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Location: Central Massachusetts | Heaven done called another blues singer back home.
Not just any blues singer. The King of the Blues.
The King is dead. Long live the King.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32747861
Thank you BB for all the great memories. |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | He was a great musician and played a big part in shaping a lot of the music that we enjoy.
RIP |
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Location: SoCal | Agree |
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Location: Chicago | The thrill is gone.
The thrill is gone away. . . |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | R.I.P. |
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Location: Jet City | He played till the end. was just out here a few years ago.
An original... Always liked that he was a Gibson guy and not a Fender ****er |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Everyday, I have the blues......
Well, certainly, today.... |
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| I remember in the U2 documentary type film for Rattle and Hum they jammed with BB King on the track "When Love Comes to Town." And Edge was trying to tell him the chords to the song and BB King stared at him and said something like "I don't know any chords." Awesome. Made me stare at my Mel Bay Chord Book and wonder why I'd spent years learning all those chords if BB King didn't know any. Then I remembered I'm not BB King and kept learning my chords.
Here's the video. Sadly, it doesn't include the dialogue about not knowing any chord names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GLDGiLE4c |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | But they did replay a 1996 interview with him on Fresh Air (on your local NPR station) last night where he said he could play a few chords if someone else were playing too, but that generally he didn't/couldn't play chords. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'd watch a clip that showed BB's fretwork and think... is that all he's doing?...hell... I can do that.
Then I'd try and it would not even be close to what I heard. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I remember hearing somewhere when he was on Sat Night Live that Paul Schafer was running through the rehearsal and said to BB, those aren't the right changes and BB said that the right changes are the ones I play. End of story. |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Brad Durasa - 2015-05-17 9:47 AM
I'd watch a clip that showed BB's fretwork and think... is that all he's doing?...hell... I can do that.
Then I'd try and it would not even be close to what I heard.
I did the same. I watched him and it looked to me like he only played a half a dozen different notes, but the way he played each note and how he strung them together was just magic. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | "Gentlemen, I don't do chords."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUkS9EWoDnM&spfreload=10
Edited by dvd 2015-05-16 8:12 PM
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BB King dies at 89