absolutely phenomenal talent. You can't really say an entire musical genre was invented by just one person, but if you had to do that with rock and roll....the person would be chuck berry.
Electric Spyboy If that were the case, we would have heard other artist say so but they ALWAYS give it up to Chuck. Everybody knows Chuck Berry IS the GOAT!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Electric Spyboy Maybe you should. There's recordings and evidence of Chuck Berry playing his iconic guitar licks as early as 1954 (such as singles like Maybelline / Wee Wee Hours), with most of his rythmic inspirations coming from Goree Carter, a full 2 years before Buddy Holly even recorded anything, unless you have proof your argument holds no water. Fool.
@Electric Spyboy again, misinformed. I'm talking about RECORDED music, not playing live, which Chuck Berry still comes first, he was gigging with Rythm and Blues bands playing his signature guitar style back in 51'. Like I said Chuck directly played and recorded first and that's a fact.
@Electric SpyboyMaybelline wasn't just a rip off, that's what started the movement, playing electric guitar over it added a new definition that had never been heard before, FACT. Chuck brought something never before heard to that music and people caught on and followed suit.
@@rbgboxing4442 Actually this song was adapted from Ida Red by Bob Wills and His Texas playboys. That’s ok though because that’s how music evolves and changes.
The real king of rock'n'roll. He influenced all the best songwriters and all the best guitarists and all the best bands (beatles. Stones , zepplin, page , Hendrix , clapton , blackmore etc etc etc etc.
@@learner5090 I think you could argue Elvis was the King of Pop. He was basically the first pop star and was the blueprint for mass record sales (gotta have good hair, a pretty face, and connect with teens). But Rock N Roll, not so much.
@@ko7577 Historically pop is rebranded version of music by Brown people. They take Rythem and Blues, they call it rock n roll, they take Disco and funk records and rebranded it in 80s as "pop". Madonna stole Donna Summers sound she was doing in late 70s and 1980. That why I consider Donna Summers Queen of Popl also. Elvis himself said Rock N Roll was before my time, it was called Rythem and Blues. Elvis asked James Brown if he can he could use his band... 🤣
@@ko7577 Not to mention, YT people use to legit take record a Brown person just released and do it over and steal the records 🤦 Reason Why little Richard had switched up his style and make it faster so the YT artist couldn't duplicate 🤷🏾♂️
some of those audiences were subdued and weren't sure how to react.....it looks like a Europe audience that may have been more comfortable at the orchestra or opera.....They should have packed the place with teenagers but they were probably afraid of a riot.
I saw him play in Seattle in the 80's. His back up band was the guys from Heart. Chuck kept telling the bass player he was doing the bass lines wrong and the bass player got mad and stormed off. They finished the concert with no bass player.
@Electric Spyboy Bitch shut the hell up!! Buddy Holly came AFTER Berry!! Berry was on the scene a good 4 years BEFORE hOLLY! No 'polish jew' had to tell Berry what to play, WTF!! Berry was doing HIS OWN STYLE as early as the 1940's!!! He was playing clubs in St. Louis WRITING HIS OWN MATERIAL!!! Holly was not with Leonard Chess, he was on ANOTHER LABEL!! Do some fucking research before coming on here HATING with that RACIST BULLSHIT of yours. BERRY THE KING OF FUCKING ROCK AND ROLLLL!!!!
@@theprofessor8589 Word, Brown people invented Rock N Roll in the early 40s.. It sicken how people try to change music history.. Jimi Hendrix should be known as the Godfather of Metal because in a magazine it said his music sound like metal was falling out the sky and Hendrix music heavier and harder than so called metal bands that came out in early 70s they list as Metal..
