Saw him open for Clapton in 1974. Clapton sucked and was getting booed off the stage when Freddy came back out and rescued the concert. This was the "I Shot The Sheriff" era after Clapton's latest rehab session and the crowd wanted to hear the blues...
I was fortunate enough to see Fredie King open for marshall Tucker Band in Martin TN Fieldhouse in 1974. Sat about 8 ft in front of him and it was a badass show. Only time I have seen an opening act play TWO encores! Set the place on fire!
Saw this video two years ago, haven't watched it for about an year. I have hundreds of videos in my Favorites, but i saw it today - it still blows me away and gives me goosebumps. I am a guitar player for 9 years already, I study jazz guitar in a musical academy, but dear God, this man was blessed with a gift - to make the people FEEL the blues. I hope one day I could play even half as good as that. R.I.P Freddie - you are THE king!
You let me down Freddy , where are the Go Go Dancers ... and that suit sure as hell doesn't like like Polyester , more like a cotton/ poly blend , 60 / 40 maybe 50 /50 , mofo lucky he can Sing and play da guitar .
@sheddski I think you are confused, or I missed the sarcastic joke (I didn't read all of these posts). This is a Gibson that Freddie is playing. Other blues greats...B.B.King, Otis Rush, Albert King, Chuck Berry... all played Gibson guitars. The Gretsch (not Gretch for god's sake!) was mostly used for Rock-a-billy (Chet Atkins was an exception) so it had seen a lot of use in the 50's. Artist like Brian Setzer, Chris Isaak and Jack White still favor Gretsch guitars for their old school vibe.
no matter how crappy you say the speakers and video quality is koal if the emotion and instruments are done with passion it'll show as it does here in this video. i freakin love this song!
He played with so much emotion and trueness it permeates through that TV, through the camera, through 30+ years, through a compressed upload, through these crummy speakers at work and still gives me goose bumps. Freddie was the man.
anywhere in america where i can move that has more this kind of music? im sick of all this crap music like lady gaga and justin bieber. can some one tell me a cool place to live that has more of a blues influence, e.g jazz clubs, old school bars with blues music, i heard downtown chicago is alot like that?
@skillage444 Southern California has jazz and blues available in large and small venues. This Saturday is the Ocean Beach Jazz and Art Festival in San Diego. Their line up has a nice mix of Jazz and Blues musicians. BB King and Buddy Guy performed together in several venues a couple of weeks ago. There are plenty of great local jazz and blues groups to support.
I used to think Dublin was a shit place to leave for this kind of music but if you know how to look properly you'll find good music just about anywhere. Although I'l still declare Ireland as the worst radio country EVER!!! There is no blues station, not even a general rock station. Its all the charts and its all shit.
Very cool. I spent 3 months in Chicago (summertime) and it was one of the best times in my life. Greetings from Germany. By the way - click my profile to see my pictures from Chicago.
@AllKindsOfBlues Me. Lewis Stephens. Thanks for the kind words. Played with Freddie from September 1973 to shortly before his death at the end of 1976. I was 18 years old when I started.
This is perfection on the blues guitar. What I notice is how hard he's sweating, how soulfully he's singing, and how completely in control he is at every moment. He exhibits perfect coolness, even as he pours off the heat.
You mean Robert Johnson, and Robert's wasn't really the original anyway. First recording I'm aware of is Kokomo Arnold's in the early 1930s which was titled "Old Original Kokomo Blues". Robert made it his own just as Freddie has, great versions all.
Yes, he played the blues and was a guitar legend! Saw Muddy, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam..this guy is the truith and real hero...may his music keep the lamp on!!!
Went to Venice Coffee House in Cali in 1965 and saw a black blues shouter named Long Gone Miles. I remember going way shaking my head and saying....Damn that's Negro Rock and Roll!!
@powerkidd, If You like Freddie,then you need to check out Smokin Joe Kubek & Bnois King. Joe played guitar with Freddie for awhile . You can hear Freddie in his(Joe) style of playing.
Worst--ahh well Freddy created some amazing blues guitar instrumentals...i would say he was every bit as good as the other 2 kings but in a different way!
jeez - there's gotta be a way to get better audio than this - the quality it deserves. sounds like someone plopped a cell phone by a clock radio speaker.
the other two(Albert and B.B.) are Self thought, Freddie was not, althou Albert King had a unique distinctive sound and B.B. added many new things to Blues music, but probably Freddie is best Technicaly, but who am I to judge.
I agree, who the fuck are you to judge! Maybe you should just shut your stinking mouth or go shove another dick in it or something you cocksucking faggot motherfucker!
