Exact intro lifted for "Star Star" and the live version of IORR....



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Fresh Berry's I think it's from 65', great record.

great song- CB II is playing the Pageant in STL in Oct, tix on sale tomorrow and Chuck is playing too!

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Exact intro lifted for "Star Star" and the live version of IORR....

Ooh, that surprises me!

The music does't start at 00:00 exactly so maybe.....

Oh my god at first glance I thought this thread announced that Chuck Berry is dead. Thankfully I mis-read it. Today is a good day!

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Exact intro lifted for "Star Star" and the live version of IORR....

You got that right! Sure, got that right.

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Carnaby

I can remember seeing the 3/4" tape of this a long, long long time ago in one of the local TV stations editing room. It seemed like the tempo was a little too fast. One of the guys at the station said, they probably said speed it up so they could make the commercial break! Made sense to me.

CBII

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I can remember seeing the 3/4" tape of this a long, long long time ago in one of the local TV stations editing room. It seemed like the tempo was a little too fast. One of the guys at the station said, they probably said speed it up so they could make the commercial break! Made sense to me.

I notice the Bigsby on that guitar. Was that a Guild or Epi or Gretsch of some kind? I don't recognize it.

one of cbii's dead dad's last great tunes....dave edmunds gave it a good go, too....

>> I notice the Bigsby on that guitar ... <<

what do i know, but isn't it a Gibson - for example an ES-335?

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.dave edmunds gave it a good go, too....

Edmunds really has Chuck down. He played a carbon copy of Dear Dad. I was lucky enough to see Edmunds play with Chuck at the Felt Forum in NYC during Chuck's 60th birthday year; it was a band Dave put together with some real name players. A fan gave Chuck a rocking chair as a birthday gift....

"Dear Dad" is a gem, he had quite a few great songs in the first half of the sixties. The trouble is many people upon hearing them would think they were older. The same thing happened with "Don't Stop" among more than a few casual Stones fans. Chuck's output from 1955 through 1965 was stellar. Once he went to Mercury and did inferior remakes of his Chess catalog, my interest waned considerably. His return to Chess in the early seventies had some good songs, but they're overshadowed by the success of the forgettable "My Ding-a-ling" and the live version of "Reelin' and Rockin'." I was sorry to see Chuck written off as a novelty act at that time. Even his late seventies work for Atlantic had some good songs in there.

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"Dear Dad" is a gem, he had quite a few great songs in the first half of the sixties. The trouble is many people upon hearing them would think they were older. The same thing happened with "Don't Stop" among more than a few casual Stones fans. Chuck's output from 1955 through 1965 was stellar. Once he went to Mercury and did inferior remakes of his Chess catalog, my interest waned considerably. His return to Chess in the early seventies had some good songs, but they're overshadowed by the success of the forgettable "My Ding-a-ling" and the live version of "Reelin' and Rockin'." I was sorry to see Chuck written off as a novelty act at that time. Even his late seventies work for Atlantic had some good songs in there.

The song California on the RockIt album is a song somebody like Edmunds could re-work really well.

cars are whizzing by me, dad; looks like i'm backing up....love that line....

Great lines in the song.



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Fresh Berry's I think it's from 65', great record.

Dear Dad is from Chuck Berry in London album.

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stones78
Fresh Berry's I think it's from 65', great record.

Dear Dad is from Chuck Berry in London album.

Yes. Which also contains a pretty good St. Louie Blues.

The last verse is terrific:

Well Dad, send the money,
See what I can see,
Try to find a Cadillac,
A Sixty-two or three.
Just something that won't worry us
To keep it on the road.
Sincerely, your beloved son,
Henry Junior Ford

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>> I notice the Bigsby on that guitar ... <<

what do i know, but isn't it a Gibson - for example an ES-335?

Definitely a Gibson ES335 (looks like a mid '62 to'64 version).