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A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:09 pm
by AnotherFairportfan
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.”
Story at Billboard
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 10:12 pm
by Alkarii
And without his contribution to music, we wouldn't have hard rock. Without hard rock, we wouldn't have heavy metal.
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:38 am
by TazManiac
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, ...
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 10:59 am
by AnotherFairportfan
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"?
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:24 pm
by TazManiac
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/hotrodlncln1.html
(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...
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:36 am
by jwhouk
Yeah, Hot Rod Lincoln wasn't one of his.
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.
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 11:58 pm
by TazManiac
I'm thinking Chuck Berry and Hendrix are sitting down with Robert Johnson & each of them has some to teach the other two...
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 6:01 am
by Just Old Al
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.
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:40 am
by Sgt. Howard
Just Old Al wrote: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.
Re: A helluva band is a little stronger tonight...
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:31 am
by Just Old Al
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...