It's clearly influenced by folksy grassroots genres like country and folk, but the primary essence is that of American Black music - the dark, cursed, haunted, anguished yet paradoxically joyful expression of blues, burdened by spiritual karma and sociocultural oppression/repression, yet liberating thereof... and also jazz music, which doesn't get enough credit in the role it played in American music and culture, including the origination of rock. Jazz expanded on the spirit of the blues and the R'n'B, "negro" gospel, and call-and-shout type elements by mixing in the dark magic fanfare party music of New Orleans, wild and exuberant, and thus the development of free-improvisation and individualistic musical solos, displays of both virtuosity, vitality, soulfulness, emotional bittersweet nuances, and complete freedom of humanist creativity emerging in novel and naturalistic form. Then swing and big band (soundtrack for the rollicking parties of the 20s during the decadence of the art deco and prohibition era) and then the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of bebop introducing a whole new level of intellectual and spiritual originality (the manic, soaring, boundary-pushing essence of hyper-individualistic expression on a solo instrument), inspiration to the Beat Generation of the 40s and 50s who were to go on to become leaders and influences to the 60s counterculture, but ultimately it all culminates in FREE JAZZ in the 50s and 60s, from Miles Davis' cool modal blues, fluid and minimalistic and literally archetypal/iconic in its signifying resonance of sound/mood/narrative, free of preset harmonic structures, melodic phraseology, sensible yet unpredictable, that floated aloft as if in otherwordly transmission... and then Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor dissolving all structural and harmonic conventions and allowing free-form musical creativity and collective improvisatory spirit, of course John Coltrane creating metaphysical odes and expressions to the divine in his titanic saxophone explorations... All this spirit of Black American inventiveness and audacity, generally rooted/grounded/centered in the Blues as the most powerful and Earthly expression of the ground/land/Nature and the individual prophet/nomad/shaman within it who sings the forgotten stories of his peoples in a strange, unwelcoming, and unknown land. The Blues as music of the heart and soul, but also as something mysterious and evocative beyond time and space, an esoteric and darkly magic summoning of the voodoo dimensions cosmic, whilst also expressing the pain and uncertainty and senselessness of the human suffering, of authenticity and realness in a world of white fakery. The melodic and harmonic sound of it is visceral and askew, and has led to a wider system of melodic and harmonic improvisation, bordering on atonal or heavily chromatic avant-garde, or chaotic dissonance. The heavy emphasis of rhythm, timbre, sonic texture, on patterns and motifs that are moving, driving, propulsive, dynamic, organic, trance-like, feverish, evocative, and possessing. On music that is stripped down to its bare essence, just the base fundamentals and the power of a few instruments in conjuction, creating ritualistic or ceremonial sounds for collective awakening of more primordial concepts and feelings from the depths of the Jungian Collective Subconscious/Unconscious. Rock and Roll was primarily pioneered I feel by two visionary, revolutionary Black musicians with original modes of expression.... Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. These two musicians were playing, folksy, grassroots, small-ensemble band type music, but with the heavy spirit and sound of the blues, and hyper-charged with the sheer artistic/sonic verve of jazz, the intelligent sense of rebellion, the element of improvising and soloing, and the harmonically daring and borderline chaotic and dissonant experiments in the sounds and their textures. Drums that were syncopated, minimalist, and heavy. Other instruments like piano and base weaving jarring and harmonically-rich textures, sparkling, soaring, creating a dreamy expressive texture between dark and light, and the lead instrumentalist (here Chuck Berry with his ELECTRIC GUITAR... a novel and revolutionary instrument at the time) jamming and strumming on some polyrrythmic, anarchic sound/style that was both neo-primitive and futuristic at the same time, a postmodernist phenomenon of music that was sexual, spiritual, political, and electrically charged with a visceral energy, grounded in Earthy populism and soaring towards cosmic horizons, radical transmissions, on the verge of noise and dissonance, raw and bleeding and passionate and shocking and libidinal and at the tantric edge between creation and destruction. A music of militant force, hardened, edgy, and of penetrating power, yet simultaneously yearning for peace and resolution, venturing into the shadow realms of the Jungian collective unconscious and attempting to sublimate the pain and division and uncertainty and repression and injustice into a more universal form of anthemic storytelling, ingeniously packing a dense dosage of revolutionary verve into a formerly conventional/limited song format, electrifying vitality and interconnection and explosive release of tensions, anarchic liberation of Mother Nature, sexuality (especially that of women), as well as the African descendents of the diaspora. These songs are without boundaries, transcending time and space.
Shows just how closely related the radical spirit of rock'n'roll was to the radial spirit of the experimental jazz music of the age. Props to the Belgian and Flemish musicians for being able to hold their own in the sonic maelstrom and also grasp the essence of the genre and its sound and style and perfectly hone its wildly improvisational and hyper-kinetic and emphatically rhythmic, deep bass-driven, and subtly dissonant harmonically sophisticated piano backup all building/intertwining as the ultimate basis for Chuck Berry to then float and soar upon as the lead musician, and yet not sound out of place when he let one of his wildest and most futuristic electric guitar solos rip primally/dissonantly at the peak of it all.
Carlos Eugenio your right he could play that guitar but I think Elvis was more versatile with his music he could do more than just rock n roll with all due respect to chuck berry
@@andremoussa4508 Nice attempt at comedy haha... You're right, Elvis could also turn into a fat old crooner singing nostalgic romantic serenades from boring, sterile, dried up popular upper-class styles of the past. He could also play watered-down rock music and rhythm'n'blues, often stolen without credit or monetary compensation to Black musicians he derived it from, and give it a country inflection for the racist Southern white masses to embrace and herald over the true originals and talents of the era. Even among white rockers, Elvis was not at or near the top of the list of significance, originality, talent, or influence. He was a manufactured, commercial pop-culture icon for a blindly consumeristic society with repressed and re-programmed biases. Elvis had a very basic and one-dimensional approach to rock music. Rockabilly was his main specialty, but that subgenre really wouldn't become distinctly defined in a pronounced way until many years later, mostly in the rock underground. Chuck Berry was playing cosmic, neo-tribal jams of revolutionary proportions with wild incendiary solos, excellent and sophisticated backup group (musicians often on the caliber of jazz players, or at least in a similar style/spirit), syncopated, driving, propulsive, and very audaciously experimental, with primal dissonance and noise. All combined into powerful anthemic songs that expressed simple yet deep, almost archetypal, themes from the American and especially Black American collective unconscious. Psychologically it was pronounced in its storytelling, timeless and relatable. This was musical TNT, anarchic and igniting the mind, spirit, and body - fostering awakening of consciousness.
