RIP Chuck Berry

richardhomer · March 2017

Back to The Future wouldn't have been quite the same without him, would it?

57Deluxe · March 2017

but I keep having to remember he was a rather unpleasant and bad tempered individual... remember the clip with him berating Keith Richards who was his biggest fan until then..? But, still sad that such a leg-end has left us.

vale · March 2017

he played rock & roll & he lived rock & roll. he was the real thing & that inevitably means risk.
a rebel & a boundary pusher. 'a man's character is his fate' (heraclitus 500bc).

he got due respect for his monumental achievements & due punishment for his failures (as society deemed them to be).

the rest is (was) a matter for him & his conscience.
i think he lived life like he loved it. a man of real passion.

rip chuck.

http://streamd.hitparade.ch/cdimages/chuck_berry-sweet_little_sixteen_s_3.jpg

richardhomer · March 2017

@Vale - great post.

dindude · March 2017

@vale spot on. He was a flawed human being but he invented rock'n'roll and some of the behaviours that we associate with it.
When I see modern bands like the Artic Monkeys chuck a microphone on the floor at the Brits and think they are being rock starts, it makes me chuckle.

Drew_TNBD · March 2017

HAL9000 · March 2017

57Deluxe said:

but I keep having to remember he was a rather unpleasant and bad tempered individual... remember the clip with him berating Keith Richards who was his biggest fan until then..? But, still sad that such a leg-end has left us.

Are you saying he wasn't a particularly Goode individual?

TheBlueWolf · March 2017

Spot on @vale ;

No, Chuck didn't live life as a monk and he *was* bought to justice for his indiscretions. Constantly berating someone for their sins, especially after their death, isn't particularly nice either. He got caught and paid for what he did wrong. End of

fandango · March 2017

Philly_Q said:

Johnny B Goode was one of the very first songs I failed to learn to play properly.

RIP Chuck.

And one I'm still learning ...

Ally · March 2017

Thanks for the responses and tolerance folks. Glad you took the time.

I'm kind of regretting wading into a RIP thread, and from what you've said, I think I'll go and read his autobiography.

TheBlueWolf · March 2017

@Ally ;

No worries dude

guitars4you · March 2017

mudslide73 said:

His influence is massive via Beatles, Stones , Clapton etc. As I've mentioned a few times on here I particularly love the lyrics in his songs especially.

I think to a large degree that this was his legacy - he was never the greatest guitar player - he borrowed many licks from T-Bone Walker, but he made them into his own and wrote his songs around such licks - Pre Chuck Berry we had the blues and swing/jazz, but in many ways rock n roll, as far as far guitar playing goes, started with Chuck - Elvis sang, Buddy wrote great songs, but Chuck stated a template that guitar players pick up and ran off with - who has not played or tried to play the opening riff to Johnny B Goode

RIP - Chuck

fandango · May 2017

Another homage to Chuck Berry ...

and he's having a whale (wail?) of a time with Keef and Eric ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzKd0aiaK4c&ab_channel=MrKeeponrolin

This what it should be like having a jam with some mates.

mr-mac · May 2017

fandango said:

Philly_Q said:

Johnny B Goode was one of the very first songs I failed to learn to play properly.

RIP Chuck.

And one I'm still learning ...

I learned to play it properly bit still fluff it had the time hahahaha lol

mr-mac · May 2017

And tbh chuck was right if someone started pissing about with Keith's amp cos it will sound better he'd probs give them an earful too

Though my fave bit of that film is in the concert when chuck whispers change key (his sale of head and face is priceless)

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