in my opinion the best along with albert king.....always thought that Freddy blew away buddy guy and Albert blew away BB......love the pure rawness that those two played with !
@rwnfrd First time I heard Freddie was when the album "Getting Ready " came out. I loved the album, but I thought wow that's a Clapton lick, then again another Clapton lick etc. etc. etc. Then I found out Eric had been playing Freddie's licks all along.
Jim Franklin, Armadillo World Headquarters, introducing Freddy King! SRV at the Rome Inn, Doug Sahm at the Soap Creek Saloon...what a bitchin town Austin was in the 70s...
@chooseyourblues- Yeah, to everything you say below. It had to be outrageous loud to produce that harmonic distortion. I spent 3 hours once at a venue in the Midwest with Albert Collins on his Tele Deluxe (or Custom, I forget which one is which) and a Fender Quad like this blasting with only two speakers running, the other two running (or probably disconnected) inside a flight case. It was stunningly, Hellaciously LOUD. What did those have, 220 WRMS? 240? At 20 ft., you could kill a small dog.
What´s really amazing here is the fact that this giant doesn´t need a new guitar for every song...or a overloaded boutique pedalboard....he´s just using an amp, his fingers and guitar to create all these different passioniate notes. That´s the real deal.
So true man, could you imagine how loud it would have been for a Fender Quad Reverb to distort like that naturally... Freddie wouldn't have known about a pedal, pedalboard, true bypass bullshit, whatever. From what I hear all he cared about was his guitar, his booze and his shooter (which he carried everywhere).
What a shame that Freddie King never played with Albert King or BB King. Why lord??? Now it is too late. For me the best slow blues guitar song. Rock in heaven, Freddie. God would be happy.
Like these folks are saying, Freddie was great. He lived in Dallas, I was fortunate to see him when I was a kid growing up there. Few modern musicians can compare as evidenced by this video. Thanks, varaha
Mr Freddie King Passed in 1976 I believe ! He was one of the greats of our time ! His Music Lives on ! Blues Power ! R.I.P. Thank You Drumzzkool & Hurricaneofrock !
I don't think it was 77 palie cuz I was in california then. still a GREAT show though. especially since we crashed the gate and got in for free. and it will always be BARFALO!
This is wonderful! Benny Taylor and I had a thing going on a long time ago and this video really brings back the memories of ,'back in the day'. This is the blues, baby!
This has got to be one of the most insane live performances I have ever seen!! Freddie is one of the greatest blues rock guitar player/singers of all time! KING of Kings!!
Freddie is probably my favorite... a deep soulful voice that stands up pretty well on it's own. add that guitar.. wow who could touch him on stage? clapton said that one lesson he got from freddie king was the art of making love to your guitar
@bklyncosanostra hey dude you be a fukken idiot. why you people always try'n to rate people. I seen Clapton and Freddie together in shitty ol Barfalo way back . Clapton had enough respect then to introduce him as the greatest and now he deserves some. Put up or shut up.
@swampdog420 I think were talking about the show at rich sta. in oh Ithink 77"the band opened..Eric was to gassed to preform,,pitty and freddie played the show..80/thou where slack jawed at the whole spect.we all still hold them both in high astine...and thats Buffalo.NY palie
My God that tone is beautiful... and the vibrato. Freddie was the complete package. Best blues vocalist ever and one hell of a guitarist. I only wish he would have played a les paul with PAFs rather than his 335 or p90 paul. That would have been the epitome of tone.
Freddie King released the Album "Hideway" around 1960 and there wasn't a guitar player worth his salt that didn't learn some licks from those tunes. Key phrases became surf songs during the early 60's--how many surf bands recorded Sensation is one form or another. I have the Hideway LP but was re-labled "Freddie King goes Surfin" which I'm sure is sacrilege in blues circles. His BEST performances are recorded (on DVD) on a TV show called the Beat which is classic Freddie--he was in his prime.
@jamescolvinjr Calpton learned a ton from Freddy, both vocally and instrumentally. He's stated on more than one occaision that Freddy was the one player that showed him how to make love to a guitar. If you follw EC you'll notice a marked difference in his vocals after he did the "Burglar" LP with Freddy. I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. King once 6 month's before his death and I can tell you he poured everything he had into a show....RIP Freddy, gone but certainly never to be forgotten.
