Chuck Berry RIP

[RunForTheRoses]

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7728700/chuck-berry-dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nU0Ys40oo

[Nutz and Boltz]

Rock N' Roll died again today !:(

[zico20]

St. Louis just lost an icon today. I was able to meet him a couple of times. Him and Elvis can now do a duet together in Heaven.

[098poi]

He outlived everyone!! RIP

[jk3521]

Nice interview and performance on the Tonight Show..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdnFsSiUFjk

[Dahoss2002]

RIP CHUCK https://youtu.be/4XgI_eoMsWU

[DSB]

I saw Chuck at Convention Hall in Asbury Park in 1972.

What a show.

It was the first time I heard "Ding A Ling." He taught the audience the song and had us sing along. Definitely memorable.

RIP Chuck. I - and many others - will always consider you the "King of Rock n Roll."

[CincyHorseplayer]

He showed everybody rock n roll guitar. I don't think many of em could compete and I love guitar players! RIP Chuck.

[Marshall Bennett]

Loved that trademark skip with guitar. One of the greats and inspired several of the greats.
Rest in Peace ....

[NJ Stinks]

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell....


:ThmbUp::ThmbUp:

[JustRalph]

30 days! "Gonna send out a worldwide hoodoo"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_506KSI_s

[Murph]

Up there with Elvis? Really?!
I know CB was a very popular "rock" icon. I've never been able to consider him a great player. More of a showman really, to put it politely.

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell....


:ThmbUp::ThmbUp:I just can't find these lyrics rising to greatness in rock and roll. It's a preference or an opinion only. I was never a fan.

While these notes are memorials to celebrate his life I always enjoy to add some perspective. Please do not infer into my post that I debase ANYTHING he accomplished or the kind of person he may or may not have been or that I have any opinion on how you might personally feel about this subject.

I do a similar bit at my friends funeral's where I like to point out when the departed could be, umm .. an disagreeable. Just so you know everyone is fair game with me.

[barahona44]

Chuck Berry was a Founding Father of rock and roll.

[jk3521]

Chuck Berry was "Raw rock N' Roll", before it became all sugary in the late fifties, to calm down the critics who protested that it would be the ruin of the younger generation. During that period, he was serving time and when he came back, things had changed.

[Tom]

Saw him live around the time My Dingaling came out.
Awesome show!

[ultracapper]

A lyricist ahead of his time. He was telling stories with his songs when everybody else was just running you through the old:

Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 2
Chorus

cookie cutter song arrangements. If he were white, he would have been the king rather than Elvis.

[RunForTheRoses]

https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2017/03/21/the-dark-past-of-chuck-berrys-scandal-filled-sex-life/amp/

[ultracapper]

Keith Richard is a huge Chuck Berry fan. Calls him his greatest inspiration. The first time they ever played together on stage, after the show Richard was hoping to hang around with him, maybe strum the guitars together for awhile, discuss songwriting and other musical odds and ends. So Berry invites him over to the house, and the first thing they do when Richard gets there? Berry leads Richard into a home theater, where there are a handful of guys, what they'd call a posse in today's rock culture, and they sit down and immerse themselves into various child pornography movies. Richard was very disappointed, and it showed that Berry, as this was in the mid-80s, never did get over his impulses to get involved with young women, VERY young women at that.

[FantasticDan]

Keith Richard is a huge Chuck Berry fan. Calls him his greatest inspiration. The first time they ever played together on stage, after the show Richard was hoping to hang around with him, maybe strum the guitars together for awhile, discuss songwriting and other musical odds and ends. So Berry invites him over to the house, and the first thing they do when Richard gets there? Berry leads Richard into a home theater, where there are a handful of guys, what they'd call a posse in today's rock culture, and they sit down and immerse themselves into various child pornography movies. Richard was very disappointed, and it showed that Berry, as this was in the mid-80s, never did get over his impulses to get involved with young women, VERY young women at that.Wow, sounds like you were there. But, assuming you weren't, can you tell me where you heard this story?

I'm not denying that Berry was a nut (he was), that's just a story I've never heard before..

