Chuck Berry playing with his ding-a-ling IN HELL
 

:billy:

is he the one who put cameras in the women's room at his club or whatever

he playing live shows right up till last year

guy was a first class player too

Chuck Berry was alive?

yea every time another musician died i thought... and chuck berry is still playing shows

yeah lets celebrate this guy

Jerry Lee is still alive. The most pilled out and boozed out hellraiser is literally the last man standing.

My research shows Jerry to snarl "Follow that, n****r"

if you want to see the video of chuck farting on a hooker you can watch a gif here https://gfycat.com/FineMarvelousGoldfish

A complete showman and one of the pioneers of distorted guitar. He'd overdrive a cheap valve amp and would poke holes in the speakers to dirty up the sound.

that was link wray

Yea, i've heard that story. Though it's hard to validate, one can see it being true. To play devils advocate though, both Jerry Lee and Chuck Berry were pretty confident, self important people (cough billy cough) and Lewis played with a lot of black musicians, I can't imagine he meant it anymore than how one would say, "Good luck, asshole, I am the shit."

i ride pretty hard for this early b-side.

love how it was the other side of the song "school days"

chuck so dirty

For sure. I didn't mean to imply there was any overt racism going on. it's just a great story.

yea, my fav celebrity take down of all time is dylan asking donovan to play a song, and then playing it's all over now baby blue directly after him, all on camera. And it was all so polite it made the burn that much worse.

this is probably my favorite single of his



good god chuck love them little teenies

remember when rock and roll was dangerous?

remember when comedy was allowed to be dangerous?

do you have a link or source from this? i've been boning up on dylan recently and just remember the scene from some press conference where he kind of shrugs off donovan. I think there was also a shrug off scene in "dont look back". i recall though the 2nd time he visited england there was some kind of heat between the two but can't recall the exact details. i sold the book i read about it.

gotta get after them young girls

yah. he was first. chuck did it too. so did Keith Richards for that matter on Satisfaction.

Comedy? Maybe not on college campi. Unless you mean that Anthony Jeselnik bit where he'd throw a Shark Party for every time a shark ate a person that made the news. That was his ill-fated t.v. show though, dude pushes a unique edge with his stand-up.

fast forward a minute, donovan plays a little bit of a decent song, then dylan slays and stares at donovan the whole time. I *think* both songs were unreleased at the time. The first minute dylan is just being an ass to donovan's crew.

edit: actually the video doesn't show that dylan was staring at donovan. I had read somewhere that he was but doesn't seem to be true for that performance anyway. He keeps staring off to the left (his right) but donovan is sitting on the opposite side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqAhF6i9H4

can't find any sources for chuck or keith distorting their speakers in any manner. by the time satisfaction came out, real fuzz pedals were available.

chuck just recorded with overdriven amps. any source on him playing live with jacked up speakers?

yea that vids from "don't look back" isn't it? from what i've seen/read, any idea of any kind of feud between the two was just hyped up nonsense.

i mean of course if you were touring in some other country and were partying in your hotel and everyone said "hey here's this other guy who's amazing" you might be a bit stiff about it just in an egotistical sense but aside from that scene, dylan went on to say how great donovan was.

i'm certainly not a gigantic dylan fan so i don't feel like i'm making excuses here.

to be fair its easier to actually listen to performed music by not staring at the performer

As I mentioned, from what I read there was no feud between the two. Not even a clashing. Just two dudes doing two different things that didn't effect one another at all (except for maybe which chick to fuck that night).

Yea I mean there were a lot of people being touted as the next dylan at the time. But it would take a lot of digging to find if that was really true. I think its easier to say that we know for sure that they were looking for the next nirvana because we lived it, but I have a new york times reprint I bought of all the beatles articles from the first few years, and they constantly slam them, so who knows what was really going on then. Dylan was on the surface really nice to Donovan and a dick to everyone else in don't look back, so maybe more is being made of it.

lol

Dylan was a try-hard pussy back then. He would try to dismiss people out of sight but would be really nice to them when confronted. He really was a piece of shit. The music was great for a while though.

agreed

He only got famous because his cousin Marvin was smart enough to recognize a new sound when he heard it.