Freddy was one of my big heroes as a kid back in the early 70's, what a lesson he gives here about using just a few notes to communicate emotionally, not one wasted or useless note ;-)
Nice discussion, but do you think this is jamming or maybey they practice a little bit before playing live? The piano player doesn't change his part of the play during a song (at least not that much), I can't believe that.
Blues piano is different, this guy sounds great, he plays when needed and doesn't when he's not. You guys need to get a reality check and listen to some Otis Spann, Big Maceo, etc.
Armadillo World Headquarters, introduced by Jim Franklin, the artist that made the armadillo an icon. They booked Freddie early in his career, and he used to burn the house down on a regular basis. I saw many of his shows including the two-night run when Leon Russell backed him up on what was supposed to be a live album. We lost Freddie on 12/28/1976. I mourn his loss to this very day. He was, simply, THE KING.
NEVER in my life have I heard blues guitar playing that is this explosively emotional. B.B. King's the absolute master of control; the way that B.B. plays, every note counts. But Freddie King unleashes torrents of raw, unbridled emotion that do something different. Freddie's blues unhinge your soul. Here are the four best, in my opinion: B.B., Freddie, Peter Green and Buddy Guy. There is no way rank them in any order; they are the four best, ever. Eric? Jimi? Stevie Ray? They're just imitators.
@gabeester Well its just subjective to say that Jimi was an imitator. True that he took alot of his music from the blues men like hubert sumlin, buddy guy and howlin wolf, but he managed to use distortion in such a way that it was almost like a voice of his own passing through the guitar. In my opinion, I actually hear more 'voice' through jimi's playing than freddie, but thats not discrediting the fact that this performance is probably one of the best slow blues performance i've ever seen.
I played on a show with Freddie in Las Vegas on New Years Eve 1973 or 4, anyway it was Grand Funk Railroad, Freddie King and me. Freddie was the greatest, guitar strap slung over his right shoulder, picking with his thumb, natural distortion, he was a true original, and great inspiration.
I had a band called "Skurow", we were signed by London Records and toured as an opening act for lots of the top bands of that era. Our band featured blues/rock electric violin. Needles to say, we never made it big, but playing with gfrr was definitely cool, they were great.
My inspiration for the Blues. He has been dead since 1976 but every once in while when I'm onstage he creeps in. When I'm out on the dangerous road Freddie keeps me movin' in the right direction. God bless Freddie King.
I started off with Freddie, my Silvertone, and his "Hideaway" album scratched to pieces eventually from slowing it down. Never, EVER heard him play like thisbefore! From sweet foreplay to blazing climaxes, he burned the fricking house down!
No, I was talking about me - Freddie played a red Gibson Les Paul on the cover of his Hide Away and Dance Away album (bluesy instrumentals, 1961 or so), but he used various Gibsons after he was "rediscovered" in the late 60s. I have no idea about his amps. Hey, the man could have played a cigar box and it would have sizzled!
Out of all the greatest blue's guitarists of the 20th Century - Freddie King has influenced my own playing more than only one else. He's BB King without the frills and bleeds with honesty.This performance sends shivers down my back.
Black people want credit for the blues because they made the blues, they were the first. It's deeply rooted in black american and african american traditions going back hundreds of years. Nothing's going to change that, and I wouldn't change it if I could. I'm asian, but I love the blues, and I give it's origins and its creators due respect.
"Why do black people want so much credit for the BLUES???"
I'd guess so it's that they distance themselves from the white folk who take credit for Miley Ray Cyrus, the Pussycat Dolls and the new Chris Cornell album.
Maybe because you give the Wright Brother's so much credit for the first air plane. We are talking about BLUES, her dad made a song right? Cornell what type of music I will check it out America that what I'm
All this posting about the piano player is crazy talk. You guys must listen to Gary Moore or something if you think that King wants the piano player out of there. Or maybe you don't play in bands and don't know how much communicating is going on. The piano player is doing a great job on the send back and King is digging it. You need to listen to some more blues.
