# B.B. King **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861 "2007-11-17T20:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/21 "2007-12-28T14:26:22Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] **Love** Fredie King, and Hideaway is one of my all time favorite blues numbers. I also like most musician’s take on that song. I particularly love SRV (big surprise there) and Jeff Healey’s version of that song. Excellent recommendation. [/QUOTE] Ah, geekiness - is there anything you won’t do? 😃 [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yNwIKhneEA) (YouTube link) is an interview with SRV on UK TV. About 1 minute in he plays snippets of both Freddie King’s and Eric Clapton’s approach to Hide Away. Very insightful, and sounds amazing, even though the interviewer is a git (yeah, SRV was really influenced by the Mersey beat, right… :rolleyes: )… ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/22 "2007-12-28T14:32:06Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] Ah, geekiness - is there anything you won’t do? 😃 [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yNwIKhneEA) (YouTube link) is an interview with SRV on UK TV. About 1 minute in he plays snippets of both Freddie King’s and Eric Clapton’s approach to Hide Away. Very insightful, and sounds amazing, even though the interviewer is a git (yeah, SRV was really influenced by the Mersey beat, right… :rolleyes: )… [/QUOTE] I saw that before, and I thought the interviewer should have been shot, consider that in retrospect there were so few interviews with Stevie. I swear to Og, if I could just play like Vaughan and Healey and a handful of other blues greats, I’d give up just about every other happiness. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/23 "2007-12-28T14:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I feel like a complete moron for admitting this – but I don’t own a single one of his albums. His discography is intimidating – where should I start? [/QUOTE] Just curious here but WHY do you feel like a complete moron for admitting this? I don’t know why you would feel like a moron for not owning something that didn’t interest you until this moment. Why would you? Do you feel like a moron for not owning the million other “must-haves” out there in other genres like metal or country or even rap? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/24 "2007-12-28T14:44:56Z")
Heh. Good question. Because I have such great taste in music (sic)? I don’t feel bad about not having the “classics” in crappy (sic) genres, so my ignorance about country, rap, and metal bothers me not a whit. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/25 "2007-12-28T14:52:27Z")
Hey **Twickster** , Are you up on your blues from other musicians and just lacking with B.B, or is your lack of experience ‘across the board’? If so I would like to recommend you a couple of must haves from more contemporary blues artists as well. Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at the El Mocambo is a must have DVD for starters. Jeff Healey’s See The Light album is particularly excellent and has an awesome Hideaway cover. I’m sure **Wordman** and I can put together a must have blues catalog spanning the history if you get froggy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/26 "2007-12-28T14:56:31Z")
[QUOTE=Cubsfan] Just curious here but WHY do you feel like a complete moron for admitting this? I don’t know why you would feel like a moron for not owning something that didn’t interest you until this moment. Why would you? Do you feel like a moron for not owning the million other “must-haves” out there in other genres like metal or country or even rap? [/QUOTE] Hmm - I guess I got \*\*twick’s \*\*comment instinctively. I love music, but recognize that there is too much out there to take in, so a lot of stuff slips through the cracks. I regularly go back and check out neglected-by-me artists from years ago when I get a ping - some reference on the SDMB or in an article… Because I actively do this, I have started to get a feel, based on how they were written about, how they interview and how their songs and music are described whether I will like them. When I finally listen - and it turns out I do, in fact, really enjoy their music - I can feel like a moron, because I always had a feeling I would like them. Darn it - I could’ve had more time with them! 🙂 Out of 20 artists, maybe 2 - 3 become heavy-rotation faves - definitely a ratio I am okay with… ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/27 "2007-12-28T15:00:05Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] I’m sure **Wordman** and I can put together a must have blues catalog spanning the history if you get froggy. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Didn’t ultrafilter have his series of “best of” lists in each genre, including blues? That would be a great place to start. Also - it depends on the type of blues we are discussing. Although the structures are the same, there is a wide chasm between scratchy, fingerpicked, primitive acoustic country blues and super-cool, 17-piece-including-horn-section urban jump blues. Both are wonderful, but really are chalk and cheese… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/28 "2007-12-28T15:21:36Z")
I’m at work, and actually have work to do today, dammit – will respond in detail later. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/29 "2007-12-28T15:26:36Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I’m at work, and actually have work to do today, dammit – will respond in detail later. [/QUOTE] Hell, **I’m** at work too. Don’t let that stop you! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/30 "2007-12-28T15:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Hell, **I’m** at work too. Don’t let that stop you! [/QUOTE] +1! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/31 "2007-12-28T15:32:00Z")
You missed the “actually have work to do (_today_)” portion of that … 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/32 "2007-12-28T15:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] You missed the “actually have work to do (_today_)” portion of that … 😛 [/QUOTE] Oh God, that’s just terrible. No wonder you want to listen to blues. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/33 "2007-12-28T15:40:43Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Oh God, that’s just terrible. No wonder you want to listen to blues. [/QUOTE] _Listen_ to the blues – baby, I’m _living_ the blues today. Well, as best as a middle-aged white woman with a professional job can… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/34 "2007-12-28T15:57:11Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Well, as best as a middle-aged white woman with a professional job can… 😉 [/QUOTE] Oooooh, you’re one of them thar ‘professional types’. Well never mind then. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/35 "2007-12-28T15:59:02Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] _Listen_ to the blues – baby, I’m _living_ the blues today. Well, as best as a middle-aged white woman with a professional job can… 😉 [/QUOTE] [B.B. King - well if he was a woman] I’m a middle-aged white gal - havin’ to work on the holidays Yes, I’m a middle-aged white gal - havin’ to work on the holidays I can’t be Dopin’ on the blues - I’m too busy livin’ them today… [BBK] 😃 …why I listen and critique, and don’t actually write original stuff… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/36 "2007-12-28T16:31:48Z")
I’ve always thought it would be fun to come see you perform. If that should ever happen, I will demand – loudly – that you do this song. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/37 "2007-12-28T16:52:41Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I’ve always thought it would be fun to come see you perform. If that should ever happen, I will demand – loudly – that you do this song. [/QUOTE] My rhythm section would protest (say “no more ‘boo-gie’ numbers!” with a strong Brit accent, and you’ll sound like them) so we’d have to work around that! 🙂 And believe me - you wouldn’t have wanted to see us last week. We played a private holiday party (about 250 people) and I was cut off at the knees by a stomach virus. I was literally draped over a toilet a few hours before going on. But what can you do? We were the entertainment! So I bucked up and played. The end of the night was _not_ pretty… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/38 "2007-12-28T16:55:05Z")
You just need the right lyrics to win them over. _It’s a bitch bein’ a bitch Bustin’ ass and takin’ names Writin’ memos and assignin’ blame…_ ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/39 "2007-12-28T16:57:28Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] You just need the right lyrics to win them over. _It’s a bitch bein’ a bitch Bustin’ ass and takin’ names Writin’ memos and assignin’ blame…_ [/QUOTE] Damnit, **WM** , now do you see what you started? Now somebody’s going to have to put music to that. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861/40 "2007-12-28T17:02:58Z")
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast] Damnit, **WM** , now do you see what you started? Now somebody’s going to have to put music to that. [/QUOTE] Where’s \*\*An Arky \*\*or \*\*sleestak \*\*when you need them? They both write originals, and damn, those could work! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-b-king/426861.md?page=3)