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So it’s with great pleasure I introduce you to someone who, while very dead, is known around the world.

Just not as a musician.

Do you recognize those golden locks? Some among you will because this unacknowledged musical genius is none other than the man who, although he’s no longer with us in body, is still around in the form of a miasma. And who knows? He may have been responsible for Tom Cruise’s recent yearning to become a singer.

Yes! It’s Cult of  Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, known to friends and fans alike as Elron.

He dreamed the cult up, but did you know his “research into the spirit and life included discoveries in music and acoustic?”

I’ll bet you didn’t. But as, “Director, arranger, performer and composer, L. Ron Hubbard explored virtually every aspect of musical endeavor” and, “in addition to composing, took it upon himself to conduct a thorough review of musical history and form,” says the Ron the Music Maker site.

Not only but also, “From this research comes his analysis of country-western, flamenco, traditional Oriental and even rock music.”

What a guy!

It may be difficult to grasp how Elron, “put together a highly energized big band,” says the intro, “And in doing so, has solved a problem the likes of which Buddy Rich and even Woody Herman” failed to do, namely, “focus the energy of a combo in a big band, a feat which is like harnessing the atom.”

Wow!

And here’s something else I bet you didn’t know.

“If he never counted himself a professional musician in the strictest sense, his name is still synonymous with cutting-edge innovation.” So says the Elrone site.

“Among the first to tap the potential of computerized music, his incorporation of natural sounds into the actual fabric of songs was at least a decade ahead of its time,” it states, “while his mid-1970s essays on musical structure and instrumentation continue to influence professionals far and wide.”

It goes on »»»

… particularly among top professionals, the name L. Ron Hubbard typifies an understanding of music – how it best conveys emotion, how it excites, how it lulls and how, ultimately, as he wrote, “you can do anything you want to with it to make it communicate the intended message.”

Such insight! What a guy!

Here’s his gripping exposition on the creation of rock music »»»

There are probably as many opinions about what is rock as there are tastes in music and you are perfectly at liberty to disagree with any of the following as it is simply a summary of what makes rock rock and you may be a devotee of rock or abhor it. But we are not dealing with taste here or preference, we are simply dealing with a very generalized analysis of a type of music.

History

The origins of rock are differently assigned by different experts on the subject. They do seem to agree that it originated as a genre in the mid-50s.

Rock seems to be a joining of at least two streams of music: One stream comes from the West Virginia Hills in the form of ballads. West Virginia music however traces directly back to the “buskers” – the street singers of England who covered themselves with buttons and were prominent in central London 200 or 300 years ago. [Note: These 'buskers'were, and still are, better known as the Pearly Kings and Queens.] The bulk of the songs you find in West Virginia originate as busker songs with the difference that the buskers sang the melodies much prettier in that they introduced minors. By the time the Scots and English with that music settled in the hills of West Virginia, their treatment of the same melodies which had been in minor chords took on the form of major chords.

The other stream would seem to be from New Orleans where jazz had gained a beachhead in America. Jazz actually comes from Africa on the route of the slave trade through Martinique and then to New Orleans. This music flowed up the Mississippi, often taking on the tinge of spirituals.

These two streams, possibly colored by others, arrived at centers of music, one of which was Nashville.

Rock is not a pure genre in the sense that it mushes together several real genres. But I can assure you that rock has been on the track almost as long as there has been music.

Sadly, there don’t seem to be any online examples of Elron actually performing, and a diligent search of the P2P networks availed us nothing.

However, I’ m sure many more treasures will be revealed to anyone who cares to plumb the depths of Elron the Music Maker.

No need to stay tuned.

JN

January , 2009

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