@soggysut Yes he did. Most likely you have heard "Six Strings Down" by Art Neville? There is a good list there: They all left us craving for so much more... (The version at the SRV tribute is played by a good bunch as well)
Yes Yes Yes. And in conclusion, I would like to say YES! Can you imagine being a teenager in the south in those days, and hearing rock and roll for the first time?
Freddie was a great guy as well as a from the heart player. Ever see the clip of him walking around in the jail playing for the prisoners? Didn't just play from the heart but had a lot of heart as well.
There is a saying music is not what you put in but what you leave out. Tension and release while telling a story. When starting you want to show all you know in essence you babble like a baby. When you learn the language you pick your words so they have more meaning and convey more accuratley. Let there be no mistake music is a language the more articulate the less you have to say to get your point accross.
I like to drop by you tube and check out the brittish kats and there video's.....you know playing there blues guitars.....then I drop buy here and see old freddie, this is why i love this stuff so much.....the chills are running now and I gotta go........sweet home chicago........these freddie king vids are great and I cant wait for my grankids to enjoy them........play what you feel.......this is what "AMERICA" is all about.........
Freddie King is the man!!! IMO the greatest of the three Kings of the Blues. He is almost on Robert Johnson's level of influence, in that there are so many people influenced indirectly by the late, great, Freddie King through more 'well known' players like Clapton, SRV, and the like. Phenomenal Guitarist & Singer.
Most of the white musician I know are cool dudes but, there some racists that always have to feel superior and can't give anything to the black man.. To onewaytoplay! you are pityful. Blues came from the blacks in the fields working probably for your grandfather. Freddie licks are very emotional and apporiate, you dumb racists.Without blacks influence you would still be playing hillbilly music.
You need therapy, mudywaters. My people were banished to the desert for 40yrs and slaughtered 6 million times over, so who cares about slavery...this conversation is about music. If I ranted about how superior a blues guitarist Jimi Hendrix was to Freddie King, and I think he was, it would be okay, I suppose, because he is black. Nobody on this post ever denied that blacks invented blues music, but anyone can play it. Whites invented basketball but blacks play it better. Who really cares?
No, Jimi wasn't strictly a blues artist, but he was a formidable blues guitar player. Anyone that plays guitar would concede that with only two recordings, one electric and one acoustic, Red House and Hear My Train Comin', Hendrix revealed his monstrous ability as a blues guitarist...maybe unmatched by anyone. Check out the 1994 release Jimi Blues...alot of previously unreleased blues jams I think most with Band of Gypsies. Jimi also covered many classic blues songs, most rearranged to rock.
Since blues came from slavery then I guess we have the racist white man to thank for the blues because if slavery never existed Freddie and buddy would be bangn on homemade drums in Africa. So called hillbilly music and blues roots made rock and roll so quit this crazy bickering and lets just all get along.
Well Robert Johson was credited as wrting this tune; but he really re-wrote a tune called Kokomo Blues which was made popular by Scrapper Blackwell in 1928, then another version from 1934 old original kokomo blues, and not till 1937 johnson did the moderen version.
Great peformer, and hugely influential, but there's nothing innovative, technically or conceptually, about hitting the same note over and over at the peak of your guitar solo. Its not about black or white, but people like comparing guitar players, even if its a worthless exercise, and SRV and EC take blues guitar playing to a higher level than Freddie. And Freddie took it higher than his influences. Who cares what color any of these people are. People have favorites and nobody owns the blues.
You are embarrasing yourself with your limited education on the blues music. The point is not to play a thousand notes per second. It is however to convey a certain feeling about whatever the song is about. So if one note repeatedly does it, then so be it. Just listen to BB King, Buddy Guy and such musicians. SRV EC are great players, but they didnt take anything to a higher level. They were just more commercially succesful in the same manner as Britney Spears is compared to Aretha Franklin.
You are embarrasing yourself more by likening them to Britney...that's way off base. And no, its not about 1000 notes per sec, if it was, I would be an Eddie Van Halen fan, not an EC fan. I am not saying EC's music is better than any "original" (i.e. black) blues artist. And I will never be able to convince you that EC is an authentic blues artist...but he PLAYS GUITAR better, and this is one of many performances from this point in his career that show it. That's all. Sorry for the comparison.
If you do a search on the history of blues you will find in the sixties EC was an influence for the Stones and a lot of the other british bands. In addition when the blues was dying and the blues artists were starving EC brought them back into the light. I as a kid never LIked EC but now that I play the blues he has influnced and industry and saved a lot of artists from starvation. Most as I did only know his pop stuff yet he is a blues ledgend to the Blues ledgends.
