I remember the first time saw Albert King play..It was a video from a live concert 1970? the song was "I'll play the blue's for you". I was amazed by his tone and the power of the licks.. Couldn't stop watching old videos for a week. Thanks for the video Joe:)
I once saw Albert KIng at junior college that was supported by some foundation. The audience was charged $1.00! It was an intimate setting and he was amazing. Best buck I've ever spent.
It has to be loud as hell in there cause it's 11pm right now, I'm listening through headphones and thought someone outside was using a leaf blower lol.
Albert King was a great guitar player who deserved more recognition and credit than he has gotten. It’s a shame that he didn’t get what he deserved. RIP mr. King. You are so missed today. Much respect and I love your music.
God bless you JB! You surely keep the blues alive for newer generations to come, specially with the passion you pay tribute to the founding fathers of the guitar. Albert was the real deal and a major influence to all my favorite players (Hendrix, Page, SRV, Trucks, Beck, Mick T...), I can't stress enough his importance to my musical taste and to the sound I try to achieve when I play.
I met Albert King at a Club in San Francisco. We talked the whole time he was on break. I told him I learned to play guitar from buying his "Live Wire Blues Power" and his " I'll Play The Blues For You" albums. After talking to him, it confirmed to me that he was, without question a genius.
3:37 Played bossa nova as a Brazilian guitar player since childhood and started blues in my teens. I never used a pick and when I tried “because everyone said I had to” it didn’t make sense. Eventually found Jeff Beck and forgot anyone ever told me this hearing you play King with your thumb brings me joy🥹🥹
i remember watching Albert King live and witnessing him play his gibson with the high E on top and bending downward....... that in itself was something to behold. Then, his classic jam session with SRV in 1983 called "in session" ( on utube) is a tour de force of a genuine love of the blues as well as one another. Not to be missed.
Remember reading an interview where Albert said something like this about his guitar style: I was crazy about T-Bone Walker, but I couldn’t do the fancy stuff that he was doing so I invented the string squeezing style!
I remember listening to Albert play some of his genius riffs and thought it was a great slide guitar player, as King was bending the strings all over the place!
so many SRV fans credit Stevie for being far more original than he was. He built his house very much on top of Albert's foundation and many 'SRV' licks are actually King's licks. But, there's no shame in that. SRV was a force of nature who took what he learned and evolved it, breathing new life into a blues scene that seemed to be in need of that energy and life he brought onto the stage at the time. You can hear a lot of Freddie King in Clapton and he himself acknowledges that. You can hear Roy Buchanan in Jeff Beck. And they all acknowledged their influences and laid down their own bricks in the same wall. Joe has done a great job in carrying a torch for those who trail blazed, helping to spread the word and share the knowledge of all the builders that contributed to building the house we know and love today. Zero shame in standing on the shoulders of those who came before you... It's the same in all walks of life. Just credit those who came before you and hope you can add a block or two of your own for others to borrow and build on.
There is something wrong with not taking an initial inspiration, and becoming stuck in not exploring, nor risking to express your own sound. Too many Caucasian blues artist's are "comfortably numb" in not being couragous to find their unique voice after their initial imitation of many great, black American blues artists, who risked everything to find their own sound, whereas, the Caucasian, blues audience, attempt to Egotistically, over value, and inflate the importance of Caucasian blues muscicians importance to the genre. Most Cauasian blues artists who are called great, and legends did not merit these nomenclatures, they were average to good, but not great. To be considered great within a black American musical genre, you had to risk finding your own sound, not just imitate, i.e. Jimi Hendrix.
I saw Albert King in 1989 at a small club in L.A. There were like 12 people there. My 3 friends, the bartenders & waiteresses and the soundman who Albert continually harrassed lol. He would stop in the middle of a song and yell at the sound guy, "Turn me up or I'm walking off!" Me and my friends were like wtf!?! He finally got in dialed in and it was incredible. The best!! In 2002 I was in London and went on a "Vault Tour" of the Hard Rock Cafe. Inside was one of Albert Kings flying V's. It was black with his name inlayed on the fretboard just sitting in the case. On another note they also had the Flying V that Jimi Hendrix played at The Rainbow Bridge concert and I actually got to hold it. Pretty surreal moment....
let me try to understand. this guy is the greatest bluesman of the entire history of the blues?. please consider repenting, deleting and listening to lucky Peterson, johnny Adams, howling wolf and a thousand others before ever speaking on an important discussion of the richness and glory of American culture. seriously. you totally don.t get it.
