Before there was Ziggy Stardust, Capt. Fantastic, or the Lonely Hearts

Club Band, Johnny B. Goode was rock's first great alter ego. Besides

being rock's principal guitarchitect, Chuck Berry was also the first

rock & roll poet, conjuring a chrome-plated teenage American

landscape "where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night & day."

First, the corporations paved over Chuck's promised land, then they

destroyed rock & roll to the extent that even his cheesy novelty hit

"My Ding-A-Ling" sounds like a masterpiece. Today, "No Particular Place

to Go" sounds less like an ode to idle motorvating & more like the

tragic acceptance that America's too boring to explore. And with the

political equivalent of Col. Tom Parker desecrating the White House,

Chuck may have decided that there's "too much monkey business for me to

be involved in."

I will be totally disgusted if they pick John Mayer to perform "Roll Over Beethoven" at next year's irrelevant Grammy awards.

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