You're right. He's only turning his head to hear the piano more clearly and tie in with it. The piano work is tasty and fits the music.. Great vid.. thanks
Yeah, the piano player is great. Anyone know who it is? He's too skinny to be the late great Alberto Gianquinto, but he's right in that bag. Dave Maxwell, maybe?
At about 1:30 it looks like he wants to shove his guitar up the piano player's ass...Freddie shoots him a look that says "I'm playing...shut the fuck up!" ...Awesome!
In '62 his music made me trade in my '57 Strat for a 335 an get serious about playing blues instead of the Ventures and country. Thanks Freddie....Saw him live several always 100% even before 50 people in the audience.
Pleeasse CHUUUUUUUUUUUT I would like to listen to this melodic jewel....Thank you in advance...AAAAAAAAAAAA..It is almost as well as of the sex..That it's the blues!!!
THIS is a musician and a guitar player, not the shredders nowadays! It's all about music, not speed and technique. 5 Stars, I doubt someone would give less than 5
I'm so glad Freddie King came along and put modern blues guitar on the course he did. Feeling, tone, phrasing, simplicity, building a solo to a crescendo, telling a story with the guitar. All that and he played surf music. Mr. Freddie King, you are the blues.
I got a Freddie King record and it was labeled "Killer Blues!" that's some truth in advertising
saywhatmachine 2 days ago
Look`s like Elvis has been on the sunbed
rwnfrd 1 week ago
class and sophistication. made you WANT to be a musician.
sxocial88 1 week ago
happy birthday to Freddy and me....Sept 3rd fuckers. oops missed it
tattooninja 3 months ago
in my opinion the best along with albert king.....always thought that Freddy blew away buddy guy and Albert blew away BB......love the pure rawness that those two played with !
ronnied828 4 months ago 2
9-3-1934.....The greatest bluesman ever lived was born in Gilmer, Texas. The Texas Cannonball was and is the best bluesman that has ever lived.....
cdevers100 4 months ago
WTF as the geezer at the beginning got on his nut??
I did`nt fully realise what a rip-off Eric Clapdout is until i heard this...
rwnfrd 4 months ago
@rwnfrd First time I heard Freddie was when the album "Getting Ready " came out. I loved the album, but I thought wow that's a Clapton lick, then again another Clapton lick etc. etc. etc. Then I found out Eric had been playing Freddie's licks all along.
beachidiot 4 months ago 2
WTF as the geezer at the beginning got on his nut??
rwnfrd 4 months ago
Forget the rest, this is a man at work!
boddumblues 4 months ago
This man fuckin killed it. This is the blues. Im 19 i love this shit.
Mattydilly 4 months ago
Jim Franklin, Armadillo World Headquarters, introducing Freddy King! SRV at the Rome Inn, Doug Sahm at the Soap Creek Saloon...what a bitchin town Austin was in the 70s...
zenguy77 5 months ago
Só pra quem ama musica!
evertongibson 5 months ago in playlist Freddie King
Wow.
LinxiCamellia 5 months ago
Sounds (and looks) like he means it, eh?
RootsinBrooklyn 5 months ago
He's Freddie Fucking Bluesman of the Major Fucking Leagues.
edwardmashberg1 5 months ago
is that an ES 335....
royceleanzer 6 months ago
@royceleanzer
It's an ES-355.
JimR56 5 months ago
@chooseyourblues- Yeah, to everything you say below. It had to be outrageous loud to produce that harmonic distortion. I spent 3 hours once at a venue in the Midwest with Albert Collins on his Tele Deluxe (or Custom, I forget which one is which) and a Fender Quad like this blasting with only two speakers running, the other two running (or probably disconnected) inside a flight case. It was stunningly, Hellaciously LOUD. What did those have, 220 WRMS? 240? At 20 ft., you could kill a small dog.
GeorgeHarrysSon 6 months ago
Baddest Motherfucker to ever live.
chooseyourblues 7 months ago
wow 4:30 cuttin sick!!
& great keys
OverYonderBlues 7 months ago
wow 4:30 cuttin sick!!