You gotta be pretty stupid if you don't think that SRV conveyed a certain feeling in any song and that he didn't take the blues to a whole new higher level.
You obviously don't know nothing about the blues talking such bullshit and nonsense about the greatest blues guitar player of all time. Grow up, please.
he wasn't a wannabe..he absorbed and expanded..like jimi did with muddy and buddy..he didn't want to be them.....he emulated......its a guitar thing.....later
Yeah - saying SRV is Hendrix wannabe is like saying Hendrix is Buddy Guy wannabe. They are different, I love them both equally, and SRV is NOT Hendrix wannabe, he plays with his own style. He has covers of Hendrix songs, just like Hendrix has covers of Buddy Guy's songs.
I love and respect all the early great blues artist. You should respect SRV also if it was not for SRV in the 80's most of your favorite black blues players would still be unknown legends. Even Buddy guy has admitted that SRV gave blues the shot in the ass it needed and he owes much of his huge comeback to him.
Anybody that doesn't respect SRV is just being racist imo.."he's white.. he can't play the blues"..well he disproved the fuck out of that theory. The blues are not just a black thing. In fact, old country is commonly referred to as the white mans blues and it was very soulful music. That said, nothing beats the Delta influence in music today imo.. Robert Johnson laid the foundation for some of the greatest bands of all time..
Disprove what theory? Who said white's can't play blues? I mean, blues is not only electric!, if you hear records from the 20's and 30's you will see that artists like Speckled Red, Tampa Red were white, and were as great as their peers!! SRV didn't disprove any theory.
Robert Johnson was not the one who laid the foundation for the "greatest bands of all time", you are just repeating what Clapton said, you must recall the names of Tommy Johnson, Garfield Akers, Charlie Patton.
Actually, if you listen to a lot of Robert Johnson's lyrics, you can pull them word for word out of Skip James songs. I know that the blues isnt just electric. However, it is this erra that thinks the blues is exclusive to black people.. neglecting the fact that old country music was very similar to old blues music.
Saw him open for Clapton in 1974. Clapton sucked and was getting booed off the stage when Freddy came back out and rescued the concert. This was the "I Shot The Sheriff" era after Clapton's latest rehab session and the crowd wanted to hear the blues...
Gringo6739 4 hours ago
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tamura1962 2 weeks ago
IF FREDDIE KING IS ON AN OLD T.V. Show record it...IDIOT
keket492000 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from evanfrmheaven
Yeah, let's all record our television... Idiot
kipperfeast 1 month ago in playlist More videos from evanfrmheaven
this is the real Deal, love that Guitar ..
wisesatyr72 1 month ago
I was fortunate enough to see Fredie King open for marshall Tucker Band in Martin TN Fieldhouse in 1974. Sat about 8 ft in front of him and it was a badass show. Only time I have seen an opening act play TWO encores! Set the place on fire!
Kptuser 2 months ago
cooooooooooool
kawanisi1968 2 months ago
The real shit for you bitches
gt5boy 3 months ago
Saw him a couple of times. In Boston at Pauls Mall just before he died. Frickin awesome. He was the best. The best.
nicktulloh 3 months ago 2
The Greatest blues song ever RIP Freddie
Kathleen81149 4 months ago
Man that's what I call a Blues Man
MACGATELEY 4 months ago
Saw this video two years ago, haven't watched it for about an year. I have hundreds of videos in my Favorites, but i saw it today - it still blows me away and gives me goosebumps. I am a guitar player for 9 years already, I study jazz guitar in a musical academy, but dear God, this man was blessed with a gift - to make the people FEEL the blues. I hope one day I could play even half as good as that. R.I.P Freddie - you are THE king!
KacanuHa 4 months ago
get a job...risin of the apes..
fleabug007 4 months ago
I listen to Freddie King every day. He is the real KING of the blues.
noslen954 4 months ago
I'm gonna visit Chicago one day. greetings from Holland
eriblood 6 months ago 2
3:59
White people full of fear
capitancriterio 6 months ago
Bloody good quality considering you filmed it off the TV - well grabbed.
tweetingsparrow 6 months ago 2
@tweetingsparrow thanks mate!, you can hardly hear the crickets in the back porch.
evanfrmheaven 6 months ago
Thanks for grabbing this dude. Freddy's so long gone, but so fuckin great.
JeremyHumboldt 7 months ago
You let me down Freddy , where are the Go Go Dancers ... and that suit sure as hell doesn't like like Polyester , more like a cotton/ poly blend , 60 / 40 maybe 50 /50 , mofo lucky he can Sing and play da guitar .
franz909 7 months ago
Gilmer Texas birthplace of Freddie King and Johnny Mathis
bobke114 7 months ago
What a gem! Thanks!
