Damn no way! Lucky! I would pay top dollar for a chance to see lightning live, bb and James brown too

Did you ever see james brown or bb live?

Where was this exactly filmed, UK during the AFBF '64? Thank you

​Horst Lippmann American Folk Blues Festival tour 1964 Manchester Free Trade Hall & Birmingham Town Hall were filmed.@@jaybeerod

@@AB-fw6qp I saw James Brown @ Olimpya in Paris 1966 ,... not so sure

Well put. Deadly speed and accuracy with sudden, seeming vast empty spaces.

It is the space between the notes that creates the music!

INDEED!!

yep, the bird song shining out from the still black empty night, along with the cicadas, crickets & pond frog voice, u know it when u can feel it,

Awesome props…

Maybe respected, versus respectable? Where the line of art and moral/ethic/sociologic (etc.) hierarchy intersect. Maybe because future artists could take these foundations and run in different directions, as they have in the years since? Fascinating to think about - thanks for the spark :).

Spot on

Smaller venues are definitely preferable however blues performers needed these larger halls to get broader exposure and put food on the table. They had the scars of some very lean years combined with segregation to overcome. I saw BB King in the Montreal Forum which was WAY too big and certainly not ideal but realized it was probably a necessary evil for a decent pay check.

It beyond respectable. I don’t know what you mean, not meant to be respectable.

And the audience just going crazy is what I noticed, I'm impressed bout that, Great comment PaulScott Rock -

Too bad I had to learn on my own. No tuners no KZfaq no nothing. Had to learn how to change strings cutting the crap out of myself and blisters!! Omg the bleeding 🩸

@@precisionbrown6829 .. That's all part of learning blisters- callus- sore or tired wrist- aching fingers- hand nearly locking up the lot, there's exercises for all that, also the old pain no gain comes to mind also -

@@precisionbrown6829 I've been learning guitar for a while now (hell, does anyone ever stop learning ?). I developed callouses of course, but never got any blisters and certainly never cut myself. Am I doing something wrong ??

Definitely

GT Sipe The man had a wonderful voice, so dark and expressive.

Kind of like jimi hendrix in that respect

What up lights is a bad I sure like him

What up lights is a bad I sure like him

One of the truly great Blues voices. This is good quality sound, a lot of his recordings were not so great on the vocals. And when R&B came along, producers would speed up his tracks a bit and add backing tracks and sell the records as R&B records. So his voice is not as rich and thick as we hear in this video. Of course, concert stage, very high quality mic and sound system. His voice sounds better in this video than probably on any record I've heard.

Is that a quote from somewhere? Did he say that? I was just going to comment that his changes all over the place

@SI Thanks for the response. I played in the backing band for an old blues man from Mississippi via Chicago and the changes were all over the place. You’d get 11-bar blues and 13-bar blues and enough 12-bars to keep you wondering if it was you that had lost it. The band got very good at listening. I think when people play on their own they don’t have the strict requirement to follow changes properly, and they also don’t have other players to keep them honest - it’s difficult to miss when you hear the bass player walking up to the IV chord, or the drummer playing a fill on the turnaround. Even Eric Clapton dropped the beat on one video where he’s playing acoustic on his own and singing - he played a bar with 5 beats and hit the IV chord a beat late.

Oh but he's still here. Is he ever.

@@4orrcountry Yes he is,Walter B.Memphis.

Now that hair is laid! Looking good lightnin!

Texas Blues- SRV

Agreed. Truly one of the all time greats. Hopkins was the undisputed master of the “country style” of blues; raw yet refined, a master guitarist, an impeccable singer, a genius for presentation and prolific songwriter. The roots of his music harken back to the traditional music of west Africa, yet his individual influence is still palpable, as new generations rediscover his powerful music.

Here here!

You can hear Stevie Ray Vaughan in dis man hard!;)

I can't play I just beat em up

@@bluestogreen1693 Surely it's the other way a round... you hear LH in the playing of SRV.

Lightnin' was my very first influence to play acoustic guitar and later to singin' the blues, I am a man of 67 years, from Holland in Europe, still playing this music with a lot of passion and it will last forever, love this man with great respect, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins is my true roots to the blues. ***

I’m an amateur violinist, 73 yo, mostly playing classical stuff, but I really love this kind of music as well.

Those squirrels have a nice nutty flavour.

Very lucky, I wish I had a chance to see him

Less is more indeed

Yeah Daddyo I always thought so

No doubt. His swagger is untouchable

Because their soulless ghouls.