OverYonderBlues 7 months ago
he is....first class a1 in my plain
borsecrosu 8 months ago
Killer absolutely f..king killer
cdevers100 8 months ago
What´s really amazing here is the fact that this giant doesn´t need a new guitar for every song...or a overloaded boutique pedalboard....he´s just using an amp, his fingers and guitar to create all these different passioniate notes. That´s the real deal.
CountTelecaster 8 months ago
@CountTelecaster
So true man, could you imagine how loud it would have been for a Fender Quad Reverb to distort like that naturally... Freddie wouldn't have known about a pedal, pedalboard, true bypass bullshit, whatever. From what I hear all he cared about was his guitar, his booze and his shooter (which he carried everywhere).
chooseyourblues 7 months ago
amazing
glowajr 8 months ago
What a shame that Freddie King never played with Albert King or BB King. Why lord??? Now it is too late. For me the best slow blues guitar song. Rock in heaven, Freddie. God would be happy.
GoodbyeBieber2 9 months ago
Saw this man about 1974 in a 4000 seater and he nearly blew the lid off the place.
MetalGuru9 9 months ago
john mayer aint a pimple on Mr. Kings ass
cdevers100 9 months ago 2
2:35
white bitch in the front row wants some freddie
whoisthatguy1000 11 months ago 2
Like these folks are saying, Freddie was great. He lived in Dallas, I was fortunate to see him when I was a kid growing up there. Few modern musicians can compare as evidenced by this video. Thanks, varaha
Escondido, CA
mvarahadas 11 months ago
You go Freddie!
mvarahadas 11 months ago
This Performance Just Kicked The Shit Out Of Me!... Im Still In Shock
xxThePeasantKingxx 1 year ago
@xxThePeasantKingxx Me too! Freddie's such a powerhouse when he plays it moves your whole being
jahlats 10 months ago
Now thats a Fuckin guitar player!!! And a hell of a piano player
rdmcmill 1 year ago
@rdmcmill David Maxwell on 88's
mvarahadas 11 months ago
Now thats a Fuckin guitar player!!!
rdmcmill 1 year ago
The best voice in blues music, then and now.
Barnekkid 1 year ago
Mr Freddie King Passed in 1976 I believe ! He was one of the greats of our time ! His Music Lives on ! Blues Power ! R.I.P. Thank You Drumzzkool & Hurricaneofrock !
MrBUBBABENNY 1 year ago
I don't think it was 77 palie cuz I was in california then. still a GREAT show though. especially since we crashed the gate and got in for free. and it will always be BARFALO!
swampdog420 1 year ago
He was great!
LonelySpooky 1 year ago
Awesome... only wish is that there were more close ups of his hands
RythymNblues 1 year ago
No Freddy King...no EC (as we know and love him of course)
FK. R.I.P. You will forever live on in the power of The Blues.
DrumzzKool 1 year ago
first time Ive ever seen footage of freddie king. This is life changing
icelandsigurros 1 year ago
This is wonderful! Benny Taylor and I had a thing going on a long time ago and this video really brings back the memories of ,'back in the day'. This is the blues, baby!
myomy420 1 year ago
This has got to be one of the most insane live performances I have ever seen!! Freddie is one of the greatest blues rock guitar player/singers of all time! KING of Kings!!
Vierrakp 1 year ago
Freddie is probably my favorite... a deep soulful voice that stands up pretty well on it's own. add that guitar.. wow who could touch him on stage? clapton said that one lesson he got from freddie king was the art of making love to your guitar
bluez1981 1 year ago
There are 2 people who need a soul check!!
joethepainter90 1 year ago
one name : david maxwell
woodjoewood 1 year ago
Freddie would BITCH slap Clapton
bklyncosanostra 1 year ago
@bklyncosanostra hey dude you be a fukken idiot. why you people always try'n to rate people. I seen Clapton and Freddie together in shitty ol Barfalo way back . Clapton had enough respect then to introduce him as the greatest and now he deserves some. Put up or shut up.
swampdog420 1 year ago
@swampdog420 I think were talking about the show at rich sta. in oh Ithink 77"the band opened..Eric was to gassed to preform,,pitty and freddie played the show..80/thou where slack jawed at the whole spect.we all still hold them both in high astine...and thats Buffalo.NY palie
TheOffcialACCFans 1 year ago
Those poor strings
bentnosewp 1 year ago
pass the pea"s and kick the cat, can you get to that ?
simsnkidz 1 year ago
holy shit!
computerhacksaw 1 year ago
That's the great Benny Turner (King's brother) on bass and David Maxwell on piano. Nice little band.
drbekken 1 year ago
A King who was influenced by a King.
