@joenatescott A lot of artists had elements of RocknRoll, but Chuck Berry, MORE THAN ANY OTHER EARLY ROCKER, brought those elements together added a youthful perspective and lyrical & instrumental sophistication to create what we call RocknRoll. Chuck Berry's RnR was the most fully developed lyrically and instrumentally of all the early rockers. His RocknRoll WAS RocknRoll. That's why EVERYONE did Chuck Berry songs. He's RocknRoll's 1st genius. If you can't see it you're in denial.
yesterday, i had a dream. I dream I was BACK IN THE U.S.A. riding a classic Bel Air '56 on the ROUTE 66 with my radio on listening to Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones and The Beatles. I hope this dream was a predication!!!
Nah, The Beatles' early stuff could rock you out of your seat. The Stones had nothin on them. Just listen to both of their versions of I Wanna Be Your Man. Or The Beatles version of Long Tall Sally.
it's funny how it's always mentioned about come together, but it's never mentioned that Bruce Springsteen's song "Open all night" not only has the same chord progression, and similar lyrical style, but even uses exact words "New Jersey turnpike in the wee wee hours..." I've always love the Springsteen song, still due, never heard the Chuck Berry song, now I know were Bruce got his inspiration for that one.
All the idiots that think John Lennon copied this song is stupid, Come Together has its own bass line, the drums is completley different, same with the guitar, so I dont know who started this false rumour, but whoever it was is an idiot
@CoIeStones Well, you'll have to count John Lennon as one of those idiots because he settled out of court when Berry's publisher sued, and he recorded "Rock 'N' Roll in 1975 as a stipulation of that settlement. Only Lennon was sued for his portion: the lyrics. If you're not deaf, listen to 0:48 of Chuck Berry's song here, then listen to the opening line of the Beatles song. "Here come a flat-top, he was mooovin up with me" becomes, "Here come old flat-top, her was groovin up slowly."
@abcedertree Ohh one line of words big deal, the rest of the song is completely different, its not as bad as everyone using Chuck Berry's riff, the worst one is Surfin USA and Sweet Little Sixteen, the whole song is almost the exact same, so why dont you go on some Beach Boys videos and bitch about that instead
I don't see how this sounds anything like Come Together aside from some lyrical similarities. Lennon had a lot of respect for 1950s rock and art is about inspiration. I'm sure anyone behind any kind of lawsuit was some record executive who knows little about art, music, or compassion
Wowwww :O. Well apparently John Lennon "stole" a bit of the melody from this song to form the song "Come together". But the thing is, I really can't hear which bit was copied, so either 1) John Lennon is such a good artist that he is good at disguising these things, or 2) I'm deaf. And I'm not deaf.
@EcirpWehttam well there actually was such a thing built, but it wasn't quite like that it was basicaly a car with airplane wings ontop of it. They were not too common and didn't really catch on. The first one ever built is settled at the Boeing Feild Musem of Flight
The Beatles ARE over rated and highly commercialized, and I've been very hard pressed to listen to a single Beatles song that sounded even 'okay'. They suck. Fuckin' limeys.
@QuasiApostle I agree. They are a little over-rated. The songs are not that great. But the band still has 150 pretty good songs. Most bands have 3 great songs- 4 pretty good songs and 100 lousy songs. The Band was promoted heavily by Capitol Records. I agree, the stuff wasn't that great. Good, though
Some of you people that have commented really don't know REAL fucking music.
Slagging John Lennon off? Who do you think you are? He may have sang out of his nose, but look where that got him... Apart of one of the most successful bands in British pop history. And calling the Beatles overrated?! Ha! That's a load of fucking BULL SHIT.
CHUCK BERRY + JOHN LENNON ARE A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! FACT!
@Ellie96Smelly If you don't like a band and it happens to be VERY succesfull, "overrated" would be a good term to use. I don't like their music so I won't say anything to begin with (into the older stuff), but just let everyone else have their own god damned opinions.
