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Today Live! Can’t wait to sit down with old pal, Steve Conte, who's got one of the greatest rock voices I’ve ever heard (he was Paul Simon's vocal stand-in for years). Steve’s played with just about everyone throughout his career, has a classic Chuck Berry story, for one, and countless other great rock tales. 

Steve’s first road gig was touring with Blood Sweat & Tears in the mid-80s, right around the time I began booking him at The Rock ’N Roll Cafe on Bleecker Street in New York. From there, Steve played with J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, the before-mentioned Chuck Berry, toured with Billy Squier, Willy Deville, Eric Burdon, was a member of reformed New York Dolls and has shared the stage with an innumerable number of his heroes from Sam Moore to Springsteen. Steve’s been writing for, recording, and touring with former Hanoi Rocks frontman Michael Monroe for the past 10ish years, supporting Guns & Roses, The Foo Fighters, and Motorhead.

Steve's solo debut, The Steve Conte NYC Album, included a tune, OK DJ, which earned him the #2 Coolest Song of the Year, behind Bruce Springsteen, on Little Steven's Underground Garage... members of the Foo Fighters, Alice Cooper, Mott The Hoople, The Wallflowers, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, to name a few, joined Steve on the album. 

Steve’s "covers" album, International Cover-Up, enjoys much airplay on Little Steven's Underground Garage. The opening track, "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight" was voted #5 Coolest Song Of The Year, behind The Monkees and Ian Hunter, and his Gimme Gimme Rockaway was another Coolest Song of The Week and signaled the solo recognition he’s long deserved. 

Steve’s new single, Fourth Of July, co-written with Andy Partridge of XTC, serves as a preview to his upcoming LP, due in 2024, as a follow-up to his acclaimed solo album, Bronx Cheer, released on Little Steven’s label, Wicked Cool Records in 2021, which featured the single, Recovery Doll, which also enjoyed a week as the Coolest Song In The World, on The Underground Garage. 

Check out the latest coolness of Conte

Fourth of July

Steve played regularly at every club I booked, was part of my weekly house jam band, and has done pretty much every project since. So look forward to sitting down with this guy, one of my all-time favorite rockers, catching up, and hearing that voice! And, that guitar!

Steve Conte Live on Game Changers with Vicki Abelson

Wednesday, Sept 6th, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

Streaming Live on my Facebook

Daily by Toni Vincent & @peter_and_paul_ Cartoons

[peteschmidtblues-blog]

Chuck Berry rock 'n roll guitar lesson | Classic 12 bar blues & roots rock

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Come Along for the Sleigh Ride 🦌🛷🎅🏼🤪🤌🏼

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TOO OLD TO ROCK AND ROLL (ROCK STARS PAST THEIR PRIME)

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Memphis | Terry Dan

Chuck Berry Cover. One could also say this is a Johnny Rivers cover. And, we can't forget Lonnie Mack! What a fun song this was to record. I've loved the song "Memphis" for many years. One day, for no reason, I started humming the song and couldn't stop. I knew I had to record it. My brother David is playing piano and my sister, Gayla is singing some backup.

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Como fue concebida la canción y como se realizó la grabación de la misma.

[childgolden]

"Run Rudolph Run" - Chuck Berry (Christmas Cover by First To Eleven)

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Chuck Berry On Stage 1963 Chess Record ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Go Go Go 02. Memphis 03. Maybelline 04. Surfing Steel 05. Rocking on the Railroad 06. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 07. Still Got the Blue 08. Surfin’ U.S.A. 09. Jaguar & the Thunderbird 10. I Just Want to Make Love to Yo 11. All Aboard 12. Trick or Treat 13. The Man and the Donke —————————————————

Fred Below

Chuck Berry

Reggie Boyd

Leroy C. Davis

Willie Dixon

Ebbie Hardy

Johnnie Johnson

George Smith

Otis Spann

Phil Thomas

* Long Live Rock Archive

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First show on a new theme - that of "work"

[lets-vladimir-us]

Part 1. Chuck Berry: What a GREAT Dance

[vickiabelson]

John Conte Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 

What crazy fun to sit down with my old dear friend, bassist John Conte, whom I hadn’t seen in decades. How is it possible that he appears to have aged barely a day? Seriously! 

John took us back to childhood days, his jazz-singing mother, Rosemary, his early days on guitar, and his brother Steve at first on drums. Their first band when John was 8 or 9, their early songwriting, including John’s first song, Maryanne, Sittin on a Log, which he gave us a little taste of.  He was a boy with a dream of playing arenas with rock stars.  He told us how they flipped instruments, with John choosing bass. His college days, jazz-infused, where he gigged around with stellar players like Terence Blanchard. 

