vockins wrote:

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.

Thank you very much. I'm hoping and expecting to post my own Not Crap on listening.

has anyone here actually seen him at blueberry hill of late? last time i was down in StL it was after he performed. i don't remember if it's once a month or once a week, but either way that must be an incredible show.


also, i second the "bitch, you could smell my fart, too" laugh riot.

mr.arrison wrote:

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.

Yeah, that Chuck is a shiteater. He managed to hide it for many years.

Disgusting habits aside, Chuck in the late 50's/early 60's was king. And if you play guitar, you'll have played Johnny Be Goode (or some varying theme) at some point. I won't believe you if you say you haven't.

bump.

it's hot and chuck berry helps with the sweats.

My old rockabilly band opened for him in 2000. I met him afterwards and he said he liked our band. The guy has huge hands. (Do not fix my post)

sparky wrote:

vockins wrote:

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.

Thank you very much. I'm hoping and expecting to post my own Not Crap on listening.

The music on The Great Twenty Eight is incredible, but I don't really like the mastering job.

The Chess box sounds great and is great, and I also agree with the rest. I love the Faces and still have no use for TLCBS.

Great at everything he did. Musically.

Not crap.

Angus and BER mentioned it early in the thread but it bares repeating. A great lyricist, one of the very best.

Not Crap.

Disc 1 of the Chess Box is pretty unstoppable, even the ballads. He and Bo Diddley were masters of the recycled song, definitely following the "if it ain't broke" principle.

Dan

tmidgett wrote:

sparky wrote:

vockins wrote:

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.

Thank you very much. I'm hoping and expecting to post my own Not Crap on listening.

The music on The Great Twenty Eight is incredible, but I don't really like the mastering job.

The Chess box sounds great and is great, and I also agree with the rest. I love the Faces and still have no use for TLCBS.

Great at everything he did. Musically.

Not crap.

I should have replied to this a year and a half ago: The Great Twenty Eight is brilliant. Thank you vockins.

There's a lot more variety on this record than I would have previously given Berry credit for; I was also surprised by the number of songs that I recognised on it. The mastering has not bothered me, I have to admit, but this is probably due to the crappy speakers I've been subjecting music to far too often over the past while. (I'll kid myself that this gives an authentic listening-in-an-open-top-cadillac-experience.) I'm listening to it now, in fact, feeling silly for not having listened to it more often. As the others have said, the lyrics are superb.

"Havana Moon" is on. This song is damn weird.

Not crap.

Chuck Berry came to my town one night during the 80s. He was very good.

NC