RIP Chuck Berry

[nofi]

you can tell its chuck three notes in. the other guitar player with the 'bad' tone might be his son who played on several tracks.

[Pilgrim]

reassuring to know that everyone goes through stops and starts like that. 

[uwe]

It's impressive that a ninety year old rocks out.

But the sound is horrible. That guitar sounds like an egg cutter.
Wish they'd re-amp the guitar parts to make them sound better. So it would be a better salute to the legend called Chuck Berry.

Heresy, Rob! That is the way Chuck sounds and the way he should sound. I wouldn't want to hear him with a more porcessed sound but exactly like this: twangy and scratchy, with not much sustain and right out of an amp that sounds like no one bothered to set it up.

Thanks Chuck for all the great music and witty lyrics.  And for teaching these limeys to play a song in a major key for once.

[Basvarken]

Heresy, Rob! That is the way Chuck sounds and the way he should sound. I wouldn't want to hear him with a more porcessed sound but exactly like this: twangy and

That's what I mean. I don't hear a real amp. I hear an egg cutter through some poor modelling amp.

[Pilgrim]

It just sounds like Chuck Berry to me.

[uwe]

I've never heard a well-produced Chuck Berry track in my life. I always thought that there was a gulf between how his records sounded and those of, say, Little Richard. But Chuck's work was so strong and idiosyncratic, it really didn't matter. Not that Little Richard wasn't great too - his vocal histrionics (Berry was a lot more laid back) influenced an army of hard rock singers. And Prince.

[Pilgrim]

Berry was always basic and raw sounding to me. I liked that.