Tiki1 7 months ago
FREDDIE KING
RULES!!!
soggynoggin 8 months ago
Freddies kickin ass again step aside and let the man go through--poww
rollingstopp 9 months ago
Freddies kickin ass again step aside and let the man go through--power
rollingstopp 9 months ago
oh yaaa! good old rockin blues
CanadianRockerGuy 9 months ago
Was he related to BB or Albert?
Evelynsgrace 9 months ago
Good music an playin--great entertainer
rollingstopp 10 months ago
Freddie is a true King!!! Awesome..
fgzd 11 months ago
THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE GRETCH GUITARS EVERYONE PLAYED ONE YOU NAME THEM AND THEY PLAYED ONE
sheddski 11 months ago
@sheddski I think you are confused, or I missed the sarcastic joke (I didn't read all of these posts). This is a Gibson that Freddie is playing. Other blues greats...B.B.King, Otis Rush, Albert King, Chuck Berry... all played Gibson guitars. The Gretsch (not Gretch for god's sake!) was mostly used for Rock-a-billy (Chet Atkins was an exception) so it had seen a lot of use in the 50's. Artist like Brian Setzer, Chris Isaak and Jack White still favor Gretsch guitars for their old school vibe.
mlg62playa 11 months ago
I love this version of this song.
mywaynowornot 11 months ago
freddie king is a bad ass.total respect.
gibsongold1970 1 year ago
He was full of the blues, and with all that size, that was a lot of blues
manferot 1 year ago
@crakula I dunno, for me it's a toss up between him an Albert.
TTmaniax 1 year ago
muori
mattiamacgregor 1 year ago
Nice one Freddie, you made that guitar sweat.
problem49 1 year ago
Freddie tears it up on this song - the most soulful blues artist. Wow! If I only had 1/100 of that talent!!!
cgabler91191 1 year ago
He looks so cold
MrBluesDeville335 1 year ago
dont see how anybody could sit still when freddie had center stage
dandamagetoo 1 year ago
no matter how crappy you say the speakers and video quality is koal if the emotion and instruments are done with passion it'll show as it does here in this video. i freakin love this song!
latinboy1976 1 year ago
i agree with KoalWaters, could not have said it better myself.Freddy smiles just like my Papaw used to. you can spot a kind soul.
stratocaster1greg 1 year ago
He played with so much emotion and trueness it permeates through that TV, through the camera, through 30+ years, through a compressed upload, through these crummy speakers at work and still gives me goose bumps. Freddie was the man.
KoalWaters 1 year ago 47
@KoalWaters I would shine his shoes!
evanfrmheaven 1 year ago 13
@evanfrmheaven
you want some bar-b-q with that?
scnokc77 1 year ago
@evanfrmheaven I'd do a line off his shoes
scnokc77 1 year ago
@KoalWaters You said it well and true man.
autinspare 10 months ago
@KoalWaters Well said, sir.
victorcharlie121 1 month ago
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KoalWaters 1 year ago
anywhere in america where i can move that has more this kind of music? im sick of all this crap music like lady gaga and justin bieber. can some one tell me a cool place to live that has more of a blues influence, e.g jazz clubs, old school bars with blues music, i heard downtown chicago is alot like that?
skillage444 1 year ago 3
@skillage444 Southern California has jazz and blues available in large and small venues. This Saturday is the Ocean Beach Jazz and Art Festival in San Diego. Their line up has a nice mix of Jazz and Blues musicians. BB King and Buddy Guy performed together in several venues a couple of weeks ago. There are plenty of great local jazz and blues groups to support.
jazzblueslover49 1 year ago
@skillage444
I used to think Dublin was a shit place to leave for this kind of music but if you know how to look properly you'll find good music just about anywhere. Although I'l still declare Ireland as the worst radio country EVER!!! There is no blues station, not even a general rock station. Its all the charts and its all shit.
nottoberemembered 1 year ago
@skillage444 The South Loop has blues clubs
juanpan35 1 year ago
@skillage444 - Austin, Texas is where you want to live.
melonpeel 1 year ago
stunning... he's got THE blues... wow..!! tks!!!
Ancillo 1 year ago
Chicago has a draw.............
To all my friends I missed at the reunion!