This was the night. This is the performance. People where listening to the new sound, but most did not really know that it was. This IS the night that the legend Chuck Berry shook the World ... and it's still Rockin,. Rock and Roll is here to stay. Long live Rock. I have these 4 songs in the order he played them that night in a play list. ( named The Birth of Rock and Roll) Look carefully at the audience. They walked in Square ... but left hip. Notice the change from the beginning of his show to when he was through. This IS the night Rock was introduced to the World and basically born.
@@kirklandau2826 lol the blues would like a word. Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Freddie King, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker, I needn’t mention Eric Clapton. Jimi did not exist in a vacuum, and there were numerous guitarists who were better than him at things he did not do or focus on.
The audience go from stunned silence when he starts playing......to dancing and applauding wildly by the last number chuck played. (whole concert is on youtube).
THIS is how I want to see Chuck live...with a proper little 50's combo....NOT jamming with Keith Richards,Ronnie Wood etc.etc.etc.....any one else agree with me?
Barbara W so did thousands of others Barbara,who put it to the top of the charts,in 1973 I think it was? (Here in the UK) But these fans I suspect,were not already ageing Rocknrollers like myself,raised on wonderful story songs like Havana Moon and Downbound Train,or pure rockers like School Day etc. My main dislike of Ding,comes from seeing him live,where he spent ELEVEN minutes on that song....he could have done another five favourites during that time. Ironic,that he died this morning!
THE song that birthed Rock N' Roll. Probably the most important musician in history. Chuck Berry, the father of Rock N' Roll and in turn, pretty much all modern music.
March 18 2017 ... gone but never forgotten!!!!! Awesome artist/entertainer/musician. Bop with everyone for eternity. I was going on 5 that year. Loved ya then and on and on.
You can hear his environment in his voice. He grew up in the central United States where country & western is an influence. Saw him once. One of the best concerts I can remember.
Perfectly suited username... rock music evoked ancient African tribal music and polyrhythms and dissonance and blues-tinged, spoken-word sung with the charged power of the vocal tradition, coolly shouting/chanting mantric odes and mythic storylines that would soar over the ritualistic ferver. Also the electric guitar was weilded like a spear or metaphysical weapon of sonic-spiritual-electric technology, powerful and versatile, capable of wielding of evil, parasitic, or devilish entities through its raw, organic, highly concentrated/amplified vibrations... psylocybin mushrooms were a common shamanic tool for psychonautic exploration in Ancient Africa and often at high dosages that involved hyperspace cosmic and Gaian encounters with the alien and spirit realms... African warriors and gurus were likewise intrepid shamanic explorers capable of self-defense against predatory entities encountered. In essence, this music encapsulates much of the powerful essence of exactly that.
I now drive a Mercedes SLK but man I still remember my Dad's 65 Galaxie with the big block FE engine. That was one running mofo and that sound! Nothing like it.
I was always taught to be the "King" of something you must master it create it Chuck Berry is truly the "King of Rock & Roll" his bio clearly explains his gifts he took a sounds from music like Classical, Blues and Gospel music and created "Rock and Roll" the timeline is also apparently clear in his troubled past, in the 1950's this guitarist singer songwriter set the tone for what is to become the heart beat of America's music.
I feel verry lucky to have seen chuck live at nassau coliseum L.I. New york back in 1972.I was 12 yrs. old & it was an oldies show with little richard,fats domino,& bo diddley! can you imagine now how fortunate one can be to see all those great rock'n'roll legends on one bill? anyway! chuck was amazing, doing all the moves he was famous for.This I believe was his my ding a ling tour. Little Richard was totally awesome,jumping on his piano with his shirt off screaming I am the king of rock ' n ' roll. R.I.P. chuck! you will be missed.
Saw Chuck with Bo Diddley in 1969 in Washington DC during police riot after huge anti-war protest at GW. Show went 3 hours with people coming in from the street to get away from teargas. Chuck did a 10 minute version of My Dingaling while folks removed teargas stained outer clothing and danced, danced, danced.
Chuck berry was the portal all guitarists came thru...
I was lucky enough to see Chuck Berry live in 1975, and I’ve never experienced anything like it. He’s the best stage musician ever!
I believe you can say ALL artists have gone through that portal.
Beautiful put.
I love the way the Emcee runs off the stage like he just ignited a bomb
he did....rock and roll !