I couldn't learn to play guitar from B.B. Kings "Live at The Regal" album because, that was how you learned back then. But, I had a natural ear for Albert's style. I still do.
Albert King has always been my favorite blues man. Even more than The Wolf and Muddy which I dearly love but Albert played guitar and entertained like he was doing it for his family just like after supper. And then the pipe comes out. Albert King wasn’t Steve McQueen cool. He was Albert King cool.
I had a mid-70's white Gibson Flying V for a short time. You immediately realize you can't sit down and play one (comfortably); have to always stand up w/it strapped on. Also, the sound has to be worked on, as it can sound thin since there's very little wood for a full-bodied resonation ... of course, Joe has it sounding great!
Someone once said to me after hearing me play, 'I can hear Albert King in your playing.' It's funny because I've never actually sat down and studied him, but his influence must have come across somehow!
It surprises me that Joe says Gibson "fucked up" with the 50-s versions of the flying V. I have heard two different 50's V's being played live (in the 80's) and they both sounded absolutely fantastic!
I feel like Joe should be wearing safety glasses because he does those bends in such a way that he is basically holding a 6 string compound bow. If one of them strings snap it's gonna look like that scene from the movie ghost ship
As accurate and informative as this is, something that i feel should be mentioned is that i'm almost entirely certain that Albert played in open tunings. Watch his hands; his fingerings are all over the place for what would normally be licks that would fall easily under the fingers in conventional patterns. Also, whenever he plays chords, it's always with one finger. This would have tremendous implications for his overall sound, technique and note choices.
What I find amazing is that Albert King plays left handed but the strings are high E on top low E on the bottom. As a Lefty myself I find that crazy, how does he do it.
@@grog5564I’m a lefty too. We had one guitar in my house that was a righty. I couldn’t figure anything out upside down so started playing right handed.
What is so incredible about Albert king is... to this day NOBODY has gotten the albert king phrasing down CORRECTLY still... and what's even more fascinating is bb and freddie king style and phrase is way more complex yet albert king style is very simple YET VERY HARD TO DO
Always remember the Albert kKing bent down insteat of up. That would make a difference in tonal sounds. But... you would have to totally relearn how to play guitar. As far as I know there are now lessons that teach anyone to play like that. I just don't think Albert King gets the just dues for his musical talent. So take a left handed guitar and string it invertedly with the high E on top and the low E on the bottom and bend down instead of up. Then it may get close.
point taken, but at least he is an actual player. a shame would be having them sitting in a collection owned by some rich guy who doesn't even play. or having them sitting in a hard rock cafe.
Interesting to me that he was a drummer at one point because he doesn't play a particularly rhythmic style of guitar. Not that he doesn't have a sense of rhythm obviously. There is a funny point on the live at the Fillmore album where the audience is clapping along and Albert says "keep it right there children" and he says it kind of chuckling because his new white hippie audience is all over the place with the clapping. I must have listened to that album stoned in my parents basement a hundred times in high school. Probably brain damaged from it but it was worth it.
So your not into Albert King either? or you already know everything about Albert King Joe shared here? I am guessing that JB has enough talent to move away from the blues like say Jeff Beck but he's just really into blues and can play circles around any one bluesman's style. There are other talented white guys who stuck with the blues like John Mayall, Johnny Winter and Clapton. Instead of all blues bands being tribute bands is more like blues is an artform. Don't like the same old blues? Don't click on it.
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This man is a walking encyclopedia of guitar history! More power to you JB!
Albert King has the most copied licks in electric blues of today for good reason. Just sounds great!
Andy Aledort said Buddy Guy told him that; Albert King got his unique microtonal style listening to "Diddley Bow" Players👈
I do it every day badly but its a lot of fun
Ain't no one can copy Albert
The way he built his solo from choppy lonely notes to catharsis in Stormy Monday alongside Gary Moore is second to none.
