"I imagine a college classroom in 300 years, in which a hip instructor is leading a tutorial filled with students. These students relate to rock music with no more fluency than they do the music of Mesopotamia: It’s a style they’ve learned to recognize, but just barely (and only because they’ve taken this specific class). Nobody in the room can name more than two rock songs, except the professor. He explains the sonic structure of rock, its origins, the way it served as cultural currency and how it shaped and defined three generations of a global superpower. He shows the class a photo, or perhaps a hologram, of an artist who has been intentionally selected to epitomize the entire concept. For these future students, that singular image defines what rock was.
So what’s the image?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/which-rock-star-will-histor…
A very good article asserting that Chuck Berry will come to epitomize rock and roll music.
omg 2017 just has to end am I right?
My initial reaction is...Chuck Berry was still alive until just now? Holy shit!
I thought he died 20 years ago
He had many great songs, but this one was always a personal favorite....
RIP Chuck
is to Chuck Berry what "A Boy Named Sue" was to Johnny Cash—a dive into novelty junk that was an embarrassing departure from otherwise consistently good output.
I recommend watching Cadillac Records. There was a scene where Muddy Watters said Chuck Berry was so good with money, he refused to spend it on a hotel room when touring. He slept in his car. He had money while others were living check to check.
R.I.P. Mr. Berry. Your legacy will live on forever. As a St. Louisan my biggest regret is that I was never able to see your recent shows at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room with my guitar-playing son since they were usually 21+. My son is now almost 20...so close.
Noooooo!
"If you had to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry." -- John Lennon
Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell
Go, go
Go Johhny go, go, ...
Chuck Berry's body may be dead, but his memorable music lives on.
March 18th, 2017 at 10:59 PM ^
March 19th, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^
4+ minutes of this great showman and his duckwalk. https://youtu.be/a42rRQ0OvRM
I learned Johnny B. Goode for a show I was playing in several years back, and it was honestly one of the most fun guitar parts that I've ever played.
RIP Chuck.
A Classic. rip.
Of course, every time I hear his name I think of the undercover audio of him farting on a prostitute (look it up on YouTube, I am embed illiterate).
90 years is a very good run, especially when you can put "one of the true pioneers of rock-and-roll" on your resume. He was touring up until just a few years ago. RIP
Stupid death.
Note I don't mean Chuck Berry, who was a genius.
I mean the state of "death" itself as part of/end of the human condition.
Was it the rockin' pneumonia?
RIP.
Caused by a bad case of the boogie woogie blues.
RIP Rockstar
just got a lot better. RIP
They talk about losses to the music community in 2016 but, with the possible exception of David Bowie, this tops any 2016 deaths.