HighLifeClinton 1 year ago
My God that tone is beautiful... and the vibrato. Freddie was the complete package. Best blues vocalist ever and one hell of a guitarist. I only wish he would have played a les paul with PAFs rather than his 335 or p90 paul. That would have been the epitome of tone.
wntfishman 1 year ago
Freddie King released the Album "Hideway" around 1960 and there wasn't a guitar player worth his salt that didn't learn some licks from those tunes. Key phrases became surf songs during the early 60's--how many surf bands recorded Sensation is one form or another. I have the Hideway LP but was re-labled "Freddie King goes Surfin" which I'm sure is sacrilege in blues circles. His BEST performances are recorded (on DVD) on a TV show called the Beat which is classic Freddie--he was in his prime.
surfstomp 1 year ago
best slow blues ever!
wootoodoo 1 year ago
One of the best performance of Freedy King in Youtube
peonwarrior 1 year ago
Increddible Freddie is so powerfull! Anybody ever listen to Freddie and think Clapton immitates his vocals?
jamescolvinjr 1 year ago
@jamescolvinjr Calpton learned a ton from Freddy, both vocally and instrumentally. He's stated on more than one occaision that Freddy was the one player that showed him how to make love to a guitar. If you follw EC you'll notice a marked difference in his vocals after he did the "Burglar" LP with Freddy. I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. King once 6 month's before his death and I can tell you he poured everything he had into a show....RIP Freddy, gone but certainly never to be forgotten.
55slice 1 year ago
Is this performance on dvd or cd anywhere?
BulldogsRule12 1 year ago
This video just made my whole WEEK! Hell yeah.
NavyDan012008 1 year ago
Freddy was one of my big heroes as a kid back in the early 70's, what a lesson he gives here about using just a few notes to communicate emotionally, not one wasted or useless note ;-)
SDPickups 1 year ago
one of the most moving performances i have ever seen. amazing.
ANealis 1 year ago
@ANealis Agreed, Blues is a feeling, and it don't get much than this!!!
ronvonryan 1 year ago
Nice discussion, but do you think this is jamming or maybey they practice a little bit before playing live? The piano player doesn't change his part of the play during a song (at least not that much), I can't believe that.
DRIEKEERH 1 year ago
Nobody hangs a guitar over their shoulder like that but Freddie.
surfstomp 1 year ago
@surfstomp John Lee Hooker, and T-Bone Walker did, and T-Bone was doing it long before Freddie.
ronvonryan 1 year ago
@surfstomp Albert Collins!
dillyo40 1 year ago
@surfstomp right -- the pianist is overplaying like a mutha and does not understand the less is more concept
Kolef88 1 year ago
@Kolef88
Blues piano is different, this guy sounds great, he plays when needed and doesn't when he's not. You guys need to get a reality check and listen to some Otis Spann, Big Maceo, etc.
lordkoos 1 year ago
@lordkoos
Freddie is looking over at the pianist as if to say "calm down and follow me . . . don't go off on a tangent". we all need to listen to otis spann..
Kolef88 1 year ago
c quoi le nom de cette chanson svp,
what is the name of this music please ???
smidoutn 1 year ago
Lord have mercy! I was very fortunate to see this show....
On 5/11/74 at Winterland, SF
BB King
Freddie King
Changed my life. Need I say more?
rpdugoni 1 year ago
@rpdugoni Yeah Winterland man yhose were the days. thirty seconds over winterland thats all anyone needed
swampdog420 1 year ago
One of the best blues players around.......
