Roll over Beethoven...

[Eric The Viking]

... and make some room up there.

Don't RIP, Chuck - have a grand party!

E.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I eventually worked out who you meant. The music was ok, I suppose, if you liked it. I thought it abysmal.

 

[Bm101]

Like his music or not he was an outstanding and seminal artist, an influence on several generations.
Although some say one issue will never really be settled and casts something of a cloud over his career. Although he claimed he wrote the hit song Jonnie B Goode there are rumors it was a complete plagirization of an earlier musicians work.
While it's generally accepted that Chuck wrote it, several people have insisted they had seen a different musician perform the exact same song some years earlier at an American high school prom. A fairly unknown and somewhat mysterious artist who seemed to have gone under the moniker Martin Mcfly. Though they admitted they themselves hadn't really got the music at the time, their kids, as predicted by Mcfly, had indeed turned out to love it when it was later released to a wider audience by Berry.
We'll probably never know for sure what exactly happened that night.
Either way Chuck and his music will be sorely missed.

Cheers
Chris

 

[banjerbill]

I thought he was great and a real influence on the music I love ( 60's R & B).

Then again I like all music except modern jazz, opera and rap.

What I don't do is criticize those folk that do like it, horses for courses, to think you are superior to someone with different tastes is arrogant.

Bill

 

[AJB Temple]

One of the first songs I played live, in a band was Johnny B Good. Still play it occasionally today. The ma was a really good, natural guitar player and he influenced many. I am sad he has died.

 

[rafezetter]

Like his music or not he was an outstanding and seminal artist, an influence on several generations.
Although some say one issue will never really be settled and casts something of a cloud over his career. Although he claimed he wrote the hit song Jonnie B Goode there are rumors it was a complete plagirization of an earlier musicians work.
While it's generally accepted that Chuck wrote it, several people have insisted they had seen a different musician perform the exact same song some years earlier at an American high school prom. A fairly unknown and somewhat mysterious artist who seemed to have gone under the moniker Martin Mcfly. Though they admitted they themselves hadn't really got the music at the time, their kids, as predicted by Mcfly, had indeed turned out to love it when it was later released to a wider audience by Berry.
We'll probably never know for sure what exactly happened that night.
Either way Chuck and his music will be sorely missed.

Cheers
Chris

=D> =D> =D> well done, you had me right up to "Martin Mcfly" :lol:

 

[Bm101]

 

[steadyeddie]

A big influence on many who followed. Keep on rockin' Chuck.

Dave

 

[Racers]

Reeling n' Rocking on vinyl played loud as a tribute.

RIP Charles "Chuck" Berry

Pete

 

[selectortone]

I have been playing guitar in bands since the early 60s. Played my first gig at the age of 12. The early Stones were my first love, which lead me to Chuck Berry who I quickly discovered was the real fount of all knowledge when it came to playing rock'n'roll guitar. I still get a thrill playing the intro to "Johnny B Goode" after all these years. He is one of the few guitar players I respected enough to learn the parts note-for-note. There is nothing like looking out into an audience and seeing the whole place jumping to "Rollover Beethoven". Nothing... not drugs or sex... nothing.

He may not make a lot of sense to non guitar players, and I'd be the first to say that his live performances demonstrate a sloppiness that show that after the early years he was really just "phoning it in" and taking the money. Who could blame him with all the racism and prejudice he must have faced back then. Try to magine segregation if you can. But in terms of the legacy he leaves with his body of work, well... in my humble opinion, in rock'n'roll/country bules/R&B... call it what you will... he is unsurpassed. Every one of his songs tells a story that is a mini rock opera. Pure poetry. Take any "rock god" guitar player from that golden era and they all copped a little of Chuck Berry. Pop music in the 60s would not have been the same without him, from The Beatles and the Stones to The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and all the rest.

My life would have been very different without Chuck Berry... his music led me to a career in music, both playing and guitar making/repairing.

He truly was the Father of Rock'n'Roll. Rollover Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news.

RIP and thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the great music.

 

[bugbear]

He may not make a lot of sense to non guitar players...

If that were true, he wouldn't have mattered.

And he mattered, to everyone.

RIP, in the great gig in the sky.

BugBear

 

[AES]

RIP from me too. I liked his music, and it's influenced me a lot.

I won't wax more lyrical than that, nor make out that I'm a "knowledgeable" music critic!

P.S. To the poster above who "can't" stand opera, I can only say, "wash yer ear 'oles out mate! You're the one who's missing something (a lot actually)!

AES

 

[selectortone]

SETI has just received a message:

"Send more Chuck Berry!"

 

[thetyreman]

he was a legend, he influenced my guitar playing style quite a lot, he wasn't just another guitar player, he paved the way for rock music which many people forget, there would be no rock without rock n roll that came first.