Jul 162008
This is just one of the craziest things you are likely to see. It’s from some late ’70s, Dick Clark production. I always love a big star-studded, 3-chord jam; who doesn’t? This version of “Roll Over Beethoven” has, among other things, Marvin Hamlisch, Elvin Bishop, Stanley Clarke, Charlie Rich, Rick Danko and Mongo Santamaria. At one point, during the height of the cacophony, Chuck Berry almost pegs Doc Severinsen in the face with the headstock of his guitar. Shortly after, Paul Williams is humping Chuck’s leg! For real.
As always….before playing the YouTube, hit pause on the music player to your left.
Fun and somehow disturbing at the same time….
J’s last blog post..THE LESSON
Horns-Frankie Valli playing a one trumpet!? solo, then Eddie Money, playing sax!? seems like he got winded.
I’ve just never seen anything quite like it. There’s another one on YouTube from a few years later that is still pretty strange but, not like this one.
Pete Best?
I’m reminded by the Band of Ringers from Blues Brothers 2000. Lots of people, everybody gets a line, and you wonder what some of them are even doing there.
Which is fun.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Too Much LDS At Berkeley…..
Slow Motion analysis of youTubber 5:55 into this wonderful scene —
I am trying to figure out what the frequency of Doc’s lips are at the moment Chuck [almost bumps, or does bump] Doc’s arm. Let’s see — four or five steps above C… that’s about 3400 Hz… armature like a bear trap… if colliding with a Chuck Berry high jump to full split, well it has to have fatality written all over. Doc’s lip would have split like a watermelon stuffed with ten M80’s on fourth of July. Glad that didn’t happen.
So that six-line note by Doc is about half way to Alpha Centauri as we speak. It is the overlooked probable cause for global warming and further shearing of glacier ice. But, hey, Gore doesn’t rock or roll. And Doc shook Sinatra’s hand.
“Feel the spirit; Let it out,” Church guy in Simpsons: the Movie.
Yeah, we are saying Rock and Roll on that day started the phenomena known as Global Warming… warming the hearts of all us who wondered what their favorite performers look like when they aren’t double stuffed, over staged, over the top imbeciles in their own head trips. Thanks again for this one…