Albert King - Blues Power Recorded Live: 9/23/1970 - Fillmore East - New York, NY More Albert King at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
"Those bends" you said ! That's why nobody could never play like him. Imagine, bending a string to 4 tones and still sound in tune ! Who else dare? He also was a good arranger. What too many people don't know. I have a blues Heaven, and at the very top is Albert King.
@@nidranrebreski2828 man seeing all the hype behind him I’ve never even heard of Albee. But I’m not a blues fan. I’m an RnB fan and play guitar. Which is the offspring of blues. So I came back to learn my history. I’m from Memphis and Chicago so I know about BB King. Idk how I’ve only just now found out about Albert. In all honesty I thought Flying V’s were lame until I saw him ripping that one up.
We parked next to Albert's bus back stage at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena in the 80s and got to sit at his pic-nic table with him between acts.That was a hell of a weekend.Also he didn't use a pick.I saw him in Memphis a year later, he remembered me and since he didn't have a pick, he gave me a pill bottle with his name on it.Filled at the pharmacy on Beale St.I have probably 150 picks from guitar players.That bottle is by far my favorite.I also have one from Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel'( Christpher Guest)picks.That was a hard one to get.lol Hes not an easy one to talk to.
I was very blessed and fortunate to have played and toured with Albert King for a while. I was playing trombone on this tour. You could feel the power emulating out of him clear across the stage.
The Fillmore was a superb concert hall. I saw many shows there. Everybody who performed at the Fillmore East had great shows. That's why they recorded so many live lp's there. NYC never again had such a perfect theater for live music. I didn't attend this show but I saw Albert King in 1968 at the Cafe Au Go Go in nyc. It was a small club and I lucked into a table in front of the stage. He was monstrously powerful. And he was a sweet man who (like many bluesman of the 60s) clearly enjoyed the appreciation and work he received from the audiences of hippies n' hipsters who'd discovered those great musicians for themselves in that era. May they all rest in peace now, secure in the knowledge their music will last for eternity.
You only have to take one look at Alberts playing style to see how it's unique. His fingers just dance over the strings in an effortless movement and so the sound follows. Truly awesome player who conveys more in a few notes than many do in an entire night of thrashing away.
We love Albert King and l hope you knew this.althougj you didn't get much attention as bb King did but to me you was just as good or better.but I love you both the same may bless both of y'all souls rest in peace.
And he did not need 100 Pedals with true bypass, loopers, 3 amps, a kemper, a ox box into a UA interface....nope! Just the bloody geeetar, amp, charm and huge talent! Thats it!
I think the point of him saying that was more of a lesson.. remember he said “the better you get, the harder you have to work.. don’t ever get so good and say I got it all, don’t ever do that..” then he says to Stevie.. “you already pretty good.. and you gone get better” So I think it was lesson in what he was saying.. 💯
I really like listen to Albert King because it gives me a sense of of center of square one you know square one square two square three just like on the chess board right I'm going to move to win our King was the best Albert King was the best 🎵🎵🎵😂
This is one fo the finest examples of slow blues ever captured on film. Such distinctive phrasing and passion! His influence will live on for generations.
@@lous8619 ... I don't know about that. You can surely hear SRV copying Albert note-for-note and lick-for-lick but I can't recall hearing Hendrix do that. Hendrix was much less of a LICK player than SRV and more about melody. Every once in a while I hear some BB and some Buddy Guy but nowhere near as much Albert as SRV...who was a straight up copycat albeit a very very good one.
@FramrodLiggins I agree Hendrix is much more original and has many influences. I hear Albert's influence much more in SRV also but Jimi was certainly listening as well.
