Hail! Hail! Rock-N-Roll

Chess Label, "Rock And Roll Music"’ Chuck Berry, originally uploaded by DaddyNewt.

I was at the show the night they shot the movie. We waited in line for two and a half hours on a cold october night. The doors opened at 11:30 PM for the second show of the night. Because of delays with the film crew, the show ran until 4:30 the next morning. It was tough going to work that next day but it was worth it to have seen that band. There was Chuck and his piano player Johnnie Johnson along with Keith Richards, Linda Ronstadt, Julian Lennon, Chuck Leavell, Etta James, Joe Walsh, Robert Cray and Eric Clapton. I saw most of those people either before or later at other shows but seeing them all together was a once in a lifetime event. I saw Chuck again a few months later under unusual circumstances. I was at a Husker Du show at Mississippi Nights (now defunct). At the time the club held about 250 people. There was a large crowd around a table off to one side and as the crowd parted I saw Chuck Berry was sitting there signing autographs. I ran into Chuck several times over the next few years. He would show up often at a little chinese restaurant where I would pick up carry-out for lunch. He was always impeccably dressed with alligator shoes that matched his suite color. Chuck Berry may have had some personal problems but his contribution to Rock and Roll is immeasurable … and he can play a guitar just like ringin’ a bell.

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