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thats it man!
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Luis
--- SP Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 21:36 PM
> Subject: RE: Pagey vs the Beatles RE: beck the elder
> (was "here is...")
>
>
> > Yeah homage makes more sense than spoof. I think
> Lennon was honorable in
> > the case ,either way.Interesting thing about Berry
> is that he was in an
> > excellent position to capitalize on the late 60s
> early 70s rock
> > explosion.He was working the college circuit and
> would just hire whatever
> > local musicians he found , pay 'em very
> little,wouldn't rehearse assuming
> > they'd know his stuff and would just launch into
> tunes with little
> > warning. The results were often sloppy and he got
> the rep of being
> > unreliable,or worse. He could easily have worked
> the stadium circuit and
> > done really well if he'd just had a good band and
> been organized.
> >
> > I interpreted Lennon's opening line as an homage
> to Berry's "You Can't
> > Catch Me," and I thought it was bullshit for Berry
> to make a big deal of
> > it.
>
> In the late 60s Chuck Berry was only slightly
> thought of by the pop
> music-listening public, who if asked would most
> likely think of him as a
> relic of a bygone age. The surge in Fifties shows
> in the early 70s was
> sparked by the coming-of-age of people who were
> teenagers in the 50s, and,
> domino-like, the massive film-soundtrack success of
> "American Graffiti".
> Suddenly high school bands were playing 50s music
> again.
>
> I remember hearing Lennon's - well kinda his, huh? -
> "Rock and Roll" when it
> came out, wondering why the hell he bothered at the
> time, but also thinking,
> "Hey, he was a Beatle, he can do what he wants."
>
> So the story has it that Chuck would pay the band
> $1000 - this one
> corroborated by Bruce Springsteen, whose band opened
> for and backed him one
> night ("Earn that money, boys!"), no notice as to
> which song was going to be
> played except via the opening guitar. Chuck's
> detractors never mention that
> every one of his songs begins differently. It's the
> opening riffs that give
> the clue, and if you were thinking quick enough, and
> was a good guitarist -
> and knew Chuck Berry's songs - it would have been at
> worst a strenuous
> exercise in knowing your instrument, and knowing the
> songs. And at best you
> could say you played with one of the creators of
> Rock and Roll.
>
> One could say that the Chuck Berry shows might have
> seemed sloppy - but
> unlike Eric Clapton, Chuck never got nearly booed
> off the stage for being
> whacked out of his mind enough to screw up the
> opening of his biggest hit.
> Well, Chuck had more than a few hits, too, come to
> think of it.
>
> Years later I caught the tape of the Toronto shows
> where Lennon was on stage
> with Chuck Berry and (I think) Eric Clapton, and
> (unfortunately) Yoko, who
> caused everyone but John to just look embarrassed
> when she did her wounded
> fox screeching routine. It's a weird moment.
>
> But considering that Chuck's been ripped off by just
> about every level of
> the music biz his irritation is more than
> understandable, it's forgivable
> and in many cases quite justified.
>
> Stephen Goodman
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>
>
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