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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Shook his hand once after a concert in the 70’s. What a talent!
RIP
My apologies then. I guess I’m getting too old myself.
Time for me to drink the Jim Jones Fruit Punch.
It was free concert in Seattle for “Bumbershoot Festival” it’s an international music festival. Thinking back, this was somewhere around 1980-83.
I think I know who the bassist was but don’t want to say because I can’t find verification. Chuck Berry was there as a special guest.
Time flys.
Ah....I like that even less. It wasn’t his gig, apparently. Sigh...
Well...time sure does fly, that is true!
His legend is the inspiration he gave to countless bands that came after.
one of my favorite Chuck memories was a documentary where Keith Richards was going to jam with Chuck. Chuck “ripped him a new one” over and over because Keith wouldn’t play the riff correctly.
Saw him play live here in Raleigh only about 7 or 8 years ago at an outside festival. He was still a professional performer and astute businessman.
A few years back someone posted here that he looked bad when he did his final tour. It was footage on YouTube that was making the rounds.
I’ve heard good rock sounding music from the ‘40s and good guitar but without Berry, there would have been no Rolling Stones and maybe no Beatles though the Beatles had a lot of musical resources at that, Everlies, Elvis, Buddy Holly and so on.
It’s my understanding, for many years at least Chuck had no band accompanying him. He travelled light. His guitar and that was about it. Local bands/musicians were expected to know his songs. And who doesn’t? He wanted cash up front because of tax problems. Or maybe that caused his tax problems, I dunno.
But it made for some less than stellar shows I’ve heard.
He’s a real’n and rock’n somewhere else now.
That is one of the most entertaining rock docs I’ve seen. “Hail Hail Rock and Roll”. I’m sure someone will have it on in the near future since he passed. The premise is a bunch of guys get together and put on a show as the all star backing band for Chuck. It shows the rehearsals and the show. The part where Chuck gets in Keef’s business because he isn’t playing a part right in the song “Carol” is pretty cool. I also enjoyed the show part of it. It was really cool to see Chuck tearing it up and to see all the joy on the faces of Keith Richards and Clapton playing with one of their idols. It did make Chuck look like kind of an a-hole at times. He was clearly angry with the world.
RIP Chuck Berry. The original guitar hero.
Condolences to family and friends of Chuck Berry. R. I. P. , sir. Thanks.
love
Sounds like a helluva life.
RIP, Chuck!!
Was he the first to do the duck-walk?
According to one interview he gave his guitar style was a direct result of trying to play Country style. It just came out differently.
Not enough credit is given to musicians from the late 1930’s and the 1940’s for the development of Rock & Roll. Boogie Woogie, Country Boogie and Hillbilly Boogie were all just early forms of Rockabilly and Rock and Roll.
Listen to Louis Jordan, the Maddox Brothers and Rose, and Moon Mullican and you’ll see what I mean.
I don’t know...
This has been a bit unexpected for me to think of how much Chuck Berry music is mingled with much of my life. But I never had a single Chuck Berry album.
For me, it was in movies, and on the radio. Driving to the beach some Friday night. Around a campfire with friends. On a road trip somewhere. And so on.
And I never realized it until tonight.
Yep, he was notorious for that. He’d show up about five minutes before start, plug in and start to play. No rehearsal, no set list, no tuning, etc. “What song are we gonna play?”
“A Chuck Berry song!!”
There are a few examples on YT where this worked out about as well as one might expect.
Love BTTF, but one of my big complaints is that by the time Marvin called his cousin Chuck and held the phone out for Chuck to hear Marty play, Marty had already begun playing the pseudo Eddie Van Halen riffs (not the great Chuck Berry riffs he opened with).
That horrible mid-80’s guitar playing would never have inspired Chuck to play his style of rock ‘n roll in the ‘future’. I think Zemekis really blew that part!
I need to get out more...
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