BB King 3 O'Clock Blues original 1950 78







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One of the truly greats has gone R.I.P. :-(

There is already a Sticky thread about BB King at the top of the page.

RIP Mr. Blues

Sad news. Very glad I was able to see him perform once. A long, wonderful career inspiring and delighting many, and a long, wonderful life. RIP.

Listening now to the song Paying the cost to be the boss from BB's cd deuces wild, together with the Stones.

Good groove. wondering how the band reacted to this sad loss

Jeroen

I saw him on stage seven times.
RIP B.B. King.

No many people outside Spain know that BB KIng worked together with Raimundo Amador, a "modern" (so to speak) flamenco guitar player. They played together and BB King toured with him. BB King lived the experience of travelling with the spanish gypsy entourage of Raimundo. BB King (as far as I read and heard) fell in love with flamenco and learnt things from Raimundo but his respect for flamenco was so high that he never played a single note in front of any one but Raimundo and his people.


video: [www.youtube.com]

And this one...

BB KIng appears in min 4


video: [www.youtube.com]



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corriecas
wondering how the band reacted to this sad loss

Jeroen

Keith put a picture (BB and him with big smiles) on his facebook page with this comment
" "We had some great times and I will miss him. Wanted to share a moment from 1997 in Chicago. Peace BB.” - KR"





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I saw BB King in 1984 or 85 here in KCMO at the Uptown theater & being a drunken little punk rocker I tried to steal the personalized license plate off of his tour bus (I'm not proud of it but it happened , OK?). As I was kneeling down & attempting to turn the screws I saw 2 large feet stop beside me & an equally large voice ask what I was doing. I quickly got up & responded that BB's license plate was about to fall off & I was fixing it for him. I'd hate for him to get pulled over on the way to the next gig....
He bought it & I immediately ran away.

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corriecas
wondering how the band reacted to this sad loss

Jeroen

Keith put a picture (BB and him with big smiles) on his facebook page with this comment
" "We had some great times and I will miss him. Wanted to share a moment from 1997 in Chicago. Peace BB.” - KR"

Thanks dgjab !!
jeroen

"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

GREAT remembrance of BB by T Bone Burnett..

T Bone Burnett Remembers B.B. King: ‘He Conjured the Very Soul of Our Country’

[time.com]

saw the beebs in a nightclub in North Vancouver, the Club Plazazz on it's closing night in January 1986.

Fantastic club, but BB was much more fantastic. A good long life lived by a legend.

Thank you and RIP.

"Stay Around A Little Longer" with Buddy Guy.
When I'm pushin' up daisies don't forget, you're still my buddy.






"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"



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Deltics
"Stay Around A Little Longer" with Buddy Guy.
When I'm pushin' up daisies don't forget, you're still my buddy.

Man, that's just beautiful!
And man, we're gonna miss him!

Rest in peace, B.B. King

[beta.prx.org]

This is the 2013 Documentary "The Life of Riley" about the life B.B. King, including remarks by the King himself, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Mick, Keith, Mick T., Ronnie and Bill among many others.

I watched it last night, and Arte will have online for a few more days:

[www.arte.tv]

Highly recommended, I thought it was absolutely superb!!
Enjoy

Very very sad news.
Rest In Peace and thank you so much for all your wonderful records and music.
Peace

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Bluesstone
This is the 2013 Documentary "The Life of Riley" about the life B.B. King, including remarks by the King himself, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Mick, Keith, Mick T., Ronnie and Bill among many others.

I watched it last night, and Arte will have online for a few more days:

[www.arte.tv]

Highly recommended, I thought it was absolutely superb!!
Enjoy

Yeah, a great dcument. Highly recommended. it was Great.
one Love B.B.

jeroen

Last time I saw BB King was in Atlantic City. He sat in a chair, barely able to walk on stage, and talked more than he played. He talked to the audience about the songs he loved to play. He wasn't even playing entire songs, just pieces of songs, the licks and repeating them. Didn't really sing, just spoke the words in time. I think he was too old to perform anymore but nobody complained because we all knew his age was 88 at the time.