And he talk about jimi saying he got his own thing but its not the real blue's and Jimi Hendrix never said anything bad about Albert after being asked about what king said tells you everything
@@wesleyalan9179 what's that got to do with anything that I said or he said cuz when he stated was the facts Jimi Hendrix was not real blues that's a fact that wasn't a boomer mentality
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@@stuartdinkes8048 Right...when I tell people about him the 1st thing I always say is, "he's who Hendrix & Vaughn worshiped & idolized...that's how good he was"
got to see Albert King a Juneteenth Festival in Houston in the early 80s. he was the amazing sauce. Never saw any blues performance that came close, except perhaps John Lee Hooker with Carlos Santana in Golden Gate Park in the mid80s. oh and Carlos Santana was the most humble rock star sitting in ever. in fact, he was literally sitting. back to the Juneteenth Festival and Albert King, i was so blown away. and just to spice the day up, a very young Albert Collins also played that day. RU-vid has Stevie Ray Vaughan up next. saw him open for that stupid hotdog George Thorogood etc/man, after Stevie played, George shoulda hung up his guitar and said goodnight forever.
I love the story of Albert King coming into the studio while Stevie Ray was recording and asking him for like $1500. Stevie Ray gave him the money and Albert King said “This is for all of those licks you stole from me!”. Lol He loved Stevie and Stevie obviously loved him.
Any guitar has those "notes." Practice the blues scale up and down the neck, get your bends down, and listen to the music constantly. It's all in the hands!!!!
Stevie rays Signature playing style is Albert King all the way.Albert King is who let Stevie sit in for the very first time and get noticed.I think it was at Antoine’s
Anyone who's held a 60s vintage Flying V knows it's an unwieldy, heavy, imposing instrument. Albert's girth dwarfs this guitar, making it appear almost 3/4 size. Those huge powerful hands swallow the neck and tame that beast of an axe, making it babble and whimper like a baby.
I used to sweat under the stage lights a lot and my hand used to slip off the guitar, then after nearly 30years of gigging I walk behind a bar during my guitar solo and they had a box fan running, it was amazing...since then...box fan in front of me...never looked back. Bet he would have loved one of them, legend.
You can definitely hear where SRV got his tasty licks and feel from. Albert was his mentor. R.I.P to both of the brothers. Always missed...never forgotten.
"Jimi Hendrix used to take pictures of my fingers to try and see what I was doing. He never quite figured it out, but Jimi was a hell of guitar player, the fastest dude around at the time. To me, he was overplaying when he tried to play the blues. He’d hit two or three good licks here and there and then speed them up and hit them over and over until he’d drown out all the good ones. The kids loved it and I liked his playing, that was his style. But don’t call him a great bluesman. I think he was going more in that direction, but we’ll never know because he didn’t take care of himself." ~ Albert King ~
People always have to bring up the god, Jimi Hendrix. He had very little in common with Albert King’s playing (whereas SRV combined elements of Albert King with Hendrix to arrive at his own volcanic style). Having lived that era, I would say, Hendrix was great for the time, and for what he was: a showman, innovative in a number of respects, very skilled at effects, but vastly overrated in actual playing, and this is so evident when he tried to play an acoustic guitar; there were many better guitarists, in every genre. Saw Terry Kath at the Fillmore in ‘69. There’s a reason he impressed Hendrix. Anyone who ever saw Jerry Reed when he was serious, or Chet Atkins, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass up close, knows. But pollsters put JH at the top, ignoring cats like Kath, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, Gary Moore, etc. It’s ludicrous.
At one point Johnny was the highest paid act in the US. Although he was playing Rock and Roll at the time. I loved Johnny big time seen him countless times. :-) Peace
@@jimiplayscobo5877 Exactly! He opened for the best bluesman in America Michael Bloomfield. Mike introduced Johnny (Winters not Winter) as a "bad" guitar player, of course meaning very good. Executives from Columbia Records were watching, and signed Johnny with the biggest advance in music history, about $160,000 I believe. Of course my man Mike, the King of guitar, got snubbed. This kind of thing happened to poor Michael again and again. Yet Johnny was one of the greats too in the end.
