hornet61 said:
PS:.......If you haven't heard Chuck Berry lately, no band, goes thru the motions,
This, CB fans, IS Chuck Berry, he’s done this for years.
He drives himself to the venue and usually shows long after the warmup band finishes. He doesn’t rehearse (on the road), he hires local pickup musicians whenever possible and most often when he gets on stage he tells the band “follow me” and he does a guitar intro – if the backup musicians are any good they pick it up. He demands payment in cash before he goes on and pays the backup musicians the same way.
Moody, abrupt, demanding, and talented beyond words. CB is old, but he hasn’t lost his talent and guitar skills, and he can still excite the crowd to a fever pitch, one merely needs to catch him on a good day.