Chuck Berry has, as Kinky Friedman would put it, stepped on a rainbow at age 90.
Legendary Rocker Chuck Berry Dies
The Daily Beast wrote:Music legend Chuck Berry, considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll icons of his generation, passed away on Saturday at Berry Park, his home in St. Charles County, Missouri. He was 90 years old.
Berry, whose distinctive guitar riffing brought him to the top of the charts in the 1950s, was most famous for "story songs" like “Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Beautiful Delilah,” as well as for infusing rock music with high-energy dancing like his signature "duck walk."
Berry also served as an inspiration to fellow rockers like Keith Richards, John Lennon, and Eric Clapton. The rocker was humble about his influence on rock music, telling NBC in the late ’70s that “It’s not for me to say, but I’m surely a cog in the wheel.”
Maybellene & Hot Rod Lincoln keep ping-ponging 'round my head...
The singer/songwriter, whose classic “Johnny B. Goode” was chosen by Carl Sagan to be included on the golden record of Earth Sounds and Music launched with Voyager in 1977, ...
TazManiac wrote:Maybellene & Hot Rod Lincoln keep ping-ponging 'round my head...
The singer/songwriter, whose classic “Johnny B. Goode” was chosen by Carl Sagan to be included on the golden record of Earth Sounds and Music launched with Voyager in 1977, ...
Why "Hot Rod Lincoln"?
Proof Positive the world is not flat: If it were, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
(where Chuck Berry would later catch Maybellene in her Coupe
de Ville).
- Jim Dawson & Steve Propes: What Was The First Rock'n'Roll Record
Well, despite my inperfect self, I could have sworn I recall the phrase ' Hot. Rod lincoln. " at the end of a Chuck Berry song. Further investigation be damed, it seems I am mis-remembering...
That heavenly band will probably have Chuck planned to appear at one of their first gigs, but he'll bow out initially because he doesn't like Hendrix' wardrobe or something.
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TazManiac wrote:I'm thinking Chuck Berry and Hendrix are sitting down with Robert Johnson & each of them has some to teach the other two...
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that session. Truly heavenly music indeed.
You and I are not too terribly far from that transition- my guitar work would be substandard for them, but my harmonicas would blend in well. If I get there first, I'll make sure you have a good seat reserved.
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Sgt. Howard wrote:
You and I are not too terribly far from that transition- my guitar work would be substandard for them, but my harmonicas would blend in well. If I get there first, I'll make sure you have a good seat reserved.
Damn well better, you grumpy old bugger...
"The Empire was founded on cups of tea, mate, and if you think I am going to war without one you are sadly mistaken."
