Heard it a million times but that piano outro still gets me...Layla turned 79 last week.
The former Mrs. George Harrison and former Mrs. Eric Clapton, Pattie Boyd turned 79 on March 17th.
Boyd began her fashion career in 1962 and appeared on the cover of the UK and Italian editions of Vogue magazine in 1969, with other popular models of the day, such as Twiggy, who based her early modelling appearance on Boyd. Pattie was asked by Gloria Stavers to write a column for 16 Magazine, and appeared in a TV commercial promoting Smith's crisps. She was cast for A Hard Day's Night, where she met George Harrison.
In 2007 Boyd published her autobiography, which includes some of her photographs, titled Wonderful Today in the UK; in the US it was published with the title Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me.
Happy Belated Birthday Pattie!!!
I was just going down the YouTube rabbit hole watching a bunch of Chuck Berry live performances. Good God it's no wonder he got a reputation for being hard to deal with. So many of his backing bands are so unfunky that I can't blame him for being PO'd.
Yeah...but chicken/egg thing, right? He'd tell the promoter to hire a backing band but would never talk to them beforehand, much less actually rehearse—in fact, according to some backing bands, there would not only be no setlist, but he wouldn't even tell them what song or even what key the next tune would be in, he'd just start it and expect them to figure it out/catch up.I was just going down the YouTube rabbit hole watching a bunch of Chuck Berry live performances. Good God it's no wonder he got a reputation for being hard to deal with. So many of his backing bands are so unfunky that I can't blame him for being PO'd.
Thus, FWIW and in my very limited powers as an anonymous internet nobody, I hereby absolve Chuck Berry for being testy with his backup bands -- because frankly they sucked and were unworthy of him.
So what you're saying is, besides Chuck Berry, you have absolutely no idea who the rest of those guys are, or the signifigance of this footage.I was just going down the YouTube rabbit hole watching a bunch of Chuck Berry live performances. Good God it's no wonder he got a reputation for being hard to deal with. So many of his backing bands are so unfunky that I can't blame him for being PO'd.
Thus, FWIW and in my very limited powers as an anonymous internet nobody, I hereby absolve Chuck Berry for being testy with his backup bands -- because frankly they sucked and were unworthy of him.
What I'm saying is that blues based rock isn't rocket science, and that if you can't handle it in a soulful way then maybe you should've followed your dad's advice and gotten that accounting degree.So what you're saying is, besides Chuck Berry, you have absolutely no idea who the rest of those guys are, or the signifigance of this footage.
Got it. Thanks for your input.
You're right, it's not. However, again, Berry was famous for not only starting songs in not terribly common (for guitar) keys such as Ab or Eb, but also modulating in the middle of a song. I'm sure you've seen the 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, but if it's been a while: Keith Richards actually gets Berry to rehearse for the big concert. And in exchange, Berry treats ol' Keef like shit. And Richards grins and bears it. But because they rehearsed, the concert goes off swimmingly. So much so that in the middle of one song, Chuck comes over and whispers in Keith's ear that he wants to switch to another key, something they'd very much not rehearsed. And Richards just smiles and shakes his head "no." And Chuck laughs, because while he was serious, he was obviously doing it to be difficult.What I'm saying is that blues based rock isn't rocket science
and that if you can't handle it in a soulful way then maybe you should've followed your dad's advice and gotten that accounting degree.