Kenny Wayne Shepard once said " If you are in blues jam and feel lost, just start playing Albert King licks and you will be fine. "
If you can actually play them. lmao
Hard to disagree with that
I remember the first time saw Albert King play..It was a video from a live concert 1970? the song was "I'll play the blue's for you". I was amazed by his tone and the power of the licks.. Couldn't stop watching old videos for a week. Thanks for the video Joe:)
I once saw Albert KIng at junior college that was supported by some foundation. The audience was charged $1.00! It was an intimate setting and he was amazing. Best buck I've ever spent.
I like how you can tell how loud it is in the room - nice
It has to be loud as hell in there cause it's 11pm right now, I'm listening through headphones and thought someone outside was using a leaf blower lol.
Bonamassa is a gift to us all !
Albert King was a great guitar player who deserved more recognition and credit than he has gotten. It’s a shame that he didn’t get what he deserved. RIP mr. King. You are so missed today. Much respect and I love your music.
God bless you JB! You surely keep the blues alive for newer generations to come, specially with the passion you pay tribute to the founding fathers of the guitar. Albert was the real deal and a major influence to all my favorite players (Hendrix, Page, SRV, Trucks, Beck, Mick T...), I can't stress enough his importance to my musical taste and to the sound I try to achieve when I play.
I dig the fact that Joe is as much a fan as an icon. Love the V also. I have an SG in that color.
Same here! I love the burgundy metallic
I met Albert King at a Club in San Francisco. We talked the whole time he was on break. I told him I learned to play guitar from buying his "Live Wire Blues Power" and his " I'll Play The Blues For You" albums. After talking to him, it confirmed to me that he was, without question a genius.
What did he say?
3:37 Played bossa nova as a Brazilian guitar player since childhood and started blues in my teens. I never used a pick and when I tried “because everyone said I had to” it didn’t make sense. Eventually found Jeff Beck and forgot anyone ever told me this hearing you play King with your thumb brings me joy🥹🥹
i remember watching Albert King live and witnessing him play his gibson with the high E on top and bending downward....... that in itself was something to behold. Then, his classic jam session with SRV in 1983 called "in session" ( on utube) is a tour de force of a genuine love of the blues as well as one another. Not to be missed.
What a cool video! Joe is one of us!!! Thank you!
Blues Deluxe Vol. 2 is an awesome album. Thanks to Joe for not cutting corners. It's great to hear horns in the background.
That is one righteous tone…..and wonderful fun facts, for a Saturday Afternoon
Remember reading an interview where Albert said something like this about his guitar style: I was crazy about T-Bone Walker, but I couldn’t do the fancy stuff that he was doing so I invented the string squeezing style!
Joe is always great at his interpretation of the masters.
Joe, plz do an album of just you on guitar. No band. It's great to just hear you play.
Thanx Joe !! KEEP The TREBLE & Trouble UP !!
I remember listening to Albert play some of his genius riffs and thought it was a great slide guitar player, as King was bending the strings all over the place!
The pride of Lovejoy, Illinois!
Joe is awesome... seems so cool and is such a wealth of knowledge.
This is blues power!!
so many SRV fans credit Stevie for being far more original than he was. He built his house very much on top of Albert's foundation and many 'SRV' licks are actually King's licks. But, there's no shame in that. SRV was a force of nature who took what he learned and evolved it, breathing new life into a blues scene that seemed to be in need of that energy and life he brought onto the stage at the time.
You can hear a lot of Freddie King in Clapton and he himself acknowledges that. You can hear Roy Buchanan in Jeff Beck. And they all acknowledged their influences and laid down their own bricks in the same wall.
Joe has done a great job in carrying a torch for those who trail blazed, helping to spread the word and share the knowledge of all the builders that contributed to building the house we know and love today. Zero shame in standing on the shoulders of those who came before you... It's the same in all walks of life. Just credit those who came before you and hope you can add a block or two of your own for others to borrow and build on.
Yes, SRV was far from original. He was mostly Albert King mixed with Jimi Hendrix ( without Jimi's creativity).
Stevie one said " Without Albert King there would be no Stevie Ray Vaughn."
There is something wrong with not taking an initial inspiration, and becoming stuck in not exploring, nor risking to express your own sound.
Too many Caucasian blues artist's are "comfortably numb" in not being couragous to find their unique voice after their initial imitation of many great, black American blues artists, who risked everything to find their own sound, whereas, the Caucasian, blues audience, attempt to Egotistically, over value, and inflate the importance of Caucasian blues muscicians importance to the genre. Most Cauasian blues artists who are called great, and legends did not merit these nomenclatures, they were average to good, but not great.
