RIP thread

[johnbear]

[mr_baiter]

As BlueArsedFly pointed out, John Lennon's quote about calling Rock n' Roll Chuck Berry is right on the money.

Today, at the age of ninety, rock n' roll died.

For anyone who has ever picked up a guitar, no matter what their genre or niche of music, this is a sad day.

This means that the first generation of rockers, who created the music we most associate with being young, is now more or less gone; that leaves just Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis still kickin'.

There's probably one hell of a concert being staged right now in the afterlife, with Chuck, Elvis, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Bo Diddley, Phil Everly, Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochrane all on the bill. What a show that would be...

RIP Chuck Berry: Rock's first true poet.

[SpermShooter]

We've lost one of the Founders of Rock n Roll. I think it's safe to say without Chuck Berry, and his fellow artists like BB King, Fats Domino, Muddy Waters and Little Richard, there might never have been a Beatles or Rolling Stones.....

[Trip]

Originally Posted by maildude

The legend has passed away. Rock pioneer Chuck Berry is dead. Hail, Hail Rock N Roll.

Rest in Peace, and hopefully feel comfort in knowing you started it.



Chuck Berry:
Johnny B. Goode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVT65M4mRnM

[blueballsdc]

Chuck Berry. Another legend gone. Words fail me right now.

[maildude]

Berry covered a lot of old blues songs in his day, from some of the unsung talents of that genre. He borrowed a lot of their licks...then others borrowed his. Jimi Hendrix considered Berry to be one of his greatest influences.

[ball7]

The Legend Bernie Wrightson has passed away.
"Bernie was know for some many great works like his time on Swamp Thing, his work for Heavy Metal and his ground breaking Frankenstein book. He was an inspiration to so many artist working today… and he will be sorely missed."

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03...n-passed-away/

[Devius]

Originally Posted by ball7

The Legend Bernie Wrightson has passed away.
"Bernie was know for some many great works like his time on Swamp Thing, his work for Heavy Metal and his ground breaking Frankenstein book. He was an inspiration to so many artist working today… and he will be sorely missed."

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/03...n-passed-away/

That's a real shame - the man was a true comics genius, and I loved his "Swamp Thing" as a kid.

RIP Bernie - you will be missed....

[tsunamiSD]

from Mark Evanier's blog:

The very popular comic artist and illustrator Bernie Wrightson passed away yesterday after a long battle with brain cancer. His beloved wife Liz has posted a much better obit over at his website than I could possibly write so I'll just share a few memories of the man.
Her piece says his first professional work appeared in House of Mystery #179 in 1968. I remember seeing him first in The Spectre #9 which came out the same month. That story carried no credit or signature and several folks in our comic book club were convinced it was by Frank Frazetta who was, of course, Bernie's hero. First time I met Bernie, I told him that and he said it was the greatest compliment he could have received.
Actually, his early work looked Frazetta-inspired but not interchangeable. And within a few years, Bernie had developed his own, unique style which recalled not only Frazetta, but Graham Ingels and other veterans of EC Comics, as well as plenty of non-comic illustrators. It wasn't long before that the elements of it that were pure Wrightson were turning up in the works of others. By the time he and Len Wein created Swamp Thing and produced the early issues, he was a major force in his field. That was just three years after he got into that field.
My other memories of him are just of hanging around at conventions, sitting in the bar at night, talking endlessly about this and that. As a person, he was like his artwork: Impossible to dislike. And pretty darned humble. The first hundred times he was asked for his autograph, he seemed genuinely surprised and flattered.
It was so sad that he was unable to draw in the last few years, and sadder yet to lose such a good man. I suppose we can take some comfort that his work — especially those issues of Swamp Thing — will be reprinted over and over again in years to come…but obviously, that's not enough. Not nearly enough. He was 68 years old.

[tygrkhat40]

"Well all Chuck's children are out there playing his licks"

--Bob Seger, "Rock and Roll Never Forgets"

Many of rock's guitar players picked up the instrument because of Chuck Berry, including Keith Richards, John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen. Jimmy Johnson, one of the co-founders of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, wanted to play guitar because he saw a local player doing "Johnny B. Goode" and decided he wanted to do that as well.

The impact of Chuck Berry on music and culture is incalculable. And beyond.

....On April 22, 1978 during an SNL segment, "Next Week in Review" it was announced that after capturing the Voyager spacecraft, the first alien message received by earth would be this:

...Maxine Universe: Well, uh, Cocuwa -- you predicted every Time Magazine cover for the last two years. Um, what's going to be on the Time Magazine cover this week -- uh, next week -- the Pope's cloning, the nuclear dump disappearance, or the Boone-napping?

Cocuwa: NONE of the above, Maxine! You know that my adopted name -- Cocuwa -- means "To help without compensation" in Hawaiian. And I have NOTHING to gain in ANY way from the personal wealth of my great gift. I believe... next week's Time cover... will be about the recent communication from outer space.

Kreeg Antwoord: Uh -- uh -- uh, Cocuwa -- I agree with you that it would be the biggest story if the message was of any importance. But we all know how trivial it is.

Maxine Universe: Well, what -- you mean a foreign planet will actually send a message next week?

Cocuwa: No! A foreign planet actually SENT us a message last week. Next week, the government will reveal the message to the public.

Kreeg Antwoord: [ coughing ] You see, it all started on August 20th, 1977, when NASA put up a recording of the sounds of Earth on Voyager I. A two-hour long tape included, uh, natural sounds of animals, a French poem by Gaugliere, a passage from the Koran in Arabic, messages from President Carter, United Nations Secretary Kurt Waldheim, music -- everything from classical to Chuck Berry.

Maxine Universe: Uh -- and you're saying that the, uh -- another civilization has found the tape?

Cocuwa: Yes. They've sent us a message that actually proves it. It may be just four simple words, but it is the FIRST positive proof that other intelligent beings inhabit the universe.

Maxine Universe: Uh -- what are the four words, Cocuwa?

Cocuwa: The four words that came to us from outer space -- the FOUR words that will appear on the cover of Time Magazine next week -- are: [he holds up the magazine] "Send More Chuck Berry."