{"id":973681,"date":"2019-11-22T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916173"},"modified":"2019-11-22T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:16:09","slug":"see-robbie-robertson-remember-chuck-berry-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/see-robbie-robertson-remember-chuck-berry-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"See Robbie Robertson Remember Chuck Berry, the Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Robbie-Robertson_L1030405.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In the mid Eighties, filmmaker Taylor Hackford asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robbie-robertson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robbie-robertson\" data-tag=\"robbie-robertson\">Robbie Robertson<\/a> if he would appear in a documentary about one of his musical heroes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chuck-berry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chuck-berry\" data-tag=\"chuck-berry\">Chuck Berry<\/a>. Robertson quickly said yes and agreed to serve as musical director for the concert portion of what became the 1987 picture, <em>Hail! Hail! Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/em>. Although Robertson decided he wasn\u2019t a good fit for that role \u2014 Chuck Berry was hard to handle, so he passed the reins over to Keith Richards \u2014&nbsp;he still looks back fondly on the time he spent with Berry.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson recently stopped by <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, where he sat for an interview for an upcoming installment of our \u201cThe First Time\u201d series. While he was in the office, he also recounted some of his experiences during the filming of <em>Hail! Hail! Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll<\/em>, which was reissued this week as a collector\u2019s edition Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>One of the special features on the release is footage of Berry poring over a scrapbook he kept from his life with Robertson. But in the interview above, Robertson revealed there was a lot more to the story, including versions of stories Berry had told the Band guitarist off camera. Robertson also recalled in the <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>interview how special it was for him to play guitar while Berry read poetry, because he realized that that was part of Berry\u2019s process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy admiration for the father of rock &amp; roll just went way up,\u201d Robertson said of learning about the inspiration Berry took from Beat poetry. \u201cThen he\u2019s reciting this poem, and I\u2019m accompanying him on the guitar, and the poem just goes on and on and on, and I hoped it would never end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/robbie-robertson-chuck-berry-interview-916173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid Eighties, filmmaker Taylor Hackford asked Robbie Robertson if he would appear in a documentary about one of his musical heroes, Chuck Berry. Robertson quickly said yes and agreed to serve as musical director for the concert portion of what became the 1987 picture, Hail! Hail! Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll. Although Robertson decided he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:23:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}