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Very sorry to hear that, unfortunately it was to be expected after seeing his last photo. He was like Paco to the blues, now there's a hole just like in flamenco... RIP
Very sad, but not terribly unexpected. I got to shake his hand once when I was 14, JUST started playing guitar and my sister took me to see him play at his BB King cafe. Definitely a legend.
i knew this would be on here .. heard the news drivin to work today ... awsome guy , great feel player .. just a few well placed notes with a great sound .. blues man ...
I never met him , or even saw him live .. but i did see his guitar once in Fort Lauderdale .. ...Lucille.....apparently he used to get an extra plane ticket for it so it could be up in the cabin with him on flights ..
I 'saw' it in a case with some other guitars back stage kind of thing .. but i wasnt allowed to go anywhere near it or open the case or anything ... so actually i never saw it really ... nice case though.....
The Beal street blues boy ... who didnt like his stuff ...i really should have went to see him play ...
No, but 89’s not too shabby for a diabetic. Must have been ignoring all the diet advice that the Government’s been handing out for the past 30 years, or he’d have been toast long ago.
He made plenty of recordings and he toured until he was very far into his 80's. Not a bad run. His career should be celebrated as an extraordinary success.
Not as sad as Paco who died way too young. B.B. King carried on 35 years longer. Paco still had innovative music in him B.B.King was pretty much playing the same things over and over, not that there anything wrong with that, but Paco was not through inventing new things.
This is link to a American NPR radio story about Samuel Charters who made field recordings of blues players in the 1940's and 50's.
I have been meaning to post this here for the benefit of the blues conversations. Highly recommended as these recordings by Charters were instrumental in the Europeans learning about roots blues. If not for Charters the work of many important blues players would have been lost to the next generations of both Europe and America.
The story includes an important interview with Charters himself who recounts, among other events, finding Lightin' Hopkins and asking him to make a recording.
I was a huge blues fan back in the 70's when I was in high school. My friends and I used to go to blues clubs in Oakland and get drunk and go crazy over artists like LC "Good rocking" Robinson, Charlie Musselwhite, etc.
The first concert I saw at Winterland BB was the headliner. We all taped pints of Early Times to our backs. I was the only one who got busted. Bill Graham himself looked at me and shook his head, like "kid, you are dumb" My friends felt bad for me so they all gave me shots. I got so drunk I passed out. My buddies deposited me in a seat and when I woke BB was playing. I found myself seated next to a very well dressed older black couple. What a picture.....
I also saw Freddie and Albert at other shows. We saw Albert's bus parked in front of the Great American Music hall before his gig, and realized he was sitting in the front seat so we just got on the bus and started talking to him. We asked if he wanted to smoke a joint with us, and he politely declined.
I got drunk like that at a festival and woke up to Thin Lizzy Funny that the blues is a minority genre for gigs here in the UK now, outside of legends at big venues, but I bet it's played a lot at home.
I got drunk like that at a festival and woke up to Thin Lizzy Funny that the blues is a minority genre for gigs here in the UK now, outside of legends at big venues, but I bet it's played a lot at home.
The man was a wizard of tone. He wouldn't travel with an amp - but rent one where ever he would play.
It is amazing how well he always sounded! I never heard him sound bad. Not only would he use Fender Twin Reverbs, but solid state amps like Lab 5 and dial in that sweet break up tone. The man was a master at getting ever speck of tone out the gear he was using.
The amp and pickups is only 5% of the tone(the rest is the player of course), I doubt any great electric guitarist can sound bad only because of the amp, unless it's some pocket amp
The man was a master at getting ever speck of tone out the gear he was using.
I guess he probably noodled a lot on his 335 (with no amp) in his tour bus/hotel room. When he was a kid, he probably didn't have an amp at first, like a lot of us. That will get the most out of a guitar, before it's amped up.
I guess he probably noodled a lot on his 335 (with no amp) in his tour bus/hotel room. When he was a kid, he probably didn't have an amp at first, like a lot of us
Makes perfect sense to me...
My first amp as a kid was a Kay 5 watter. I am still amazed of the tones I could get out of it. Being a kid I played with every setting. Later, when when I got a Super Reverb and played it with all the EQ's dimed out. I stopped experimenting with amp settings back then, because interviews with Hendrix and Clapton stated their MO was turning all setting to ten.
So yeah, with lots of free time on your hands and just gear in front of you, B.B. milked some good tones.
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