.

Nico has elaborated his own choice of the best of this British band, one of the most famous in what it was called "progressive rock·, even "Symphonic".

Like in many other cases, Supertramp was a band with two genius creating their songs, like Rick Davies y Roger Hodgson, and as uses to happen in this cases, after years creating great songs, theirs personalities started to collide, and Roger left the band to start his own solo career. Rick stayed and continued with the band that it´s still alive, recording new records and playing all around the world.

Welcome to the greatest hits of Supertramp