Tonight 10:00 Dec. 6th Albert King w/ SRV on PBS

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:15 am

Channel 3 on Atlantic Cable PBS at 10:00

Also at 3:00 AM

1983 Concert with Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:19 am

Don't you love money begging week? That is the only time they show anything that people would be interested in ..

[edit] I am watching this and loving it. Two greats together at one time is a good thing [/edit]

tonefight · Post by **tonefight** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:10 am

Got er tuned in , Thanks

Colton · Post by **Colton** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:30 am

dvr'd

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:55 pm

i have the cd of that and it smokes totally! there are some clips on youtube of this. never seen the whole vid... thanks for posting bill.

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:59 pm

just thought..... hope its on here in jtown... different cable thing going on... i'll have to check.

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:20 pm

effin missed it...damnit! anybody check it out?

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:18 pm

mjb wrote:effin missed it...damnit! anybody check it out?

I have it recorded on the dvr. Looking forward so sitting back and soaking it in.

Keep an eye out Mike, it's likely going to be replayed on PBS.

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:25 pm

just picked up the DVD on amazon. couldn't let pbs get over on me.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:57 pm

I have to say that I really enjoyed it. Then I always enjoy listening to SRV play ...

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:25 am

I watched it and loved it, even the PBS begging was cool, cause Robert Cray was there as well. Just a couple obeservations...

-I loved the playing, but Albert's guitar would just not stay in tune, and it was sometimes painful to listen to.

-I never realized how unique Albert's setup is. He's a lefty guitarist, playing a Gibson Left-Handed V that is strung right handed. His top string is where his bottom string should be. Kind of mind-blowing, to think how he plays like that, literally backwards from everyone else.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:41 am

Kevin, I didn't notice his strings to be like that. if that is the case then he is the third person I know of who plays/played like that. Those being Hendrix, Doyle Bramhall II and Albert King ..

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:54 pm

ToonaRockGuy wrote:I watched it and loved it, even the PBS begging was cool, cause Robert Cray was there as well. Just a couple obeservations...

-I loved the playing, but Albert's guitar would just not stay in tune, and it was sometimes painful to listen to.

-I never realized how unique Albert's setup is. He's a lefty guitarist, playing a Gibson Left-Handed V that is strung right handed. His top string is where his bottom string should be. Kind of mind-blowing, to think how he plays like that, literally backwards from everyone else.

back then it wasn't to uncommon to find old blues players that played that way cause they adapted to whatever they could get they're hands on. you would think listening to alberts playing he'd kind of be easy to replicate,( to some degree) but because of his set-up (upside down and backwards) its actually hard to master because hes bending strings down that normaly you would bend up. those big meaty hands yanking down on those strings,its nothing for albert to bend a note stepand a half to 2 steps. i only know of one person that plays that way these days; Doyle Bramhall II . Its fascinating to watch these types of players and how theyve adapted, like playing chords and all the strumming is up-strokes. just about everything about that is wierd...but totally unique and mind-boggling to try to figure out.....unless you got some good tabs...ha.

felix'apprentice · Post by **felix'apprentice** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:00 pm

nice! i did not know/realize that he played like that. that blows my mind!

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 1:01 pm

HENDRIX DID NOT PLAY UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS. He was just a lefty who usually played right handed guitars. He just switched the strings around on right handed guitars. he was just a lefty. left handed guitars were'nt real common back in the day so you just strung'em up different. Albert could pick up any right handed guitar and throw down, if you handed jimi a right handed guitar he'd be scratchin his head while he was lookin for some lighter fluid cuz he wouldn't be able to play it.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:29 pm

I always thought Hendrix played it backwards. I did some looking and found you to be right, Mike. Sorry for the confusion. I also saw somewhere the Joe Perry does?

If anyone hasn't heard Doyle Bramhall II, check out Roger Waters in the Flesh live. He is a great player ..