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Location: NJ | this is a couple of weeks late but I have been extremely busy. I saw Buddy Guy in Collingwood at the old Scottish Rites auditiorium. Sue bought Tickets as part of my birthday prsent.
Shamekia Copeland opened up and her set was hot. Hey keyboard player had a great hammond sound, well i guess it helps if you are using a hammond X-2 LOL. Great voice, great band, great tunes.
Buddy played his signature strat and also a tele. A absolute killer band behind him. Tight is an understatement. Just excellent musicians ready to vamp at a moments notice. They also had a cool r & B dance step going on.
Buddy's tone was a little shrill. I liked it better when he engaged the wah and left it down. Then it had that sound that I was used to hearing. he had some tweed amps on the stage and a couple of silver faced fenders. I was too far away to see if they were reissues or new but they did sound good.
Buddy did a bunch of tunes none off the "sweet tea" album that I love but it was a good cross section of stuff.
What was annoying was the middle aged white blues guys yelling stuff in the middle of the songs etc Just plain annoying. When buddy was talking about doing something from the father of the blues John Lee Hooker and someone yelled "Stevie Ray Vaughn" he stopped the show, found the guy in the audience and dressed him down and gave him a history of the blues. He then played some dead on quotes from jimi, clapton, kieth and someone else saying "they are all my friends" but I'm talking about the people that taught me.
Oh yeah a fat middle aged white guy screaming "you go girl" at shamekia copeland is just plain wrong.
So overall a great show, if you get an opportunity to see Buddy guy do it. |
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Location: SoCal | I thank you 3 times for that narrative. And Al, you'd shouldn't be yelling "Stevie Ray Vaughn" at a Buddy Guy concert........ And why'd you yell "you go girl" at Shamekia Copeland? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | About 20 years ago I saw Buddy Guy on a blues cruise around manhattan. Encountered none of the audience problems, and had maximum sonic pleasure. Also, with him was Junior Wells. These two old guys (old to me at the time!) really enjoyed themselves, as we cruised around the harbor. It was the real deal. |
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Location: NJ | i really hate when this site glitches |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Y-y-y-y-ou were just a l-l-little excited-d-d, Al!
It's like letting us see your "Oh" face! |
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Location: NJ | if the site glitches I just get extra post counts |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Just noticed that Buddy Guy has a new CD out:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AOJ9X0/ref=pd_ys_... |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Saw a documentary on the Stars Black movie channel on a concert dedicated to the old 30's, 40's and 50's black blues masters recently. Buddy Guy first played some acoustic stuff and then played 'Red House' on his polka dot strat, which they didn't show much of because they cutaway to him telling the story about how he first met Hendrix.
They showed old film footage of him doing a gig in some club, playing 'Red House', and the camera pans to the audience and Jimi is sitting in the front row, wearing a big hat and holding a tape recorder. Buddy said that earlier, between songs, he had heard people telling him "Hey, that's Jimi Hendrix in the audience". He said he didn't know who the f@*k Jimi Hendrix was, but he spoke with him and Hendrix had said "Man, I cancelled a gig to come see you 'cause I've never seen you before, is it alright if I record?"
The old film footage is priceless. Jimi's in the audience with a big grin groovin' to Buddy doing 'Red House' and Buddy's on stage dropping to his knees with a sound and volume identical to Hendrix's famous version recorded a few years later at the Isle of Wight concert.
Wish I could remember the name of the documentary. Just one of those things you happen to come across channel surfing. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I've seen Buddy Guy live four times....
the best living electric blues there is...period.
You guys need too see the Scottish Rite. Great venue (save for the white dudes yelling, "Stevie Ray")
...(Al, I get that you don't "dude" but, geez man, "vamp??") |
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Location: NJ | scottish rite is the best venue hands down. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Awesome venue ;) |
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Location: NJ | I went to a ProgFest a couple years ago at the War Memorial Theatre down there . . . THAT was a pretty nice place . . . I've seen the ScottishRites advertised (is it Collinswood?), but never been there.
To me, NJPAC is the preminent Jersey concert venue . . . |
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Location: NJ | collingswood |
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| Clapton has said for years that Buddy Guy is the best. |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | Eric Clapton's recent Crossroads guitar fest dvd has lot's of great players on it, but as I watched, the two that stood out were Buddy Guy and Joe Walsh. With most of the leads, no matter how well played, you knew where they were going before they got there. With Buddy and Joe they had suprises in almost every song. The only disappointment from either of them was a bored and boring version of Rocky Mountain Way, which I normally love. If you enjoy the blues it's worth checking out. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I regret not going to that show Al, since it was only a few miles from my house. I saw Buddy about 20 years ago with James Cotten, at Antones, in Austin, pure guitar entertainment. He seems to play a pure single coil sound that has a biting edge. I guess that's where Jimi got it from. If you remember, most of the Blues greats in the late fifties, and early sixties played humbuckers. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | OK, I'll be the other guy, I don't like Buddy Guy much. Seems to me like he's going through the motions now, yes so is EC and probably a bunch of others. I liked him when I saw him with Junior Wells back in the 70's but his new stuff doesn't do it for me. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | I saw Buddy back in the mid 90s while I was still an undergrad at Plattsburgh State. I saw him in Burlington, VT which happened to be just a ferry ride across Lake Champlain. While, I was not be familiar with the titles of the songs on his playlist, it was definitely one hell of a show, and I enjoyed it a lot!
To me, the blues need to be experienced live to truly appreciate its lively and powerful sound. I have my fair share of CD recordings that includes Buddy, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray ... but it just doesn't seem to capture the same magic of a live performance. Just my .02 cents ... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The only players I know W2 likes are, Lonnie Mack and Roy Bucanhan.
....and maybe Martin Taylor, though it's hard to believe with a name like that. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Lonnie Mack and Roy Bucanhan are on my list too. My favorite blues guitar player is Michael Bloomfield. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | As much as I like Guy, SRV was, and remains, my favorite. The perfect storm between Hendrix and Guy or BB. Saw him with Joe Cocker right after he went sober and he just lit up the place with biting blues. Two months later he was gone but he had changed my view of the genre completely. I went out and picked up every real recording he made, sober or not. Can definitely tell you exactly where I was when I heard the news...his stuff still give me chills. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I saw Buddy Guy with Junior Wells back in the early 70s, and they looked like "mature" performers back then. (Of course, I had a different perspective on "mature" at that point in my life). Glad to hear that he's still out there performing and entertaining folks. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bloomfield was great, If it wasn't for him the Les Paul would be dead.
Kal David (kaldavid.com) is a great player
CoCo Montoya is good, SRV, Robben Ford, I look for somebody that's saying something when they play. It just seems to me that Buddy's not saying much these days. Maybe it's just me. |
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Location: Tennessee | Henry Garza of Los Lonely Boys is incredible. In his early twenties, he could be the next great one. If you haven't listened to their debut album (all the way through, not just "Heaven"), joestonebobbo sez check it out. Some really, really good licks and solos. Brother Jojo plays a monster bass, too.
P.S. If you can see them live, it's even better. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | I agree with you stoneman! I saw the Los Lonely Boys about 2 mos. ago on Austin City Limits and was blown away at the ease and smoothness which Henry played.....I'm always amazed by guitarist that play effortlessly and instinctively. Although not a blues guitarist,Greg Jennings of Restless Heart is one such player! Plum-A-Mazein' |
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