Farewell Chuck Berry

The architect of Rock n' Roll, Chuck Berry, has died. He was 90. A lot of our music heroes took to Twitter to pay their respects:

Chuck Berry was rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived.

— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) March 18, 2017

RIP Chuck Berry. One of my early concerts as a teen was seeing you. I was awed then and that feeling has never waned.

— Duff McKagan (@DuffMcKagan) March 19, 2017

I am so sad to hear of Chuck Berry's passing. I want to thank him for all the inspirational music he gave to us. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/9zQbH5bo9V

— Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) March 18, 2017

Read this amazing New York Times remembrance - it follows Chuck's entire career!

Through hits like “Sweet Little Sixteen," Chuck Berry invented rock as a music of teenage wishes and good times https://t.co/hUpBR76yQg

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2017

Comments

[Him]

Truly one of the greats when it comes to music. Personality-wise, not so much. Glad that the NYT didn't sugar-coat the problems he had throughout his career, including the bathroom cam incidents.

Many of our idols are all too human. Noting that doesn't diminish their talents one bit. If anything, it puts those gifts into perspective.

[Badland]

Once i was climbing the garden wall

I slipped and had a terrible fall

[fletch]

Him: Bathroom cam behavior was merely...and incident?

#curious

[Him]

Sorry, Fletch. I don't follow. Do tell. I suspect you are being cheeky. Don't know though.

[Gary]

Scat fella's, scat.... RIP to the guy who punched Keith Richards in the face for touching his guitar,and is responsible for probably theeee most iconic guitar opening riff in history with Johnny B. Goode. Guy was up and running right to the very end,as he was scheduled to drop some vinyl in the near future. My bud Him hit the nail on the head concerning his personality.Guy wasn't going to win any "pillar of society" medals. But the bastard could rock, long before it was cool. Once again, RIP Mr. Berry, and thanks for the riffs every last one of us guitar players have heisted from you over the years. . \m/

[fletch]

Not cheeky at all, Him. I wished you wouldn't haven't even brought up his "security camera 'incident'", but since you did...I had to add my 2 cent thoughts about it.

In other media outlets, I wrote and die-hardly believe how chuck berry wrote and influenced an entire, spectrum-filled audience simply based on his signature song, johnny b. goode.


I'll write more next week (about my presumed cheekiness) for those who are interested.