@Ellie96Smelly You're nuts. They were lyrically very original, but not instrumentally--Because is just Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played backwards and Come Together's ripped off this...They are extremely overrated. The only folks that ignore the fact usually haven't heard much else from the period or are just uneducated on the subject and/or just do so because it's a trend. Comparing them to the magnificent Hendrix or Dylan is just mindless, especially since Bob introduced them to psychedelia.
@topor120 Maybe he wasn't original at first. But he grew and very quickly began to write his own music. The Beatles were stealing all the way through their career.
Many people are stealing, it does not mean they are bad.
The Beatles did not steal so much. But their music is still very interesting. I have nothing against Chuck Berry, but I do not like when people say that The Beatles pacifiers.
(Hopefully not a lot of mistakes, because the Google translated)
@Transformers2themax Instrumentally, they were original. The sitar in "Norwegian Wood", the chords in Yesterday o Eleanor Rigby, the weird sounds in Sgt. Peppers, the Moog synthesizer in Here Comes the Sun. Neither The Beatles or Dylan created psychedelia.
@zzfr10 No, don't get me wrong, I agree with everything you just said. They're just highly overrated. I'm tired of people narrowing an era with such a large selection of music all down to The Beatles. They made some great music and they were very talented, but they weren't the most innovative nor the most original band that ever walked the face of the earth. It's gotten to the point of which they're generic.
@Transformers2themax The Beatles are my favorite band but I admit that they weren't the most innovative nor original band in the world as you said. I dont think they're highly overrated, maybe a bit.
@zzfr10 That's your opinion. It's just that if anyone thinks of the '60s these days, it has to be The Beatles, and that bothers me. All the kids of the newer generations that still feed off of the plasticky mainstream garbage of today will even defend The Beatles, regardless if they can even name any of their music or have even heard any of it. It's getting to be too much of a trend. That's why everyone likes The Beatles.
@Transformers2themax they were masters in melody, they wrote songs that now are anthems, the quality control of their records since Rubber Soul is amazing. And they broke up in their best moment.
@zzfr10 Exactly, psychedelic music has been around forever--it even trails back to Native-American tribal hymns. Most folks aren't even informed of the fact that surf rock was psychedelic as well...long before The Beatles got into it; back when they were just a generic doo-wop rock'n'roll band.
@alexbsrammstein19 :Without "Ida Red" an American traditional song, no ""Maybelle" and no Chuck Berry. Surely a good guitarist for Rock...but Rock is a primitive music. Compare with guitarists from South America or Europe or Arab...Chuck Berry was good essentially for US teenagers who loved eat hamburgers and drink coca-cola
@TheQuipetro Primitive ?! And he isn't good he The Man , also you put a extra o in good . And just where are you from? yes we really love cheeseburgers and a glass bottle Coca Cola it is one of the greatest combinations .and you didn't spell Maybellene right.
@Jacobrester : But because 85% of US population came from Europe so, ...you understand what it means.
Chuck Berry did not invent anything. He used the same chords that the musicians were using in Europe during the Middle Ages. You can find this information on millions of publications.
@Jacobrester "The whole world listens to american music and copies it".. ha ha Is that Native Americian ie Red Indian music or the immigrant population music from Africa and Europe?
@jackiechampion : The Beatles were musicians before hearing Chuck Berry. You can also say that without T-Bone Walker there wouldn't be Chuck Berry.......And without Blind Lemon Jefferson there wouldn't be T-Bone Walker................And Without.....And Without.....And Without.....
@TheQuipetro Lennon and McCartney were barely into their teens when they first heard Chuck, nascent musicians, undeveloped; Lennon couldn't even tune his own guitar before he met McCartney. It was listening to and emulating Chuck that developed them as musicians and, more to the point, took them in the direction that led to what the Beatles were. The Beatles would not exist, certainly not as you know them, without Chuck Berry. Hell, rock and roll wouldn't exist with Chuck. He was its 1st genius.