Btw, the first time Richards (not Richard) played with Berry was in 1972, not the mid-80s. But maybe that doesn't count since Berry didn't like the sound and kicked Richards off the stage :D

[RunForTheRoses]

I remember in the movie Hail Hail Rock and Roll Keef said the first time he met Berry , Berry decked him because he didn't know who he was.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hail-hail-rock-n-roll-director-remembers-chuck-berry-w472748

[ultracapper]

Wow, sounds like you were there. But, assuming you weren't, can you tell me where you heard this story?

I'm not denying that Berry was a nut (he was), that's just a story I've never heard before..

Btw, the first time Richards (not Richard) played with Berry was in 1972, not the mid-80s. But maybe that doesn't count since Berry didn't like the sound and kicked Richards off the stage :D

I've heard that story a couple times and I believe Richards (He was called Richard early in his career to single him out from Cliff Richards. Look at writing credits on some of their earliest records.) recounts it in his autobiography. Trying to think of a more reliable source, but can't off the top of my head.

The show I'm referring to is the one Richards put together to honor him in the mid-80s. Berry really had very little respect for him, or damn near anybody else.

[FantasticDan]

I've heard that story a couple times and I believe Richards (He was called Richard early in his career to single him out from Cliff Richards. Look at writing credits on some of their earliest records.) recounts it in his autobiography. I'm sorry, but I REALLY doubt that Richards wrote in "Life" (his autobio) that Berry brought him back to his house and did what you say he did. Writing such a thing would have been an epic bombshell, and yet I can find no reference to it anywhere online.

It's true that Richards was disappointed in Berry after meeting and spending time with him, but according to one of the book's reviews, went only so far as: Chuck Berry was a big disappointment, not musically, of course, but as a cranky collaborator.

[ultracapper]

I just looked through "Life", and it's not there. I have about 3 dozen books on the Stones, it's in there somewhere.

I mean, seriously, could somebody just make that up? The smoke that lit my fire is out there somewhere. And being that I'm a big music fan, and appreciate both Berry and Richards for their contributions to rock and roll as well as the music itself that they made, I'm not going to bash away at Berry just to waste some key strokes.

I'll find it.

[FantasticDan]

I just looked through "Life", and it's not there. I have about 3 dozen books on the Stones, it's in there somewhere.

I mean, seriously, could somebody just make that up? The smoke that lit my fire is out there somewhere. And being that I'm a big music fan, and appreciate both Berry and Richards for their contributions to rock and roll as well as the music itself that they made, I'm not going to bash away at Berry just to waste some key strokes.

I'll find it.
Like I said, Berry was a nut, and I'm not disputing that what you're suggesting happened; I just find it very hard to believe that Richards would have ever talked about it publicly.

[Cratos]

A lyricist ahead of his time. He was telling stories with his songs when everybody else was just running you through the old:

Verse 1
Verse 2
Chorus
Verse 2
Chorus

cookie cutter song arrangements. If he were white, he would have been the king rather than Elvis.

There should be little doubt that Chuck Berry is truly the “King of Rock n’ Roll” and he is flanked on one side by Elvis and on the other side by Little Richard (probably the greatest rock showman ever.)

[PaceAdvantage]

I'm sorry, but I REALLY doubt that Richards wrote in "Life" (his autobio) that Berry brought him back to his house and did what you say he did. Writing such a thing would have been an epic bombshell, and yet I can find no reference to it anywhere online.

It's true that Richards was disappointed in Berry after meeting and spending time with him, but according to one of the book's reviews, went only so far as: Chuck Berry was a big disappointment, not musically, of course, but as a cranky collaborator.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chuck+berry+child+pornography

I don't think there's anything online about this supposed Keith Richards encounter, but there is plenty of smoke and possibly some fire when it comes to the underage porn stuff...

[highnote]

(He was called Richard early in his career to single him out from Cliff Richards. Look at writing credits on some of their earliest records.)

The story I heard is that his birth name was Keith Richard, but in America everyone kept putting an "s" on the end, so he legally changed his last name to Richards.

As for Chuck Berry, he influenced everybody. Some of the early Beach Boy tunes may as well have been Chuck Berry tunes. Nowadays songwriters get sued for "borrowing" far less.

Chuck Berry's sound -- his "brand" -- was so original that it became genericized like Aspirin and Dry Ice.