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.
Not just pioneers, but extensionists as well. But why distinguish them among the great family of creators and musicians? Because of racism that continues as best it can, quite simply...
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.
@K O 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... 🤣
@K O 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 🤷🏾♂️
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Chuck's best backing band and cleanest live performance. The band knew his stuff, cared about how they played it and Chuck was on. Hail Hail Rock n' Roll!
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 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!
My dad brought me to see him in July 1964 when I was 7 years old, along with Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino. Dad gave me a GOOD start on appreciating live music.
En tant qu'ancien plus grand connaisseur de tout l'univers, de JimiHendrix... cette vidéo est une merveille à tous les niveaux, je suis bouche bée...As a former connoisseur of the entire universe, about JimiHendrix... this video is a marvel at all levels, I am speechless ...
@@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 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.
Cameraman was a do-do. Didn't even pan out for the duckwalk. But, nonetheless, wonderful to get to see/hear this. This is the true value of RUclips. Hats off & heads bowed for Mr. Chuck Berry.
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.
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).
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
😂
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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
😢😢😢@@ed93435
Black people are pioneers of music period. Such a talented group of people
das raciss
@@victorvick1076das true, dummy
Not just pioneers, but extensionists as well.
But why distinguish them among the great family of creators and musicians?
Because of racism that continues as best it can, quite simply...
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..
@K O 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... 🤣
@K O 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 🤷🏾♂️
@@learner5090 Donna is the queen but Michael Jackson is still the greatest pop artist and musician in general
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
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.
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
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei well now we could say he doesnt (and you'd be right)
or we could stop being so anal and appreciate the whimsy
💯🎯
American legend. The real king of rock and roll.
Chuck Berry...the real King of Rock N'Roll 🎸👑
The rock n roll starting point. The tree of music wouldn’t have as many branches if it werent for this man
Beyoncé sempre me fazendo gostar de músicas novas. ❤
Tô aqui por causa dela também 🤣💛🐝
@@giovanna777 😂🐝💛
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
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.
Watching this just gave me 10 years of extra life 🖤
The youth need to watch that
Awesome 👏
He have a soulful voice
This is my favorite song 🎶 so tell me are you a fan of Chuck?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Damn chuck berry killed that solo one of the greatest guitar players ever
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.
CHUCK BERRY AWESOME.
AND THE CLASSIC CHUCK BERRY RIFF.
R.I.P
🇺🇸😘❤🙏
PSALM 23
THE LORD IS MY SHEPERD...
Chuck's best backing band and cleanest live performance. The band knew his stuff, cared about how they played it and Chuck was on. Hail Hail Rock n' Roll!
King of Rock and Roll
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
His rhythm and phrasing was so great.
Back when people didn't know about this rock and roll stuff. Chuck was a great rep.
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
Amazing that everyone is sitting there with their knees pressed together. Now they'd be up, dancing and really enjoying it!
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.
That was pretty badass.
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?
My dad brought me to see him in July 1964 when I was 7 years old, along with Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino.
Dad gave me a GOOD start on appreciating live music.
God of music, cant find a better live performance.
I saw chuck berry, little Richard and jerry lee Lewis a few years back. Great show.
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.
Can you imagine these people sitting quietly and still, listening to this uppity jam live?!??! I wouldn't be able to keep still
My 1st Rock,n,Roll record, bought 1957 @ RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. "Johnny Be Good" is the ANTHEM of Rock,n Roll
Htf he got this out of Ida red is beyond me. The real king of rock and roll.
The King of Rock 'N' Roll will NEVER leave the building!!
How lucky and unlucky to be the crowd at that time. Listening to the best and not move. Holy
While Chuck is alive, his audience here is dead. Long live the guitar player!
A Treasured Video!! Chuck Berry Live!
I watch this pretty regularly, to remind me what awesome is.
same
Finally, a good song trending on RUclips
Rest in peace Chuck
I'm starting to become a fan of Chuck Berry. This guy was amazing!
(I owe this to Back to the Future)
En tant qu'ancien plus grand connaisseur de tout l'univers, de JimiHendrix... cette vidéo est une merveille à tous les niveaux, je suis bouche bée...As a former connoisseur of the entire universe, about JimiHendrix... this video is a marvel at all levels, I am speechless ...
This guy was just pure awesomeness!!
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.
RIP Chuck, you'll be doing the duck walk forever. So will we. Thanks man.
My favorite Chuck Berry song still dancing to it at 67
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.
@@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.
this must be preserved for all of time
This guy was my childhood. Chuck berry turned 90 years old. He always made me happy. Thanks Chuck. I'll never forget you😭🙏
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.
The one and only true KING of Rock N Roll.
He is playing his guitar very very hurry, and singing the same time. Increible...
God bless you Chuck Berry. You will be missed. One of the great rock and rollers of all time!
Chuck Berry was and is a massive punch in the gut - and I mean that as a massive compliment. What a maverick. Such a joy to behold.
R.I.P. the real king of rock and roll
Cameraman was a do-do. Didn't even pan out for the duckwalk.
But, nonetheless, wonderful to get to see/hear this. This is the true value of RUclips.
Hats off & heads bowed for Mr. Chuck Berry.
The true king of rock in roll mos def did great job
Oh! Musique oh! Quel talent oh! belle époque merci pour partager
Good 😊 job I listen to this every day never get old
Rest in Peace Chuck Berry
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...
Such a hugely significant social snapshot, Chuck you changed America in a significant way. RIP.
"father of rock 'n' roll and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's first inductee....
RIP
So natural in front of the cameras. He and Jerry Lee never forgot their roots.......
Never be another. The true King of rock guitar. Rest peacefully Mr. Berry, and thank you so much. March 18, 2017.
The truue origin of rock n roll!!
the greatest guitar player and rock and roll singer and songwriter of all time all hail the king Chuck berry
Jaw dropping performance! Audience is in shock as to what they are seeing,
and loving every minute!
Uno de los músicos más talentosos y de los guitarristas más extraordinarios. Un verdadero pionero
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.
CHUCK BERRY jamming, singing and looking good and smiling.
Reminds me of Back to the Future. “I guess your not ready for this yet, but your parents will love it”
long live the king of rock R.I.P. Chuck Berry
How the crowd stays so calm is eerie.
love chuck berry
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.
Music is music thanks to you !!!! Forever grateful.......!!!!!
I was just 4 years old when the King of R&R played this. R.I.P
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"
The TRUE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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).
The greatest rock'n'roller of all times.
Thank you very much for this major legacy of yours.
Love the dude who run of stage😂
He's off to check his berry.
2:16 ustedes no están preparados para esto pero a sus hijos les va a encantar.
RIP Mr. Berry, you shaped rock n roll forever
Rest Easy Mr. Chuck Berry...YOU made an impact on this world...Thank YOU!
R.I.P Chuck, you are truly missed!
The day when modern music was born.