@jackiechampion : Without T-Bone Walker there wouldn't be Chuck Berry.......Chuck Berry would not exist, certainly not as you know them, without T-Bone Walker
@jackiechampion So what you are saying is that Chuck berry is older than the Beatles!! Berry may have been rock's first genius, but the Beatles were its greatest. Sure, they were kids when CB was at his peak, but so what? They didn't have any control over that. Like all great musicians they borrowed from and imitated a wide range of sources.
Why JL would concede a law suit that Come Together copied this is beyond me. Apart from the Old Flat Top line, they have only faint similarity.
@garethb1961 Way to miss the point there, garethb1961. No, the point isn't that Chuck was older. The point is that he set the form, structure, content, themes, instrumental voice, in short the blueprint for Rock and Roll, that the Beatles and everyone else followed as they developed into artists. I love the Beatles and they certainly became their own artists, creating music that was wholly original and their own but like the Stones they started by adhering to the Chuck Berry musical model.
The second difference is that Chuck Berry has always used the same chords and chord progressions. Not the Beatles. As wrote the musicologist Alan W. Pollack. : " Every typical Beatles' song has at least one rather unconventional chord progression." And it's for these reason that Bob Dylan said about The Beatles : " "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid "
About The Beatles: There are 2 huge difference between this band and Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry played only US music. With The Beatles, we can hear influences of Irish, English, Continental Europe, Indian, US music and even Arabic music. (And for this reason that the jazz musicians say that The Beatles invented the World Music.).
SECOND POST : About "Maybelle" a Chuck Berry's song. This song was inspired by another song : "Ida Red" an American traditional song of unknown origins. The earliest recording is a one by Fiddlin' Powers & Family. In the 1930s Bob Wills took the old tune and set it to a 2/4 dance beat to be played by his Western swing dance band, the Texas Playboys. Berry have based the music in his song on Bob Wills' versions of "Ida Red". (like the Beach Boys with ''Surfin Usa'' ).
First Post : To @com730 : If you are born deaf, you can't play or create music. Why? Just because you've never heard music. If you are born non-deaf, then you will be consciously or unconsciously influenced by the music you've heard. It's a scientific fact. So, in the history of humanity, never ONE only person has invented a new music . So, Chuck Berry did not invent a new music. So, consciously or unconsciously all the songs credited Chuck Berry came from others songs.
TheQuipetro ok i think i shouldve been more specific iknow it wasent chuck berry who sued. He was a generouse person, but however he did sue the beach boys for using his tune for ''surfin usa'' and tell me onme song chuck has that plagerisms other peoples songs
10menriquez how can u share somebody elses song? he didnt give them permission to do wat they did, i bet if they woouldve asked he wouldve let them but they didnt which is why he sued them
@corn730 Firstly, it's not Chuck Berry who sued John Lennon but Music mogul Morris Levy, music publisher and one of the wealthiest men in the industry. Levy was known as a notorious money-grabber, who had reportedly once managed to acquire the rights to the phrase “rock and roll” so that he could collect money each time it was used. And why he sued John Lennon? only for one sentence. (If you listen Chuck Berry you will notice that he he borrowed a lot of sentence has other artists)
i will agree that come together has the same rythem(pretty sure thats the term i want) as this song but i dont agree the lennon stole come together, there is no plagerism here they are two completly different songs
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zzfr10 6 days ago
THIS IS THE FIRST TUNE THAT MADE ME.AND I BET IF YOU R READING THIS IT WAS YOURS2.
fenbogle 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
THIS TUNE IS LEDGEND.
fenbogle 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Here come ol' flattop, he come groovin' up slowly"
MelvinatorX 2 months ago 2
CUSTOM MADE
fenbogle 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
THE STATE PATROL CAN KISS MY CHUCKS TAIL SMOKE EEH EEEHH HHEEE OOOOOHHHHWE
fenbogle 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
the bass player just goes nuts with the dissonance
UngKristen 2 months ago
wasnt there a lawsuit involving this song
burtisandrob 3 months ago
CHUCK BERRY IS THE KING OF FUCKING ROCK AND ROLL.
