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Legend, innovator, originator, and progenitor of rock-and-roll Chuck Berry has passed at the age of 90.

Damn.

Hail to the king of rock and roll.

At least we still have Buckcherry...

Wow, I didn't know he was still alive. RIP

Bryan Moore wrote:At least we still have Buckcherry...

Really? THAT's where you're going?

Thought it was funny...

That said, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly were my two favorite artists as a kid. I was hugely into 50's R&R as a pre-teen/adolescent. I've probably played his greatest hits a couple hundred times over the last quarter of a century. Most influential artist ever, perhaps?

Bryan Moore wrote:Thought it was funny...

Well, I do love the cocaine... (jeez, I'm joking!)

Bryan Moore wrote:Most influential artist ever, perhaps?

That might be stretching it, but his influence is most definitely underrated in general. Not only in the musical and stylistic/atmospheric transition from R&B and blues to rock and roll, but in the prominence across multicultural audiences of a black musician (not to mention the implications of a black man leading white bandmates.)

Mikey wrote:

Bryan Moore wrote:Thought it was funny...

Well, I do love the cocaine... (jeez, I'm joking!)

Bryan Moore wrote:Most influential artist ever, perhaps?

That might be stretching it, but his influence is most definitely underrated in general. Not only in the musical and stylistic/atmospheric transition from R&B and blues to rock and roll, but in the prominence across multicultural audiences of a black musician (not to mention the implications of a black man leading white bandmates.)

Well, single most influential artist to the whole of Rock & Roll, might be a more accurate description.