Chuck was the shizznit

Chuck is great.

Crap guitarist, great songwriter. Huge ego.

great original style...gateway guitarist...

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Without Chuck Berry , this list would be about polkas!

dont overfill your containers or try to pack the 'berries' down. Please see general picking tips.

Good for his time

A bit b4 my time but the duck walk is still classic.

Not a big fan but still a hell of a guitarist

Only because he's the gosfather of Rock-n-Roll. Genius

Johnny b. goode? of course

great licks and only couple of good songs but he brought the harder style to rock which i applaud--before my time lol

Same riffs different keys... can't deny he's fun and defined a new era.

Definitely one of the all time greats. The guitar riff in Johnny B. Goode is a classic.

He proved that you strip all of the excess of soloing and melody down to its most basic elements, give it a driving rythym and express volumes more than the most complex of jazz players.  There is something about a Chuck Berry riff that cuts through everything and hits you right in the Mojo.

He can play a guitar just like a-ringing a bell...

He started it all!

It must be really tough to be black back then. I give you a 4stars.

Chuck Berry should take the Number One Spot due to him being the most influential guitarist on every other great guitarist. He produced some great tunes also.

Well he was one of the first to get "that rock n' roll sound" - basically he sped up the blues. If it weren't for him, where would we be? I'm sure someone else would've come up with it eventually. Ted Nugent said it best "If you don't know a Chuck Berry lick, you don't know how to play rock guitar."

Chuck is the man

You're great Chuck. But your too much of an A-hole to be up there with the great ones. Thanks for being the real "King", but take your eyes off my sister.

I wouldn't say he invented it since old black dudes that we've never even heard of have been pickin' it in the South for ages. But he's definitely right up there. SIDE NOTE:- that's why I despise the notion that Cleveland invented Rock n' Roll. Back to Berry - didn't he teach Keith Richards how to play? Like literally, didn't he actually learn his craft from Berry? Or at least how to play the Blues? Yeah, Berry is the man. )))))))))))))))))))))))))) )))))))))))))))))))))))UPDATE: I wanna say something else about the Cleveland thing because it gets me so hot. For those who claim that, ALL American music came from the south. From jazz to blues, etc. From the Appalachians to New Orleans. And I don't say that because I'm from the South - it's just a fact. People in the South have been picking banjos, guitars, etc since before Cleveland knew these instruments existed. And really, I don't even like the notion that this or that form of music was simply invented. All music evolves from other music (or devolves for the bubble gum pop fans). Without Scottish and Irish immigrants there'd be no Appalachian bluegrass. Without Appalachian bluegrass (or folk or mountain music, whatever you prefer to call it) thre'd be no country western. Without the blues, ther'd be no rock, and so on and so forth. So, to my magically thinking Cleveland friends, people in the south were playing the blues since the slave days. Why do you think they have the blues? - because Cleveland gets chilly in the winter? You have the rock hall of fame, but trust me, you didn't invent a damn thing. Hell, actually, the blues are rock n' roll.

he's the one who invented it!

Everyone from Keith Richards to the Sex Pistols to Joan Jett to Green Day owe a sizable chunk of their paychecks to this man. The ultimate showman, he was more than a guitarist, he was everything a performer could be - and still is. Roll over Beethoven!

asides from being a pervert, all his songs seem to have a similar simplistic 3 chord riffs

Chuck berry is good, but no guitar hero. Excellent songwriter, but i found his guitar parts to be less then adequate.

No doubt. He is the true king of rock music...The first and still the ultimate guitar hero.

Chuck Berry revolutionized rock guitar playing as we know it, and, in the process, became the most influential and widely imitated guitarist of all-time.