Chuck HinsonChuck Berry To Be BANNED??
September 24th 2008 17:03
Y'see, he's askin' locals to sign a petition to ban Berry's appearance there on November 23! And get this: He's comparin' Berry to that molesting perp Gary Glitter! On top of that, he’s plannin' to ask their City Council why it's lettin' Chuck perform, since he was convicted in 1944 for armed robbery and in 1959 for transporting a 14-year-old Apache waitress across a state line for an immoral purpose (man, that’s nuts! What's that Doncaster dude smoking??).
Promoters have already responded, though — and very rightly — by saying, "This is a spent conviction. Since then Chuck Berry has performed for the US President Jimmy Carter, received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 27th Grammy Awards and been inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
Look … Johnny B. Goode's 81 now, and still kickin' it onstage (though he had that little tantrum after his daughter wouldn't let him speed through London recently). He's the one about whom John Lennon said, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
He's the one that took an old country-western song called Ida Red, renamed it Maybelline, and took rhythm-and-blues to a new and more exciting level (not to mention Chess Records, who'd signed Chuck)! He created the duck-walk, but, most importantly, a 4/4 block-rhythm that's been copied by almost every rocker who knows what this genre's about!
Now ... got a question: What's your fave Berry tune? If ya email me with your favorite, I'll start tallying up the votes (gotta do that for somethin' other than elections, right?) and print the results rat cheer in about a week!
By the way, didja know the man who made Beethoven Roll Over still prefers to be paid in cash or money order -- and up-front? It's 'cause of that "tax" problem he had a few years back. And that, before his set, he doesn't wanna talk to anybody unless it's necessary? Now, that's because he's concentratin' on his act only!
He built an act that broke away from the slick presentation style and introed a "let-yer-hair-down" attention-grabbing stage persona that had fans on the edge of their seats -- then on their feet, shouting and dancing! He broke racial barriers, performance barriers and more than a few sound barriers with his music -- despite his legal troubles. Annnnnd he was the first to fool the censors with a song called My Ding-A-Ling: the song wasn't a reference to the telephone (OH, no!) but to .... er, "personal gratification" (nice word for mas ... er, you figger it out!)
Rolling Stone magazine has christened him one on the top rock guitarists of all time ... and he's now one of the oldest active rockers on the circuit!
So ban Chuck Berry?
Sacrilege!
Okay ... gotta libbit more work to do on-road today, so ...
keep yer eyes on the skies, yer feet on the ground, yer heart with the music ...
and I'll see ya on the flip side!
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