Paleo Retiree writes:
One of the commenters on the clip writes “Bo Diddley meets Bob Dylan,” and I certainly can’t do any better than that.
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Sorry, it’s “You Can’t Catch Me”, the same Chuck Berry song John Lennon ripped off for the Beatles “Come Together”. Lennon did not fare well with his version. The organized crime figures who owned the rights to the Berry song (Chuck was long out of the picture) sued Lennon and forced him to record an album of other songs they owned rights to. The subsequent work, called “Rock and Roll” produced by Phil Spector, is appalling. We white people need to stop ripping off Chuck Berry. My heart goes out to young McMurtry, who must live in the huge shadow of his accomplished dad. But there’s gotta be something else to plunder besides Chuck Berry’s poor, threadbare riffs (themselves second or third hand in many cases).
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I get the comparison to “You Can’t Catch Me” so far as witty wordplay and wordiness go but I’m failing to pick it up otherwise: the beat strikes me as a lot more Bo than Chuck, and the tone is darkly sardonic rather than cheery. But what really surprises me is your beef with Chuck Berry, whose work I revere. It’s hard for me to like any culture-thing a lot more than I like this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcblXxc4oqo
What don’t you like about him?
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