I saw him in France in 2005 with John Mayall. He started the concert, alone with bassist and drummer, without any pedals, for 3 songs. Fabulous ! I think that was the best moment of the concert !
He once e-mailed me after i wrote a comment on his homepage long ago. Wanted to send his debut solo record to me because i was sick. Such an effing heart this man have - besides feeling and chops. We love you, big brother. Legend!
I'm totally amazed by the genius of Whittington! He plays only and solely meshed to his axe with a definition of what he's hearin' more than I'd ever think of! I'm constantly immersed in the insane lane that comes out with Buddy's interpretation!! Fo sho he is one of a kind. With the perfection of unheardof blues interpretation, he exceeds by magnitudes beyond. I'm major happy to have discovered such an artist. BTW, I'm an entrepreneur / tradesman who simply loves the innovative dedication to one's bent. Thanks Buddy, for giving me a sh'tload of magical tunage!! You're always playing on my jobsites!! (I'm the boss, so I got tune privy)
i use to meet buddy many friday and saturday nights at central park in hurst texas in 1971, we didnt know each other we both just happened to go there regularly with our guitars and we would play acoustics in the dark all night sittin on the concrete benches and tables, i just moved to hurst from atlanta, then i got to know stevie, jimmy, and anson in 74 doing the monday nights at the original poor davids off mckinney.... freddie king was always hangin at mother blues, gatemouth brown, smoked a doob with dimebag in 77 while cuttin a demo at pantego studios, i saw duane play many times in atlanta, i loved mucic.... i am a lucky guy..... i use to sit in with rusty burns dads band in euless in gene perdy's band, the first night rustys dad, bob, told me to quit bending strings.... rusty played lead for point blank, a great texas band, amazing guitarist, played upside down left handed cuz his dad was a right handed guitar player. point blank was the only other band signed by bill ham who created zztop i also watched eric johnson during his bar days townes van zandt guy clark steve earle bw stevenson peter rowan the list goes on and on i was always a solo acoustic guitar singin my favorite word based songs and tellin stories between songs, , and i thought i would hate texas comin from hotlanta but texas was a blast my first day in ft worth in 71 i snuck in will rogers auditorium to see bo diddly open for creedence clearwater, my grandmother lived a few blocks from there so i snuck in around 5 pm and hid up in the rafter seats till the lights went down, then worked my way to right below the stage.... i swear you could tell fogerty was tripping, and the show was fantastic years and years later, by accident, i got to meet and get drunk with bo diddly and chuck berry when i snuck in the private pre-opening party at the hard rock in dallas i was sitting upstairs in the vip section cuz we snuck in by going up the fire escape stairs around back, we were amongst huge stars so i saw a little dark bar in the corner and sittin at a little 4 stool bar is bo and chuck and we got drunk together and i told them both i snuck in and they said that i was with them now if any problems come. then chuck closed the evening downstairs with paul schaffers band and chuck kept looking at me and my friend and laffing at us he told us several times "i bet you are the only two "mofos" that got in", he liked us. and bo was impressed i saw him in 71 cuz he remembered that show i went to high school with lee pickens from bloodrock, my grandmother taught john denver in arlington heights high school.... i saw hundreds of stevie and jimmys bar gigs and saw stevies last bar gig at blossoms downstairs, in ft worth, his 4th set was the insane hendrix set, there were 7 people in the bar, including the bartender, stevie went off like i never saw before he was leaving that night to go l.a. to record china girl with david bowie stevie was a very kind sweet and gentle person, mostly kinda quiet, stevie was always surrounded by great texas people, downhome and bad ass.... when mike judge (king of the hill) played bass for anson funderburgh during those infamous monday nights at poor davids pub, during the breaks mike judge was funny as hell. way before he did beavis, and king of the hill countless times we all go out the back door during band breaks and i would sit on a curb with stevie under a streetlight and take a few puffs and enjoy the evening stevie use to tell me, "man, you always got the best tasting weed"..... there were great jams all night by all the greats on those monday nights 8-10 years.... at poor davids pub. it was a well kept secret, man i knew how damn good it was. i use to i rarely missed a monday night for 8 years.... rip freddie pharoah, the greatest shuffle drummer on the planet i am gettin old now and if people only knew what a great musical life this old guy has had, from the allman brothers in atlanta to the great texas music scene where country met rock was unbelieveable austin in 70's was the real austin, not the one now
Just by accident seen your pretty long post but it caught my eye, you talking about hanging out a central park, because I grew up in Euless and hung out there a lot, and often played guitar and got stoned mostly. I new Rusty Burns he stayed down the street from me for a few years it seemed. he was with or married to my buddy sister and he jammed with them before point blank. I'd hang out with them and listen. I was several years younger but I'd take my guitar down wanting to jam. And your right Rusty would snag my SG and play it upside down. Made chords up side down to 😂 he was a really good player even back then.
Thank you for videoing this amazing capture of the wonderful and talented Buddy. He has so many riffs and runs and such a variety of tones Brilliant. I love him.
Back in '70 saw Allman Bros. warm up B.B.King - after two straight hours of Dwayne (showing up) dueling Dickie, B.B. came out swinging, cranked his volume to 10 and outhendrixed the two upstarts.That night B.B. ruled the planet and forever became my all-time favorite for life. Buddy would have drooled.
BB would usually hold back out of modesty, but his left hand was lightening fast, his vibrato was the best I've ever heard, and his phrasing was total perfection.
i was in atlanta from 68-71 and saw the allmans many times, a few in the atlanta municipal auditorium and a few in piedmont park it was all new to me. in 69 i think, in piedmont park they played and my dad had played in a softball league in the park and we heard the music and and we walked up near gregs organ and greg told my dad to grab himself a pabst blue ribbon beer in the ice in a trashcan near the organ my dad had his softball outfit on and greg thought that was cool and said hi to me. and duane was leaning against the front of gregs organ smilin at me, and they were white guys with a black drummer, my dad liked that, back in those days it was unheard of in georgia .
Seen him with Blues Breakers 3times. After ,solo 3 times .great guy he is very down to earth and humble. He told us some funny stories about being in Blues Breakers.
I love how you blend in some of Billy G's solo with your own. Brilliant, great playing. I'm feeling it! Who says ya gotta have long fingers to play guitar, just need a passion to play.
Just discoverd this man...on a video live with Mayall and Mick Taylor...I Just thought who is that man on the strat...off course a Texas bluesman. I Love this man from now on!
Buddy is a super nice guy , besides a GUITAR GREAT. I met him at the Bottom Line, ( long time go). He was so kind and gracious.. I was star struck , but he was just a regular down to earth and kind guy. . Hope the best for him . . Enjoy listening. . . .
