He's letting the music walk before he sings

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Saw Bobby with his band in Fort Worth in the mid 80s. What an entertainer! Great band! Man I was lucky to hear him, that nasal "gator growl" was so distinctive, like Derek Trucks' guitar - the noise after the noise gate opens, before he plays the note ...

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That's a great quote. Here's another one from Wild Bill Davison (Cornet player) "I'm not sure I know what a chord is."

Listen to that voice head/ chest...

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I think he was so influential because he always made love to his guitar and shared his love with the audience.

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You forget Jimi Hendrix:He sat in with BB Kings band at the Generation Club in 1968.There is a tape with him and Jimi Hendrix jamming.

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But I think BB thinks a lot faster than Gilmour.

Agreed and u know what ...he had bursts of blinding speed...if the song called for it........music is not a race ..and the ear n brain can only hear so fast and digest it anyway

Xenomorph #2277 Clapton is the same when he plays the blues, very similar style. No wonder BB and Clapton made an album together

@@HamiltonRb And what a magical album that was...

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B.B. King also cited Blind Lemon Jefferson and Charlie Christian as influences. You can certainly hear Charlie Christian in that arpeggio run.

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BB King was one of a kind. There's a story about him and Billy Gibbons. BB King looked at Billy's guitar that had 10s or 11s and asked him "Why you working so hard?" and nowadays Billy plays 8s

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Why are white people, so bloody concerned over black people's humility..?? I'm not saying you mean wrong, but it is a bit perverse. lots of surly mean black people; were/are important, righteous, figures in history, also. don't fetishize humility.

brainsareus because not all people in the music business are humble... I’ll give you another couple examples : Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, Albert King, Mr. Charles Bradley.. just to name a few more..

@@stevetrivago I've often heard Albert king was a prick lol and chuck was a contrary mofo too. ....I've heard I have no friends lol so what do I know

im annonymous lol ... I think you understood my point 😬 🧠Sareus has an issue with a White man complementing a black man for some reason.. I suppose if it were Mark Knopfler on your video, which I know a lot about , I probably would’ve said the same thing.. funny I can’t ever recalling ever thinking anything negative when a black person complements a white person.just a very disrespectful comment he made .. but what do I know.... I’m just a guy who sits in his music room after work playing guitar for five or six hours a day and look forward to seeing wings of Pegasus vids 👊🏻🎸😬

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Practice it until you sound like him.

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Even BB King called this his best performance.

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His vocals blow me away!

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i love this! So simple yet i dont think ive ever heard it said before!

Also, if you recall B.B. in his autobiography refers to singing first and then trying "to sing on the guitar". That just about says it all!!! It's no wonder he has such a great voice!

@@richgilroy Exactly, simple words yet quite possibly the single most important and influential bit of music advice ever given to any musician in musical history as without those words things would probably have been very different indeed.

@@mr.marcus3123 True indeed, yet another example of why BB is without doubt the 'King' as his name suggests. Also..... People could very well look at some of today's guitar greats such as Vai, Satriani etc and say that technically with what they do they're miles ahead of BB technically. But there's a big difference in my opinion...... Ya see if we look at Satriani, What Joe does may well be technically superior and more complex and when I listen to Joe his playing makes my brain dance n feel alive...... But with BB, when I listen to BB play that makes my soul dance! It touches my soul on a level that no other guitarist ever has. This is what really makes BB stand out from the crowd and quite rightfully deserve to be called the King! Keith Richards said 'the guirarists who will be remembered in years to come are the one's that play with feel!'.......well BB played with so much feel and soul I honestly believe he'll be remembered long long long after anyone reading this is alive and that about says it all really I think?

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Not 100% sure but I think it was BB King. If I am wrong "have mercy" (Billy Gibbons). There is a video on which he talks about to enter a venue with mainly a white audience, and he thinks wrong venue, this isn't my audience. This was just before blues got big and white folks started to appreciate the blues. Can anybody confirm or deny this?

Mike Hydropneumatic Don't know about that story, but I do remember hearing about the time BB was playing at a black club in Beaumont Tx. called the Raven. There was only one white guy in the place, a tall, skinny, pasty faced kid who kept asking to sit in on guitar. BB eventually relented after confirming he wasn't with the IRS, and that he had a musician's union card lol. The kid strapped on Lucille and proceeded to blow the roof off that juke joint to a standing ovation. BB said to the kid " you've got a future in music kid, what was your name again"? "My name is Johnny Winter Mr. King".

I was at the Fillmore.in San Francisco Bill Graham booked him there.he said it was a start to playing for a whole new audience.

@@mbsnyderc Yes, he even mentioned to the audience. I first saw him there. They had a lot of bands every night, all very different but the audience was accepting of a very wide range of music genre...the whole tradition of booking really diverse acts was started by Chet Helms who later had the Family Dog Ballroom. Where else but San Francisco late 60s would a typical playbill include an 85-year-old acoustic delta bluesman, Blue Cheer(the first heavy metal band), Ravi Shankar(top classical Indian music), Sons of Champlin, Jefferson Airplane, the Turtles and the Grateful Dead....admission $2. White kids were introduced to Delta and Chicago electric blues by these ballrooms. It was hard to believe now since SF has become so expensive to live in now. But back then, it was dirt cheap because you could crash anywhere, and there were low-cost ethnic cafes and food stores. I moved there in 1967 just hours after I graduated mid-term from high school and was not interested in music but that changed quickly after I discovered the nice cliff top apartment I rented across from the Cliff House had the Family Dog directly below at the base of the cliff. Filmore was walking distance. Winterland a bit further and Longshoreman's Hall and Warfield were easy to reach. Not long after, within a couple weeks the musicians learned that I could repair their amps easily being an electronics nerd and that started my long career as recording engineer and studio owner, and designer of equipment. The scene is remembered for music but it was really the birth of alternative lifestyles and philosophies and grew out of the end of the Beats which focused on philosophy, literature, poetry, political philosophy, jazz music, art etc. Later, due to the fame of the Summer of Love, the music and drugs kids from all over the US swarmed into San Francisco, who never had any interest in the cultural aspects of the SF scene, just free love drugs and living for free so the scene deteriorated quickly. Some of us moved north to Marin, for further to Mendocino or down to Santa Cruz of Big Sur. Many many of us ended up in Sausalito, Mill Valley etc that become one of the most expensive places to live in the US. But I was able to rent a large very cool houseboat for $260/month that was large enough for 15-20 people and now it would be $ 15,000/month. My next door(next slip) neighbor was Allan Watts, who was a famous writer and scholar who popularized Zen philosophy. The Grateful Dead moved up there along with Bill Graham, Santana and lots of other people in the music, art, literature and acting fields. Sausalito was just over the Golden Gate Bridge so it was easy to return to SF but must of us did not go often. The scene-based on art and philosophy became rather seedy in SF.

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Actually, The first time I saw BB was in 1985 at the first FarmAid festival. He played this very song and famously broke a string and changed it in the middle of the song! He was incredibly relaxed about it as if he done it 1000 times... google THAT one!

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