Freaking YAY!!!!!

EDIT: This last pic is NSFW: http://www.famous-nudes.c.../berry.jpg
[Edited 9/17/06 2:08am]

I'd say yay although he's not necessarily the be all end all of early rock. I don't get quite the same thing out of Chuck as I do from listening to little richard, bo diddley, ike turner, bill haley, buddy holly, jerry lee lewis etc. etc. etc.In terms of what peformer did the most to define and exemplify guitar rock, yeah it's definitely chuck.

He definitely was the architect in many respects...I don't really know his catalogue well, but he made very catchy songs.

Keith Richards has stated that he was heavily influenced by Chuck's work.

Yay!

Yay but Ike Turner , lil Richard, Bo diddy, Jerry lee Lewis and a few others were RIGHT there as well.

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/...74&s=music

Chuck Berry -- The Definitive Collection


1. Maybellene
2. Thirty Days
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. Too Much Monkey Business
5. Roll Over Beethoven
6. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
7. Havana Moon
8. School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)
9. Rock And Roll Music
10. Oh, Baby Doll
11. Reelin' And Rockin'
12. Sweet Little Sixteen
13. Johnny B. Goode
14. Around And Around
15. Beautiful Delilah
16. Carol
17. Memphis
18. Sweet Little Rock & Roller
19. Little Queenie
20. Almost Grown
21. Back In The U.S.A.
22. Let It Rock
23. I'm Talking About You
24. Come On
25. Nadine
26. You Never Can Tell
27. Promised Land
28. No Particular Place To Go
29. I Want To Be Your Driver
30. My Ding-A-Ling

Now you know Elvis is the king


How dare you!!

"If you were going to give rock & roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry".- John Lennon

The Beatles,The Stones and every other british band's setlist looked like a Chuck Berry tribute bands setlist.He is the sole reason they were able to get gigs.
The lyrical flow and timing along with his guitar phrasing was/ is the blueprint for any successful Rock and Roll song.Everything coming from Keith Richard's guitar is Chuck's.

TonyVanDam said:

HELL YEAH!!!

did i just see barry's cock?

sosgemini said:

Don't you mean his ding-a-ling?

sosgemini said:

....and posing with a sweet 16-year-old white girl at that (I think he wrote a song abut it too:lol: )! Chuck used to have his entourage to help him bring his white groupies (ages 16-22) outside of the southern states for some wild sex parties.

AlexdeParis said:

Chuck's songs were based upon true stories!

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TonyVanDam said:

wait, are you saying that pic is illegal?

sosgemini said:

Only if she was one of the 16-year-olds (and I have no idea who posted this pic on yahoo search engine at all, let alone if THIS pic is one of the illegals).

Chuck Berry & Jerry Lee Lewis set the standards in which R.Kelly trying to copy and top.

Nay.

He didn't create R'n'R and people like Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Elvis Presley were just as good. Berry has some great fucking songs, and a lot more songs that are stinkers and all sound very similar.

What it comes down to is, I can't call him the king because of all the other great artists. That's just how I feel.

WildStyle said:

The stuff Bo, Buddy and even Valens was playing came AFTER Chuck..they were playing Chuck's riffs.Jerry Lee was rippin' from Little Richard and Fats Dominoe...and Elvis stole from everyone. Chuck is King and Little Richard is Prince!

I've seen that picture before. Hell, put a bag over his head and he might do for 20 minutes.....

















if he's giving up some money.

TonyVanDam said:

why in the hell is that girl wearing a bolo tie? wtf?


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Chuck and T Bone Walker.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=67dOsofLRv4
[Edited 9/23/06 3:50am]

carlcranshaw said:

Two of the all time greats there.....

carlcranshaw said:

Man, Chuck was a character! But who knew he was a dancer too? lol

....and posing with a sweet 16-year-old white girl at that (I think he wrote a song abut it too:lol: )! Chuck used to have his entourage to help him bring his white groupies (ages 16-22) outside of the southern states for some wild sex parties.[/quote]

Well, Chuck was sending everybody a message all along.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...PoOZYoFuRs

This man wrote some of the greatest and most seminal songs of all tme and with Maybellene started the car and sex metaphor, but in real life he was a parsimonious and perverted old git and unfortunately thats what he has gone in history for. I read a book about him and even the venom he had for little Richard is enough to make anyone cringe. A king yes but more an unpopular one.

tane1976 said:

Venom for Little Richard huh? For what reason?

Nay. There's not just one king -or queen -because everybody brought something different and important to the table. If we could splice the DNA of the greats together, we'd maybe have our king.

carlcranshaw said:

WHAAATT??!!!!



Buddy??!!!