POINT BLANK PERIOD.
niggaT42000 3 months ago
i can see a similarity but more john was influeneced not plagerlising
weeda2008 3 months ago
the only similarity i heard was he said come on flat top witch is a reference to the type of engine some fifties cars had.
TheFootyboy17 3 months ago
No, baby, you cain't catch me...
JimboUSofA 3 months ago
LEDGEND.
fenbogle 4 months ago in playlist fenbogle's favourites
@joenatescott A lot of artists had elements of RocknRoll, but Chuck Berry, MORE THAN ANY OTHER EARLY ROCKER, brought those elements together added a youthful perspective and lyrical & instrumental sophistication to create what we call RocknRoll. Chuck Berry's RnR was the most fully developed lyrically and instrumentally of all the early rockers. His RocknRoll WAS RocknRoll. That's why EVERYONE did Chuck Berry songs. He's RocknRoll's 1st genius. If you can't see it you're in denial.
jackiechampion 4 months ago
yesterday, i had a dream. I dream I was BACK IN THE U.S.A. riding a classic Bel Air '56 on the ROUTE 66 with my radio on listening to Chuck Berry, Rolling Stones and The Beatles. I hope this dream was a predication!!!
Tenaz001 4 months ago
goddamn it doesnt get any better than this
rakgtr 5 months ago in playlist rakgtr's Favorited Videos
great song
shanehenning26 6 months ago
This is real- that's the difference. Stones rock, Beatles are rather naff imo :)
safari8soldier 6 months ago
@safari8soldier go to hell asshole
hectorriosjaime 5 months ago
@hectorriosjaime Don't believe there's such a place!
safari8soldier 5 months ago
@safari8soldier that wuz a good one, even I apretiate a good come back, but still rott in hell :)
hectorriosjaime 5 months ago
@hectorriosjaime You can't spell 'was' and all this talk of hell makes me think you're a child. Just leave me alone!
safari8soldier 5 months ago
@safari8soldier
Nah, The Beatles' early stuff could rock you out of your seat. The Stones had nothin on them. Just listen to both of their versions of I Wanna Be Your Man. Or The Beatles version of Long Tall Sally.
kingdancekiller 5 months ago
i like this one better then the JL version, more rock n roll in this one
jetjdsimon 6 months ago
@jetjdsimon they have nothing in common
hectorriosjaime 5 months ago
it's funny how it's always mentioned about come together, but it's never mentioned that Bruce Springsteen's song "Open all night" not only has the same chord progression, and similar lyrical style, but even uses exact words "New Jersey turnpike in the wee wee hours..." I've always love the Springsteen song, still due, never heard the Chuck Berry song, now I know were Bruce got his inspiration for that one.
AngryKeegan 6 months ago
this does not sounds like come together..
sebaba001 6 months ago
@sebaba001 the Lennon version is closer to Come together
guisamor1 6 months ago
All the idiots that think John Lennon copied this song is stupid, Come Together has its own bass line, the drums is completley different, same with the guitar, so I dont know who started this false rumour, but whoever it was is an idiot
CoIeStones 7 months ago 2
@CoIeStones Well, you'll have to count John Lennon as one of those idiots because he settled out of court when Berry's publisher sued, and he recorded "Rock 'N' Roll in 1975 as a stipulation of that settlement. Only Lennon was sued for his portion: the lyrics. If you're not deaf, listen to 0:48 of Chuck Berry's song here, then listen to the opening line of the Beatles song. "Here come a flat-top, he was mooovin up with me" becomes, "Here come old flat-top, her was groovin up slowly."