We tripped down memory lane, where we met, in the md-80s at The Rock ’n Roll Cafe on Bleecker Street, 1/2 of The Brothers of Conte, as I affectionately came to call them, with his brother Steve, they were weekly regulars whenever their schedules allowed. John was in Blood, Sweat & Tears, his first major gig, at the time, and told us all about that. Great stories there, including playing Madison Square Garden. Not bad for a 23-year-old. During their tenure at the Rock ’N Roll, late one rainy night they brought in their friend, Phoebe Snow, a life changer for me who had been a diehard fan since high school. The Phoeb’s and I became fast friends, and I have the boys to thank for that as well as for years of amazing live music there, and at Spo-dee-o-dee’s, Woody’s, RockGirl, The Marquee, The Cafe Wha, True Blue and The China Club, where they were also a part of my RockGirl Jam Band. A stellar bassist, with an easy temperament and oh so easy on the eyes, it was always a joy when John was around. I made him tell his requisite Chuck Berry story. 

At that same time, the Conte brothers, as part of The Hudson River Rats, were laying the foundation for much of the session and road work that was to follow. Like Finding himself in the studio with Tony Visconti and David Bowie. John’s description of hearing Bowie vocalize in his ear gave me goosebumps. He talked about laying down tracks with Peter Wolf and Ian Hunter, getting to jam with loads of his heroes. 

The Conte Brothers connected with Kyf Brewer and Company of Wolves were borne. They did some showcases, got signed, did a tour with Richard Marx, and foreshadowed John’s future, one with Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes.

John talked us through touring with Joan Osbourne (beautiful words here), Roseanne Cash, and Southside Johnny choosing him in 2007, a gig that would take him through to present day. There was a short tour with Billy Joel during his 2012 comeback with our friend, Tommy Byrnes, lovely to hear John’s take on it, and great stories about his tenure playing with The Disciples of Soul, the house band for the American Music Honors where he got to play with honorees, Jackson Browne, Mavis Staples, John Mellencamp and Dion, as well as host, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt. John’s shared the stage with Bruce numerous times before, memorably for an impromptu 45-minute set with Southside.  John’s recounting of that and of playing with Peter Frampton (and Sheryl Crow) at the Sandy Hook Promise Benefit is another moving, goosebump-inducing tale. 

I loved every single second with my old friend. It’s thrilling to see how his life has played and continues to play out. The young boy living his dream. Southside Johnyy’s future may be unsure, but John’s certainly isn’t. He’s always got multiple projects cooking, his own music in the works - check him out here johnconte.bandcamp.com and here Facebook.com/johncontebass  I just adore the boy. He’ll always be a rockboy to me and damn, he sure still looks like one.

John Conte Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 

****Wednesday, 1/29/25, 1 PM PT, 4 PM ET****

Streamed Live on my Facebook

Replay here:

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CHUCK BERRY Run Run Rudolph | Rock 'n Roll GUITAR LESSON Intro, rhythm &...

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Ain't No New Thing By Gil Scott-Heron ✊🏾 • We'd like to go into a thing called, uh, "Ain't No New Thing" It's, um, based on, um The fact that white people continue to rip off black artists They continue to uh, steal their material, their styles The very cultural elements that make The black artist the outstanding artist The master of music that he has been Um, and, it ain't no new thing, to tell the truth That these things are going on We point out, very expressly the fact that Stanley Crouch comments on his album "Ain't No Ambulances for No Niggers Tonight" That, uh, Chuck Berry was doing like a very heavy thing A very rock and roll thing The king of rock and roll as a matter of fact but, um, like White people couldn't dig having their daughters go to no shows And cream over no black man wiggling on the stage So consequently, they invented Elvis Presley and let him do it So we gonna get into that Call it "Ain't No New Thing" and talk about some people… • #gillscottheron #ChuckBerry #blacklaborwhitewealth #claudanderson (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqKz3jaNFbL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stochastique-blog]

Here we go

Chuck Berry

Everyone has done a cover of “Johnny B. Goode”, who do you think makes a great cover of this song?

For any of us who love Rock and Roll, then you know that Chuck Berry is the Father of Rock and Roll.  That iconic guitar riff still rings true in many of the rock bands that have played and are still playing.  Johnny B. Goode is the song that all other rock songs borrow from.  If not borrowed then it has been covered by hundreds of bands throughout rock history.  Just recently I played a cover of the song by Judas Priest, which I remember playing over and over again as a teen.  The song has been a staple in films, most notably “Back To The Future”.  When learning to play the guitar, you will learn this guitar riff and as soon as you learn it, playing guitar becomes more clear.

This is a perfect example of a Chuck Berry record that includes some of his great hits.  

Side One Johnny B. Goode Memphis, Tennessee Roll Over Beethoven Sweet Little Sixteen School Days

Side Two Maybelline Reelin’ & Rocking Rock And Roll Music Back In The USA

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