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Zack Rocks Off Regular Offline Chiba Face Rules You Bastards! Posts: 1,729 Dakar Gender:	Best live Chuck Berry cover Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:27pm What the hell. I'm :funny
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Holden Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,317 Tampa Bay Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #1 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:49pm I'm gonna go with little Queenie - 1969
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glencar Ex Member	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #2 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:51pm My vote changed from LQ 1997 to Let It Rock.
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #3 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:55pm LQ 1969 only because you didnt include Let it Rock from 1971 - which they released. ..and only because theyve still never performed You Cant Catch Me, which for me, is the greatest Chuck Berry cover theyve ever done.
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #4 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:56pm Let it Rock, also one of the best opening songs for a show ask steelie!
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glencar Ex Member	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #5 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 7:15pm Quote: My vote changed from LQ 1997 to Let It Rock. I should emphasize that I didn't change my own vote. It changed on its own.
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Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover
Reply #6 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 9:32pm

Gazza wrote on Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:55pm:

LQ 1969 only because you didnt include Let it Rock from 1971 - which they released.

..and only because theyve still never performed You Cant Catch Me, which for me, is the greatest Chuck Berry cover theyve ever done.

D'oh!

I knew I must have forgotten one or two. Where can You Can't Catch Me be found in boot-land? I'm a huge fan of their version of Reelin' and Rockin'.

Any others I'm missing?

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glencar Ex Member	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #7 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 9:35pm It's never been done live. It's on either 12X5 or December's Children.
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Zack Rocks Off Regular Offline Chiba Face Rules You Bastards! Posts: 1,729 Dakar Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #8 - Jun 20^th, 2008 at 10:14pm Man, I gots to stop drinking. Of course it's on Now. That's what does for you too.
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speedfreakjive Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 173 Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #9 - Jun 21^st, 2008 at 10:10am gotta be Bye Bye Johnny 1972 due to everyone in the band playing absolutely killer most times - Keith's lead is simply sublime on L & G Soundtrack
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Nasty Habits Rocks Off Regular Offline God Rolls His Own!! Posts: 452 The Land of the Blue Sky	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #10 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 8:05am They are ALL sublime - the Rolling Stones covering Chuck Berry is what life is all about. But I voted for the Ya Yas Little Queenie.
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CatsBanquet Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 27	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #11 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 8:12am speedfreakjive wrote on Jun 21^st, 2008 at 10:10am: gotta be Bye Bye Johnny 1972 due to everyone in the band playing absolutely killer most times - Keith's lead is simply sublime on L & G Soundtrack Agree, killer cover and totally wild. 2 - Let it rock
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Nasty Habits Rocks Off Regular Offline God Rolls His Own!! Posts: 452 The Land of the Blue Sky	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #12 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 8:22am For Bye Bye Johnny '72 I'll take the version on Welcome to New York! over any of 'em. THAT is one of the world's great musical apocalypos.
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Holden Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,317 Tampa Bay Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #13 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 11:25am Just listened to Sweet Little 16 from Some Girls and I like that a lot too. Would have been better with a really good solo, though.
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Nasty Habits Rocks Off Regular Offline God Rolls His Own!! Posts: 452 The Land of the Blue Sky	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #14 - Jun 24^th, 2008 at 12:04pm Holden wrote on Jun 24^th, 2008 at 11:25am: Just listened to Sweet Little 16 from Some Girls and I like that a lot too. Would have been better with a really good solo, though. It does, however, benefit of the lyric "Tight dresses and Cotex . . ."
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speedfreakjive Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 173 Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #15 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 6:15am I thought it was worth mentioning that in Ladies and Gentlemen, on Bye Bye Johnny, just take a look at Mick's eyes, he's so coked up you can hardly see his pupils
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glencar Ex Member	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #16 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 9:25am Anybody else like Hound Dog from Memphis 1978?
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lotsajizz Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,818 Rhode Island Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #17 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 10:37am yup...but it's a Big Mama Thornton cover, not a Berry cover
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glencar Ex Member	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #18 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 10:41am I know but the Berry thing ran its course, no?
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Zack Rocks Off Regular Offline Chiba Face Rules You Bastards! Posts: 1,729 Dakar Gender:	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #19 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 3:07pm lotsajizz wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 10:37am: yup...but it's a Big Mama Thornton cover, not a Berry cover Its actually a Leiber & Stoller song with definitive version by Elvis. Very few people heard Big Mama's version.
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stonedinaustralia Rocks Off Regular Offline wake up crackers or we all through!! Posts: 859	Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover Reply #20 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 7:16pm speedfreakjive wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 6:15am: I thought it was worth mentioning that in Ladies and Gentlemen, on Bye Bye Johnny, just take a look at Mick's eyes, he's so coked up you can hardly see his pupils and check out the look in keith's eyes when he takes his solo - a man possessed
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Re: Best live Chuck Berry cover
Reply #21 - Jun 25^th, 2008 at 9:23pm

Zack wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 3:07pm:

lotsajizz wrote on Jun 25^th, 2008 at 10:37am:

yup...but it's a Big Mama Thornton cover, not a Berry cover

Its actually a Leiber & Stoller song with definitive version by Elvis. Very few people heard Big Mama's version.

Very few white people heard Big Mama's version, you mean. But I got your back, the Elvis version is definitive.

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Question: What is the Stones' best live Chuck Berry cover
Around and Around, circa 64-65 2 (5.7%) Carol, 1969 7 (20.0%) Little Queenie, 1969 7 (20.0%) Roll Over Beethoven, 1970 1 (2.9%) Bye Bye Johnny, 1972 7 (20.0%) Little Queenie, 1973 2 (5.7%) Around and Around, 1977 3 (8.6%) Let It Rock, 1978 3 (8.6%) Sweet Little Sixteen, 1978 2 (5.7%) Little Queenie, 1997 1 (2.9%) Total votes: 35 « Last Modified by: Zack on: Jun 20^th, 2008 at 6:29pm »