To be considered great within a black American musical genre, you had to risk finding your own sound, not just imitate, i.e. Jimi Hendrix.
Your correct, there is a problem when we live in a society which overplays the student, and undervalues the teacher.
Very well said.
I saw Albert King in 1989 at a small club in L.A. There were like 12 people there. My 3 friends, the bartenders & waiteresses and the soundman who Albert continually harrassed lol. He would stop in the middle of a song and yell at the sound guy, "Turn me up or I'm walking off!" Me and my friends were like wtf!?! He finally got in dialed in and it was incredible. The best!!
In 2002 I was in London and went on a "Vault Tour" of the Hard Rock Cafe. Inside was one of Albert Kings flying V's. It was black with his name inlayed on the fretboard just sitting in the case. On another note they also had the Flying V that Jimi Hendrix played at The Rainbow Bridge concert and I actually got to hold it. Pretty surreal moment....
Greatest bluesman of all time. JB❤
let me try to understand. this guy is the greatest bluesman of the entire history of the blues?. please consider repenting, deleting and listening to lucky Peterson, johnny Adams, howling wolf and a thousand others before ever speaking on an important discussion of the richness and glory of American culture. seriously. you totally don.t get it.
let me elaborate. i'm a player. it's offensive.
Joe's eyes literally change when he gets going. nice!
Fabulous Joe.
He really nailed this, more than if he plays other blues heroes
I couldn't learn to play guitar from B.B. Kings "Live at The Regal" album because, that was how you learned back then. But, I had a natural ear for Albert's style. I still do.
今までいろんな人のAlbert kingのI'll play the Blues for you のカバーを聞いたけどMr.JBの演奏とボーカルが最高やった。あれが耳に残って離れない
Glad you mentioned Dan!
I was Born Under a Ban Sign…
Thanks Joe. Some real great advice❗👍
can always learn something "new" from Joe......there is always al ittle extra gem......cheers....even though without "flying V"....haaa....
Could listen to Joe spit facts and shred licks all day..✌️
Albert King has always been my favorite blues man. Even more than The Wolf and Muddy which I dearly love but Albert played guitar and entertained like he was doing it for his family just like after supper. And then the pipe comes out. Albert King wasn’t Steve McQueen cool. He was Albert King cool.
There needs to be a good documentary about the "three Kings"....Ken Burns where are you?!!!!!!!!!!
I had a mid-70's white Gibson Flying V for a short time. You immediately realize you can't sit down and play one (comfortably); have to always stand up w/it strapped on. Also, the sound has to be worked on, as it can sound thin since there's very little wood for a full-bodied resonation ... of course, Joe has it sounding great!
Someone once said to me after hearing me play, 'I can hear Albert King in your playing.' It's funny because I've never actually sat down and studied him, but his influence must have come across somehow!
It surprises me that Joe says Gibson "fucked up" with the 50-s versions of the flying V. I have heard two different 50's V's being played live (in the 80's) and they both sounded absolutely fantastic!
Maybe they messed up from a guitar players perspective.
Joe is THE G.O.A.T! Well done Master🎸🌵
albert had some great arrangements. he new what's goin on.
I believe you played " Breaking up someone's home" on it. Great 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Albert was a powerful man who played the blues.
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2:10 video actually starts
I once had the opportunity to meet Albert and shake his hand. He accidentally broke a bone in my hand! God, what a mensch!
I saw the one you had at Greek Theater. It had Albert's name on the fret board.
I feel like Joe should be wearing safety glasses because he does those bends in such a way that he is basically holding a 6 string compound bow. If one of them strings snap it's gonna look like that scene from the movie ghost ship
he is great, can't touch him. why don't I feel a thing when he plays. i'll step to him any day.
Nice!🎸🔥
As accurate and informative as this is, something that i feel should be mentioned is that i'm almost entirely certain that Albert played in open tunings. Watch his hands; his fingerings are all over the place for what would normally be licks that would fall easily under the fingers in conventional patterns. Also, whenever he plays chords, it's always with one finger. This would have tremendous implications for his overall sound, technique and note choices.
I love "Blues Power"...can 'ya did it?
I'm surprised that Joe, in his search for authenticity hasn't learnt to play Albert King by turning that V around and playing it upside down!
