2 cents worth

The day we viewed the DVD Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll was one of my favorite class days. Not only did one of my class members get into contact with James Miller, but we had gotten to see the clip from that film where Chuck decides to say that he is never going to die and that he will live forever. This was especially humorous to me because he was saying this to a Rolling Stone, Keith Richards. Although I know now that Chuck Berry is more of legend then the present Rolling Stone, at the time of the viewing I still wasn’t quite sure who Chuck Berry was. Upon listening to the song that was being played live, in the clip I realized that I had in fact heard Chuck Berry before.

That is to say that I generally can name songs when I hear them, within several bars in most cases, but this one eluded me. My parents would have asked what was wrong with me for knowing who Chuck Berry was, this is mostly because they had me listening to this era of music since I was very young. Occasionally my mom will still play songs that we listened to, from when I was younger until I could distinguish my taste from hers, and she will ask me what the band name is and if I can’t name that then what the song title is. This is always exciting for me when I get it right, even if I heard the song not 10 minutes ago on my own iPod. I guess this just goes to show that he will live forever in music even if he does eventually ‘kick the bucket.’