abcedertree 7 months ago
@abcedertree Ohh one line of words big deal, the rest of the song is completely different, its not as bad as everyone using Chuck Berry's riff, the worst one is Surfin USA and Sweet Little Sixteen, the whole song is almost the exact same, so why dont you go on some Beach Boys videos and bitch about that instead
CoIeStones 7 months ago
Hhhmmm shall we say "Come Together"??? Long Live Chuck Berry!
historiadorderock 8 months ago
I don't see how this sounds anything like Come Together aside from some lyrical similarities. Lennon had a lot of respect for 1950s rock and art is about inspiration. I'm sure anyone behind any kind of lawsuit was some record executive who knows little about art, music, or compassion
allthiseverything 8 months ago
Wowwww :O. Well apparently John Lennon "stole" a bit of the melody from this song to form the song "Come together". But the thing is, I really can't hear which bit was copied, so either 1) John Lennon is such a good artist that he is good at disguising these things, or 2) I'm deaf. And I'm not deaf.
GagasLitteMonster 8 months ago
Faggy shit
PiiNutZz 9 months ago
@PiiNutZz Go screw yourself.
Maxbtwshow 6 months ago
Anyway, if Lennon was sued for this, so should B. Dylan...
But of course Chuck didn't sue Lennon, but a Corporate Bastard behind the Record Company.
empathy: /watch?v=h9kgu71d81U
Andresanz 10 months ago 4
why?
aixalennon 11 months ago
sounds more like one after 909 than come together
MusicByTheMoon 1 year ago 33
well said in the "info" part
to me, chuck berry = rock & roll
rockyraaacoon 1 year ago
"Here come a flat-top, he was movin' up with me"
I think this inspired the lyrics to Come Together by The Beatles.
Mazza4Azza 1 year ago
@Mazza4Azza Well, Lennon was sued because of it.
Jabels24 1 year ago
@Jabels24
Really?
Mazza4Azza 1 year ago
I'm always gone like a cool breeze!
phillyb666 1 year ago 3
what a genius, man.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@999duhast Yeah music would be very different without beatles. Much better in my opinion.
niezaleznyrealista 1 year ago
This song inspired me to design a car and call it the airmobile. Thank you Chuck Berry
EcirpWehttam 1 year ago
@EcirpWehttam well there actually was such a thing built, but it wasn't quite like that it was basicaly a car with airplane wings ontop of it. They were not too common and didn't really catch on. The first one ever built is settled at the Boeing Feild Musem of Flight
musicbox193 1 year ago
@musicbox193 Oh, so did you see my design?
EcirpWehttam 1 year ago
@EcirpWehttam I don't think I did
musicbox193 1 year ago
And people why so much negative comments , don't look at something if you don't like it , but i don't know how you couldn't like Chuck Berry.
trippberry 1 year ago
The Beatles ARE over rated and highly commercialized, and I've been very hard pressed to listen to a single Beatles song that sounded even 'okay'. They suck. Fuckin' limeys.
QuasiApostle 1 year ago
@QuasiApostle I agree. They are a little over-rated. The songs are not that great. But the band still has 150 pretty good songs. Most bands have 3 great songs- 4 pretty good songs and 100 lousy songs. The Band was promoted heavily by Capitol Records. I agree, the stuff wasn't that great. Good, though
jameycruz2 1 year ago
Some of you people that have commented really don't know REAL fucking music.
Slagging John Lennon off? Who do you think you are? He may have sang out of his nose, but look where that got him... Apart of one of the most successful bands in British pop history. And calling the Beatles overrated?! Ha! That's a load of fucking BULL SHIT.
CHUCK BERRY + JOHN LENNON ARE A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! FACT!
Ellie96Smelly 1 year ago 60
@Ellie96Smelly The Beatles are a great band and the biggest band ever but they are overated.
PrimalStones 9 months ago
@PrimalStones They aren't overated, they just have a load of amazing dedicated fans.