@@pgm1972 my thoughts exactly!
Ran like Mr. Bean
Lolll
😂
1958. The crowd has never seen anything like this. Awesome.
Not 1958 but 1965 in Belgium. The band is Belgian.
@@supermabel1 it says 1958 in Belgium
It was just like when Marty McFly took the stage.
But the record came out in '55
It's false @@wowso4this was recorded and filmed in 1965
absolutely phenomenal talent. You can't really say an entire musical genre was invented by just one person, but if you had to do that with rock and roll....the person would be chuck berry.
Yes! Beautiful!
It’s very possible that he is the originator of rock.
True, but I hear a lot of rockabilly/country western in here too. Def didn't make rock & roll out of thin air
No it was some women that inspired chuck berry he himself is not the originator it was some women who sung gospel music that was rocken roll
@@levidaily1825 Sister Rosetta Tharpe is her name
There is no rock without Chuck Berry
Electric Spyboy If that were the case, we would have heard other artist say so but they ALWAYS give it up to Chuck. Everybody knows Chuck Berry IS the GOAT!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@Electric Spyboy holly most certainly didnt come first
@Electric Spyboy Maybe you should. There's recordings and evidence of Chuck Berry playing his iconic guitar licks as early as 1954 (such as singles like Maybelline / Wee Wee Hours), with most of his rythmic inspirations coming from Goree Carter, a full 2 years before Buddy Holly even recorded anything, unless you have proof your argument holds no water. Fool.
@Electric Spyboy again, misinformed. I'm talking about RECORDED music, not playing live, which Chuck Berry still comes first, he was gigging with Rythm and Blues bands playing his signature guitar style back in 51'. Like I said Chuck directly played and recorded first and that's a fact.
@Electric SpyboyMaybelline wasn't just a rip off, that's what started the movement, playing electric guitar over it added a new definition that had never been heard before, FACT. Chuck brought something never before heard to that music and people caught on and followed suit.
I was blessed to shake the hand of the GIANT, the man who took rock to the whole world. CHUCK BERRY. ❤️
no way!!! thats so cool
@BaLLsDeePinBuTTs I never washed my right hand since.. I still have Chuck's dna!
😢😢😢@@eldadesta9343
R.I.P. Chuck Berry, the greatest rock n roll musician In American rock histiry.
If he was born white, people would have gone: Elvis Who?
@Nick Lutsevich he didn't have to steal other songs either
@@rbgboxing4442 Actually this song was adapted from Ida Red by Bob Wills and His Texas playboys. That’s ok though because that’s how music evolves and changes.
The original King of Rock n roll
The real king of rock'n'roll.
He influenced all the best songwriters and all the best guitarists and all the best bands (beatles. Stones , zepplin, page , Hendrix , clapton , blackmore etc etc etc etc.
Elvis stole his whole style
@@antmantattoo292 I saw how Elvis said he didn't know how to play guitar, he only knew three chords..
@@learner5090 I think you could argue Elvis was the King of Pop. He was basically the first pop star and was the blueprint for mass record sales (gotta have good hair, a pretty face, and connect with teens). But Rock N Roll, not so much.
@@ko7577 Historically pop is rebranded version of music by Brown people. They take Rythem and Blues, they call it rock n roll, they take Disco and funk records and rebranded it in 80s as "pop". Madonna stole Donna Summers sound she was doing in late 70s and 1980. That why I consider Donna Summers Queen of Popl also. Elvis himself said Rock N Roll was before my time, it was called Rythem and Blues. Elvis asked James Brown if he can he could use his band... 🤣
@@ko7577 Not to mention, YT people use to legit take record a Brown person just released and do it over and steal the records 🤦 Reason Why little Richard had switched up his style and make it faster so the YT artist couldn't duplicate 🤷🏾♂️
The rock n roll starting point. The tree of music wouldn’t have as many branches if it werent for this man
The bad ass actually raps in this song . Not only did he do great things for rock n roll . The verses he is doing justice for rappers
@none of the nones well now we could say he doesnt (and you'd be right)
or we could stop being so anal and appreciate the whimsy
💯🎯
Mr. Chuck Berry is the TRUE KING OF ROCK & ROLL!!
Say it again!
Chuck Berry is the TRUE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL!!!!
YES HE IS AND HE JUST DIED RIP CHUCK BERRY 2017
Today is definitely a sad day. ;(
He had an amazing career and lived to a good age. He can continue to rock in heaven now.
As John Lennon once said """If ROCK & ROLL had another name------It would be called Chuck Berry"""
High praise from Lennon.
"Before Elvis, there was nothing." - John Lennon.
Quite frankly, John Lennon was a pompous ass whose biggest and only true idol was John Lennon.
chainmatrix that’s not true.
