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The Poison in Your Human Machine (or, Politics is Merely the Decoy of Perception)

Posted by Lance Davis - November 8, 2016 - Chuck Berry, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Network, Repo Man, Sex Pistols
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While researching my previous post, “A Requiem for Multitudes: Revisiting Chuck Berry’s America,” I ran across this interview with Chuck that didn’t fit tonally in the piece. I found it on BuzzFeed, who got it from a now-defunct blog called Music Ruined My Life, who in turn got it from an actual printed zine from […]

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A Requiem for Multitudes: Revisiting Chuck Berry’s America

Posted by Lance Davis - October 28, 2016 - Bob Dylan, Carl Hogan, Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson, Louis Jordan, Taylor Hackford, Walt Whitman
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With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums I play not marches for accepted victors only I play marches for conquer’d and slain persons –Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself” Who could’ve predicted that it was Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday on October 18th that brought me out of retirebernation? Fact is, I’ve been […]

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“I’ll Puke If That Jukebox Plays John Cougar One More Time”

Posted by Lance Davis - February 13, 2013 - Bottle Rockets, Brian Henneman, Chuck Berry, Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, Otis Gibbs, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco
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Mr. Brian Henneman

  When we last discussed Brian Henneman, it was during his stint as roadie, second guitarist, and piss-taker-outer for Uncle Tupelo*, just prior to him forming The Bottle Rockets. He’s a great rock ‘n’ roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist, but Henneman is also a hilarious frontman and perceptive observer of the human experience. Those latter […]

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LAMF: A Study in Rock ‘n’ Roll DNA

Posted by Lance Davis - December 5, 2010 - Black Keys, Chuck Berry, Creedence, Don and Dewey, Germs, Humpers, Jerry Nolan, Johnny Thunders, Neckbones, New York Dolls, Replacements, Sonics, Stones, X
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  “The Heartbreakers blew everyone away, for no more reason than that they were just more experienced — they had their roots in R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. They were able to go onstage and draw on all that, whereas these kids (The Damned, Clash, and Sex Pistols) couldn’t draw on anything yet. Real rock […]

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We Were Pulled Apart Because Her Mom Did Not Agree

Posted by Lance Davis - September 23, 2009 - Chuck Berry, I love you Leilani
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  Chuck Berry – Memphis Amazon http://www.box.net/shared/static/curbzy86dk.mp3 I’ve heard this Chuck Berry song probably a thousand times in my life and its devastating brilliance never really hit me until now. Don’t get me wrong, I always thought it was a good tune. If you asked me about it yesterday, I would’ve said the unexpected calypso […]

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