GagasLitteMonster 8 months ago
@GagasLitteMonster They are i'm sorry
PrimalStones 8 months ago
@PrimalStones In YOUR opinion (Y)
GagasLitteMonster 8 months ago
@PrimalStones thou shall jiizz upon your soul
Abe91195 7 months ago
@Ellie96Smelly Yeh but chuck was never as popular, because he was black.
BenjaminKuruga 8 months ago
@Ellie96Smelly If you don't like a band and it happens to be VERY succesfull, "overrated" would be a good term to use. I don't like their music so I won't say anything to begin with (into the older stuff), but just let everyone else have their own god damned opinions.
TheDJGrandPa 6 months ago
@Ellie96Smelly But only John Lennon is amazing right? Not the rest of the Beatles? Even though he would be nothing without the Beatles.
Whatever bring on the hate because I insulted the reincarnation of fucking Jesus. I don't care.
chookieJS 4 months ago
@Ellie96Smelly You're nuts. They were lyrically very original, but not instrumentally--Because is just Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played backwards and Come Together's ripped off this...They are extremely overrated. The only folks that ignore the fact usually haven't heard much else from the period or are just uneducated on the subject and/or just do so because it's a trend. Comparing them to the magnificent Hendrix or Dylan is just mindless, especially since Bob introduced them to psychedelia.
Transformers2themax 3 weeks ago
@Transformers2themax
like Bob Dylan did not steal
topor120 1 week ago
@topor120 Maybe he wasn't original at first. But he grew and very quickly began to write his own music. The Beatles were stealing all the way through their career.
Transformers2themax 1 week ago
@Transformers2themax
Many people are stealing, it does not mean they are bad.
The Beatles did not steal so much. But their music is still very interesting. I have nothing against Chuck Berry, but I do not like when people say that The Beatles pacifiers.
(Hopefully not a lot of mistakes, because the Google translated)
topor120 1 week ago
@Transformers2themax Instrumentally, they were original. The sitar in "Norwegian Wood", the chords in Yesterday o Eleanor Rigby, the weird sounds in Sgt. Peppers, the Moog synthesizer in Here Comes the Sun. Neither The Beatles or Dylan created psychedelia.
zzfr10 6 days ago
@zzfr10 No, don't get me wrong, I agree with everything you just said. They're just highly overrated. I'm tired of people narrowing an era with such a large selection of music all down to The Beatles. They made some great music and they were very talented, but they weren't the most innovative nor the most original band that ever walked the face of the earth. It's gotten to the point of which they're generic.
Transformers2themax 6 days ago
@Transformers2themax The Beatles are my favorite band but I admit that they weren't the most innovative nor original band in the world as you said. I dont think they're highly overrated, maybe a bit.
zzfr10 6 days ago
@zzfr10 That's your opinion. It's just that if anyone thinks of the '60s these days, it has to be The Beatles, and that bothers me. All the kids of the newer generations that still feed off of the plasticky mainstream garbage of today will even defend The Beatles, regardless if they can even name any of their music or have even heard any of it. It's getting to be too much of a trend. That's why everyone likes The Beatles.
Transformers2themax 5 days ago
@Transformers2themax they were masters in melody, they wrote songs that now are anthems, the quality control of their records since Rubber Soul is amazing. And they broke up in their best moment.
zzfr10 6 days ago
@zzfr10 Exactly, psychedelic music has been around forever--it even trails back to Native-American tribal hymns. Most folks aren't even informed of the fact that surf rock was psychedelic as well...long before The Beatles got into it; back when they were just a generic doo-wop rock'n'roll band.
