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So long Chuck , and thanks for everything :bow:
Dusty
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RIP. Say hello to Beethoven.
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Johnny b Goode.
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Oh, he'll be rockin' with us forever!
I really can't imagine what popular music would have been like without him.
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Hail Hail Rock n Roll! (I know I know, he didn't write it, but he WAS it)
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His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down.
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'."
RIP
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'Oh, Maybellene, why cantcha be true...."
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You never can tell was my favorite Chuck song .
Dusty
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One of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT3kCVFFLNg
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I got to see him at the Jazz Fest one year. Dude could put on a show.
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John Lennon once said , "If we didn't call it rock & roll we could just call it Chuck Berry" , or something like that :laugh:
Dusty
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Best quote of all from David Letterman regarding the Voyager spacecraft and its cargo of a disc with samples of Earth music....
"The aliens have responded with a message: 'Send MORE Chuck Berry!'"
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RIP.
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The rain water blowin' all under my hood I know that I was doin' my motor good..
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Hearing Chuck Berry as a kid in the 50's hooked me on R&R....If it wasn't for him and Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, etc., we all may have been stuck with country and east coast Du Wop, :azn:
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There was and always will be, only one Chuck Berry.
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RIP Maestro, and thankyou.
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Owner of Wenzville, Missouri's favorite restaraunt with camera's in the ladies room. :undecided:
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while rock and roll is in known for white guys trying to sound black, Chuck invented rock and roll by imitating and mocking white country music.
it's hard to imagine what we would be listening to today without Chuck. Perhaps the greatest influence on popular music and music in general than anyone in history.
Rollover Beethoven.
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while rock and roll is in known for white guys trying to sound black, Chuck invented rock and roll by imitating and mocking white country music.
it's hard to imagine what we would be listening to today without Chuck. Perhaps the greatest influence on popular music and music in general than anyone in history.
Rollover Beethoven.
He didn't invent R&R but made it popular for whites....Rocket 88 is said to be the first real R&R song in 1951 .Chuck did make the guitar lead the R&R signature...There are songs from the late 40 that also have R&R elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lqJk5JzeA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lqJk5JzeA)
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Has anyone told Tchaikovsy the news??
RIP Mr. Berry :bow:
Paul B :boozing:
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He didn't invent R&R but made it popular for whites....Rocket 88 is said to be the first real R&R song in 1951 .Chuck did make the guitar lead the R&R signature...There are songs from the late 40 that also have R&R elements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lqJk5JzeA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lqJk5JzeA)
I might disagree, Rockin 88 and Rock Around the Clock were earlier than Chuck. But Ike and Haley's bands had horns and saxes, Chuck was all guitar and keys- like a country western band.
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Owner of Wenzville, Missouri's favorite restaraunt with camera's in the ladies room. :undecided:
I was debating whether or not it was too soon to "celebrate" Chuck's freaky side. :evil:
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I was debating whether or not it was too soon to "celebrate" Chuck's freaky side. :evil:
Show me a famous person who did NOT have a freaky side . Hell , show me some not famous people who don't have a freaky side , and remember , I know a bunch of you
guys :laugh:
Dusty
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I might disagree, Rockin 88 and Rock Around the Clock were earlier than Chuck. But Ike and Haley's bands had horns and saxes, Chuck was all guitar and keys- like a country western band.
You are correct about the C/W guitar influence...but it's the lead and rhythm beat that makes it R&R, not the actual choice of instruments...In my opinion...
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You are correct about the C/W guitar influence...but it's the lead and rhythm beat that makes it R&R, not the actual choice of instruments...In my opinion...
I'll quote Mark Knopfler .....
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
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We backed him one evening. Interesting to say the least. RIP.
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I don't know that I'm any more a fan of Chuck Berry than everyone else is a fan of him, but for some reason, and not remotely kidding here, when I am out on the big highway and really getting on it a bit, getting away or around cars, I will almost always inadvertantly start singing Maybelline to myself. Curious but it makes perfect sense in so many ways. :thumb:
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I'll quote Mark Knopfler .....
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
Him and his band don't do Rock and Roll the way I like it :grin: I prefer a piano lead rather than a guitar and a few horns are ok so long as it stays away from jazz and they are background...And steady beat because I like to dance :wink:...But gitar R&R is also just fine...
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90 years old, his music was our youth. RIP
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-chuck-berry-who-died-at-ninety (http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-chuck-berry-who-died-at-ninety)
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yes, he invented rock and roll, he was also a poet and had a impact upon the English language. (And so did the late Jimmy Breslin as written by Charles Pierce)
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53957/chuck-berry-and-jimmy-breslin/
Chuck Berry invented the language of rock and roll and, through that, reinvented the English language for several generations. He did it in that most American way possible, the way Mark Twain did it, or Walt Whitman, or Kerouac. He did it by experimenting, by playing with the language as though it were the greatest toy he'd ever found. Consider the other things he did with it.
As I was motorvatin' up over the hill/I saw Maybellene in a Coupe de Ville. (Maybellene)
You'd motorvated in your time, too. You just didn't know the word for it.
Pay phone, somethin' wrong, dime gone, will mail/ I ought to sue the operator for tellin' me a tale
Ah, too much monkey business, too much monkey business/ Too much monkey business for me to be involved in. (Too Much Monkey Business)
Close observation of the human condition. (You had similar botheration last week, didn't you?) And, from it, Bob Dylan was inspired to write "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
They furnished off an apartment with a two room Roebuck sale/ The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale. (C'est La Vie).
Coolerator. It's where you get the cold drink after a hard day of motorvatin' and campaign shoutin', I guess.
And, finally, the restatement of the American Dream for a new century, just the way Walt Whitman yawped it in the streets of Manhattan.
His mother told him, "Someday you will be a man,/ And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around/ To hear you play your music when the sun go down.
Maybe someday your name will be in lights/ Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'."
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-chuck-berry-who-died-at-ninety (http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-chuck-berry-who-died-at-ninety)
An enjoyable read. Thanks for posting.
Bob