Duckwalk

The Duck Walk ( German duck walk ) is a dance- show - element during live performances by guitarists (English Stage and Guitar Move). He was especially famous for rock ' n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry. Some artists like Angus Young, guitarist of Australian hard rock band AC / DC, took the Duck Walk into their standard range of the stage show.

Description

The showpiece of the guitarist jumps in half squat position on a bent leg slowly forward, stretched out the other leg forward and swings the shin while in the air up and down. The up and down swinging of the outstretched leg supports the jumping movement of the other leg. The guitar while pointing to the instrument neck forward, the body sideways on the hip, played dormant. In another version of Chuck Berry runs with both legs bent almost in a squatting position from one to the other side of the stage. The resulting motion looks in profile somewhat like the waddle of a duck, hence the name. Chuck Berry moved sometimes additionally his head back and forth like a bird to enhance the effect of motion on.

Origin

Universal Chuck Berry is considered the inventor of the Duck Walks. By his own admission in an interview with the music magazine Rolling Stone put Berry 1956 Duck Walk at a show in New York City before. He did this in order to hide wrinkles in his silk suit, since he the audience when you run the Duck Walk usually only one side of the profile had to show. "There was applause ," said Berry recalls, " so I made it again and again. " However, according to the autobiography of Chuck Berry's the Duck Walk was already in the course of his childhood, where he him - vorführte to entertain guests of his parents - without guitar.

However, the origin of this " dance step " on T -Bone Walker is returned, which connected his guitar playing in the mid- 1930s with many dance routines.