All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks.

Chuck is brilliant, and he understands the boogie. Songs get in, say what they have to say, and get out.

Yeah, "My Ding-A-Ling" is silly and lame, but that's what ya get sometimes when you have an oeuvre as big as Chuck's.

I just stumbled across Buck Owens' version of "Johnny B. Goode." Worth finding.

I once heard that Chuck punched out Keith Richards for copping his riffs.

Can anybody verify this?

Mazec wrote:I once heard that Chuck punched out Keith Richards for copping his riffs.

Can anybody verify this?

No but I have seen the video of Chuck pissing on white girls and ripping farts right on their faces. He apparently was quite busy in the 1990's filming close-ups of women urinating in the bathroom of the restaurant he owned.

For over a year, my band mates would habitually say in a Chuck Berry voice "Now you can smell my farts" before ripping a fresh sulfur bomb.

mr.arrison wrote:No but I have seen the video of Chuck pissing on white girls and ripping farts right on their faces. He apparently was quite busy in the 1990's filming close-ups of women urinating in the bathroom of the restaurant he owned.

"I'd kiss you baby, but your mouth smells like piss"

That's about what I remember from this video.

I grew up listening to Chuck Berry. He's not crap. Even though, apparently, he liked to watch women crap.

mr.arrison wrote:No but I have seen the video of Chuck pissing on white girls and ripping farts right on their faces.

LOL

I'd think that these watersports/shit games rumors are something that necessitate Crap. Which might be ok by Chuck.

CB's music: Not Crap.
CB, the man: Crap.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:I'd think that these watersports/shit games rumors are something that necessitate Crap. Which might be ok by Chuck.

CB's music: Not Crap.
CB, the man: Crap.

believe me, they aren't rumors. Chuck is scatalogically twisted.

Bump, following Brett Eugene Ralph's mention of Berry on the Elvis thread. This is a selfish bump: which records should a novice start with?

He learned everything he knows over the phone from Marty McFly. CRAP.














I actually voted not crap

sparky wrote:Bump, following Brett Eugene Ralph's mention of Berry on the Elvis thread. This is a selfish bump: which records should a novice start with?

"The Great Twenty Eight" is a singles collection that's excellent.

I've seen the Chess Box 6xLP for $20 used all over the place. Deal and a half.

The "Chuck Berry Is On Top" LP and "St. Louis to Liverpool" LP are serious rippers, too. Anything LP from 1958 to 1964 is solid, except for the live one.

Avoid "The London Chuck Berry Sessions" unless you become rabid about the dude, or you love The Faces.