Allen Butcher he was reading it from a cue card, but yes, still true
Black people are pioneers of music period. Such a talented group of people
das raciss
I feel the cold atmosphere and he doesnt flinches. Respect
some of those audiences were subdued and weren't sure how to react.....it looks like a Europe audience that may have been more comfortable at the orchestra or opera.....They should have packed the place with teenagers but they were probably afraid of a riot.
American legend. The real king of rock and roll.
Holy crap!!!!! He’s the real King of Rock’n Roll!!!
Watching this just gave me 10 years of extra life 🖤
Chuck Berry...the real King of Rock N'Roll 🎸👑
Sometimes when i lose sight of rock n roll, i come here and it all comes flooding back. Chuck, you're the man. Rest easy.
I saw him play in Seattle in the 80's. His back up band was the guys from Heart. Chuck kept telling the bass player he was doing the bass lines wrong and the bass player got mad and stormed off. They finished the concert with no bass player.
Hey...Chuck Berry punched Keith Richards in the nose because he thought he was playing too loud and trying to steal the show...
@@WillieDuitt1 didn't he punched Keith because Keith touched his guitar??
@@mierul7991 He may have I wasn't witness to the incident only read about it and heard some interviews with one of the parties involved.
Yep, Berry could be a total ass.
@@WillieDuitt1 Chuck didn't take no nonsense lol
Can’t believe not one audience member tapped their feet. Truly amazed.
perhaps they are in shock dont know what to think of this
they all look like they are waiting for the bus!!!!!!!!!
The times were different. It looks more like an orchestra or opera crowd....set and setting are important.
You need education, it was considered rude by their upbringing at that time. It was all about the setting
They were frozen in sheer whiteness haha
I can watch this over and over and over again. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Truth. Radical, revolutionary music way ahead of its time, also tantalizingly suggestive in its themes and energy.
His rhythm and phrasing was so great.
Fantastic! I was very impressed with the solo too.
Reminded me of Back to the Future - audience looking dead
Wild and savage like Ten years after - I'm going home, but 20 years before Woodstock...
@@dextrosebizarre this was 65.4 years before that shit
King of Rock and Roll
R.I.P Chuck Berry - so talented - will be so missed. You were the original Rock and Roll man. Rest well now - you gave us amazing memories.
His love for country music is so strong in all his songs.
@Electric Spyboy Bitch shut the hell up!! Buddy Holly came AFTER Berry!! Berry was on the scene a good 4 years BEFORE hOLLY! No 'polish jew' had to tell Berry what to play, WTF!! Berry was doing HIS OWN STYLE as early as the 1940's!!! He was playing clubs in St. Louis WRITING HIS OWN MATERIAL!!! Holly was not with Leonard Chess, he was on ANOTHER LABEL!! Do some fucking research before coming on here HATING with that RACIST BULLSHIT of yours. BERRY THE KING OF FUCKING ROCK AND ROLLLL!!!!
OntheOtherhand holly was playing but he was playing blue grass and country he added rock and roll after hearing chuck
karl also this comment is very racist
@@theprofessor8589 Word, Brown people invented Rock N Roll in the early 40s.. It sicken how people try to change music history.. Jimi Hendrix should be known as the Godfather of Metal because in a magazine it said his music sound like metal was falling out the sky and Hendrix music heavier and harder than so called metal bands that came out in early 70s they list as Metal..
It's clearly influenced by folksy grassroots genres like country and folk, but the primary essence is that of American Black music - the dark, cursed, haunted, anguished yet paradoxically joyful expression of blues, burdened by spiritual karma and sociocultural oppression/repression, yet liberating thereof... and also jazz music, which doesn't get enough credit in the role it played in American music and culture, including the origination of rock. Jazz expanded on the spirit of the blues and the R'n'B, "negro" gospel, and call-and-shout type elements by mixing in the dark magic fanfare party music of New Orleans, wild and exuberant, and thus the development of free-improvisation and individualistic musical solos, displays of both virtuosity, vitality, soulfulness, emotional bittersweet nuances, and complete freedom of humanist creativity emerging in novel and naturalistic form. Then swing and big band (soundtrack for the rollicking parties of the 20s during the decadence of the art deco and prohibition era) and then the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of bebop introducing a whole new level of intellectual and spiritual originality (the manic, soaring, boundary-pushing essence of hyper-individualistic expression on a solo instrument), inspiration to the Beat Generation of the 40s and 50s who were to go on to become leaders and influences to the 60s counterculture, but ultimately it all culminates in FREE JAZZ in the 50s and 60s, from Miles Davis' cool modal blues, fluid and minimalistic and literally archetypal/iconic in its signifying resonance of sound/mood/narrative, free of preset harmonic structures, melodic phraseology, sensible yet unpredictable, that floated aloft as if in otherwordly transmission... and then Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor dissolving all structural and harmonic conventions and allowing free-form musical creativity and collective improvisatory spirit, of course John Coltrane creating metaphysical odes and expressions to the divine in his titanic saxophone explorations...
