Romanian rock

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Romanian rock started after the Western Influence broke out into the world. However, Romania quickly started adapting and creating a different affect of rock and roll. Lyrics and songs were mainly based on the Orthodox religion, folklore, and mythology. The gendres were as in the west, but soon heavy metal and death metal began to be fused using melodic patterns and old traditional sounds. Lyrics contained old traditional stories and folklore poems. Musicians had a normal number of band members, but some others had as many as nine members. Concerts and festivals became widely known throughout the country. Because of communist fear, many of these concerts stopped for a short while, until the rock and roll scene began to flourish once more.

[edit] History

[edit] Early 1960's

In the early sixties, Romanian adapted a lot of western influence, but soon found that much of this influence could not be attained because of the political regime. Most musicians started singing and playing a classical genre, which was based mainly on poetry and freedom, after the nations writers. Some guitarists that began doing this are: Dan Andrei Aldea, Vasile Socaciu, Doru Stanulescu, Adrian Paunescu, and Mircia Vintila to name a few. After this influence, the heavy metal genre became popular. Phoenix was one of the heavy metal pioneers which dug their lyrics on Romanian archaic folklore and history. By the end of the 1960s, the country began to grow and split into many genres. Folk singers began to use more amplified sounds, and rock and roll broke into many genres—mainly heavy metal.

[edit] The 70's and 80's

By this time, the country had developed a unique rock scene. Because of the communist regime, much of this rock scene was hidden. But after some time, bands started forming using basically five, members: a guitarist, a singer, a bassist, a drummer, and even another instrument to join the guitarist, usually a violinist. Guitarists also started to use techniques to improve sounds. Amplification usually used Marshall halfstacks. Gibson, Fender and Ibanez guitars and basses were also the most commonly used.

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