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Another genius goes. Boo hoo, but 89 so no complaints I guess
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktnv/breaking-news/Blu...
http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktnv/breaking-news/Blu...
In all walks of life, the word "legend" is often over-used.
Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
vournikas said:
In all walks of life, the word "legend" is often over-used.
Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
We still have Buddy Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
BB's 'LA Midnight' album is cranked right now. Early morning blues!
It's impossible to hold the 335 and not think of BB.
A true legend and the standard bearer of The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqHLX3hdcs
jogger1976 said:
A true legend and the standard bearer of The Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqHLX3hdcs
Great tune.I remember hearing the live broadcast of the 2007 festival, when he did *that* speech. Seemed to me he may have been signing off there, but thankfully it turned out not so.
MrOnTheRopes said:
vournikas said:
In all walks of life, the word "legend" is often over-used.
Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
We still have Buddy Not in this case.
BB really was a legend in blues guitar. Every guitar player in the last 50-odd years that has combined minor and major pentatonic scales in a blues solo has BB to thank for it. His influence on blues guitar is over-arching, and of the original Chicago Blues players that travelled North from the plantations and made guitar history (like Muddy Waters, Albert King, and Freddie King), we've now lost the last remaining member.
For me? His memory will always live on in every blues solo I play, because I always use a "BB'ism" in every one.
Today, electric blues guitar really is six strings down.
R.I.P.
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