All this spirit of Black American inventiveness and audacity, generally rooted/grounded/centered in the Blues as the most powerful and Earthly expression of the ground/land/Nature and the individual prophet/nomad/shaman within it who sings the forgotten stories of his peoples in a strange, unwelcoming, and unknown land. The Blues as music of the heart and soul, but also as something mysterious and evocative beyond time and space, an esoteric and darkly magic summoning of the voodoo dimensions cosmic, whilst also expressing the pain and uncertainty and senselessness of the human suffering, of authenticity and realness in a world of white fakery. The melodic and harmonic sound of it is visceral and askew, and has led to a wider system of melodic and harmonic improvisation, bordering on atonal or heavily chromatic avant-garde, or chaotic dissonance. The heavy emphasis of rhythm, timbre, sonic texture, on patterns and motifs that are moving, driving, propulsive, dynamic, organic, trance-like, feverish, evocative, and possessing. On music that is stripped down to its bare essence, just the base fundamentals and the power of a few instruments in conjuction, creating ritualistic or ceremonial sounds for collective awakening of more primordial concepts and feelings from the depths of the Jungian Collective Subconscious/Unconscious.
Rock and Roll was primarily pioneered I feel by two visionary, revolutionary Black musicians with original modes of expression.... Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. These two musicians were playing, folksy, grassroots, small-ensemble band type music, but with the heavy spirit and sound of the blues, and hyper-charged with the sheer artistic/sonic verve of jazz, the intelligent sense of rebellion, the element of improvising and soloing, and the harmonically daring and borderline chaotic and dissonant experiments in the sounds and their textures.
Drums that were syncopated, minimalist, and heavy. Other instruments like piano and base weaving jarring and harmonically-rich textures, sparkling, soaring, creating a dreamy expressive texture between dark and light, and the lead instrumentalist (here Chuck Berry with his ELECTRIC GUITAR... a novel and revolutionary instrument at the time) jamming and strumming on some polyrrythmic, anarchic sound/style that was both neo-primitive and futuristic at the same time, a postmodernist phenomenon of music that was sexual, spiritual, political, and electrically charged with a visceral energy, grounded in Earthy populism and soaring towards cosmic horizons, radical transmissions, on the verge of noise and dissonance, raw and bleeding and passionate and shocking and libidinal and at the tantric edge between creation and destruction. A music of militant force, hardened, edgy, and of penetrating power, yet simultaneously yearning for peace and resolution, venturing into the shadow realms of the Jungian collective unconscious and attempting to sublimate the pain and division and uncertainty and repression and injustice into a more universal form of anthemic storytelling, ingeniously packing a dense dosage of revolutionary verve into a formerly conventional/limited song format, electrifying vitality and interconnection and explosive release of tensions, anarchic liberation of Mother Nature, sexuality (especially that of women), as well as the African descendents of the diaspora. These songs are without boundaries, transcending time and space.
The bass player is Roger Vanhaverbeke. Piano player is Willy Albimoor. Both musicians are Belgian/Flamish Jazzmusicians.
That is because this was recorded at a TV appearance in Belgium in 1965, not 1958 like the title says. By the way, I am from Belgium too.
Belgian Flemish..not Flamish. Cheers😊
Shows just how closely related the radical spirit of rock'n'roll was to the radial spirit of the experimental jazz music of the age. Props to the Belgian and Flemish musicians for being able to hold their own in the sonic maelstrom and also grasp the essence of the genre and its sound and style and perfectly hone its wildly improvisational and hyper-kinetic and emphatically rhythmic, deep bass-driven, and subtly dissonant harmonically sophisticated piano backup all building/intertwining as the ultimate basis for Chuck Berry to then float and soar upon as the lead musician, and yet not sound out of place when he let one of his wildest and most futuristic electric guitar solos rip primally/dissonantly at the peak of it all.
one of the best guitar players in the earth,chuck was so awesome!
Carlos Eugenio your right he could play that guitar but I think Elvis was more versatile with his music he could do more than just rock n roll with all due respect to chuck berry
@@andremoussa4508 Nice attempt at comedy haha...
You're right, Elvis could also turn into a fat old crooner singing nostalgic romantic serenades from boring, sterile, dried up popular upper-class styles of the past.
He could also play watered-down rock music and rhythm'n'blues, often stolen without credit or monetary compensation to Black musicians he derived it from, and give it a country inflection for the racist Southern white masses to embrace and herald over the true originals and talents of the era. Even among white rockers, Elvis was not at or near the top of the list of significance, originality, talent, or influence. He was a manufactured, commercial pop-culture icon for a blindly consumeristic society with repressed and re-programmed biases.
Elvis had a very basic and one-dimensional approach to rock music. Rockabilly was his main specialty, but that subgenre really wouldn't become distinctly defined in a pronounced way until many years later, mostly in the rock underground.
