re: #222 nines09

Made me smile. You get a request in front of a hundred thousand people, try to find your key and then try to teach the European horn section the song, and the audience too, all with a big old smile on your face.
Really nice to see/hear how it comes together.
Sweet number all around.

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Marvelous! Thanks for posting that.

Chuck Berry never traveled with a band. He expected the promoter to provide local musicians to back him and woe to them if they didn’t know his songs. These guys didn’t know the song (hard to believe!) but, being pros, they were able to immediately pick it up (in whatever key was finally chosen) and be able to improvise on it.