MotherOfMusician 1 year ago 2
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johngoo343 1 year ago
He's melting
rlta04 1 year ago
Ok, where is the anglo Freddie King?
richone99 1 year ago
The greatest of all the Kings.
chrook 1 year ago
amazing
nogs22 1 year ago
jajaja grabaste el video desde una tele, que hijo de mil puta...
eltopo911 1 year ago
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Very cool. I spent 3 months in Chicago (summertime) and it was one of the best times in my life. Greetings from Germany. By the way - click my profile to see my pictures from Chicago.
dagda3000 1 year ago
Who is the piano player? he is excellent!
AllKindsOfBlues 1 year ago
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LWStephens 1 year ago
@AllKindsOfBlues Me. Lewis Stephens. Thanks for the kind words. Played with Freddie from September 1973 to shortly before his death at the end of 1976. I was 18 years old when I started.
LWStephens 1 year ago
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LWStephens 1 year ago
robert johnson wasnt from sweden lol :)
mikeblueskid 1 year ago
interesting how he don't use his pinky when going between 4th & 5th frets....just slides his ringfinger. thanks freddie.
tattooninja 1 year ago 2
i never noticed that but its how i do it too :/
mikeblueskid 1 year ago
@mikeblueskid
i notice lonnie johnson plays that way too.
i always used my pinky, but have small hands so may switch to this way, haha.
tattooninja 1 year ago
@tattooninja i have small hands too so i probably did it as i found it easyer :)
mikeblueskid 1 year ago
@tattooninja so does stevie ray
BrickFrigid 1 year ago
the Best!!!!
Marxiano4 1 year ago
This is perfection on the blues guitar. What I notice is how hard he's sweating, how soulfully he's singing, and how completely in control he is at every moment. He exhibits perfect coolness, even as he pours off the heat.
KudzuRunner 1 year ago 2
2:56, bass player looks like the killer in "carlito's way"
onamemmet 1 year ago
Every time he played Freddie gave all .
lklkhjhjdfs 2 years ago
I did'nt realize the guy that wrote "Sweet Home Chicago" was from Sweden.lol
Ixtee1979 2 years ago
well he wasn't...
franzinge 2 years ago
I know that.
Ixtee1979 2 years ago
Robert Johnson was from Sweden???...Who knew????
Paulsworks 2 years ago
Robert Johnson was Swedish?! LOL!
robsham 1 year ago
@Ixtee1979 Let's not start again
bbb2blues 1 year ago
uhhh noo.....robert johnson was born in mississippi
rrben29 1 year ago
this is a good song but dont you know he did not write or record this song robert johannson made this song
jaceo187 2 years ago
I believe you mean Robert Johnson?
magnum9987 2 years ago 2
You mean Robert Johnson, and Robert's wasn't really the original anyway. First recording I'm aware of is Kokomo Arnold's in the early 1930s which was titled "Old Original Kokomo Blues". Robert made it his own just as Freddie has, great versions all.
CrossroadsBeer 2 years ago
@CrossroadsBeer Who was the the oldest. Next you're say the guy was from Sweden? Right!
bbb2blues 1 year ago
Eric Clapton took a lot of his licks from Freddie ....
fjpcl 2 years ago
Freddie King played for the people.
came on stage...let it go right from the start...when he was done he was done...soaking wet an left it all on stage.
Seen him many times side stage an right down front an he was a King for the guitar...squeeeze of the blues like they were ment to be squeeezed.
Died way to young.
If you watch his videos you can see his love for his fans in his eyes an his smile....he was one hell of a entertainer.
He is truly missed.
Keep on rocken!
T
MuskyTom 2 years ago 28
Yes, he played the blues and was a guitar legend! Saw Muddy, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam..this guy is the truith and real hero...may his music keep the lamp on!!!
Wacokid48 2 years ago
@MuskyTom Right on !!
roadappleband 1 year ago
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I saw this bloke in the late 60's backed I think by the Animals (or maybe Manfred Mann God Wot).
He was rubbish.
alandavid48 2 years ago
You're rubbish.
HighZombiesRule 2 years ago 3
fuck you... go die or sum.. stop those comments that nobody needs...
this man would be a legend if he just has lived a little bit longer.. like BB king.. im sure
THug0001 2 years ago
StarfireEKS,you has know,my english no is good, l´m brasilian and love the blues,my dream is know Mississipi and Chicago, but l´m poor,by by.
alcenirbarbosa 2 years ago
THATS RIGHT Starfire !! . The Iceman lowered the pitch of his strings on the high side.
russeljames5678 2 years ago
@MrYumadj
This gig was at Fun House, Stockholm, Sweden, December 19, 1974...
oldsmaug 2 years ago 5
LW...awesome. When and where was the gig?
