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.
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❤️
"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"
La mejor música de los sesenta del mundo,y no estar viendo fut bol comprado mor televisa y el américa pura mierda titulos comprados y que decir corrupto el cuyo de televisa.
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👍👍
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.
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:))))
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?
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.
Sound good to me after over 45 years. I am 88 years old . April 10 1934 Birthdate was just last week.
Happy Birthday
mi
Sounds good to me too. Happy birthday Ms.Fields ....many more. 💕🙏🕊️😎
Happy upcoming birthday man. Same day as my mom's birthday she passed 13 years ago. She is wishing you one too.
Happy birthday
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.
What a way cool story !!!
This ain't no BS. 2007. Really low on food and cash. I got this CD "Lightnin' Hopkins sings the blues". - "And it kept me perfect company". :)
Lightnin will live forever for those who really love the blues!!
Real Talk!
The greatest, with Missippi John Hurt
AMEN!!!
Yea , I can hear him now
No se inglés pero si tengo oídos y sigo la música desde la orilla del misisipi hasta haora.
One of the best musicians and entertainers...PERIOD!. Plus, he was the essence of cool.
Hearing Lightnin' Hopkins in my 20's. I was blown away at 77 still blown away
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❤️
Wonderful to see all the crowd quiet and then give Mr Hopkins huge applause.
"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"
La mejor música de los sesenta del mundo,y no estar viendo fut bol comprado mor televisa y el américa pura mierda titulos comprados y que decir corrupto el cuyo de televisa.
How great is Ligjtnin’ with an acoustic guitar! Love this very much!❤ john Coolman
The most underrated blues voices and guitarists in the genre.
BS . He is celebrated by all blues fans world wide . You must stop saying that every time you see someone new to You .
@@duelenigma7732 he's not new to me, I've been a fan since the late seventies you dweeb.
@@duelenigma7732dude ik right 😂 everyone knows muddy and lighting are the top dogs when it comes to old blues
Just as cool as you can get. He’s so Great” because, he’s not just singing the Blues, He lived the Blues.
That deep voice, one of a kind! Mr. Hopkins one of the best blues Kings ever!
Don't even get me started with the guitar playing
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👍👍
Who needs a band? That's some amazing playing.
Some of the sounds Lighting Hopkins can get from an acoustic are truly amazing !
"Its not so bad.." coolest cat ever
Nobody did a blues shuffle like Lightnin did
I always get goose bumps when this man walks out on the stage
I heard him sing in a coffee House in 1965.
Beautiful...master of his art form ...things he can express in tone and control..no one else can
All his phraseology and subtleties are so killer!
L Hopkins ,T " Bone" Walker and Luther Johnson .The Best de 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.
Acoustic yes! I'd go with Elmore James for electric/slide guitar.🔥
@@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.
@@smoothoperator7023 now you are talking, John Hurt especially,though he goes back further than the blues.
I was in a car park in Aldus Cardigan about two years ago playing Lightning, when this woman came running up and said play me more.what can you say!.
One of the BEST ever there was or ever will be!! LOVE IT!!
if ole lightnin is the greatest bluesman ever is open for debate. But what isn,t open for debate is he was the coolest mutha to walk this earth
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.
Je suis fan. C'est un de mes préférés
The coolest cat on the planet
Some things and people are just cooler than hell. Would have loved to see Lighting.
I never tire of this man's music.😇✌️
The prototypical bluesman. Wonderful.
We have never had a more beautiful voice to sing the blues
Here again, like I was last week. Pure genius. I wonder if the crowd knew what they were witnessing?
A true musical genius. Wow
LIGHTNIN HOPKINS,IS THE TRUE BLUESMAN,THE TEXAS,DELTA MISS,SOUND, like SRV,J.WINTER,BEST BLUES EVER.😎🎸🔊🎶☮️ BOB.
SRV, and J. Winter were imitators not innovator's of their own sound within the genre. Stop elevating the children before the parents.
Yes yes yes Lightening lives forever.
Absolutely one of the all time Greatest “ 👍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Great to see and hear a legend finally
Wow every time I watch this!!!!
He was a beast on the guitar
Lightnins ticker kept pretty good time. WOW!!!
Died at 69
The Feeling.... So pure, so true... One time I saw a comment saying that Lightnin' is the ''blues avatar'' ; yes, he's the best... Like a soul-friend
My man!!! Since I became a ware... Living in a Grey Cadillac in sa
This Man had it ..
Fantastic and amazing man
I’m ready…..just let me get my shoes…..thank u…❤ PEACE !
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.
Brits man, stiff upper lip
Still listening 2024 en enjoying it
C'est un régal trop fort ❤❤
Doesn't get any better.
The best of all time
King of Centerville tx
as ayoung man he went to I45 and said dallas or houston.....he went south!
Straordinaria eccellenza...2023
Blues alrite ❤
Great to witness!
Coolest man to walk the planet?
Aj M him and Bo Diddley
Him and Johnny Guitar Watson!
Ha ha ha ha ha
Not really
Wow dont stop!
🎤😎🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 Me dancing 💃💃💗💋💋.. Pour me some home gin please.the good stuff.👏👏👏👏👏👏🍺🍺🍻🍻
I like this. Thanks
what a soul ✌️
damn he was good.
He always seems to keep that bass E string a touch flat. It jumps right out at you but it somehow sounds right.
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:))))
He's the real deal !!!!!
This is Debra McKnight CONDUCTOR OF MUSIC IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS OF COURSE I'M GOING COUSIN LIGHTNIN
Blues man!!
Po’ Lightnin’ was the best.
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?
Economy of motion my man
Systems flow theory, meditation, prayer, psychoanalysis and rock'n'roll
And as for the ticktock line, someone shld TikTok it
Seems like a super cool dude...
Crazy how he can make some of those single notes ring on acoustic like that.
L M I believe he sounds even better on acoustic than electric.
And that's saying something.
Listen to" watch my fingers" if you haven't already.
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.
A ggod pıck up on a good acoustic guitar can be better than any electric :))))
the greatest. bar none
It's rythme of rock and roll
I wonder when this was? 50+ years ago for sure.
1964 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall - American Folk Blues Festival.
Lord have mercy.
Very big ❤❤❤
Now to try this on my Ukulele !
Genius!
Lighting Hopkins songs about his seft true musinenian in his own right dc
Brilliant
Man he ca.n walk that 6th string !!!
As blue it gets
🖤
Yes sir.
It says the second song is titled Lightnin’ blues but I can’t find it anywhere, anybody help???
I don't even see where it says that...
👑🎸
OG!
Boss.
For Noel. 🌹💞
👍👍👍
My man
Si es la pura verdolaga
Daj nam nekiiii recept Vaninaa...
Darn I just got struck by Lightnin...
Born lucky but remember....
🎼💣♥️🎼
Man
.Dat be lighting in a bottle !!!
Does anyone know what kind of guitar Sam is playing?
Framus?
@@Super241946 Ah, I think you're right, thank you Supe 🙏
With a D’Armond pickup and a Dynacord amp. Sounds good!
Appreciative crowd! Where was this anybody?
1964 London American Blues festival
get our minds together ♥ ...please? the MAN asked so...please?