The music was a little too primitive, too raunchy, too wild. And then, a decade or so later, a new generation of teenyboppers was gyrating to Elvis and Buddy Holly, and swing music seemed tame and rhythm-less by comparison. It eats everything. Every time a new musical style develops in some garage in Backwater, U.S.A., rock and roll devours it. Head, body, and tail, one shot.
Opera is opera.
Celtic folk is Celtic folk. But artists can push, twist, distort, flatten rock and roll, and then erect it again, and it is only stronger for all of that. Yet, you can almost sense Hendrix's influence in such a band. If you look under the dirty laundry in some sixteen year-old's room you might find CD cases with Led Zeppelin and Smashing Pumpkins stacked in the same row. Let's call it Ska.