Transformers2themax 6 days ago
Legend...pure rock genius
YodaBannon 1 year ago 2
There wouldn't be any Beatles without Chuck Berry! FACT!
jackiechampion 1 year ago
@jackiechampion probably there weren't nothing without chuck berry.
alexbsrammstein19 1 year ago
@alexbsrammstein19 :Without "Ida Red" an American traditional song, no ""Maybelle" and no Chuck Berry. Surely a good guitarist for Rock...but Rock is a primitive music. Compare with guitarists from South America or Europe or Arab...Chuck Berry was good essentially for US teenagers who loved eat hamburgers and drink coca-cola
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
@TheQuipetro Primitive ?! And he isn't good he The Man , also you put a extra o in good . And just where are you from? yes we really love cheeseburgers and a glass bottle Coca Cola it is one of the greatest combinations .and you didn't spell Maybellene right.
trippberry 1 year ago
@TheQuipetro The whole world listens to american music and copies it.....say what you will
Jacobrester 1 year ago
@Jacobrester : But because 85% of US population came from Europe so, ...you understand what it means.
Chuck Berry did not invent anything. He used the same chords that the musicians were using in Europe during the Middle Ages. You can find this information on millions of publications.
TheQuipetro 6 months ago
@Jacobrester "The whole world listens to american music and copies it".. ha ha Is that Native Americian ie Red Indian music or the immigrant population music from Africa and Europe?
youareslick 5 months ago
@jackiechampion RIGHT ON
trippberry 1 year ago
@jackiechampion : The Beatles were musicians before hearing Chuck Berry. You can also say that without T-Bone Walker there wouldn't be Chuck Berry.......And without Blind Lemon Jefferson there wouldn't be T-Bone Walker................And Without.....And Without.....And Without.....
TheQuipetro 6 months ago
@TheQuipetro Lennon and McCartney were barely into their teens when they first heard Chuck, nascent musicians, undeveloped; Lennon couldn't even tune his own guitar before he met McCartney. It was listening to and emulating Chuck that developed them as musicians and, more to the point, took them in the direction that led to what the Beatles were. The Beatles would not exist, certainly not as you know them, without Chuck Berry. Hell, rock and roll wouldn't exist with Chuck. He was its 1st genius.
jackiechampion 6 months ago
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@jackiechampion : Without T-Bone Walker there wouldn't be Chuck Berry.......Chuck Berry would not exist, certainly not as you know them, without T-Bone Walker
TheQuipetro 6 months ago
@jackiechampion George Martin hermano, George Martin.
10nL5nn16N 6 months ago
@jackiechampion So what you are saying is that Chuck berry is older than the Beatles!! Berry may have been rock's first genius, but the Beatles were its greatest. Sure, they were kids when CB was at his peak, but so what? They didn't have any control over that. Like all great musicians they borrowed from and imitated a wide range of sources.
Why JL would concede a law suit that Come Together copied this is beyond me. Apart from the Old Flat Top line, they have only faint similarity.
garethb1961 5 months ago
@garethb1961 Way to miss the point there, garethb1961. No, the point isn't that Chuck was older. The point is that he set the form, structure, content, themes, instrumental voice, in short the blueprint for Rock and Roll, that the Beatles and everyone else followed as they developed into artists. I love the Beatles and they certainly became their own artists, creating music that was wholly original and their own but like the Stones they started by adhering to the Chuck Berry musical model.
jackiechampion 5 months ago
hey baby let me pee on ya
jimjohnson19777 1 year ago
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stopthehatechild 1 year ago
Look at all you beatles hatters
I bet all you beatles hatters listen to gay screamo music you fags
BEATLES ARE THE BEST
AND ALWAYS WILL BE
crammiddleschool 1 year ago
@crammiddleschool That's a widely held opinion.
Middler124 1 year ago
@crammiddleschool hatters? mad hatters?
UltimateVenom 1 year ago
@crammiddleschool
how are we hating by listening to chuck berry(is it cos of beaupeep cos he's a moron, he's basicly suggesting we audio-tune John Lenon)
the rest of us are lovely people, and I personaly LOVE the beatles
boredna 1 year ago
One of Chuck's best.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
The second difference is that Chuck Berry has always used the same chords and chord progressions. Not the Beatles. As wrote the musicologist Alan W. Pollack. : " Every typical Beatles' song has at least one rather unconventional chord progression." And it's for these reason that Bob Dylan said about The Beatles : " "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid "
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
@TheQuipetro Oh give me a fucking break. Take the Beatles and shove 'em up your ass.
beaupeep1 1 year ago
@beaupeep1 wow. really? REALLY? the beatles? fucking antichrist.