I’m pretty sure it was Albert King is who I saw at the Michigan Palace in Detroit in about 1975 I wish I knew if it was him or Freddy
What I find amazing is that Albert King plays left handed but the strings are high E on top low E on the bottom. As a Lefty myself I find that crazy, how does he do it.
Like Dan Swano and Rand Burkey
@@infinidominion As does Eric Clapton's guitarist Doyle Bramhill, but I still can't fathom it, I have tried playing upside down, it don't work for me.
@@grog5564I’m a lefty too. We had one guitar in my house that was a righty. I couldn’t figure anything out upside down so started playing right handed.
What is so incredible about Albert king is... to this day NOBODY has gotten the albert king phrasing down CORRECTLY still... and what's even more fascinating is bb and freddie king style and phrase is way more complex yet albert king style is very simple YET VERY HARD TO DO
Even joe isn't doing albert king style entirely correct here either lmao
Melissa, met a lot if women named melissa in the south most likely because of the Allman Brothers song .
🎉tune down one and a half step
3:14 - if you want to skip the chat
There's some weird ass guitars out there. Flying V has to be in the top five.
Uses "hum-forcer" pickups with not grounded shields ?
Didn’t Albert also tune down a whole step and use light gauge strings?
He played in C# standard actually. So, he tuned down a step and a half from standard.
Always remember the Albert kKing bent down insteat of up. That would make a difference in tonal sounds. But... you would have to totally relearn how to play guitar. As far as I know there are now lessons that teach anyone to play like that.
I just don't think Albert King gets the just dues for his musical talent. So take a left handed guitar and string it invertedly with the high E on top and the low E on the bottom and bend down instead of up. Then it may get close.
If I had to quickly mention 3 guitarist that are, were, bona-fide geniuses would be: Wes Montgomery, Pat Methany, and Albert King.
That answers it. So he essentially learned to play an upside down guitar. That’s insane
That answers it. So he essentially learned to play and upside down guitar. That’s insane
Norm says you have all of his guitars❗ he doesn't know how you got them but he wants them back😝
One of the greatest travesties of blues guitar history, Steven Segal owns Albert's three Flying V's. I guess as long as he doesn't sit on them . . .
point taken, but at least he is an actual player. a shame would be having them sitting in a collection owned by some rich guy who doesn't even play. or having them sitting in a hard rock cafe.
anyone know what kinda guitar that is
What? 😂
no way we play albert and not make a face, he invented guitar faces
He's BETTER than a PRINCE Albert! LMAO! ;oP LESS painful as well!
Can someone write a good biography for Albert? Every great blues players has a great bio except A.K.... please anyone
play a left handed guitar right handed to get the albert king sound
Bonamassa lookin more and more like Paul McCartney
Does Joe read music?
Blues sheet music? Lol
No only novels and comic books.
Bad ground.
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Trumppppppppppppp
Interesting to me that he was a drummer at one point because he doesn't play a particularly rhythmic style of guitar. Not that he doesn't have a sense of rhythm obviously. There is a funny point on the live at the Fillmore album where the audience is clapping along and Albert says "keep it right there children" and he says it kind of chuckling because his new white hippie audience is all over the place with the clapping. I must have listened to that album stoned in my parents basement a hundred times in high school. Probably brain damaged from it but it was worth it.
Albert King? He played slow. With taste. Saw him near Allentown with his grandson?
😴😴😴
Guitar hoarder.
I'd love to see Joe but I'm not a Rich, Old, White person. 😂😂😂
So tired of this poseur clown. It's like a walking tribute band.
So your not into Albert King either? or you already know everything about Albert King Joe shared here? I am guessing that JB has enough talent to move away from the blues like say Jeff Beck but he's just really into blues and can play circles around any one bluesman's style. There are other talented white guys who stuck with the blues like John Mayall, Johnny Winter and Clapton. Instead of all blues bands being tribute bands is more like blues is an artform. Don't like the same old blues? Don't click on it.
@@LeftCoast_TomP I hope you're not seriously comparing this tried ass clown to Jeff Beck.
Total nerdville
Great player
But his songs and style of performance are beyond cringe.
And can somebody call Hoarders Anonymous?
Why would you go out of your way to insult someone you don’t know?
Love you Joe 💋🇬🇧