@@jimiplayscobo5877 THATS where the 6 came from in my mind, just in the wrong order ahahah! Goddamn, im lookin at videos of Muddy as we speak! God to talk to you brother, keep the blues alive always!
always tough to wrap my head around that. Its like learning a new language with a new alpahbet, I would imagine . Like going from English to japanese or arabic
@@jea783 if the strings are upside down but he holds it the other way around then the strings are normal. its just the body of the guitar that is upside down.
S.R.V. plays these opening licks note for note on Texas Flood. I always loved the tone of Albert King. He had some serious bite in his sound. A guitar heros' , guitar hero. Never gets old.
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That man is like 7feet tall...that guitar looks like a kids guitar in his hands lol and he's destroying it like a king. Also he's playing it upside down...with his left hand without a pick. This man is God
@@silentrage2285 now now, I have searched for that actual performance for years, probably will never ever find it, and all i will have is that stevie ray vaughan song where he talks about it for 5 minutes... im guessing thats where you heard about it too.
I have Blues Power tattooed on my inner forearm. Every time I look at it, I get motivation from my hardships, and do my best to use them to my advantage and overcome them. BLUES POWER.
Albert King is the greatest Blues Guitarist period don't even think for a min SRV is even close to albert.why because Albert had waaaaaay more tone and power
"B.B. King's brother", a true legend, but still underrated. He developped his self-taught individual style playing left handed on a right handed guitar (his first "guitars" were self built).
Don't limit yourself to Albert.Theres so many.They will change you music taste.Checkout Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Ike Turner(before Tina), Freddie King.That will get ya started!
He plays what he feels. It's not scales really fast. His guitar speaks for him: simple, soulful, elegant. He is still miles behind Freddie King in bringing the voice out in every note, penetrating soul from his lady.
So he flips the guitar upside down, for his left hand, and didn't restring it like Hendrix had, and he plays this sublime stuff?! This artistry of the finest. Thanks for posting it. Amazing.
@@bensblues I was just gonna comment that. Jimmy used to switch from left hand to right hand when his dad would come in the room because his dad believed playing left-handed was witchcraft. I've heard it said that Jimi played just as good right-handed as he did left-handed. NOTE...Jimi was actually a right-handed person
It gave him a lot of that distinctive sound.. bending strings up or down - it just sounds different, I never figured why, but it does, try it .. the fingers work different
@@tomasvanecek8626 as a young guitar player back in the day i knew he sounded very different for the obvious reasons but then realized after staring at a picture realized he was playing upside down and backwards which really flipped me out...
Thanx for making this great tune available to hear. This live version is outstanding. I begin to weep and tears come to my eyes upon listening, and watching Albert King here.
somewhere listening to this was a mesmerized 16 year old stevie ray vaughan who was about to quit his day job to try and make it big just like his idol albert king...
When I lived in Southern California I went with a friend to Pasadena and saw Albert, BB,and Bobbie Blue Bland perform. One of the best times of my life
As a young teenager I saw Albert many times at the Fillmore West. In the front row the guitar sounded like bombs dropping. You have experience it in person, like the Grand Canyon, one of the wonders of the world.
Same here brother. Lucky to catch him many times in his prime at FW and Winterland. I play blues harp and copy some of his phrasing in my bends. Always my favorite (AK). Jaw dropping when he was on the top of his game.
Cold blooded Blues, I love this guy, this brings back so many memories for me as a child, my dad loved Albert King, as an Adult now, I can truly see why 💙
Well, you know what they say: it's not about how many notes you play, it's about HOW you play'em, WHEN you play'em and how much SOUL you put on them when you're playing'em. And this man had tons of all that in his playing
When I listen 2 music,I do not listen to just hear it. I listen to FEEL it,this guy,Albert King,makes u feel the music the way an artist is suppose too. RIP brother,as Johnny Guitar Watson said," that's a real mother ya."
Dripping sweat, buzzing, amplifiers, screaming, guitars, great lyrics, crowded, smoky room. This is what blues is all about real no nonsense down home, blues.
I can name that Guitarist in One Note! I listen to Albert all the time. Awesome sound and awesome bends. He was something special! Albert King 👑 everyone!