MrYumadj 2 years ago
Went to Venice Coffee House in Cali in 1965 and saw a black blues shouter named Long Gone Miles. I remember going way shaking my head and saying....Damn that's Negro Rock and Roll!!
MrYumadj 2 years ago
No, not at all. They´re just KINGS ;-)
crossroadwalkin 2 years ago 2
are bb, albert and freddie brothers????
rockandrollyeah1234 2 years ago
freddie king was an absolulute master. great band, good groove. thanks
tokaijazz 2 years ago
I just discovered Freddie and I never heard a blues band playing better
powerkidd 2 years ago
I agree...alot of his stuff sounds hard and like rock n roll,even his 50's music.
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
@powerkidd, If You like Freddie,then you need to check out Smokin Joe Kubek & Bnois King. Joe played guitar with Freddie for awhile . You can hear Freddie in his(Joe) style of playing.
TxKoyote 2 years ago
Worst--ahh well Freddy created some amazing blues guitar instrumentals...i would say he was every bit as good as the other 2 kings but in a different way!
markcloutier 2 years ago
what kind of Gibson is that hes playing? looks so nice on that stage.
irvineharley 2 years ago
Looks like a Gibson ES355 (Stereo Model) from the 1970s to me. Anyone please correct me if I am wrong.
davidrebel 2 years ago
You're right! Gibson ES 355 with 2 many parts! Vibrato just brings it out of tune. B.B. model is real thing.
Sinisa138 2 years ago
amazing stuff and yeah your piano work--killer!
markcloutier 2 years ago
FYI Thats me - Lewis Stephens on piano.
LWStephens 2 years ago
jeez - there's gotta be a way to get better audio than this - the quality it deserves. sounds like someone plopped a cell phone by a clock radio speaker.
BluesWhore 2 years ago
Take what you can get... It's better then never hearing it at all!!
redrocker1055 2 years ago 2
3 by 3 inch sideburns! King of cool!
janmunster1 2 years ago
Leon Russell on Piano,,,,,,,,,
wesleyy95 2 years ago
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that isn't Leon Russell.
SantaCruzOM 2 years ago
love the 3 kings, albert collins as well.....blues power!
magnusv100 2 years ago
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Freddie made the best songs but was a worst player of all Kings!
Sinisa138 2 years ago
the other two(Albert and B.B.) are Self thought, Freddie was not, althou Albert King had a unique distinctive sound and B.B. added many new things to Blues music, but probably Freddie is best Technicaly, but who am I to judge.
StarfireEKS 2 years ago
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I agree, who the fuck are you to judge! Maybe you should just shut your stinking mouth or go shove another dick in it or something you cocksucking faggot motherfucker!
IpkisStanley 2 years ago
I'm not interested in what you eat at home. ... internet tuff guy
fuck you very much
StarfireEKS 2 years ago
Sweet! Freddy is the man! Tell me, does anybody know who the drummer is? She wails too.
1957Stratman 2 years ago
man that voice, so powerful. freddie is some pure blues and soul baby. there aren't many who can rival this guys ferocity. maybe the two buddies.
man, i've got a huge craving for a sox game, some southside soul food, and some freddie king live. damn.
tomitstube 2 years ago
Muito show cara blues é o som! saudações.
eliasmatias2009 2 years ago
bass player is using a pick lol.
StopTheMoti0n 2 years ago
I just listen... because I hate to see an audience that doesn't dance to this music! So much soul and love here!
latimer 2 years ago 2
omg parts of this solo buddy guy plays on clapton's Crossroads festival but hey everyone borrows from everyone else
bluesuburban 2 years ago
Wow this is smoking hot!
johnnorvaisas 2 years ago
Very good i gott the chill .
mljansson 2 years ago
A girl drummer is one of the coolest things I've heard of.
MORE DRUM ROLLS!!
ddecto 2 years ago
MORE COW BELL!!
KonradAdenauer 2 years ago
Freddie died way too young.......
soggysut 2 years ago 10
@soggysut Yes he did. Most likely you have heard "Six Strings Down" by Art Neville? There is a good list there: They all left us craving for so much more... (The version at the SRV tribute is played by a good bunch as well)
flounderize 1 year ago
Can't believe I've only just dicsovered Freddie's music! The heart and soul, it's invigourating!
azdv 2 years ago 2
Yes Yes Yes. And in conclusion, I would like to say YES! Can you imagine being a teenager in the south in those days, and hearing rock and roll for the first time?
pantex1928 2 years ago
rock n roll. YES! carajoooo
tangoplusultra11 2 years ago
It's blues, not rock and roll.
lobizoon1 2 years ago
Same thing back then. It has slowly morphed into different two different things.
pantex1928 2 years ago 2
True that. Blues was black people playing rock and roll with a less driving drum beat.
