@@jmsully3 I would say I'm jealous... hell.... I am. But why don't you tell us a little about these shows and help keep his memory fresh? I'm sure we would all appreciate it.
what a career...1940's to the 1990's ! I was so blessed to see he & his 3 or 4 piece band rock the Rainbow Bistro in Ottawa, Canada more than once or twice in less than 10 years back in the 80's. I would study all musicians on the stage, how they played, the groove and vibe they would set, always noticed just how much fun they were all having. I would watch & learn taking it all in as they played 2 hr sets in a small club in a small northern town during the middle of a Canadian winter .... or in the thick of a Canadian heatwave mid summer. Fond memories of some shows going past 2am and the crowd would always want more! Halfway through the show Albert would enlist a roadie to follow him while he mingled while paying into the crowd. The roadie unravelling a 300 ft spool of guitar cable as he walked through the club & out onto the city streets below - 2 floors down, chatting with passerbys on the street & playing the tastiest licks & chords, smiling & grinning the entire time .... he was the real deal, a people person first & foremost. My buddy worked for a local Ottawa University radio station (ckcu) and actually managed to 'book' an impromptu interview with Albert between sets one time. It took place in a tiny 'green room' under the stairs at the Rainbow. I was fortunate enough to tag along for the interview. I'll never forget how he opened the door to his 'break room/green room' and easily invited us in to chat with him while he changed his strings & tuned up. He greeted us at the door of the tiny room with, "Hey fellas, come on in & have a seat. Ya'll want to axe me some questions for a radio show?" no security, no attitude, all smiles and SUPER friendly. Amazing, thanks for the hospitality Albert, in both your music & your genuine personality.
These cats are missed dearly. The blues greats: Albert Collins, B.B. King, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, SRV, Johnny Winter. Just to name a few. Blues hasn't been the same without these cats. RIP.
The passage of time makes me realize how fortunate I was to be able to see, hear and experience many of the all-time greats while they were still alive and kickin'.... it's not the same without them, the world just isn't as good with them gone.
Its because musicians are to worried about perfection and playing from the mind and not the heart mistakes should happen it makes human ,real stop trying to copy note for note and be original.
I'm 60 years old, put Albert Collins on in a bar, a guy my age said how could you listen to this music you're the same age as me! Because I got soul I told h8m, he looked really confused 😂😂
this guy plays with no pick, invented his own style, one of the most creative musicians ever, and dammit he has FUN playing and it's contagious, love this guy!!
I was lucky-enough to see Albert Collins and the Icebreakers live, up-close and personal maybe a dozen times in the late 1970s & 1980s right up to the early 90s. Many of those shows in small clubs. Albert and the band were simply amazing. Albert never forgot his fans and always put on a great show. Never coasted; always played his heart out. And his bands were always so tight and funky. Oh man, yes those were some very good times... I sure do miss him.
I was there beautiful most unbelievable night. We heard people talkin of an after-party and Sir sound Studios some blocks away in New York City and me and my two buddies actually went and actually snuck in and actually watch the Blues Jam with many famous names and legends. Lonnie Mack Roy Buchanan and and Albert Collins in the president of Alligator Records put on this great party. Truly one of the highlights of my life. Jaco Pastorius walked in and got up and played some blues with some of them like Paul Shaffer. I saw Stevie Stevens walking around Julian Lennon Stewart Copeland f*** what a night miss you everyday Albert going to have to plugging my Telecaster into in it to that open G minor
Such a high ringing piercing tone when he plays. Showman created some of the best live concerts I've had the joy to experience. With his 100 foot cord he would engage with his fans directly. Thank you sir R.I.P.
Indeed, imagine coming from where Collins came from and making it to the Carnegie Hall. He once thought he could not learn the guitar and that he was not good enough of a singer. He played for 3 dollars a night and needed to have a day job for many years
had the pleasure of having a beer with him and the band at Jonathan Swifts in Cambridge, MA back in the seventies! What a show with his spool of guitar chord he walked right out the door and was playing outside on Harvard Sq. Don't see that anymore! Great player and band!
Beyond greatness. I will always remember taking a Blues Cruise with Albert Collins and band around Manhattan Island the best 3 hours of my life under the Brooklyn Bridge to the Statue of Liberty while he whale his balls off. Keep in mind the boat has three levels and his cord is long enough where he didn't skip a beat and rocked every level. no one could even come close to the magic that came out of this man and his band. some may disagree but if you saw the many concerts I saw of this man you couldn't deny his greatness and uniqueness
An American Anthem. Great Blues guitar and credit card debt... That's art! I grew up in the country hearing JB and Otis Redding and Muddy Waters coming from the cooks house. When I was twenty, in New Orleans I could go to a local live music watering hole and see Albert Collins or Rufus Thomas. Heck, Irma Thomas! Everybody lived here or gigged here. James Brown played downtown, but he should! We don't have that anymore; The next generation is White Bread. It's awful! Amy Winehouse left t
This was one of the earliest great live blues concerts,with 3 Great blues masters LONNIE MACK ,ROY BUCHANAN, ALBERT COLLINS LIVE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL.
