Chuck died this afternoon...90 years old... what an influence he had on Rock and Roll...shit, he was Rock and Roll.

Great filmmaker as well.

JMC-STL wrote:Great filmmaker as well.

i laffed.

every account i've heard of this guy, he sounds like a giant asshole. not including the tunnels he built between his house & the next for nefarious purposes. sure could play a guitar, though.

T.C. wrote:... every account i've heard of this guy, he sounds like a giant asshole. not including the tunnels he built between his house & the next for nefarious purposes. sure could play a guitar, though.

I worked at a dairy/convenience store when I was in late high school & early college, and one of my jobs was to deliver crates of orange juice to the nearby bars. Chuck Berry was a regular performer at one of them, and the women who worked the bar & tables did not have kind words to say of him at the time.

But all that aside (permanently), he could grind that axe as well as anybody. I guess he gave AND took, as most of us do. R.I.P. , Charles Anderson Edward Berry, St. Louis native son & "The Father of Rock & Roll."

agreed. wouldn't have metal if not for the groundwork he & buddy holly did in their day.

I doubt that there's many of those dudes that you'd want to be around your children or your significant other. Just like actors, they have many personas...we never know who they really are. I just dig the music, and let it go at that.