Barbara's Alternative Music Thread

I removed my videos and I suggest everybody else does too, except Barbara of course.
 
Gentlemen: we are discussing Mozart in this entry of the series. NOT blues or Johnny Cash. Many other selections will be made later: you will have your turn. And to re-repeat, the object is NOT to post videos but to listen and give your opinion.
 
OK, so Mozart was not a great hit.I now present the Master, Chuck Berry. He has been called the Father of Rock n Roll. There is no one person who “invented” rock, but he certainly was the architect that formed the foundation that all others built on. Band after band of the present era have credited their roots to him, including the Beatles, The Who, Eric Clapton, The Grateful Dead. He devised guitar licks that are the standard today including the Duck Walk, which involves hopping up and down on one leg whilst swinging the other leg. (If you try this at home, make sure the shades are drawn). He was a great guitarist and a witty lyricist. He was the first rock songwriter/performer, the first guitarist singer to reach the charts, His first hit was Maybelline. He was already 29 when that hit came out. Many connoisseurs feel Johnny B. Goode was his greatest cut, but my favourite is Roll Over Beethoven. He had a lot of humor in his songs. If you like this, and if you don’t you must be dead, go on YouTube and listen to his other songs, especially Run Run Rudolph which is a Christmas song! (All Chuck wants is an electric Guitar for Christmas, so he tells Rudolph, the head man, to hurry up and take the freeway to his house: it’s faster). So, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Johnny B. Goode. Now get off your chairs and dance around the house.
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NOW SOMEONE IMBED THIS FOR ME. I am at work and cannot fuss with this. Thank you
 

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He's probably the most influential figure in rock n' roll history without him music wouldn't be like it is today.
 
This thread fails.

-BC doesn't use paragraphes and ruins her posts by not bothering to learn a simple thing and because of that, it gets filled with a ruined youtube link.
-People don't seem to care about the music, they just thinks it's another "post music here" thread.
-Chuck Berry is not alternative music.
-There are some threads who's not filled with just rock. I've seen several soul, hiphop etc. And lots of oldies.
-I hate stickies.
-No one really contributes to the original cause.
-It's generally poor.


Please take the sticky off and let the boat try to float on it's own.
 
I'm not knowledgable enough to really determine Chuck Berry's significance to the world of music and I haven't really given his work a listen except the most well-known songs and allthough it's not what I listen to everyday it's definitely music I can kick back with a beer to. And if that's not a token of quality I don't know what is.
 
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