That sucked ass. He can still sing but the guitar was out of tune. I`m going to see him later this year, hope his guitar tech does the tuning then.

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> That sucked ass. He can still sing but the guitar
> was out of tune. I`m going to see him later this
> year, hope his guitar tech does the tuning then.


AGREED
That sucked ass!

You're missing the point - you got the records for perfection. He's a legend, he's almost 81 and he still does what he does. Now - bow down!! ;-)

michael j fox did it more convincingly in back to the future

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> perfection. He\'s a legend, he\'s almost 81 and he
> still does what he does. Now - bow down!! ;-)

If the legend can`t even tune his guitar, maybe he`d better get in a retirement home and wait for the end. This was a disgrace.

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> he`d better get in a retirement home and wait for
> the end. This was a disgrace.


Oh, yeah, I forgot that - put every old person who cannot do today what he did yesterday in a retirement home.

Personally, I think YOUR attitude to old people is a disgrace.

And the same that goes for Stones. goes for Chuck Berry - if you think he's past it - do not buy the tickets for the concerts. Simple as that ;-)

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I don't think he's ever had a guitar tech. I saw him in 2004 and he was "patchy",but finished with a great Johnny B Goode and Reelin' and a Rockin'.

Don't expect miracles .I don't go to a Stones show expecting Keith to play the Brown Sugar intro correctly,but sometimes I'm suprised !

sc uk

>> hope his guitar tech does the tuning then.

I doubt he has a guitar tech. He's a fairly greedy guy and used to tour on his own hiring local musicians, who got paid shit, I'd guess.

Sabo

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> I don't think he's ever had a guitar tech. I saw
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> a great Johnny B Goode and Reelin' and a Rockin'.
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> Don't expect miracles .I don't go to a Stones show
> expecting Keith to play the Brown Sugar intro
> correctly,but sometimes I'm suprised !
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I hear you! ;-)

you can go back and forth all day about it but if it sucks it sucks!

and that, my good man, SUCKED!

18 or 80 means nothing to me... but if your going to still sell people tickets to see you play you nead to BRING IT!

at least bring SOME of it ;-)

I saw Johnny Cash in his decline - he was barely able to stand. The band and various others caried most of the show. Cash maybe sung a handfull of songs.

Today, I'm glad I got to see him - to be in the presence of greatness. Otherwise I would have had to put him in that other thread - regrets about concerts you never went to. ;-)

I don't think he ever tuned his guitar.

Didn't he used to always carry his own guitar, turn up at the gig, take the guitar out of the case and start playing (no tuning- winging it).

He'll be over in 013 in Tilburg, I think in November.

The house was sold out weeks ago. I've seen him in Amsterdam years ago. It was fun. Don't mind the tuning, the man is a living legend. He still plays better than I do, but that is not saying much.

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> able to stand. The band and various others caried
> most of the show. Cash maybe sung a handfull of
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> presence of greatness. Otherwise I would have had
> to put him in that other thread - regrets about
> concerts you never went to. ;-)

Maybe they should dig up Johnny's corpse and prop it up while a band plays behind him. Then even more people can say they had the privilege of seeing him in concert.

Seriously, if a man's too sick to do his show, maybe he should go get himself taken care of.

In Chuck Berry's case, sick or not, he's a very rich man, He can afford a guitar tech or one of those ten dollar electronic things that tells you when a string is in tune.

thats why the stones must follow chuck , if not , they wont be a legend at all
the stones must rehearse everyday , thats a musician

wipeacdc@hotmail.com
never too old or young to rocknroll!!!!!!

Chuck's muse flew away around 1966, maybe 4 or 5 decent songs on the last few Chess albums since then and one decent minor LP (Rockit) in '79...Live, it's pickup bands and no rehearsals...See no comparison to the Stones, or other musicians who put out into their 60s +....More like the latter day "Beach Boys"

Yeah john r.....That Rockit had some cool rockers on it...



ROCKMAN

LMAO!
That is actually comedian Bill Cosby doing an impression/parody of Chuck Berry entertaining in a nursing home...

if his guitar had been in tune - for his age considered, it would have been OK IMHO.

you can hear as he's tuning at the keyboard that one string was rogue...and he never heard it...

he's still got it in a way and if you catch him IN TUNE and felling good on the night, it'll be a half decent gig..

maybe his monitors (not heart) - onstage sound were inaudible to him or something..and he couldnt hear the tuning very well..

Dog

I'd expect CB to get more bloody minded than ever as he gets older.
I suspect he'd sooner believe the rest of the world is out of tune rather than he ;^)

God that is REALLY awful. It's not a cleverly done joke or something is it ? It can't be REAL ... surely ?

Yep, it's real. I searched for other recent performances and none are good, though this is probably the worst.

Its not just the fact its horribly ou of tune. It's the missed notes and the singing doesn't always seem to fit whats he's playing.

I guess this is what an 80 year old rock n' roll guitarist sounds like. It's unknown territory in a way and the way Keith is going, it doesn't look good!

Good to see he's still doing the duck walk though ;o)

It was terrible when I saw him in Oxford about 2 years ago. Uncomfortable for the audience. Hope Keith stops before he gets there.

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I've seen him several times over the years, not for a long time now though, but the one thing that all the performances I saw had in common were that his kind of "I don't give a shit" attitude seemed to come through. The shows were really short, you could all too easily pick up on this tension between him and the rest of the band/hired musicians, and all in all it was a real shame. But it seems as if this is the rule and if you get anything better ... THAT'S the exception. It SHOULD be other way round really, you should get great performances 90 percent of the time and make allowances for off nights on occasions ?? Obviously not according to Chuck Berry though. I think this well documented chip he has on his shoulder just comes through all the time.



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I really enjoyed his show at the Sheperds Bush Empire back in 2002. It was incredibly short though and it was kinda cheeky the way he ended it by playing the final number whilist exiting the stage and just dissapearing through the door. I think most expected him to come back. I did!

Well, the difference between Chuck Berry and Keith Richards nowadays is that the other has hired guitar technicians to tune his guitar, the other hasn't. Both are technically a far cry from their prime. I don't know which is a more sad sight: Chuck Berry playing off-key and sloppely the solos and riffs he once invented, or his biggest fan playing sloppely every solo he is intended to do as a sloppy chuck-berry variant.

- Doxa

To me, he is the GOD of rock'n roll. To bad that nobody takes care of his guitar and tuning. Listen to the bite he still has in his playing. I hope I can do the same 34 years from now!

Check out Chuck in pure guitar god legend supercool mode!

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That's a wonerful performance! But look at the same song an the same year when the master is humilated by two cultural smartguy wannabes:





- Doxa