Was so happy to find Albert live. I saw him a few times at Stache and Little Brothers on High street in Columbus Ohio. Always a treat to follow Albert onto the street during one of his jams. Thanks for the memories.
The iceman is a legend. Smooth and so cool it comes from the freezer. Thanks for this great upload. Had the privilege of seeing him a few times. One of those times was at the Park West in Chicago where he and Johnny Winter dueled. They were both artists on Alligator Records at the time. Other posters are right, his performances on the Antones label are fantastic. The live anniversary concerts are uploaded and feature all of the best bluesmen that went every year for that celebration in the 80's.
Dear Class, Albert Collins & his Band have done & been so much good for music & regarding music, the Blues, Jazz, Albert's mastery of the telecastery, etc. lol. So, it's good news to hear them playing so good, ....Albert & the Band made up for it in the end with Albert's explanation, Class, the truth about things, but just one thing concerns me in this song. Albert teaches about money & wealth, & lots of things in life actually, he loves to jam out the Universe to harmonious great music, but in the lyrics he states something to the effect of he bought nice dresses for his good Wife, and "she came home lookin' silly", sigh..which disturbs me, Class. It makes me feel like something's wrong, maybe some war of man -vs- woman going on or another love battle etc. The things we all go through out here in love & Romance & Marriage & chastity. Especially when the actual "truth" of girls & women is as 100% totally proved, proven, verified, evidenced, & Documented now on our Internet in the Palin for President & Pelosi for President Campaigns always, regardless of all always at School, rather their "natural intelligence" regarding life, money, & wealth, and their natural longevity, at this time in our history if not just always, and tendency to have a longer average lifespan than males & men, in the USA (Region), & potentially Universally, but scientifically so, my peoples. Girls love life a lot, they may be and actually are somewhat "the Custodians of life, & involved regarding life", as child-bearing peoples. So basically it's contrary Albert's lyrics, because it's way more likely for males & men to screw up about money than it is girls & women, most peoples on average. Our Science is reliable, and there's also more than just science in life, but science is reliable always. So is Albert actually, lol. So, we just have to be careful because Sarah Palin & Nancy Pelosi are not/would not be happy about it, Albert Collins has done lots of good work at School for America, tons of it, he loves America a lot. Both Mrs. Sarah Palin Mam & Mrs. Nancy Pelosi Mam have worked tirelessly & totally successfully at & regarding America's finance, ratifying bill after bill in the community's best interest, awarding the American peoples stimulus checks & other benefits & rewards, and as always, regardless of all always..........being totally strong about & regarding "all life", with natural intelligence regarding things, that guys don't apparently seem to have, most guys anyway. Yet Mr. Albert Collins' good Wife still lives & exists in an untouchable state & place, that cannot ever be changed....a pretty innocent flower girl, in a pretty dress, in a memory and an innocent place that is made of light, where she is happy. Her chastity..and all girls' chastity cannot be broken, the girls are so tough about life & love, Romance, Marriage, Chastity, friendship, partnership, fidelity, honor, Grace, loyalty, faithfulness, trust, and the Majesty of love, all the things of love, that it's their nature, their natural state, their "unchangeable state". Class, the girls are in my Teaching of 10 Commandment Way, just like light..they are so strong & healthy & oriented that we know not to look too long or we will go blind, lol. Albert & his Band did great, these $200 dresses are worth, well....we all think way more than $200, we start with "100% totally infinitely, specifically to the highest order of magnitude priceless always, regardless of all always, with even just 1 life that goes into a dress such as from a cotton tree person, let alone all the other peoples that go into one dress, the flowers, the peoples". It's heavy but we have to defend all from & regarding the ancient man -vs- woman war deal, always, regardless of all always man. Our Campaign Slogan in the Palin for President & Pelosi for President Campaigns is still: 1) Equality 2) Sexual Equality &3) Equal potential in & regarding all & all things, under God, always, regardless of all always. But also includes all of our work regarding girls & women, and Palin & Pelosi's total success healing up America's financial disaster, to a great degree. They did great for us, & remember Palin & Pelosi are both Angels & GRADUATES at our School 1 "Count to ten" - Martial Art School (c)1, Patented(1) now, and 10th Degree - Whitebelts now, always, regardless of all always, so they are both therefore Universal in nature. So they work on a Universal level, including all their work for America.
Gwendolyn Collins deserves a lot of credit for her husband's success. He was about ready to quit the music business and come off the road, take a straight job, but she convinced him to start writing original music and to start singing. That was in the early 1970s. He still had some dues to pay, but when Bruce Iglauer signed him to Alligator Records a few years later, things changed for the better and his years of hard work and touring started paying off.
Sending this video out to my late...Aunty Bessie Mae Gordon...She Loved This Man Albert Collins...From Your Niece...Barbara Gail Gordon(Griner)...Sleep Peacefully with This Sound Of Music In Your Spirit ) She loved This Man...Aug 20 2019 Monday............
Yea like two twin reverbs, but its not as loud as the super six reverb. Imagine 3 twin reverbs stacked on top of each other. That will melt the wax out of your ears.
