Chuck Berry - Bio
Vinyl rip in 24 / 96 | FLAC | Artwork
617 MB | RS + FF | Rock'n Roll | 1973
Top Tape TT 053 (Original CHess 50.043)| Brazilian RCA pressing
Bio is a Chuck Berry album released in 1973 by Chess Records.
Here he is backed by The Elephant's Memory Band, the New York based group that in the early seventies used to back John Lennon and Yoko Ono in concerts and recordings.
Allmusic review
by William Ruhlmann
Chuck Berry's 15th new studio album and his follow-up to The London Chuck Berry Sessions demonstrated the fluke nature of its predecessor by missing the charts.
Berry told his autobiography in song in the title track and on the brief LP's other six tracks recycled his familiar themes and riffs.
The result is an adequate, but inessential collection.
More about:
Between January 31 and February 7, 1972 John Lennon and Yoko Ono filmed five episodes of the Mike Douglas Show where they joined Mike as co-hosts.
Guests on the show during that week included Chuck Berry, who performed with John and Yoko during that week backed by the Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band (John’s back up crew at the time).
Chuck and John performed the Berry classic “Memphis, Tennessee”
John covered a large list of Chuck’s songs throughout his career including “I’m Talking About You”, “Too Much Monkey Business”, “I Got To Find My Baby”, “Rock And Roll Music”, “Almost Grown”… and there are lots more.
In 1975 John’s album of 50's classics Rock ‘N’ Roll featured the Chuck Berry tunes “You Can’t Catch Me” and “Sweet Little Sixteen.”
When Chuck appeared on the show on February 2, it was the first time John had met him in person.
John said on the show “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’”
The line opens the biographical film "Hail! Hail! Rock'n Roll!" by Taylor Hackford (1987).
As a follow up, The Elephant's Memory Band backed Chuck Berry in the recording od his album "Bio".
Track listing
Side A
1."Bio" - 4:25
2."Hello Little Girl, Goodbye" - 3:56
3."Woodpecker" - 3:33
4."Rain Eyes" - 3:47
Side B
1."Aimlessly Driftin'" - 5:42
2."Got It And Gone" - 4:19
3."Talkin' About My Buddy" - 6:56
All songs by Chuck Berry
Personnel
Chuck Berry - Guitar, Piano, Vocals
Elephant's Memory:
Stan Bronstein - Saxophone
Gary Van Scyoc - Bass
Rick Frank - drums
Wayne "Tex" Gabriel - Guitar
Adam Ippolito - Piano
On A4 & B2:
Billy Peek - Guitar
Ron Reed - drums
Greg Buick - bass
Recorded at Sound Exchange Studios, New York & Techsonic Studios, St. Louis.
Produced by Esmond Edwards
Album design: The Grafiteria
Art direction: David Krieger
Photos by Neil Kerk
This edition: In Brazil, the record label Top Tape, owned by José Rozemblit Sobrinho, struggled to survive through the seventies and eighties releasing albuns by independent American and European labels, among them Brunswick, CTI and Chess. Usually the pressing of their records were the worst, impossible to hear, but sometimes we've got lucky, as in this record, mastered and pressed at RCA, one of the top factories in Brazil. As a result, a clean and fine sounding one (maybe what, 1,000 copies?). That's what I got. It's possible that the American edition sounds better, but I don't think a universe better. There is a 1983 American reedition, maybe mastered by Steve Hoffman, who mastered a lot of Chess releases at that time.
Enjoy!
foobar2000 1.1.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: Chuck Berry / Bio
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 -3.72 dB -20.17 dB 5:42 ?-Aimlessly Drifting
DR14 -3.01 dB -19.27 dB 4:24 ?-Bio
DR13 -5.30 dB -20.34 dB 4:19 ?-Got It And Gone
DR13 -3.44 dB -18.60 dB 3:56 ?-Hello Little Girl, Goodbye
DR13 -1.91 dB -18.87 dB 3:48 ?-Rain Eyes
DR15 -5.02 dB -21.94 dB 6:54 ?-Talking About My Buddy
DR15 -2.82 dB -20.48 dB 3:33 ?-Woodpecker
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Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2693 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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