Twistchawa 2 years ago
actually , blues came before rock ,and rock descends directly from the blues, btw, Speckled Red , was an albine (African American)
Dajandosmith 2 years ago
Oh I know. I know blues was first, I was just describing the similarities.
Twistchawa 2 years ago
Sensacional!!!
fernando1cunha 2 years ago
Freddie was a great guy as well as a from the heart player. Ever see the clip of him walking around in the jail playing for the prisoners? Didn't just play from the heart but had a lot of heart as well.
dandamagetoo 2 years ago 7
Barry Manilow is the best guitar player ever :) At the Copa Copa Cabana her name was Lola!!!!!!
tucsonpersonified 2 years ago
Sorry to interrupt all the bickering - has Freddy got a steel thumpick on? And possibly a fingerpick as well?
pantherpawed 2 years ago
Freddie played with a plastic thumb pick and a steel index finger pick. there was no one like him. He left us too soon.
rgsimons 2 years ago 4
azz quanto sudava!!!!
uzhjf031chk 2 years ago
There is a saying music is not what you put in but what you leave out. Tension and release while telling a story. When starting you want to show all you know in essence you babble like a baby. When you learn the language you pick your words so they have more meaning and convey more accuratley. Let there be no mistake music is a language the more articulate the less you have to say to get your point accross.
tucsonpersonified 2 years ago 2
him and buddy guy give me the same vibe, i like the bands they play with too
ragingstorm33 2 years ago
OLE!!!
4'20 = climax haha
rauldvp 2 years ago
What the hell does it matter if its Eric Clapton or Buddy Guy ect ect....Music doesnt have a color except the BLUES.
CoDeMaN0409 2 years ago 13
Man I'd go to Sweet Home Chicago if Freddie was back and playing there...
minimoog13 2 years ago 2
I like to drop by you tube and check out the brittish kats and there video's.....you know playing there blues guitars.....then I drop buy here and see old freddie, this is why i love this stuff so much.....the chills are running now and I gotta go........sweet home chicago........these freddie king vids are great and I cant wait for my grankids to enjoy them........play what you feel.......this is what "AMERICA" is all about.........
hogr2 2 years ago
Freddie King is the man!!! IMO the greatest of the three Kings of the Blues. He is almost on Robert Johnson's level of influence, in that there are so many people influenced indirectly by the late, great, Freddie King through more 'well known' players like Clapton, SRV, and the like. Phenomenal Guitarist & Singer.
ByronWarfield 3 years ago
Sweet home Chicago.
Thanks Freddie! [*****]
Floydflander 3 years ago
I AGREE!
MALEOZP 3 years ago
Most of the white musician I know are cool dudes but, there some racists that always have to feel superior and can't give anything to the black man.. To onewaytoplay! you are pityful. Blues came from the blacks in the fields working probably for your grandfather. Freddie licks are very emotional and apporiate, you dumb racists.Without blacks influence you would still be playing hillbilly music.
mudywaters1 3 years ago
You need therapy, mudywaters. My people were banished to the desert for 40yrs and slaughtered 6 million times over, so who cares about slavery...this conversation is about music. If I ranted about how superior a blues guitarist Jimi Hendrix was to Freddie King, and I think he was, it would be okay, I suppose, because he is black. Nobody on this post ever denied that blacks invented blues music, but anyone can play it. Whites invented basketball but blacks play it better. Who really cares?
onewaytoplay 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
since when was jimi hendrix a blues player?
ffdff 2 years ago
No, Jimi wasn't strictly a blues artist, but he was a formidable blues guitar player. Anyone that plays guitar would concede that with only two recordings, one electric and one acoustic, Red House and Hear My Train Comin', Hendrix revealed his monstrous ability as a blues guitarist...maybe unmatched by anyone. Check out the 1994 release Jimi Blues...alot of previously unreleased blues jams I think most with Band of Gypsies. Jimi also covered many classic blues songs, most rearranged to rock.
onewaytoplay 2 years ago
Jimi was a guitar player that played American music, soul full music.
evanfrmheaven 2 years ago
@ffdff
maybe red house can answer you that
polvani2 1 year ago
Since blues came from slavery then I guess we have the racist white man to thank for the blues because if slavery never existed Freddie and buddy would be bangn on homemade drums in Africa. So called hillbilly music and blues roots made rock and roll so quit this crazy bickering and lets just all get along.
backroadjunkie 2 years ago
You're rolling with the King baby!
