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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Jonathan Horsley

“If we’re lucky he made it to part of a soundcheck. If we weren’t, he’d just show up at the beginning of the gig, and call his tunes in whatever keys he felt like”: Marc Ribot reveals just how hard Chuck Berry was on other guitarists

Marc Ribot is seated and plays a Fender Jaguar [left]; Chuck Berry plays a red Gibson ES-335.

There is this whole thing in popular culture right now about relatability. Oh, would you look at them, they’re just like us. He likes pastrami on rye, too! And so on. Blame social media.

But sometimes, oftentimes, our pop-cultural heroes are more spectacular when they appear to have been wired to a different power grid – that there’s a little bit of Planet Krypton to them.

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