Steve DeBro interviewed Roddy Piper for his 2021 documentary about Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium, and he recently recalled how he ended up on Piper's bad side.
Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music as we know it to the early 1950s, and a little seaside resort town called Wildwood, New Jersey. Long before Elvis stepped inside Sun Studio, Dickerson says it was a criminally underrated musical act called the Treniers who created Rock & Roll. Read on to see how the mix of rhythm & blues, jazz, swing, showbiz savvy, hillbilly, and country, all came together in a rowdy Jersey Shore resort town to create a music revolution.