KatyCCRN 1 year ago
Armadillo World Headquarters, introduced by Jim Franklin, the artist that made the armadillo an icon. They booked Freddie early in his career, and he used to burn the house down on a regular basis. I saw many of his shows including the two-night run when Leon Russell backed him up on what was supposed to be a live album. We lost Freddie on 12/28/1976. I mourn his loss to this very day. He was, simply, THE KING.
doc540 1 year ago
goddam masterful
Brakalooloo 1 year ago
NEVER in my life have I heard blues guitar playing that is this explosively emotional. B.B. King's the absolute master of control; the way that B.B. plays, every note counts. But Freddie King unleashes torrents of raw, unbridled emotion that do something different. Freddie's blues unhinge your soul. Here are the four best, in my opinion: B.B., Freddie, Peter Green and Buddy Guy. There is no way rank them in any order; they are the four best, ever. Eric? Jimi? Stevie Ray? They're just imitators.
gabeester 1 year ago
@gabeester Well its just subjective to say that Jimi was an imitator. True that he took alot of his music from the blues men like hubert sumlin, buddy guy and howlin wolf, but he managed to use distortion in such a way that it was almost like a voice of his own passing through the guitar. In my opinion, I actually hear more 'voice' through jimi's playing than freddie, but thats not discrediting the fact that this performance is probably one of the best slow blues performance i've ever seen.
wootoodoo 1 year ago
@gabeester , you didn't mention Albert King ... the King of Cool Funky Blues ...
noahpalmertye 1 year ago
Holy cRaP !! Frickin AWESOME !!!!!!
StPeteG8r 1 year ago
i have no words............................
BigMe1982 1 year ago
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The most soulful of all the greats,Clapton was totally influenced by him.
Manolian 1 year ago
The most soulful of all the greats, Clapton was totally influenced by him.
Manolian 1 year ago
Need to reload video ...sound and picture are not in sinc !
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simmunz 2 years ago
HOLY.......
simmunz 2 years ago
Fantastic blues from Freddie !!
allaboard70 2 years ago
(MILF ALERT)
hurius 2 years ago
2:35 !!!!!! Cameron Diaz
hurius 2 years ago
Texas Cannonball!
zoid52 2 years ago
Frddie is the baddest motherfucker ever to pick up a guitar. Ptetrucci is a pussy!!
bklyncosanostra 2 years ago 25
@bklyncosanostra they are both amazing in seperate ways. respect them both, dont start this shit.
hurricaneofrock 1 year ago
@bklyncosanostra A pussy that plays with no emotion!This is the real deal.The 3 Kings will never die.Oh and Howlin also.
bigge0369 11 months ago
I played on a show with Freddie in Las Vegas on New Years Eve 1973 or 4, anyway it was Grand Funk Railroad, Freddie King and me. Freddie was the greatest, guitar strap slung over his right shoulder, picking with his thumb, natural distortion, he was a true original, and great inspiration.
rskurow 2 years ago 14
well i was gfrr's road mgr who might this be ? "up all night with freddie king, got to tell you poker's his thing" were an american band
fasteddie925 2 years ago
I had a band called "Skurow", we were signed by London Records and toured as an opening act for lots of the top bands of that era. Our band featured blues/rock electric violin. Needles to say, we never made it big, but playing with gfrr was definitely cool, they were great.
rskurow 2 years ago
@rskurow And you are?
Subhuman80 1 year ago
I am R. Skurow Violinist/Fiddler
rskurow 1 year ago
@rskurow lucky mofo
kdw456 10 months ago
My inspiration for the Blues. He has been dead since 1976 but every once in while when I'm onstage he creeps in. When I'm out on the dangerous road Freddie keeps me movin' in the right direction. God bless Freddie King.
williejlawsband 2 years ago
Your words sound like Clapton's :-)
youreok88 2 years ago
Freddie is pouring out his soul , right there with his hands and body.. Man , could that guy feel it or what ?
keefarona 2 years ago
freddie was and will always be the KING of the blues, no dis-respect to bb. but if freddie had lived till today he'd be #1
greenez62 2 years ago
one use to say ...guitar islike a lady body..one you touch it right...... tune it right...she sang all the way to heaven or hell....lol...sorry lady
HF2112 2 years ago
how cool is that slapping the guitar thing around about 2:15!
electricrevelations 2 years ago
Ohhh, yes.....just close your eyes and absorb the feeling...... doesn't get much sexier then that! ;-) ha-ha
katharine46 2 years ago
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katharine46 2 years ago
THnks Suzie Very sexy yeahhh :-)
winkiened2 2 years ago
Ohhhhh...I want to go home to the armidillas and sway to Freddie all night long!
katharine46 2 years ago
I started off with Freddie, my Silvertone, and his "Hideaway" album scratched to pieces eventually from slowing it down. Never, EVER heard him play like thisbefore! From sweet foreplay to blazing climaxes, he burned the fricking house down!
