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During June of 1967, while the Sgt. Pepper's album was redefining the meaning of rock music in peoples' minds, Berry was playing a series of gigs in San Francisco with the Steve Miller Band, highlights of which appeared on this album released the following October. As a live album and a historical document, this is a worthwhile recording, because Berry's shows were still exciting. One of the few '50s rockers who continued to work regularly and effectively into the late '60s, Berry here shows the strategy that he used to survive before the nostalgia boom took him up and turned him into an oldies act: he became a bluesman again and played relatively little of his classic rock & roll. But that was OK, because Berry started out as a bluesman; the slow blues "Wee Wee Hours," not the rollicking "Maybellene" (which was recorded as a parody), represented his "real" music in 1955. Among the standards represented are Pete Chatman's "Everyday I Have the Blues," Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man," Chuck Willis' "C.C. Rider" (done as a slow blues), and a variation on John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl." He plays a few familiar rockers, including a relatively uncensored "Reelin' and Rockin'" and "My Ding-a-Ling" (in a version far shorter than the subsequent hit from The London Chuck Berry Sessions album).
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STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Peter Chatman, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Willis, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - EDDIE WILLIAMS, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - JOHNNY MOORE, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Charles Brown, ComposerLyricist - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Benny Goodman, ComposerLyricist - Lionel Hampton, ComposerLyricist - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Sydney Robin, ComposerLyricist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, ComposerLyricist - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Melvin London, ComposerLyricist - STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Boy Williamson, ComposerLyricist - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 Geffen Records
Calvin Carter, ComposerLyricist - STEVE MILLER, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - Chuck Berry, Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Davis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - James Hudson, ComposerLyricist - Wally Heider, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Miller Band, FeaturedArtist - Lonnie Turner, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Peterman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Abe "Voco" Kesh, Producer
℗ 1967 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Album review
During June of 1967, while the Sgt. Pepper's album was redefining the meaning of rock music in peoples' minds, Berry was playing a series of gigs in San Francisco with the Steve Miller Band, highlights of which appeared on this album released the following October. As a live album and a historical document, this is a worthwhile recording, because Berry's shows were still exciting. One of the few '50s rockers who continued to work regularly and effectively into the late '60s, Berry here shows the strategy that he used to survive before the nostalgia boom took him up and turned him into an oldies act: he became a bluesman again and played relatively little of his classic rock & roll. But that was OK, because Berry started out as a bluesman; the slow blues "Wee Wee Hours," not the rollicking "Maybellene" (which was recorded as a parody), represented his "real" music in 1955. Among the standards represented are Pete Chatman's "Everyday I Have the Blues," Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man," Chuck Willis' "C.C. Rider" (done as a slow blues), and a variation on John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl." He plays a few familiar rockers, including a relatively uncensored "Reelin' and Rockin'" and "My Ding-a-Ling" (in a version far shorter than the subsequent hit from The London Chuck Berry Sessions album).
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:54:11
- Main artists: Chuck Berry Steve Miller Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Mercury Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1967 The Island Def Jam Music Group This Compilation ℗ 1967 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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