Free Range by Bill Whitehead for May 08, 2023

Classical “crass”.

Give Tchaikovsky the news.

Chuck Berry. I’ve got it in my playlist along with several of his other songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA&pp=ygUPcm9jayBtZSBhbWFkZXVz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

…and a half-dozen feature films!

(starring a slobbering St Bernard)

It’s all the same! Slow it down, speed it up. substitute this instrument for that one. It’s the same thing….

That’s when he came up with his Fifth (of Rum)

And on that note, he stalked out…..

My shoemaker has a lasting influence.

And your first name will be emblazoned on drums!!!

“I can’t stand it. I hope I go deaf…”

Wait until he hears what they’ll be playing on elevators. Reminds me of an SNL skit where Paul Simon had died and gone to “the other place” and his punishment was to remain in an elevator where all of his songs were playing in their Muzak form.

I first thought of the band ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). They did a cover of this song. It was the first concert I ever saw. My oldest brother took me. He’s gone now, passed in 1988.

By the time he was this age, Beethoven was deaf.

He should try polishing off a fifth, maybe it’ll calm him down.

He would have loved it. He said that missing a note was inevitable, but playing without passion was unforgivable.

Good ol’ Ludwig doesn’t look like he’s having a Berry good time.