>89 years old
>still performing
Easy to do if you're still driven by coke and hookers.
>your favorite musician will die in your lifetime
Ticket buyers actually got a refund after Chuck Berry's show in Helsinki. Nigga was tripping balls or was old or something
why doesn't black culture make any good music anymore? They used to be so good
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>>60963039
>your favorite musician died two decades before your lifetime began
I don't know if what he does now even qualifies as "performing". Seriously, everyone should just be euthanized at 70.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxixIbONuCQ
>>60963107
the jews did this
>inb4 poop stories
Just the other day I looked him up because I wasn't sure if he was dead. I was surprised by the answer.
>>60963124
It almost sounds brilliant, y'know? So disconnected from any segment of our known reality, Berry continues on his trek of guitaring and drug abuse. It's a lovely thing really. He went to the future and back, lapped around himself, and is somewhere in a confused Sonic-Youth admiration state in this vid.
>>60963124
Les Paul and Pete Segar were in their 90s and they were still pretty good even with some physical limitations. At least, they never got this level of horrible.
>>60963124
BB King in the last years was worse than even that. He didn't even seem to be aware of where he was half the time.
>>60963124
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>>60963606
Except amazingly, he still had his voice right to the end while Chuck can't sing anymore at all.
>>60962919
Guy has a piss fetish. He pisses on hookers and filmed underage girls using the bathroom in the restaurant he owns.
>>60963124
He must have played this song literally milions of times, shit, how can this be so pathetic.
>>60963107
Do you even hip hop, senpai?
Even if you don't like the genres, there's still quite a lot of great black musicians in neo-soul/R&B/jazz/funk, etc., but of course you won't know them if you only listen to the entry-level /mu/core/RYMcore classics.
>>60963549
Then again, neither of them ever ate bodily wastes or did coke. It's said that the old age you get is the end result of whatever less-than responsible lifestyle choices you made.
>>60963606
In his case, he was a diabetic so like a lot of black guys he probably ate lots of horrible, artery-rotting soul food and never exercised.
>>60963775
the genre*
>>60963757
> how can this be so pathetic
It's actually pretty easy when you're almost 90, have wicked arthritis in your hands, and are nearly deaf. Think about your grandfather who was an excellent driver when he was 50, but when he was 85 plowed into a Denny's and you had to take his car keys away and put him in a home.
>>60963117
nick drake isn't dead?
>90 years old and still performing
>>60963842
>It's actually pretty easy when you're almost 90, have wicked arthritis in your hands, and are nearly deaf.
Then again, Les Paul lived to 93 and had arthritis/hearing loss yet still wasn't as shitty as Chuck Berry is now.
>>60963107
They still are, here's an example
>>60963124
Did Chuck Berry sell his soul to the devil?
Imagine writing a song in your early twenties. It makes you rich and famous but you then have to play it every fucking night for increasingly desultory audiences for the remaining seventy years of your life.
It's like a nightmarish Dostoevsky novella
>>60963911
FWIW, Les did make some changes to his playing style to make things easier on himself for example using bigger guitar picks and playing at slower tempos. I can't imagine a nearly 90 year old guy with arthritic hands could properly play Johnny B. Goode which is a pretty fucking fast song, nearly thrash metal tempo.
>>60963711
you say that as if it was a problem,
>>60963911
>>60963986
LP's music vocabulary was probably 3-4x bigger than Chuck's anyway. Even when his physical handicaps prevented him from playing some material properly, he found other ways to play. Chuck hasn't come up with a single new lick since 1958. He tapped out all his good creative ideas early on.
>>60963945
wtf i thought ron perlman was white???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPVoMHRtyg
Chuck with Bruce Springsteen in 1995. He would have been a little bit shy of 70 at the time and was still kicking ass. This is a killer performance of JBG.
>>60963986
>I can't imagine a nearly 90 year old guy with arthritic hands could properly play Johnny B. Goode which is a pretty fucking fast song, nearly thrash metal tempo
I looked it up. That song is 169 bpm while thrash is around 180 bpm, but I can also point out that BB King was barely able to play his super-slow songs at the end.
>>60963879
This is a more recent picture however he does look incredibly good for his age. If I didn't know, I'd guess he was 70.
>>60963956
versus working some shitty wageslave job for a good portion of your life?
i'd play creep or anything else for the rest of my life if it bought me a house and a car.
>>60964179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRU-HKpVADo
This was from 2012, so he'd be 87. Not especially fast tempo (he is in his 80s after all) but still solid technique.
>>60962919
he can´t even finish a song
he´s being exploited by greedy relatives, it´s so fucking sad
>>60964207
Get a better job you slacker
>>60964337
>>60964179
Drumming must be good exercise at his age - I imagine it's helping keep your blood pumping and your joints/muscles active. You know, most elderly people decay from their sedentary "watch daytime TV while eating pills and watching commercials for pills" lifestyle.
>>60964363
I heard a different story that he knows he can't perform acceptably anymore, but his ego is so huge he won't quit.
>>60964337
>music is entire about how fast you can play
Get a load of this guy Cam.
>>60964337
>>60964179
>>60963986
But again, Les Paul and Roy Haynes and (and were) primarily jazz musicians and improv is a rather integral part of the genre while with rock, you're expected to play exactly like the record or people walk out of the place.
>>60964518
>But again, Les Paul and Roy Haynes and (and were) primarily jazz musicians and improv is a rather integral part of the genre
Your point?
>>60964606
Just what I said. Jazz is largely about improv so you get to do a lot more freestyle stuff live. If you're playing the same old songs, same old licks for almost 60 years as Chuck does, of course you're going to get bored and indifferent. Yes his age is a factor, but guys like Les were that old and never got as awful as he is now because they had more freedom to play whatever they felt on a given night. Rock as a genre doesn't lend itself to the same loose, free-form playing as jazz.
Monotony and routine ages you worse than anything. The human brain needs stimulation or it goes to shit.
>>60964743
LOL according to some accounts I've heard, Chuck started phoning it during the Reagan years. He became more of an entertainer and less of a musician.
>>60963956
>Imagine writing a song in your early twenties
Well actually he was 32 when JBG came out.
>>60964085
Except he seems to have not bought any new clothes since the 70s.
GO, JOHNNY, GO
GO, JOHNNY, GO
>>60966260
>>60963986
>>60964120
>169 bpm
Strange, it doesn't seem nearly that fast but when I looked it up online, every source I could find does list JBG as 169 bpm.
>>60964085
I like his older, gruffer voice over the studio version.
>>60964085
having a killer backup band certainly helps. his singing was good but his playing wasn't too hot
>>60967250
Ok yeah there's a 37 year gap between this 90s performance of JBG and the studio version so ofc he'd sound older, but you also should keep in mind that Chuck is having to strain his voice to be heard in that huge arena (anyone who's performed in a band knows this).
>>60967294
>his singing was good but his playing wasn't too hot
DESU, Chuck was always a sloppy live performer even in the 50s. Besides nobody expects live music to be studio-perfect anyway.
>>60967138
i just counted it up, it's correct. though i got 168 when i did it myself.
>>60967416
I just listened to Megadeth - Take No Prisoners which is about 150 bpm and I was kind of floored that that song is slower than Johnny B. Goode because it seems way faster.
>>60967460
It could be the production/mixing that creates the "perception" that a song is faster or slower than it is.
>>60967533
You could be right. I thought RHCP Give It Away was around 130, but I was surprised to learn it's only about 95 bpm.