TheYellaDawg 2 years ago 2
Is that what he played on Fender Silvertone...do you what year? Other Amps he used?
shineonprickley1975 2 years ago
No, I was talking about me - Freddie played a red Gibson Les Paul on the cover of his Hide Away and Dance Away album (bluesy instrumentals, 1961 or so), but he used various Gibsons after he was "rediscovered" in the late 60s. I have no idea about his amps. Hey, the man could have played a cigar box and it would have sizzled!
TheYellaDawg 2 years ago
Right on! The guitar to a point and set up...but the player is 95% of the equation...
shineonprickley1975 2 years ago 2
Out of all the greatest blue's guitarists of the 20th Century - Freddie King has influenced my own playing more than only one else. He's BB King without the frills and bleeds with honesty.This performance sends shivers down my back.
navclarke 2 years ago 2
wow!!!!!!!!!!! simply and sofisticated blues...
ganyi 2 years ago
not sure if its a lobster but its a strange sea creature of some kind for sure
stuagu 2 years ago
did that guy at the begining have a lobster on his head?
Danjd1 2 years ago
I believe it is a armidilla
bluespower1985 2 years ago
Armadillo !
psychkoala 2 years ago
Shit, the video is out of sync
remo5BCV 2 years ago
god
: )
facundoisgleas 2 years ago
mr freddie je vous decouvre et avec un plaisir .........grandiose ..........
salsasham 2 years ago
Freddie and the boys burns on this. Solid post.
tynertyner 2 years ago
nmn
MUN7001 2 years ago
you know the essence emiril throws in his food....well this is the essence of the blues right here... i love you b.b. but freddy is king.
richluvsellie 2 years ago
I will second to that!
Freddy is the real King here, man u gotta have balls to play with that passion!
wildthingsnyc 2 years ago
You can tell this guy was a big influence on Clapton and Page
montecore18 2 years ago
Perfect, Perfect!
guitarpepper 2 years ago
Black people want credit for the blues because they made the blues, they were the first. It's deeply rooted in black american and african american traditions going back hundreds of years. Nothing's going to change that, and I wouldn't change it if I could. I'm asian, but I love the blues, and I give it's origins and its creators due respect.
kungfuruckus 2 years ago
qu'est ce tu dis toi?
biroutheboss 2 years ago
freddie rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tazgottheblues 2 years ago
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Why do black people want so much credit for the BLUES???
bbb2blues 2 years ago
"Why do black people want so much credit for the BLUES???"
I'd guess so it's that they distance themselves from the white folk who take credit for Miley Ray Cyrus, the Pussycat Dolls and the new Chris Cornell album.
HeartfeltDawn 2 years ago
Maybe because you give the Wright Brother's so much credit for the first air plane. We are talking about BLUES, her dad made a song right? Cornell what type of music I will check it out America that what I'm
bbb2blues 2 years ago
HaHa. Now that was funny.
Crushstation 2 years ago
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B.B. KING IS A FOOL!!
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ulisesGian 2 years ago
Anybody know where I can get the whole show? He does a version of "aint no sunshine" at this show that KICKS ASS.
Iraqveteran8888 2 years ago 2
More proof that Freddie is indeed one of the "KING"'s of the Blues!!! I love watching him play!!!! He is truly missed.. We still love you Freddie!!!
kathyfromtexass 2 years ago 5
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kathyfromtexass 2 years ago
All this posting about the piano player is crazy talk. You guys must listen to Gary Moore or something if you think that King wants the piano player out of there. Or maybe you don't play in bands and don't know how much communicating is going on. The piano player is doing a great job on the send back and King is digging it. You need to listen to some more blues.
