Bikers Inner Circle_new - Charlie Brechtel at the Buffalo Chip Campground in Sturgis

Charlie Brechtel at the Buffalo Chip Campground in Sturgis

Keep checking this page for updates to see who will be on stage with Charlie!.

Charlie has been the house band at the chip for over six years. this year Charlie will be playing his motorcycle song from the fondue stage

for all 9 day of the rally with special guest such as bike builders, and other musicians,along with biker games,and contest and just a lot of biker fun. This will al be filmed for bikers inner circle internet show where it will air in sept. the fondue stage also offers the best dam food in s.d.so come and eat and drink and have some fun with Goodtime Charlie.

Charlie bio

There is a history, a legacy and a brotherhood that comprise the soul of the American biker. Those are also the elements that separate the music of Charlie Brechtel from any other musician or band who aim their talents at the motorcycling community.

With Charlie it's all about reality. It's about what actually goes on --and has gone on-- within the inner circle of America's last breed of folk heroes. Charlie doesn't just play the kind of rockin' blues that is the perfect soundtrack to this way of life; Charlie takes his listeners into a world that was begun in America's post WWII years, screamed through the 50s and 60s and has evolved into one of the most powerful and envied sub-cultures that this country has ever produced.

His tribute tunes are becoming legendary. His music pays homage to the biker lifestyle in a way that no other musician has ever done. Charlie Brechtel weaves the personalities who pioneered this way of life into the heart of all of his songs. Men like Sonny Barger, Wino Willie Forkner, the Bravo Brothers...vintage bikes like the Indian...biker Meccas like Sturgis, Hollister and the Buffalo Chip...all supply the ever-sharp edge to the music of Charlie Brechtel.

Charlie's roots extend back to his hometown of New Orleans...the tradition of that town...the power...the feel...it's all there...it's deep within the blood. He's played with Gregg Allman and John Lee Hooker...his CDs feature some of the best musicians in blues and rock 'n roll today...he's played Sturgis and countless other major biker events and venues...his tunes will be heard in upcoming specials on the History Channel and in the DVD that accompanies the book, "The Original Wild Ones."

The soul of the American biker and the music of Charlie Brechtel are truly one and the same...

Charlie has been around for over 32 years, playing his music, doing his thing.

Charlie is not just a player but a Composer, Arranger, Songwriter and Producer.

Charlie has worked with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Deacon Jones, Gregg Allman, B.B. King, Dr. John, Buddy Miles, Aaron Neville, Freddy Fender, Steppenwolfe and on and on...

Charlie has opened for such as Dave Mason, Fog Hat, John Lee Hooker, Steppenwolf and a host of others.

Charlie is a product of New Orleans so he knows his blues.

Charlie has ridden a bike or two, so he knows the life

check out charlie at www.charliebrechtel.com

or www.bikersinnercircle.com

THANKS WOODY FOR THE BIKERS INNER CIRCLE STAGE!

Blues Fondue Stage

Bike contest, Biker games, Bands, Surprise Guest musicians, Biker Babes, Bikini contest and more!

Production Sponsored by Underground Sound; Hank Bischoff and Charlie Brechtel
Located near the now notorious buffalo steak fondue barn, the Fondue Stage will feature Charlie Brechtel and his biker oriented blues band everyday, twice a day. Charlie Brechtel will also host various biker contests and biker activities day and night. Sure to entertaining, Charlie’s music and focus is “everything biker.”

PRESS RELEASE

FOR RELEASE: EMBARGO 8 a.m. Friday, June 12, 2009

CONTACT: Michael Sanborn

PHONE: 605-390-3914

Rock icon Chuck Berry to perform at the Legendary Buffalo Chip

In what he described as one of the most significant events since the Buffalo Chip’s first party in 1982, campground owner Rod Woodruff said Chuck Berry's performance at the Sturgis Rally campground will be historical. Berry will perform at the Chip on Saturday, Aug. 1 as part of the Chip’s Classic Rock 3-Day Weekend to kick off the rally.

“There have been a lot of discussions about where rock came from. The truth is that it came from Chuck Berry’s crazy idea that you could mix the blues with country influences and get something that moves people. It’s called rock. And Chuck Berry invented it,” said Woodruff. “We are honored - humbled - to have this giant coming to our stage.”

Berry’s path to greatness began in 1953 when Berry joined the Sir John’s Trio (later to be named the Chuck Berry Combo). Country-Western music was popular at the time, so Berry brought some blues riffs to the music to create his own “hillbilly” sound. His predominantly black audience was at first less than enthusiastic, but eventually couldn’t resist dancing to the new sound.

"Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?' After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it," Berry said in a quote from his website.

Because white audiences were Country-Western fans, they began to take notice. At the same time Berry’s stage show antics were drawing attention. He was bringing blacks and whites together at a time when it was unheard of.

"All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues," he said. "They (black and white musicians) jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever."

In 1955 while on a road trip to Chicago, Berry had the opportunity to meet his idol, Muddy Waters who directed him to Chess Records in Chicago where Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley recorded. He auditioned with a song that became “Maybellene.” The rest is rock history.

The hits followed with “Brown-Eyed Man,” “Too Much Monkey Business,” “Memphis,” “Roll Over, Beethoven!” and “Johnny B. Goode.”

Berry’s rock masterpiece, “Johnny B. Goode” is the only rock song chosen to be included on the gold record NASA sent into space on the Voyager Spacecraft. That record has him in the company of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky.

Berry’s music has inspired and been covered by the elite of rock history, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, ACDC, Count Basie and The Byrds among many others.

Woodruff said the Chuck Berry performance will be among the most important ever at the Buffalo Chip. “We’ve been so blessed with continued growth that it has now become possible for artists like Mr. Berry to take notice and have a desire to play for a crowd so appreciative that the entire music industry has heard about us. We’re about the party and nobody defines party like Chuck Berry. We all know all the words to all those history-making songs and now we’ll be able to sing them right along with him. John Lennon probably described the Chuck Berry phenomenon best when he said, ‘If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.’”

For the Chip’s Classic Rock 3-Day Weekend includes on Friday, July 31, Mark Farner, formerly of Grand Funk Railroad, Rare Earth’s Peter Rivera, Sugarloaf’s Jerry Corbetta and Iron Butterfly and Blues Image guitarist and singer Mike Pinera, and on Sunday, Aug. 2 George Thorogood and the Destroyers and Creedence Clearwater Revisited.

Other acts booked at the Buffalo Chip include: Aerosmith, Toby Keith, Cheech & Chong, Tesla, Hinder, Buckcherry, Lita Ford, Billy Squier and The Guess Who. Information and tickets are available at: BuffaloChip.com.