CHUCK BERRY — SONGWRITER OR FLAMING VOCALIST?

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Wednesday Jun 16, 2004

Your thoughts?

r:>)

tornandfrayed · Post by **tornandfrayed** » Wednesday Jun 16, 2004

I love the format of these threads! What genius!

I say "song writer". My Ding-a-ling has always been an inspirational anthem!

oobie · Post by **oobie** » Wednesday Jun 16, 2004

chuck berry = the man!!

thats to hard to choose from!

Post by **Jim Price** » Wednesday Jun 16, 2004

Obviously songwriter. Michael Jackson was the flaming vocalist when he did that Pepsi commercial a few years ago. Woot!

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thursday Jun 17, 2004

Am I the only one who got that Buck Cherry is a derivative of Chuck Berry? Am I the only one who got that Dishwalla was another way of saying "do you swallow?" Okay probably not.
Ol' Chuck was the guy who put cameras in the ladies rooms at his amusement park... now, that's serious pervitude. Wait, he can't be a perv... I never see him at the meetings.

------>JMS

Punkinhead · Post by **Punkinhead** » Thursday Jun 17, 2004

Chuck Berry is the shit! For real, I love his music...I remember being a 15 year old kid learning his licks, then when I took this class from GIT, it had a whole section dedicated to him...It was a fun time....

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thursday Jun 17, 2004

He's kind of an original punk. The licks he played, we take for granted, but the truth then was that his licks were extremely far out there. His songs were a mix of Chicago Blues with country lyrics, and that's rock & roll, brutha. I'd love to write something as famous as "Johnny B. Goode."------>JMS

oobie · Post by **oobie** » Thursday Jun 17, 2004

i agree with ya songsmith you hit it right on!! not that i'm calling you a right winger or oposing the right side or anything!!

just playing!! hope i don't make you mad!! seeing how all this political stuff is going on.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thursday Jun 17, 2004

Chuck Berry gave us the classic, "Double-stop into pentatonic run" riff, and for that, we're grateful.

Though I think Jerry Lee Lewis has him beat on pervitude; marrying your 13 year old cousin wins that contest.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Friday Jun 18, 2004

Ooh, yeah... that's pervin' right there!---->JMS

facingwest · Post by **facingwest** » Friday Jun 18, 2004

It's amazing how many requests you get for Johnny B. Good. Not only can he play a mean guitar and write great songs, he was a superb performer. Some of his stuff was an inspiration to the moves in 80's metal, especially the one leg hop. heh

esa · Post by **esa** » Thursday Jun 24, 2004

facingwest wrote:It's amazing how many requests you get for Johnny B. Good. Not only can he play a mean guitar and write great songs, he was a superb performer. Some of his stuff was an inspiration to the moves in 80's metal, especially the one leg hop. heh

seriously.. if that song wouldn't have been written, then back in time marty never would have stayed around to watch his parents kiss on the dance floor for the first time, thus negating him out of existence. yey! (back to the future)

and the one legged hop was best executed by bill murry in ghostbusters. well.. his own spin on it. the only person i've ever seen to top that air guitar leg hop thingy is the scarey lil' dude from Aldos. ::shivers:: he flashed *me*!

Post by **Ron** » Thursday Jun 24, 2004

bassist_25 wrote:Though I think Jerry Lee Lewis has him beat on pervitude; marrying your 13 year old cousin wins that contest.

I don't know 'bout that one. Everyone from Jerry's neck of the woods married their cousins... But they usually didn't open a restaurant just so they could put a "pee cam" in the ladies bathroom. That's pervitude in one of it's purest forms. Hehe.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Thursday Jun 24, 2004

I thought Little Richard was the 50s perv. Tutti Fruity...

facingwest · Post by **facingwest** » Friday Jun 25, 2004

lonewolf wrote:I thought Little Richard was the 50s perv. Tutti Fruity...

Little Richard is just not right in the head. Good Golly Miss Molly.