ALKOpadman 1 year ago
@ALKOpadman Beatles=most overrated group of all time. John Lennon sang through his nose,
beaupeep1 1 year ago
About The Beatles: There are 2 huge difference between this band and Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry played only US music. With The Beatles, we can hear influences of Irish, English, Continental Europe, Indian, US music and even Arabic music. (And for this reason that the jazz musicians say that The Beatles invented the World Music.).
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
@TheQuipetro You're really talking out of your ass now.
beaupeep1 1 year ago
@TheQuipetro Hey...you really need to stop talking out of your ass...Just like John Lennon needed to stop singing out of his nose.
beaupeep1 1 year ago
SECOND POST : About "Maybelle" a Chuck Berry's song. This song was inspired by another song : "Ida Red" an American traditional song of unknown origins. The earliest recording is a one by Fiddlin' Powers & Family. In the 1930s Bob Wills took the old tune and set it to a 2/4 dance beat to be played by his Western swing dance band, the Texas Playboys. Berry have based the music in his song on Bob Wills' versions of "Ida Red". (like the Beach Boys with ''Surfin Usa'' ).
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
First Post : To @com730 : If you are born deaf, you can't play or create music. Why? Just because you've never heard music. If you are born non-deaf, then you will be consciously or unconsciously influenced by the music you've heard. It's a scientific fact. So, in the history of humanity, never ONE only person has invented a new music . So, Chuck Berry did not invent a new music. So, consciously or unconsciously all the songs credited Chuck Berry came from others songs.
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
TheQuipetro ok i think i shouldve been more specific iknow it wasent chuck berry who sued. He was a generouse person, but however he did sue the beach boys for using his tune for ''surfin usa'' and tell me onme song chuck has that plagerisms other peoples songs
corn730 1 year ago
10menriquez how can u share somebody elses song? he didnt give them permission to do wat they did, i bet if they woouldve asked he wouldve let them but they didnt which is why he sued them
corn730 1 year ago
@corn730 Firstly, it's not Chuck Berry who sued John Lennon but Music mogul Morris Levy, music publisher and one of the wealthiest men in the industry. Levy was known as a notorious money-grabber, who had reportedly once managed to acquire the rights to the phrase “rock and roll” so that he could collect money each time it was used. And why he sued John Lennon? only for one sentence. (If you listen Chuck Berry you will notice that he he borrowed a lot of sentence has other artists)
TheQuipetro 1 year ago
wow beatles stole this why does everyone steal from chuck berry?!
corn730 1 year ago
@corn730 ... not stolen....SHARED!
10menriquez 1 year ago
i will agree that come together has the same rythem(pretty sure thats the term i want) as this song but i dont agree the lennon stole come together, there is no plagerism here they are two completly different songs
celticangel6898 1 year ago
that song remind me ''come together'' by the beatles
rughekhhi 1 year ago
I love what you've written about Chuck Berry. He truly is the Father of all modern rock based music and the true King of Rock 'n' Roll.
mjet7 2 years ago
This is the song that inspired John Lennon's Come Together...listen to the phrasing of the verses...thanks for posting this....
phillyboy25 2 years ago
@phillyboy25 No its not. Chuck Berry even charged Lennon of plagiarism....
miarocketmail 1 year ago
@miarocketmail well we can all agree that both Come Together and You Can't Catch Me are great songs
TheEverydayGeek 1 year ago
Absolutely love it!! Nice to see one the great pioneers getting some love. Hopefully this video will stay here for a while.
joensane 2 years ago 2