Chuck Berry was playing cosmic, neo-tribal jams of revolutionary proportions with wild incendiary solos, excellent and sophisticated backup group (musicians often on the caliber of jazz players, or at least in a similar style/spirit), syncopated, driving, propulsive, and very audaciously experimental, with primal dissonance and noise. All combined into powerful anthemic songs that expressed simple yet deep, almost archetypal, themes from the American and especially Black American collective unconscious. Psychologically it was pronounced in its storytelling, timeless and relatable. This was musical TNT, anarchic and igniting the mind, spirit, and body - fostering awakening of consciousness.
This guy was just pure awesomeness!!
This was the night.
This is the performance.
People where listening to the new sound, but most did not really know that it was.
This IS the night that the legend Chuck Berry shook the World ... and it's still Rockin,.
Rock and Roll is here to stay.
Long live Rock.
I have these 4 songs in the order he played them that night in a play list.
( named The Birth of Rock and Roll)
Look carefully at the audience.
They walked in Square ... but left hip.
Notice the change from the beginning of his show to when he was through.
This IS the night Rock was introduced to the World and basically born.
Well damn
Love the dude who run of stage😂
He's off to check his berry.
CHUCK BERRY AWESOME.
AND THE CLASSIC CHUCK BERRY RIFF.
R.I.P
🇺🇸😘❤🙏
PSALM 23
THE LORD IS MY SHEPERD...
I saw chuck berry, little Richard and jerry lee Lewis a few years back. Great show.
God of music, cant find a better live performance.
chuck is a master of emitting various musical tones from his guitar
so was Jimi Hendrix...
+Marty El Moody L.A. 213 De la rocha jimmy hendrix took it all to a new level, he was not of this world! even till this day.
Shut the fuck up
@@leroybrowntm1251 Indeed... Hendrix was the indisputable God of the electric rock guitar, without competition or peer
@@kirklandau2826 lol the blues would like a word. Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Freddie King, Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walker, I needn’t mention Eric Clapton. Jimi did not exist in a vacuum, and there were numerous guitarists who were better than him at things he did not do or focus on.
love chuck berry
My 1st Rock,n,Roll record, bought 1957 @ RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. "Johnny Be Good" is the ANTHEM of Rock,n Roll
"father of rock 'n' roll and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's first inductee....
RIP
Chuck changed my life in the 60's growing up in Detroit city. genius and the best rockroll . daddy of the sound that changed the world
Once again:not 1958 but 1965 in Waterloo(Belgium).My friend Willy Donni second guitar.The rest of the band is belgian too.Proud of all of them...
I watch this pretty regularly, to remind me what awesome is.
same
The one and only true KING of Rock N Roll.
I'm starting to become a fan of Chuck Berry. This guy was amazing!
(I owe this to Back to the Future)
This guy was my childhood. Chuck berry turned 90 years old. He always made me happy. Thanks Chuck. I'll never forget you😭🙏
Back when people didn't know about this rock and roll stuff. Chuck was a great rep.
The jazz blues in the beginning is a sign of the past and current changing times to the young rock and roll. Goddamn, and it’s already been 60 years.
Amazing that everyone is sitting there with their knees pressed together. Now they'd be up, dancing and really enjoying it!
R.I.P. the real king of rock and roll
How the crowd stays so calm is eerie.
The King of Rock 'N' Roll will NEVER leave the building!!
Jaw dropping performance! Audience is in shock as to what they are seeing,
and loving every minute!
CHUCK BERRY jamming, singing and looking good and smiling.
Brings back memories of my 1957 Ford Fairlane 500. Man I miss the sound of that 312 with dual 4bbl carbs. Big ol girl would fly.
The audience go from stunned silence when he starts playing......to dancing and applauding wildly by the last number chuck played. (whole concert is on youtube).
THIS is how I want to see Chuck live...with a proper little 50's combo....NOT jamming with Keith Richards,Ronnie Wood etc.etc.etc.....any one else agree with me?
And it's how Chuck prefers it. I saw a documentary that Keith was filming of Chuck and Chuck got tired of Keith and told him to piss off.
Pr3ct Thanks Pr....you've made my day....although Chuck occasionally pissed me off,with his eleven minute renditions of that awful Ding a Ling
graham bull I loved my ding a ling
Barbara W so did thousands of others Barbara,who put it to the top of the charts,in 1973 I think it was? (Here in the UK) But these fans I suspect,were not already ageing Rocknrollers like myself,raised on wonderful story songs like Havana Moon and Downbound Train,or pure rockers like School Day etc. My main dislike of Ding,comes from seeing him live,where he spent ELEVEN minutes on that song....he could have done another five favourites during that time. Ironic,that he died this morning!
His recording with Bruce Springsteen was fantastic though, don't you think?
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it!”
So natural in front of the cameras. He and Jerry Lee never forgot their roots.......
Music is music thanks to you !!!! Forever grateful.......!!!!!
MAY GOD BLESS HIS SOUL.