The B.B in B.B. King's name stands for Blues Boy, a nick-name he picked up early in his career in Memphis, TN a name that will stay with him forever.

This is a hommage from two former band colleagues of mine.

Enjoy!

Video for B.B.



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I have to say it's really great to see Stones fans remembering B. B. King in this way. The guy was a true master, legend, and treasure.

Rolling Stones pay tribute to BB King
BB King was "one of the true gentlemen of music" say Rolling Stones in their first ever Twitter Q&A called #AskTheStones


http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Keith Richards paid tribute to BB King as "one of the greats, one of the true gentleman" in the band's first ever Twitter Q&A.

Answering questions under the hashtag #AskTheStones, Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger also reminisced about the late BB King and playing with him in Madison Square Gardens and a few years ago at The White House in the USA.


Keith Richards also remembered the late BB King, saying: "Sad loss, man. One of the greats, I mean, beautiful style and BB was a great guy. He was one of the true gentlemen and I shall miss him a lot. What can you say now, at least we have his records and farewell BB."



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Just seen this tribute to B.B. King from Jeff Beck.

[news.yahoo.com]

Rather sordid...

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B.B. King Returns to a Mississippi Home, and Its Warm Embrace


Rodd Bland, son of the blues musician Bobby Bland, carried Lucille, one of B.B. King's beloved guitars, in a processional on Beale Street in Memphis on Wednesday.
Credit Andrea Morales/Getty Images

INDIANOLA, Miss. — B.B. King, the man some called the ambassador of the blues, came home this week for the last time.

After audiences with presidents and a pope, after concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and the Cook County Jail, after TV commercials for Toyota and Burger King, after Kennedy Center honors and 15 Grammys, after living through — and belting out — tales of love, heartbreak and triumph, Mr. King returned to this small, swampy city where he once picked cotton and busked for dollars on a rowdy, juke-lined downtown street.

On Friday morning, his body lay in a bronze coffin, dressed in a purple satin shirt and a floral-print tuxedo jacket, flanked by a pair of black Gibson guitars and two Mississippi Highway Patrol officers who stood heads cast downward.

At 6 a.m., fans, acquaintances and fellow musicians began lining up at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, the slick $15 million monument to his story, a kind of blues fable. At 10 a.m., they began filing past the man who had lived it.

“B.B.’s been in my life, in my father’s life, in my mother’s life,” said McClinton Samuels, 72, a retired corrections officer from New Orleans. “He was one of the best I’ve ever heard.”

Mr. King, one of the most distinctive guitar players in the history of his idiom, died May 14 at age 89 in Las Vegas, where he had lived for many years. He was born in a cabin in the tiny town of Berclair, Miss. But he had long embraced Indianola, a city of 10,000 about 18 miles from his birthplace, as a kind of spiritual hometown, one he returned to year after year to play concerts, commune with old friends and subtly inspire — or so he hoped — a spirit of racial reconciliation in a place long haunted by the cruelties of racial segregation.

“He didn’t go into a lot of detail here about his treatment by white folks,” said Carver A. Randle, 73, an African-American lawyer who represented Mr. King locally. “He wanted to heal people through his music. He wanted the people of his hometown to get together. And he wanted to be a part of that.”

After a viewing in Las Vegas on May 22, Mr. King’s body was taken to Memphis, the big city from which he had started his globe-spanning career. On Wednesday, a jazz funeral processional played its way down Beale Street. Then Mr. King’s hearse, escorted by the police, made its way south on Route 61, through the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where adults and children, black and white, lined the road in tribute.

Mr. King is to be buried here Saturday after services at Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church, which is on a road that bears his name. The farewell comes amid notes of drama, suspicion and pain: Two of Mr. King’s daughters, Karen Williams and Patty King, have accused a manager, LaVerne Toney, and a personal assistant, Myron Johnson, of having a hand in Mr. King’s death.

“I believe my father was poisoned and that he was administered foreign substances,” the sisters said in affidavits provided to The Associated Press.

In Indianola, Ms. Toney said she “certainly” denied the claims. “All of them are false, and the people making them know they are false,” she said.

Link to full article:

[www.nytimes.com]