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My Brush with Greatness
Chuck Berry came to
Austin for a show at the Paramount Theater on Congress Ave.
Bo Diddly was supposed to be on the
bill but a judge wouldn't let him leave Florida for a legal issue.
I was doing monitors for the sound company and two shows were booked
for the night. The plan
was that Chuck Berry would be the opening act on one show and be the
headliner on the other.
Since Bo Diddly didn't show up he
played both sets on both shows playing all of Bo Diddly's songs
on what would have have been Bo's sets. That ended up being about 6
hours on stage. The cool part
which actually counts as the Brush With Greatness was at the end of the
last show as Chuck Berry
was exiting the stage he handed his guitar to me at the monitor board
and headed to his dressing room.
I was like, "WOW".
I strummed a few chords thinking how
cool was this and then headed down to the dressing room.
I knocked on the door, he answered and I said "Here is your guitar Mr.
Berry".
He said "Thank you very much" as if it
was just all part of the show and I left him there.
More later,
Gary in Austin