RIP Chuck, you'll be doing the duck walk forever. So will we. Thanks man.
long live the king of rock R.I.P. Chuck Berry
R.I.P Chuck, you are truly missed!
Dear Charles Edward Anderson Berry,
may you rest in peace.
...Oh my, that little country boy could play...
Mustaccio ́s Wild Bunch done stated back doing things ya used to do
@@jahnaroth669: "Done "started" back doin' the things you used to do"
Rest In Peace, King of Rock&Roll
THE song that birthed Rock N' Roll. Probably the most important musician in history. Chuck Berry, the father of Rock N' Roll and in turn, pretty much all modern music.
RIP Mr. Berry, you shaped rock n roll forever
this must be preserved for all of time
Everyone will miss him 😥RIP👼
The one and only... ..Chuck Berry ....❤️
Chuck is number one rock!!!! 👍
March 18 2017 ... gone but never forgotten!!!!! Awesome artist/entertainer/musician. Bop with everyone for eternity. I was going on 5 that year. Loved ya then and on and on.
The days of class and rock; Classic rock
The true king of rock in roll mos def did great job
Never be another. The true King of rock guitar. Rest peacefully Mr. Berry, and thank you so much. March 18, 2017.
You can hear his environment in his voice. He grew up in the central United States where country & western is an influence. Saw him once. One of the best concerts I can remember.
God bless you Chuck Berry. You will be missed. One of the great rock and rollers of all time!
Finally, a good song trending on CZcams
Rest in peace Chuck
BIIIIGGG LEGEND OF ROCK N ROLL!
love his original duck walk!
While Chuck is alive, his audience here is dead. Long live the guitar player!
RIP
Chuck Berry
The first true rock god
Perfectly suited username... rock music evoked ancient African tribal music and polyrhythms and dissonance and blues-tinged, spoken-word sung with the charged power of the vocal tradition, coolly shouting/chanting mantric odes and mythic storylines that would soar over the ritualistic ferver. Also the electric guitar was weilded like a spear or metaphysical weapon of sonic-spiritual-electric technology, powerful and versatile, capable of wielding of evil, parasitic, or devilish entities through its raw, organic, highly concentrated/amplified vibrations... psylocybin mushrooms were a common shamanic tool for psychonautic exploration in Ancient Africa and often at high dosages that involved hyperspace cosmic and Gaian encounters with the alien and spirit realms... African warriors and gurus were likewise intrepid shamanic explorers capable of self-defense against predatory entities encountered. In essence, this music encapsulates much of the powerful essence of exactly that.
the greatest guitar player and rock and roll singer and songwriter of all time all hail the king Chuck berry
Can you imagine these people sitting quietly and still, listening to this uppity jam live?!??! I wouldn't be able to keep still
Uno de los músicos más talentosos y de los guitarristas más extraordinarios. Un verdadero pionero
Rest Easy Mr. Chuck Berry...YOU made an impact on this world...Thank YOU!
RIP the king of rock and roll
Htf he got this out of Ida red is beyond me. The real king of rock and roll.
Happy 90th Birthday!
Rest in peace Chuck.
RIP Chuck Berry. The real king of rock & roll
"Nothing can outrun my V-8 Ford". Yea!
I now drive a Mercedes SLK but man I still remember my Dad's 65 Galaxie with the big block FE engine. That was one running mofo and that sound! Nothing like it.
I was just 4 years old when the King of R&R played this. R.I.P
Good 😊 job I listen to this every day never get old
classic Valentine's day song
R.I.P CHUCK
I love his voice. He sounds so happy and fun-loving in this song. Makes me laugh and smile every time!
I was always taught to be the "King" of something you must master it create it Chuck Berry is truly the "King of Rock & Roll" his bio clearly explains his gifts he took a sounds from music like Classical, Blues and Gospel music and created "Rock and Roll" the timeline is also apparently clear in his troubled past, in the 1950's this guitarist singer songwriter set the tone for what is to become the heart beat of America's music.
I feel verry lucky to have seen chuck live at nassau coliseum L.I. New york back in 1972.I was 12 yrs. old & it was an oldies show with little richard,fats domino,& bo diddley! can you imagine now how fortunate one can be to see all those great rock'n'roll legends on one bill? anyway! chuck was amazing, doing all the moves he was famous for.This I believe was his my ding a ling tour. Little Richard was totally awesome,jumping on his piano with his shirt off screaming I am the king of rock ' n ' roll. R.I.P. chuck! you will be missed.
Saw Chuck with Bo Diddley in 1969 in Washington DC during police riot after huge anti-war protest at GW. Show went 3 hours with people coming in from the street to get away from teargas. Chuck did a 10 minute version of My Dingaling while folks removed teargas stained outer clothing and danced, danced, danced.
RIP King of Rock N Roll ...
RIP CHUCK!!!! YOU WERE THE FATHER OF R&R
This is THE track that made me fall in love with rock and roll for now and forever...