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This is a personal post. One of sadness and a sense of loss as so many musicians from my childhood through adulthood, musicians who are like distant fictive kin,  intimates who have been at times during relationship break-ups and start ups--closer often than family or friends.  Delores Fisher (during my performer's transition to serious adulthood) These musicians gave me solace during my "party down" disco club kid years and funky town foggy afternoon "git on up" young adult do I really have to come in to work early today? malaise. In the last few years, quite a few of them have steadily exited their way stage right off our world stage and on into eternity. So many...I just want to talk a little about Chuck Berry. Bad Boy with gleaming eyes and a tongue-in- cheek smile that lit young girls' hearts and erotic imaginings of older women nostalgic for husbands who had let the spark of excitement fade, Chuck Berry wore his hair in a style that we ca