Graham Knight Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 This is a clip of Chuck Berry's appearance on the Jay Leno show last night.This video shows Chuck taking it real easy through his "Johnny B. Goode" but then Chuckles is 82 years old. YouTube - Chuck BerryAlthough he took it real easy last night he does like to do a lot of shows all over the place.Check this itinerary for the start of last year when Chuck did 16 shows in just 18 days and had massive daily hops from St Louis to Moscow to Belfast to France .........to Spain to Las Vegas to Illinois etc etc.15.01.07 - St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill17.01.07 - Moscow, Russia 18.01.07 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Waterfront Hall19.01.07 - Istanbul, Turkey Hilton Convention Center20.01.07 - Paris, France - Olympia21.01.07 - Bordeaux, France 22.01.07 - Toulouse, France Halle Aux Grains23.01.07 - Hamburg, Germany 24.01.07 - Leipzig, Germany Leipzig Arena25.01.07 - Malmo, Sweden - Baltiska Hallen26.01.07 - Goteborg, Sweden 27.01.07 - Copenhagen, Denmark Amager Bio28.01.07 - Stockholm, Sweden Berns29.01.07 - Bilbao, Spain BizkaiaThen two days off (apart from travelling from Spain to Las Vegas!!)01.02.07 - Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena02.02.07 - Alton, IL Alton Belle CasinoDoes anyone on Aberdeen-Music think they will still want to perform when they are 82? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 I've seen Bigsby on stage with Chuck!!!Enjoyed that...cheers Graham!I would like to be able to perform at that age....whether I'd want to do it....who knows??(I'll find out soon enough!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Thank God for that!Finally, someone whose even shiter than me at Johnny B Goode!No' bad for an octogenerian though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 I wish I could have seen him when he did it like this. YouTube - Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Knight Posted August 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Thank God for that!Finally, someone whose even shiter than me at Johnny B Goode!No' bad for an octogenerian though! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ot0EDrDwq64As you say diesel he still sounds pretty good for someone in his eighties. I suppose as he wrote it - he can play it any way he wants. I did see Bigsby on stage with Chuck but last time he was at the Capitol he hadn't tuned up properly and ended the show with dozens of people on stage with him - a lazy ending but he is 82! The above link is to the sound of the original recording that Chuck made for Chess in March 1958. This old clip is quite funny too. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BFnu7KTrUhere is an advert for a show in 1965 - note the prices! (1/- is 5p) - so the cheapest seats were 5/6 - that is about 27p.and this is just a more recent picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Being on stage with Chuck Berry was, unquestionably, the most embarassing moment of my life, but I don't really want to go into the story as it just makes me embarassed again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted August 30, 2008 Report Share Posted August 30, 2008 Being on stage with Chuck Berry was, unquestionably, the most embarassing moment of my life, but I don't really want to go into the story as it just makes me embarassed again.Spill!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Being on stage with Chuck Berry was, unquestionably, the most embarassing moment of my life, but I don't really want to go into the story as it just makes me embarassed again.Did he try to play with your Ding A Ling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Tell the story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 i want to hear this as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 OK, it's been hyped up now so probably won't sound that bad, but here goes.It must have been about 1993, I would have been about 15, me and my mate "Trick Shot" Nick Scott went to see the great Chuck Berry at The Capitol.Now, for the finale of the show, Chuck invites members of the audience to get up onstage and dance along. Thankfully I'm a shy, retiring person these days, but back then I was very outgoing, and the prospect of being able to say that I had shared a stage with the great man appealed, so Nick and I got up there.So we're dancing away, I can't remember what the song was, but Chuck Berry gestures to this lassie to take the mike. She's standing there, in front of 2,000 people and it's rabbit in the headlights time, she's doing nothing. So I'm thinking to myself, "the only thing better about being able to say I was onstage with Chuck Berry, would be being able to say that I SUNG onstage with Chuck Berry", so I more or less push her out of the way and start singing away for a few minutes, giving it laldy.After a few minutes I thought I had had enough, and I noticed a girl from school was also onstage, Julia Shepherd. I knew Julia was a good singer, so I said "Julia, take the mic"."No" she replied."Why not?" I said."Because it's not on".Yes, I had been standing "singing" to 2,000 people who couldn't hear a fucking note. What a tube.In my defence, up until that point I had only played shitty gigs where the PA speakers were in front of the stage and there were no monitors, so being unable to hear myself onstage didn't really set off any alarm bells. But it was still damn embarassing, not least when Alan Cynic teased me about it the next day at school. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Knight Posted August 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Hi Mr Bigsby,I remember laughing at your non-singing as if it was yesterday - there was a big rush to get onstage and I think you were in the lead. I wish I had a video of Chuck smiling at it all.I remember thinking poor Chuck he has got people on stage with him that can't dance and can't sing. Still it was an easy ending for him and your moment of fame Mr Bigsby. Never mind you now have more guitars than Chuckles has ever had! At Chuck's last Capitol show he could have had the whole audience onstage with him as there were so few there!Here are a three pictures from long ago taken at a festival in Paris when Jerry Lee Lewis played drums for Chuck and then later in the same show when Chuck backed Jerry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Thanks. That makes me feel much better.I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 ....good times!!!!..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraemeC Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Finally, someone whose even shiter than me at Johnny B Goode!Thats debatable..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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