Like most of us do while using the computer, I found myself once again watching random videos on YouTube. All of a sudden, I come upon an old clip from "Back to the Future" that I surprisingly don't remember watching. It wasn't any ordinary clip though, it actually kept me pondering for a while. The clip is about Marty going back in time to the late fifties' when the foundations of rock were just taking root and Chuck Berry was rising to fame. Most of you might not know this, but one of the recognized founders of rock actually happens to be the famous blues/rock'n'roll guitarist and singer Chuck Berry. In the video, Marty was asked to play guitar at a show as a substitute for Marven Berry, Chuck's cousin, because Marven's hand was injured. Marty finds himself jamming out to an all-time classic, Johnny B. Goode, originally written by Chuck. As he progresses during the song, he incorporates different styles of guitar jams that had not been created yet. In the last minutes of the song, he suddenly takes a drastic switch from rock'n'roll and finds himself imitating later styles, from guitar bashing and heavy chords created by "The Who" in the sixties, to some crazy fast metal guitar tapping that only Van Halen could pull off! The crowd is soon bedazzled to the point that Marven takes away Marty's guitar as if it were possessed. I found the whole thing hilarious! As funny as it was, the video still made think about how I would feel if some weirdo from the future popped up and started playing some random new crap that hadn't been created yet.
Marty McFly Doing Johnny B. Goode
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