Even if rock music is not inherently evil, can it be evil?
Oh, yes. But there can t be anything inherently evil about a beat or a rhythm. For instance, Ravel s Bolero is one of the most sensual things ever written, and it s considered great classical music. It has almost a jungle savage eroticism that builds in it. A lot of folks don t know that. However, I found this out myself when I went through a heavy metal phase about four or five years ago and did some heavy metal classics of big band music jazz style. I m going to ask you about that in due time. I did some research and discovered that “Amazing Grace,” the church song, was actually an old English drinking pub song. The writer of the lyrics was a sea captain who had been a slave trader. He wrote words about his conversion, which was amazing to him. He used a melody that he was familiar with, which was a drinking song from the pubs in England. That is also the case with our National Anthem. Francis Scott Key first wrote the words to the “Star Spangled Banner.” Next, he searched for a melo
