Great sound quality...
One more of a younger Chuck...
I got this OCD thing about Chuck this afternoon. (Amzing how, if you love music like I do, you from time to time think of this artist or that from the past and lo-n-behold you can click on youtube and there they are...)
No Particular Place To Go, live b & w...
No Particular Place To Go, live b & w...
What a nice break! Thanks for that ED. I got an old Marshal amp and Fender somewhere in the back of the closet. I'm pulling it out.
OK...It ain't Cuck, BUT it's a classic...
Somewhat of track...BUT this is another one that takes me WAY Back!
I can't help myself...
Chuck
If he goes to R&R Heaven before me (not a given), I'm going to have to take the day off, maybe a week. I understand that he's still performing and blowing the roof off of any dump he might play in. I'm glad I saw him a few years ago along with Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Loyal, I think you shoulda stopped at Little Richie.
Although Bobby Vee doesn't seem to have the same impact as Chuck and Richard today, I do remember camping out in our suburban backyard with a transistor radio listening to that whitebread pop and digging the heck out of it.
The bass player in our little band, The Detentions, also plays in a real band called XMR with a lead guitarist/singer from Spain that does a version of Secret Agent Man in Spanish called Hombre Secreto. That is cool, check it out on their website if you feel like it.
Johnny B.Good, the first best reincarnation....
Johnny B.Good, the first best reincarnation....
Ed, we are in agreement!
Johnny B.Good, the first best reincarnation....
I agree that Johnny Winter came the closest to the intensity and soulfulness of Hendrix on Johnny B. Goode but not on that video. The high point of Winter's recordings to me was on "Johnny Winter Live And" where he crushed JBG and Jumpin Jack Flash as well as the rest of the album. SRV's Voodoo Chile demonstrated his ability to equal Hendrix's technical ability but I'd say Johnny at his peak surpassed SRV in his subleties and nuances. But that's just me. I understand that Johnny Winter is still playing clubs here and there, but that it might be a disappointment compared to what he's done before. I'd go anyway.
Johnny B.Good, the first best reincarnation....
Wow. Good Friday Night so far, can I tune in weekly ?
Chuck Berry
Back to the original subject, has everybody seen the video "Hail, Hail Rock & Roll" with Chuck Berry and a band put together with Keith Richards. I highly recommend it for anybody that's a Chuck or Keith fan or even a rock&roll fan in general. Great insight into the man that is Chuck Berry.
Chuck Berry
I saw that and it was a good show. Ric hards put the band together for Chuck Berry's 60th birthday. He had unlimited patience with Berry's antics.
The interesting thing that was mentioned was that all the great hits were composed by the piano player who was a very unassuming character. He let Chuck steal all the thunder for the hits.
The chord structures were not one of a guitar player composer but more readily identified with the piano.
Since we're there, a little more from Johnny Winter...
Some history....
Chuck Berry
Robert - What I took away from the story was that Johnny Johnson, the piano player, was the band leader when Chuck started playing in his band, so a lot of the songs were in C, the favorite key of pianists. The riffs that Chuck came up with were complimentary to those piano-based numbers and since C-based guitar tunes can't be played with open strings, the blues-box leads with the bar-chord basis up the neck was what fit in. If you're loose enough with your bar chords up the neck you end up playing the two-note lead stuff that Chuck basically invented.
