Happy Birthday B.B. King ! ! !
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Topic: Happy Birthday B.B. King ! ! !
Posted By: DaleHauskins
Subject: Happy Birthday B.B. King ! ! !
Date Posted: September 16 2009 at 16:47
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Happy Birthday B.B. King from this life long professional Los Angeles guitariist... http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-09-16-bb-king-museum_N.htm - http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-09-16-bb-king-museum_N.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw Tschüß 1Love |
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: September 16 2009 at 17:05
Now thats a Birthday worth celebrating. How old now? Over 80 something isn't he? He really is the Last Great Bluesman left. I saw him when I was 15 (35 years back) and it is one of my most memorable concerts even to this day. I do not know what number Lucille he is on to today but I am sure it sounds great. Blues on The Bayou were he redid his old ones was my last real big fav and what would that U2 album have been like without Love Comes To Town   ------------- Matt |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 16 2009 at 17:54
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David Honeyboy Edwards and Pinetop Perkins are still alive and they're older than B.B. But B.B. is the most well known of those. Happy birthday, B.B. -------------   
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: September 16 2009 at 18:45
How old's he now? 150?? Anyway, happy B-Day! ------------- 
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 14:16
| This is one guy that I must see before it's too late. |
Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 16:37
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Someone once told me BB cannot sing and play at the same time. Anyone know if this is true?
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Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 17:50
He doesn't sing in the lead breaks I noticed but seemed to be doing alright with the rest, what I can remember but the memories seem to be mainly of Lucille with the Blues Pedal on. Guitar Solos . I remember he sang Got some Outside help I don't Need. The concert was not a sell out. LA Midnight was the current album he had out at the time. He was the first real blues concert I saw and I have loved him since. I only buy his albums these days where there are no guests. Like Willie Nelson they are best own their own doing what they do best straight up blues or country. ------------- Matt |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 18:14
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It's getting on for 30 years since I first saw him, and he wasn't exactly a youngster back then. He played and sang like an angel in a spectacularly awful night club where the light shades were shaped like condoms and the bouncers appeared to have been recruited from 'Gorillas in the Mist', which made for both an object lesson in professionalism and a damned fine blues concert. Long may he run! ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: September 17 2009 at 23:28
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BB King is the man. I've heard the he can't sing and play at the same time thing too, as well as not being able to play chords. I made up my own arrangement of his cover of "The Thrill is Gone" last year. Beautiful song. I'm not really a blues fan (except for some Hendrix stuff and some SRV) but I've always got major respect for BB King and what's he's done for guitar playing. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 07:02
Happy B. B. birthday.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 11:35
Oh I don't know. That album he did with Eric Clapton was amazing. He outshone Clapton too.  -------------
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Matthew T wrote:Posted By: Matthew T
Date Posted: September 18 2009 at 15:57
I love her but when that mobile rings
Ridin' with the king is a great album but I have been caught many a time with guest albums and tribute albums and normally these days approach them with warning lights flashing  I find especially the ones with different guests on each song just don't make pleasant listening Give me a proper album anyday------------- Matt |