We drove up to Berkeley in 1965 to see Lightnin'. He played and sang mostly on guitar, sometimes piano. Around 12:30 a.m. the theater manager came on stage and tried to close the place down according to a Berkeley city statute, but Lightnin' would have none of it. He kept moving from the guitar to the piano while the manager tried to corral him and the audience whooped and hollered. What i remember is what's in this video, that he loved the music and was one with it, a deeply magnetic, genuinely soulful man.
@AnandaGarden ~ starting about 1963 Lightnin' had a 30 minute TV show Monday through Friday afternoons on a Houston TV station. He would play guitar & tell stories. When my parents gave me a guitar I tried to learn some of what Lightnin' was doing. That was very difficult because he had crazy long fingers that allowed him to easily span several frets, which I couldn't do. My beloved parents & Lightnin' are buried in the same Houston cemetery. And I will be there too.
"Y'all 'scuse me for hollerin' but I'm gonna be happy." There is no one alive today that comes close to being as cool as Lightin' was. "Lode ha' moisey"
One of the most iconic live blues performances I've seen....Hopkins is the flip side of Hooker...One is active and one is brooding...Give Midnight lightin' his credit👍👍
One of his eras most recorded artists ( thankfully 😁) The reason for this was, he would sign a contract with one label, then go and record an album with another! He broke all the rules, didn't give a damn. True bluesman, nothin but the blues❤️
Lightnin Hopkins was the best BLUES PLAYERS to ever pick up a guitar 🎸 and sing the blues, he was a master, true entertainer, his music touches your soul, nobody can play like Lightnin, he was the BEST, JESUS WONT YOU COME BY HERE, MY FAVORITE BY LIGHTNIN, REST IN PEACE.
@@smoothoperator7023 you just picked my two life long blues favourites,it never once occurred to me to compare them though. Lightning and Bo Diddley were the two coolest cats that ever lived. Elmore was the man the electric guitar was invented for.
@@stewartfenton7660 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 yes & yes!! they're just the tip of my iceburg! Also love Mississippi Fred McDowell(another slide master), Junior Kimbrough & Mississippi John Hurt.
Both these songs are similar to stuff I've got on different Lightnin LP's. But he was always coming up with new words, changing things around. Like so many older blues singers and songsters. RIP Lightnin and Bo,the two coolest cats ever lived. Yes I know I keep saying that.
WHEW!!! This is the blues ya'll!! OMG, I just **cannot** for the life of me comprehend how people in the audience were able to stay seated or not shout out during the performance, LOL! Whoa, I was dancing, shouting and "bluesy head shaking" all over the place over here! Wow, this man was a true legend with unconquerable talent and skill, and I feel so blessed to be fortunate enough to see this Master at his craft! Thanks so much for the upload, GinBottleBlues! XX.
I agree!...think most had literally never heard anything like this before, plus the cool kids were probably in the back checking it out :). The applause is amazing though, Lightnin' felt that.
Here he plays with a pickup through an amp, imo his whole approach to the guitar is an electric one, even before the 60s, listen to the goldstar recordings for example.
I have noticed out of all the guitar greats of any genre if you watch their fingers no matter how fast they play they never really seem to move too much?
God loves me. I startwd playing guitar 54 yeas ago listening to Guitar Lightnin' . Puraly by chance, my dad recorded a gtr. bass. drums AND Harmonica version of the song, from İstanbul Technical University FM radio, which I unfortunately can not find anywheretoday , except note for note memory in my mind, Anyone? Pls Pls let me know:))))