Dalgren96 3 years ago
This is THE best version of this song I've ever heard - I don't know who wrote it , this is the best .
1947Chief 3 years ago 3
Well Robert Johson was credited as wrting this tune; but he really re-wrote a tune called Kokomo Blues which was made popular by Scrapper Blackwell in 1928, then another version from 1934 old original kokomo blues, and not till 1937 johnson did the moderen version.
bluesdrummer715 3 years ago
Great peformer, and hugely influential, but there's nothing innovative, technically or conceptually, about hitting the same note over and over at the peak of your guitar solo. Its not about black or white, but people like comparing guitar players, even if its a worthless exercise, and SRV and EC take blues guitar playing to a higher level than Freddie. And Freddie took it higher than his influences. Who cares what color any of these people are. People have favorites and nobody owns the blues.
onewaytoplay 3 years ago 3
You are embarrasing yourself with your limited education on the blues music. The point is not to play a thousand notes per second. It is however to convey a certain feeling about whatever the song is about. So if one note repeatedly does it, then so be it. Just listen to BB King, Buddy Guy and such musicians. SRV EC are great players, but they didnt take anything to a higher level. They were just more commercially succesful in the same manner as Britney Spears is compared to Aretha Franklin.
shinenka 2 years ago
You are embarrasing yourself more by likening them to Britney...that's way off base. And no, its not about 1000 notes per sec, if it was, I would be an Eddie Van Halen fan, not an EC fan. I am not saying EC's music is better than any "original" (i.e. black) blues artist. And I will never be able to convince you that EC is an authentic blues artist...but he PLAYS GUITAR better, and this is one of many performances from this point in his career that show it. That's all. Sorry for the comparison.
onewaytoplay 2 years ago
If you do a search on the history of blues you will find in the sixties EC was an influence for the Stones and a lot of the other british bands. In addition when the blues was dying and the blues artists were starving EC brought them back into the light. I as a kid never LIked EC but now that I play the blues he has influnced and industry and saved a lot of artists from starvation. Most as I did only know his pop stuff yet he is a blues ledgend to the Blues ledgends.
tucsonpersonified 2 years ago
You gotta be pretty stupid if you don't think that SRV conveyed a certain feeling in any song and that he didn't take the blues to a whole new higher level.
You obviously don't know nothing about the blues talking such bullshit and nonsense about the greatest blues guitar player of all time. Grow up, please.
grga888 2 years ago
SRV greatest blues player ever!? God help us all! Three words for you my friend about your hero: Jimi Hendrix wannabe.
Insulting me wont change that!
shinenka 2 years ago
he wasn't a wannabe..he absorbed and expanded..like jimi did with muddy and buddy..he didn't want to be them.....he emulated......its a guitar thing.....later
kdw456 2 years ago 3
Yeah - saying SRV is Hendrix wannabe is like saying Hendrix is Buddy Guy wannabe. They are different, I love them both equally, and SRV is NOT Hendrix wannabe, he plays with his own style. He has covers of Hendrix songs, just like Hendrix has covers of Buddy Guy's songs.
KacanuHa 2 years ago 15
I love and respect all the early great blues artist. You should respect SRV also if it was not for SRV in the 80's most of your favorite black blues players would still be unknown legends. Even Buddy guy has admitted that SRV gave blues the shot in the ass it needed and he owes much of his huge comeback to him.
backroadjunkie 2 years ago 3
Anybody that doesn't respect SRV is just being racist imo.."he's white.. he can't play the blues"..well he disproved the fuck out of that theory. The blues are not just a black thing. In fact, old country is commonly referred to as the white mans blues and it was very soulful music. That said, nothing beats the Delta influence in music today imo.. Robert Johnson laid the foundation for some of the greatest bands of all time..
OkieSlims 2 years ago 22
Disprove what theory? Who said white's can't play blues? I mean, blues is not only electric!, if you hear records from the 20's and 30's you will see that artists like Speckled Red, Tampa Red were white, and were as great as their peers!! SRV didn't disprove any theory.
Robert Johnson was not the one who laid the foundation for the "greatest bands of all time", you are just repeating what Clapton said, you must recall the names of Tommy Johnson, Garfield Akers, Charlie Patton.
lobizoon1 2 years ago
Actually, if you listen to a lot of Robert Johnson's lyrics, you can pull them word for word out of Skip James songs. I know that the blues isnt just electric. However, it is this erra that thinks the blues is exclusive to black people.. neglecting the fact that old country music was very similar to old blues music.
OkieSlims 2 years ago 2