Ev630 3 years ago 12
You're right. He's only turning his head to hear the piano more clearly and tie in with it. The piano work is tasty and fits the music.. Great vid.. thanks
Ozrace 3 years ago
Yeah, the piano player is great. Anyone know who it is? He's too skinny to be the late great Alberto Gianquinto, but he's right in that bag. Dave Maxwell, maybe?
Ev630 3 years ago
It is Dave Maxwell.
guidoman 2 years ago
Thanks man. He really cooks.
Ev630 2 years ago
I've not followed Maxwell's career, but his performances touring with Freddie were awesome. In fact the whole band is pretty good.
screwmaster404 2 years ago
Most of the time his eyes are closed when he turns his head over anyway.
mah38900 2 years ago
@Ev630 wrong, he was being subtle and polite, letting the piano player know 2x that it's not his show
badbrian1 1 year ago
@badbrian1
It is you that is wrong, old bean.
Ev630 1 year ago
At 2:15 he says screw it & turns up.
friggin piano player !
bigdogmercer 3 years ago
& then smiles as if to say gotcha !!
bigdogmercer 3 years ago
Right before he looked at his piano player he got a look on his face that made him look like you dont fuck with Freddie King when hes mad
bhackler13 3 years ago
At about 1:30 it looks like he wants to shove his guitar up the piano player's ass...Freddie shoots him a look that says "I'm playing...shut the fuck up!" ...Awesome!
FunkCowboy 3 years ago 5
ahahahahahahahah I did not notice that but its so true...
Myakmyak 3 years ago
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lgrode 1 year ago
effin great
hahaha chick at 2:36 is so stoneed , anybody agree?
Johnoooh 3 years ago
stoned.....or in awe of some greatness
xledzepplinx 3 years ago 3
thats some tone..
gibson > fender strats anyday for me
jamietc90 3 years ago 4
Freddie King (and this extraordinary band) is killing me softly with his song. Holy shit ! Just great. Send shivers right down my spine...
tonewheeler76 3 years ago 2
unbelieveable !!! Great Performance !!!
R.I.P
bluesmaen 3 years ago 6
In '62 his music made me trade in my '57 Strat for a 335 an get serious about playing blues instead of the Ventures and country. Thanks Freddie....Saw him live several always 100% even before 50 people in the audience.
garyguitar 3 years ago
¡ The Grand Monster of the blues !
doctorblues 3 years ago
This man really inspired me to learn the blues.God bless Freddie King.
SonnyREast 3 years ago 3
A sound from Heaven! Can ya FEEL IT! RIP Freddie
onsiteff 3 years ago
no one who has ever, or will ever, cover this song can come close to doing it like Freddie did...
t3golf 3 years ago 4
you name it, brother !
tonewheeler76 3 years ago
Pleeasse CHUUUUUUUUUUUT I would like to listen to this melodic jewel....Thank you in advance...AAAAAAAAAAAA..It is almost as well as of the sex..That it's the blues!!!
MeroyBabylon 3 years ago
Look at those sideburns--he's a black Roy Clark!
kapacon 3 years ago 3
THIS is a musician and a guitar player, not the shredders nowadays! It's all about music, not speed and technique. 5 Stars, I doubt someone would give less than 5
KacanuHa 3 years ago
definitely about technique...its all about the technique
fawsta 3 years ago
Yep, timing, restraint, great licks... an awesome musician !!
Ozrace 3 years ago
I'm so glad Freddie King came along and put modern blues guitar on the course he did. Feeling, tone, phrasing, simplicity, building a solo to a crescendo, telling a story with the guitar. All that and he played surf music. Mr. Freddie King, you are the blues.
jonathan1stewart 3 years ago
freddie rocks. too bad he was introduced by a douche with an armadillo on his head.
1234savage 3 years ago 3
that my friend is what we like to call an "asshat" properly used in a sentence it sounds like he looks like an ass hat
nickkalisz 3 years ago
G3 what?
guitarplayntaylor91 3 years ago
Nice Bends and vibrato got these man
GianRhoads 3 years ago