Chuck Berry @ Blueberry Hill's Duck Room In University City, Missouri; 08/12/09

[jabberwocky]

1. Roll Over Beethoven
2. Memphis
3. Carol
   >>Little Queenie
4. Let It Rock
5. Mean Old World
6. Maybellene
7. My Ding-A-Ling
8. Rock Me Baby (B.B. King)
9. School Days
10. You Never Can Tell
11. Johnny B. Goode
12. Reelin' And Rockin'

The set was a little bit longer this time, and he actually did do the duck walk--across the stage and into the backstage room. Eric Von Damage had a copy of St. Louis Magazine that featured Chuck Berry on one side of the spread and Bunnygrunt on the other that he wanted to get autographed but Chuck went back to his room before our part of the line could get up to him. Dang! Karen did get her birthday card signed, though (it was her birthday).

The opening band, New Soul Cowboys, were a riot. I loved it, they owned their set so hard, they were wailing super-tough and had sexy black leather/cowboy hats and the like, and their set was introduced by an audio montage of soundclips from movies and music all about cowboys. Also at some point in their set was an audio montage of Ennio Morricone's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly score with some lines from Dirty Harry.

Then Joe and I tossed our bikes in Coolhand's car, my bike seat came loose and nobody had the proper tools to re-tighten it. We went to Atomic Cowboy, where Quiche and Bill Parmentier and Matt Wicks and all these gals we bowl with were hangin' out. Later a handful of us (Anchovy, Adela, Coolhand, Joe, Karen, me) went to Courtesy Diner and Ann took me home cuz my bike was still janky. I reckon we are going back next month to check out Chuck again and try to get Eric's magazine signed! Tickets go on sale this Friday and I won't be around to get 'em but I reckon someone else will (Eric, Karen, et cetera).

EDIT oops, I had "Mean Old World" on that setlist twice. Maybe the set was about exactly as long as it was last time...still, Chuck seemed more on top of things this go-'round.