Albert Collins - Master Charge

[ScottyClever]

Sounds great...but my audio starts to lag behind the video about halfway.

[mrbo93]

A legend period.

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

def classic /an foot-tappin/ and hysterical

[samuelramsbottom]

Reminds me of Bill Withers' Grandma's hands

[billville111]

I think this is written by Doug MacLeod.

You guys should check him out.

He's a legend here in L A.

Bill

[JoeiGuitar]

Looks like Carnegie Hall! 1980s ??

[helenburks]

THIS MAN WAS AWESOME, HE WAS FROM FT. WORTH. I USED TO GO SEE HIM AT THE BELLY-UP IN CA

[billville111]

Can you imagine how tough his fingers must be?

That capo must make those strings stiff and feel like a knife after hours of bending up a minor third.

[Marco81blues]

@billville111 not to mention the F tunning

[minglifoo33]

Damn, I'm the moron that missed the like button... :'(

[neryngo]

one person are INSANE!

[blkrbt426]

video does not match the audio



[Feltzer007]

legend

[rocky9156]

purtroppo l'audio nn è in sintonia cn il video....a parte ciò grande performance !!!!!

[primo2316]

A Master Charge card in the hands of a wife is a deadly weapon !!!!!

[glueforall]

HA HA! I like "I'm bringin' back her card"...but i believe its "Bank (of) America Card"...he sings it "Bank America card.."....i used to cover this song...fun tune

[620NA]

@glueforall

Bank Americard was the name of the card. This was written in the 70's. Master Charge was a card, before Master Card. Just like Visa. Visa, Master Charge, Bank Americard...were the biggies in competition with American Express and Diner's Club.

[glueforall]

@620NA I lived thru the '70s (as a small child) so i know that it was indeed "BankAmericard"...i was just commenting that i liked the line that sounds like "I'm bringin' back her card"....because it fits the song and the frustration....thanks for the info....good old days of those big metal slider / charge card plates...and messy carbon copies....or so i've been told!

[MrBigEvvy]

@glueforall If I'm not mistaken, the lyric is "I'll break an' bury her card." I read it somewhere because I couldn't figure it out some years back.

[Jackalope40]

@MrBigEvvy ... "BankAmericard"...

[chooseyourblues]

@wapzilla

I know the drums sound awesome!

As does Albert if course.

[jonbass64]

temazo. capo total.

[MrXuuriye]

thank you MR Albert R.I.P

[MrXuuriye]

nice wow

[Uggybow]

Superb performance, so smooth...thank you very much for uploading!

[brownbigb]

@wapzilla there is a fender super reverb to the left of the roland, and that's the one that is mic'ed. i'm sure that is what he's going through.

[tommy76blues]

aaah the lyrics are so true!!!

[elesgabor]

Always melody, and so nice rythm solutions, great bending and long notes, on that tele . . . A true genius, a blueshero, Sweet music, And the singing is just . . . outstanding

[hugleberthumperdink]

i don't know about the JC120, but his sound was always associated with the Fender Quad Reverb. I can't say if that's what's here, but I know he's often associated with that amp. Whatever it is, i dam want it.

[brownbigb]

@hugleberthumperdink twin reverb. the quad reverb is alesis.

[hugleberthumperdink]

@brownbigb I myself really don't know, I couldn't tell a Marshall from a Roland without their emblems, let alone a specific model of amp. I'm purely going on the many biographies i've read on Albert Collins, and all say he used a 100 watt RMS silverfaced 1970s Fender Quad Reverb. All that matters really is that he sounds incredible

[brownbigb]

@hugleberthumperdink yes it sounds incredible. but it is a 70's silverface twin reverb. in this video it's a super reverb though. the people writing the niographies are not guitar players usually. but coco montoya, who is and played with AC will tell you.

[chooseyourblues]

@brownbigb

No, Hugleberthumperdink is right he used a Fender Quad Reverb (an absolute monster, basically a Twin Reverb with 4 12" speakers, where as a Super had 4 10" speakers. Albert set the vol on the quad to 10, Treble and mid to 10, bass at 0, and reverb at 4. I am assuming at 100 watts he took people's heads off in the front row.

[Ironhandjohn]

@chooseyourblues

Holy shit!!

That's a rig, for sure. A Twin Reverb is bad enough(or good enough, depending on how you look at it)when cranked...

[d9operator]

I saw albert in my hometown Lawrence Kansas about 24 years ago,,little bitty place called the Jazzhaus,its still there.What a kickass show...RIP Albert.

[buggieman]

Thats so cool, these blues guitarists! Just takin a scale or two, and runnin with it! I mean, cause you get caught up in oh I gotta learn this or that, and thats cool, but taking a concept and finding your own voice, that creative! I think the late jazz drummer Elvin Jones said it best, less is more! And with albert Collins, he doesn't even play chords, he just riffs out! it takes real creativity to get that off! Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication! Long live the Tele Master!!!

[odyrsohn]

where was that gig? when?

[DrewAnti1960]

@odyrsohn Carnegie Hall NYC

[chandlerbrujo]

@odyrsohn Carnegie hall '86.........

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

sooh classic, its kurr-azee

[greyskull979]

i'm addicted to collins!

[glueforall]

@greyskull979 there could be worse addictions!

[tokkief]

Isn't it true of many households

[muzzleflash7]

6:00 is classic AC

[issackool4evr]

this is really good. . . and i am drunk

[Unclemoparman]

People he was a REAL sweetheart too, a real human being!