Yes! So true 🔥

Yea ppl like clapton and page and Robert cray

Dumb. Lol

I was there also in the montreal club. I went to see him in the green room between the set, and he was sitting there with a 40 oz bottle of whisky. A great original artist with his sound.

Peter K 👍

Indeed lucky you 👍

@@neilsthepoet you’re lucky. I saw John Lee Hooker at that place corner of St Urbain and Ste Catherine also saw Buddy Guy and Mick Taylor on St.Denis st at ? I was lucky to see Pine top Perkins (one of Muddy s piano players) at the Jazz Fest in the early 80s and Honey Boy Edwards also at the Jazz fest at the time he was the only delta blues guitarist left from the early 30s. I believe he was on the road with Robert Johnson in 1937 when Robert was poisoned and later died. Tragic stories in the blues. Lots of them.

I hope the Montreal audience was a bit more lively than this one shown in the front row lol

Me too..BIG TIME MEDICINE FOR OUR SOULS... what an absolutely incredible performance, absolutely mind-blowing.. cheers from Las Vegas USA

Good medicine for those lockdown blues 👍

Mr. Melbourne-Palo Alto, CA here-I was in Melbourne in 2018 and 2019. What a city. I’ve seen a quite lot of AU. What great people. I’m wishing you the very best.

Fight, brother, fight! Tyranny MUST be defeated!! Socialism is Satanic. The Non-secular looking for to produce their own selfish Utopia apart from God. No regard for life and everyone is pigeonholed by their skin color/religion. So intolerant...it would be laughable if it were not so hypocritically pathetic in their views lockstep with the crowd...just like jr high. It's the same aholes who were obnoxious and student "leaders" in high school . Pseudo power and popularity morphs into an ugly greedy life-hating adult Karen and Biff. F em all. Conservatives don't cater nor think in such primitive ways. Err on the side of Life. Good luck. Bust one of those fkrs in the nose then twist his trachea. It'll say it's sorry quickly. WWG1WGA

If this was 60 yrs ago someone would have written "Lockdown Blues". ....in b flat.

Yes, at Manchester, UK.

No. You're wrong. Stop with your racist bullshit

That’s impossible he died in 1982

@@mohamedtlass3842 my bad, I was thinking of Clarence Gatemouth Brown

I am seeing SRVs pride and joy stuff for sure

What about just the blues period who do you think is the king? Me? I say it's split three ways between him robert johnson and albert king.

@@derekgoins6547 I've been sitting here for five minutes trying to come up with my top 3 bluesmen lol But I think that's just impossible, there's too many great ones. Today I'll go with Lightnin, Buddy Guy, and Rory Gallagher. I personally prefer electric blues but Lightnins style of finger picking is undeniable.

Damn it!! I was gonna say that!!!! I have 2 early Sonor kits (not quite as old, probably circa 1970-72) both made from beechwood. So nice and warm sounding. I have a 3-ply Ludwig maple kit that I bought as individual drums and it doesnt sound better than the Sonors. Just as good but not better. Thats how good Sonor drums are, they sound as good as the best drums ever made. (To my ears)

Hey speak for yourself lol

Yeah ! I know what you mean - 11 bar, 12 bar, 13 bar blues ? Go with what feels right ! It's like the 'irregularity' gives it character

@@BernieHollandMusic this is my humble attempt kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6iUm9GaqqjUgJs.html

@@BernieHollandMusic Right! I was thinking the same on the song structures. I'd have hated to have to do a "walk in and play" gig with him. Reminds me of a Howlin Wolf interview I saw where he said BB King play blues for them white folks. I think that's what he was referring to. That nice boxed structure. Some of it drags, some of it feels rushed. It's hard to explain to a non musician. Lol..

@@sandnfoam9845 Great playing! The language translation made it different for sure!

He's ok. But Tommy Emmanuel destroys him.

I was just thinking the same myself. I was in the balcony too. That Blues Train tour went quite few places so not exactly sure thid was recorded the FTH. Amazing time, all us kids real experts on American blues music of these old-timers. And here I am more than half a century later still listening to these blues greats who now, miraculously, look so young!

@@Gribbo9999 The audience behind Hopkins give it away as the FTH. A strange place from which to view a show. Saw the Wolf and Sugar Pie from those seats. A better view than the front row stalls though.

How long did he play? Was this the whole set?

@@eightyseveneightyfive6280 Probably no more than 20 minutes. He was on a package show with lots of other artists

@@johnirving5406 That’s amazing you got to see him. I am fascinated by his music