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Legendary musician Check Berry has died
KMOV.COM ^ | Mar 18, 2017 5:03 PM CDT | Kayla Gaffney

Posted on 03/18/2017 3:13:40 PM PDT by tje

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KMOV.com) – The St. Charles County Police Department confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.

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To: the; Jeremiah Jr
CHUCK BERRY & KEITH RICHARDS - Nadine
41 posted on 03/18/2017 3:41:42 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: tje

I saw him once. He got mad at a sit in bass player who couldn’t understand 12 bar blues, Then he walked off stage only after trying to teach him. The bass player was rudely humiliated by Berry.

Still...12 bar blues? Dude? I was kind of with Chuck on this.


42 posted on 03/18/2017 3:42:07 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: COBOL2Java

>>>An all-time great, but kept playing too long. He was an embarrassment in recent years<<<

Yeah, we shouldn’t let Old People do anything else but Die.

They are much too inconvenient and the older they get the more embarrassing it is to be around them.

They should have offed Sinatra ten years before he died too.


43 posted on 03/18/2017 3:42:28 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: max americana

The URL is misspelled which causes the problem when copied and pasted. Same happen when I posted this URL to my Facebook.


44 posted on 03/18/2017 3:42:39 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: discostu

I kind of understand his bitterness.


45 posted on 03/18/2017 3:42:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Please check out TheCitizensAudit.com to find out what David Brock has been doing)
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To: blam
I do prefer the more contemporary version, however.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1Qc

Contemporary in the sense that I suppose Jeff Lynn outlived Chuck Berry by at least one day.

46 posted on 03/18/2017 3:42:50 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: tje

Movitatin’ over the hill...got the passin’ lane now.

Go Johnny Go.

RIP


47 posted on 03/18/2017 3:43:36 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: tje

I posted this in my online Music Appreciation class just this morning, to a message entitled “Roll Over, Beethoven,” not knowing this would happen today:

“The subject reference is to a 1956 R&B song by Chuck Berry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLD5H4uQ1xs). It was supposedly written because Chuck had a continuing battle with his sister Lucy (who became Lucy Williams), who wanted to play classical music on the family’s piano while Chuck wanted to play what became rock-n-roll on his guitar: the “pull quote” from the lyrics is, “roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news,” referring to Beethoven rolling over in his grave to hear the new music. It is, I think, the perfect metaphorical illustration of what I wrote about in another message, that in the 1950s the guitar overtakes the piano as the defining musical instrument.”

Roll over Beethoven, make some room for Chuck. RIP.


48 posted on 03/18/2017 3:45:01 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: tje

Of all times for a typo! CHUCK Berry, not “Check” Berry.

Now watch the eulogies at his funeral become the latest stage in #NeverTrump-itis.


49 posted on 03/18/2017 3:45:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: OwenKellogg

Bummer. He was a great musician.


50 posted on 03/18/2017 3:45:30 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: ssaftler
Exactly! If Marvin hadn’t cut his hand at the “Enchantment Under The Sea” dance, Chuck never would have gotten to hear his mentor, Marty McFly, play.

White people. We invented everything!

51 posted on 03/18/2017 3:45:47 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: RegulatorCountry
My Dingaling! I remember my dad playing this loudly in the old 68 Pontiac and mom was dying of embarrassment.
52 posted on 03/18/2017 3:46:12 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: right way right

LOL, if he didn’t know that, what the heck was he playing with him for?

I could see it if it were some kind of charity, where an amateur would get a chance to play with someone like Chuck Berry, but other than that. It would be strange for a Bass Player playing with Chuck Berry not to be able to play 12 bar blues.

Doesn’t excuse being a jackass, though.


53 posted on 03/18/2017 3:47:25 PM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: Kickass Conservative; DJ Frisat
Yeah, we shouldn’t let Old People do anything else but Die.

They are much too inconvenient and the older they get the more embarrassing it is to be around them.

They should have offed Sinatra ten years before he died too.


You might want to redirect your comment to DJ Frisat, who was the author of the comment, not me.
54 posted on 03/18/2017 3:48:12 PM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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I always appreciated his music but later he turned out to have quite a scummy dark side with secretly videotaping women in his restaurant's bathroom:

Chuck Berry's dark side
55 posted on 03/18/2017 3:48:59 PM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: discostu

That’s the good thing about just knowing his songs.

At least in my case.

You get all the good with none of the bad.

Anyway Chuck, “Be Goode” :)


56 posted on 03/18/2017 3:51:09 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Drew68

Look up Sister Rosetta Tharpe on YouTube. She was years ahead of him.


57 posted on 03/18/2017 3:52:15 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: right way right

That was a special song for my 13 yr old self, although fortunately I outgrew that phase rather quickly!


58 posted on 03/18/2017 3:54:13 PM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

I play in a senior citizen band. Our oldest member is 99 this year. I’m the youngest at 65.

That said, I like Chuck Berry music.


59 posted on 03/18/2017 3:55:28 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: discostu

Chuck allegedly placed a video camera in the ladies room
of his nightclub and there was a class action lawsuit
around it. The worst thing involved Berry, sex, and
defecation and it was some sick stuff although I didn’t
bother to retain the memory.


60 posted on 03/18/2017 3:56:51 PM PDT by Sivad (The Federalist #46)
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