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CHuck berry:
Kinda looks like an Indian guy, doesn't he?
I have loved Chuck Berry for years. I dig everything about him. I play 3 of his songs almost every gig and I could probably play 8 if someone requested it. I've seen "Hail Hail ROck and Roll" several times. I have a few original 45s that are all scratched because they were mom's and I actually listened to them on my JC Penny stereo like an idiot. THis week, on VH1 classic there is this kick ass series called the history of rock and roll that I DVR'd. I've only gotten through 2 because I keep rewinding and watching little parts of it over and over. THe one specifically about the electric guitar was especially captivating.
They show chuck berry, and he's got this straight flopping duck's ass and the thin mustache, and it dawned on me that he looks alot like the guy who I buy my beer from. Not that it makes any difference.
Jeff Baxter narrates alot of it and they show him looking alot like the guy from mythbusters and sitting with a guitar that looks to me like a lucite early roland guitar synth with a fender strat neck. He only plays it once to demonstrats "rockabilly". Jeff Baxter has been one of my heroes since I read the guitar player magazine interview where he talked about all these cheapo guitars that he played on hit records. Growing up poor, it made me think that there was still a chance I could play out and be a real rock and roller, even though I was playing a $100 saga strat (as long as I took all the guts out and replaced them $35 at a time).
There is also alot of BB King and Clapton. I honestly never connected with either one of those guys. To me they seem kind of sterile and polished. EVH says that clapton was about the only guy who he ever did connect with. It's weird because as player, I think EVH is really good. But I like the ease and roughness about it. It's almost frenetic. Not as loose and unstructured as Hendrix, but not as square and "patient" as BB King and Clapner. I have seen BB king a few times and shook his hand when I was 18. I can't listen to him recorded. It's like you have to be in his presence, like bluesmen in general.
In another of the episodes, Muddy Waters sings "Got my Mojo Working" at what looks to be a "county fair" kind of atmostphere. Aluminum folding chairs and white bleachers and white folk. And he's just singing. The last chorus, he's doing these moves totally invoking doggie style screwing and at the end I swear he grabs his dick like a rapper. Then he bows and shakes the hand of the skinny white Master of Ceromnies (in Wayfarers, oc course). I tried to imagine how that was taken in its time.
I just really wanted to tell you guys about that awesome show.
Kinda looks like an Indian guy, doesn't he?
I have loved Chuck Berry for years. I dig everything about him. I play 3 of his songs almost every gig and I could probably play 8 if someone requested it. I've seen "Hail Hail ROck and Roll" several times. I have a few original 45s that are all scratched because they were mom's and I actually listened to them on my JC Penny stereo like an idiot. THis week, on VH1 classic there is this kick ass series called the history of rock and roll that I DVR'd. I've only gotten through 2 because I keep rewinding and watching little parts of it over and over. THe one specifically about the electric guitar was especially captivating.
They show chuck berry, and he's got this straight flopping duck's ass and the thin mustache, and it dawned on me that he looks alot like the guy who I buy my beer from. Not that it makes any difference.
Jeff Baxter narrates alot of it and they show him looking alot like the guy from mythbusters and sitting with a guitar that looks to me like a lucite early roland guitar synth with a fender strat neck. He only plays it once to demonstrats "rockabilly". Jeff Baxter has been one of my heroes since I read the guitar player magazine interview where he talked about all these cheapo guitars that he played on hit records. Growing up poor, it made me think that there was still a chance I could play out and be a real rock and roller, even though I was playing a $100 saga strat (as long as I took all the guts out and replaced them $35 at a time).
There is also alot of BB King and Clapton. I honestly never connected with either one of those guys. To me they seem kind of sterile and polished. EVH says that clapton was about the only guy who he ever did connect with. It's weird because as player, I think EVH is really good. But I like the ease and roughness about it. It's almost frenetic. Not as loose and unstructured as Hendrix, but not as square and "patient" as BB King and Clapner. I have seen BB king a few times and shook his hand when I was 18. I can't listen to him recorded. It's like you have to be in his presence, like bluesmen in general.
In another of the episodes, Muddy Waters sings "Got my Mojo Working" at what looks to be a "county fair" kind of atmostphere. Aluminum folding chairs and white bleachers and white folk. And he's just singing. The last chorus, he's doing these moves totally invoking doggie style screwing and at the end I swear he grabs his dick like a rapper. Then he bows and shakes the hand of the skinny white Master of Ceromnies (in Wayfarers, oc course). I tried to imagine how that was taken in its time.
I just really wanted to tell you guys about that awesome show.
Muddy Waters, what a man.
