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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1982)
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Come in today and check our classic selection of children’s literature. Upstairs in General Books Hurry! Stock is limited. Cash register sales only. 13th S Kincaid Mon-Frl 7 30-5 30 Sat 1000-3 00 Qanaral Books (M-1S10 as Chuck Berry Continued from Page 1 B None of those songs addressed the reality of teenagers lives. Not until Berry i — not until they heard him sing ing and playing with his slick and almost maniacal intensity. Berry had an uncanny ear and eye for the angst of American youth, black and white. He sang of V-8 Fo'ds and Coupe de Villes, capricious loves, sweet sixteen, jukeboxes, rockin’ in Boston and Pittsburgh P A and being almost grown It was the truth Berry s stage show was a phenomenon separate from his brilliant recordings. On stage he personified rock music's infec tious rhythms. This jumpy, pompadoured, brown-eyed handsome black man in his baggy trousers was the con summate rocker. Whether doing the spiits, bouncing across the stage on his heel while strum ming up the frets of his cherry finish Gibson Stereo guitar or doing the "duck walk," he was rarely motionless. Always the professional, Berry played the hits the audience called out for as if it was the first time He was touring almost constantly, "one hundred and one nights in one hundred and one days.” From New York to Los Angeles and back again, Berry did the big package shows through 1959 while he kept writing hits. The list is voluminous, atter "Maybellene" came "Roll Over Beethoven," and then his "Schooldays,” Sweet Little Sixteen,” "Rock n' Roll Music,” "Johnny B Goode," "Oh Baby Doll," "Memphis" and "Reelin' and Rockin’.” Thereafter are hits, lesser hits, seminal hits and personal favorites Sailor talkin' to me, Tryin' to run me up a creek, Go on, you can buy it, You can try it, You can pay me next week, ahhh, Too much monkey business, For me to be involved with you. Too Much Monkey Business You know I’m doin' all right in school, You know I don’t break too many rules, I don’t ever get in dutch, I don’t browse around too much. Almost Grown V Graphic courtesy of Zorro Studios Berry’s tunes are considered the prototypes of how to phrase rock lyrics. The phtas^s reap between the on and off-tlme and are resolved right on beat. Berry explains his lyrics by saying "ft's mathematics. If it’s eight beats' to two bars, then you can sing eighteen syllables. It’s always best to sing fifteen, so you can grab a breath now and then.” Berry fell out of favor in the early 60s, partly due to legal problems, partly due to changes in the music scene American youth all but forgot the progeni tor of rock music until British musicians came across the Atlantic singing Berry’s tunes. It was something of a shock to hear the Beatles and Rolling Stones playing “Round and Round," “Roll Over Beeth oven" and “Little Queenie," redefining the music for the next generation It is said imitation is the sh eerest form of flattery. The Bri tish musicians were playing Berry's tunes with only minor changes from his original arrangements. Pete Town shend, in “Substitute," may have been thinking of Berry when he wrote "I look all white, but my dad was black." Berry is a taciturn man who lives a reclusive life in Wentz ville, Mo. He still tours and plays selective gigs with performers like Bo Diddley. It's almost odd that the man who did so much for breaking down the barriers of race, who all but singlehan dedly defined the form known as rock n' roll, who has survived almost three tumultuous decades of music should live quietly in Berry Park Perhaps it’s not odd — perhaps it's apt Let me hear some of that rock 'n' roll music, Any old way you choose it, It's got a back beat you can't lose it, Any old way you use it, It's gotta be rock n' roll music, If you wanna dance with me Rock'n 'Roll Music By Cort Fernald Wed,Dec 8 8pm EMU Ballroom Hug* Donc* floor , with limited fating TickoH tri IMU Main Ootk, tofthrlvor kotorpt Happy Troth in Cortollh and phono ardor of *#« 4 J6 J Pabll« »h°* iHMHMimmmg Fuji Metal 90 Reg $9 30 OUR PRICE $4.95 TDK SA-90 Reg $5 89 OUR PRICE $2.99 yQ Supplies MM-4331 13th a Kincaid Mon Fn 7 30-5 30 Sal 10 00-3 00 •UMT
