I didn't know anything about this before: Thanks for the link! It's good stuff. I saw Chuck Berry open for Frank Zappa in 1972, he totally kicked ass. Zappa sucked. Just noisy prog rock at that point.
I wonder if the Strawberry Fields number you heard is the one that Mark Lewisohn described as " 'magnificant'" and worthy of releasing on its own,"according to McDonald in "Revolution in the Head"? Thanks for writing about Chuck Berry.
New Haven Arena in 1972... The same venue where Jim Morrison was arrested (for the first time) onstage: https://whynow.co.uk/read/when-jim-morrison-was-arrested-on-stage-for-inciting-a-riot
Loving these rambles into the stranger byways of artists I thought I knew!.....
Thanks, man!
I didn't know anything about this before: Thanks for the link! It's good stuff. I saw Chuck Berry open for Frank Zappa in 1972, he totally kicked ass. Zappa sucked. Just noisy prog rock at that point.
Now that's a bill! Where was that show?
I wonder if the Strawberry Fields number you heard is the one that Mark Lewisohn described as " 'magnificant'" and worthy of releasing on its own,"according to McDonald in "Revolution in the Head"? Thanks for writing about Chuck Berry.
I've got to exhume that disc from storage and give a listen again.
At 18 minutes, it must count as Berry's longest record length-wise.
Yeah I'm sure it is