The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Highlander on May 15, 2015, 12:23:06 AM
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One of the biggest names in blues... quite literally, a man who was a living legend, has gone... rip... :sad:
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Not unexpected, but still just as sad. Another irreplaceable loss for the world of music. RIP.
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What a coincidence - I just listened to an album of his yesterday afternoon! Will Lucille go with him? Thanks for the music, grand man.
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A very sad day :sad:. Seen him many times and always left feeling good. A legend, a gentleman , and just an all around great guy. This is one that the music world will miss forever. RIP :sad:.
Rick
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One of those who defined his own style of blues. Loved seeing him. R.I.P.
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An incredible span of a career. Glad I had the chance to experience him live. I wonder what type of order his estate is in especially considering all those kids?
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"Especially considering all those kids?"
:mrgreen: When love came to town indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHV-HWhqWQ
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As westen said - no surprise, but sad indeed. RIP BB.
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At age 89. In his sleep.
The best way to go.
RIP
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I saw him in the mid 90s. Powerful performer, he had complete control of the crowd and commanded the stage, I'd never really seen anything quite like it. R.I.P. B.B.
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RIP BB.
He must have known the end was near a year ago. Last year's concert in Indianola (5/25/14) was billed as "Indianola's Final BB King Homecoming"
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God bless you, BB!
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Got to see him live a couple times in Houston back in the 80s. Great shows
RIP BB
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... Will Lucille go with him?
It would take a big coffin to house them all...! ;)
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Just started rehearsing The thrill is gone with by band the day before he passed. God bless you B.B.
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RIP Mr. King.
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Tributes from musicians and others.
http://www.nme.com/news/bb-king/85425
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I saw this posted elsewhere about BB:
"...strictly a flat picker, didn't play acoustic, arpeggios, rhythm, chords in general except for the occasional double stop or triad, and totally entrenched in the blues, but what he did he did better than anyone else, IMO.
What I take away from his playing is figure out what you do well and perfect it, and above all else, exercise restraint, good taste, intelligent phrasing, and impeccable technique, all of which I won't achieve in my lifetime..."
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I saw this posted elsewhere about BB:
"...strictly a flat picker, didn't play acoustic, arpeggios, rhythm, chords in general except for the occasional double stop or triad, and totally entrenched in the blues, but what he did he did better than anyone else, IMO.
What I take away from his playing is figure out what you do well and perfect it, and above all else, exercise restraint, good taste, intelligent phrasing, and impeccable technique, all of which I won't achieve in my lifetime..."
Agreed. You don't have to shred to be a solid musician. You should play in a style that fits you and pleases you.
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Was it Townshend, on Billy Gibbons, who said he "... was the sort of guitarist who'd play one note where a lesser player would play half-a-dozen..." ?
Regardless of where I heard/read it, the soul of the quote would still fit... BB probably hit-more-notes in a night than most would hit in a lifetime...
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"What I take away from his playing is figure out what you do well and perfect it ..."
I thought I had invented that! Be awe-inspiring about a few things so people don't ask you about the other stuff ...
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a couple of king's daughters now claim he was poisoned buy some business partners. coroner says no.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/26/entertainment/bb-king-death-allegation/
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Serialisation in the papers to follow... :rolleyes:
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I don't believe that. Not for a minute.
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Who would want to poison an 89 year old man?
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I read that he left most of his estate to a foundation furthering music ed.
The family only received around $5,000 each.
That seems to explain it to me. :o
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I have the unfortunate observation to make that whenever a black artist dies, the behavior of his/her family tends to be no cause for celebration (Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston). :-\
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I wasn't aware that BB had multiple kids with multiple partners. That can be pretty well guaranteed to muddy the waters (pun intended.)
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Uwe, most of what ills the black community can be traced back to Lyndon B Johnson's war on poverty and the institutionalization of welfare in America. The family unit suffered since the community now depended on the government to fill the supporting role that a working father figure should. Margaret Sanger's establishing planned parenthood has for instance, resulted in more black babies being aborted in New York city than are born for the last few years (Black Lives Matter!). Top this off with the CIA directly involved in flooding the urban areas with illicit drugs such as Heroin and Cocaine and the results are what you see in America today. Democrats have been race baiting with the help of Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton not to mention the backing coming from George Soros and we now have Baltimore in a state of criminal decay with the police being held back from enforcing any order. Really it's all part of the bigger picture for a one world government trying to assert itself by tearing apart the social structure in order to rebuild it according to their own globalist tenants. Divide and conquer. Burn baby burn. Another Bolshevik style communist revolution with a fascist dictator at the helm. Anyhow that's my 2 cents. Sorry to get political but if a moderator chooses to make racially charged statements, I figure it gives the rest of us free reign.
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All i can say Uwe, is that the above comments represent the view of one side of the political spectrum in the US. Most of the assertions in it are highly questionable and debatable.
But since we are champions of the right to have different views, I salute the writer and his view!
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given enough time the right will continue to destroy themselves on sex and money related scandals. i thought the one world gov. nonsense was dead. guess not.
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Uwe, most of what ills the black community can be traced back to Lyndon B Johnson's war on poverty and the institutionalization of welfare in America. The family unit suffered since the community now depended on the government to fill the supporting role that a working father figure should. Margaret Sanger's establishing planned parenthood has for instance, resulted in more black babies being aborted in New York city than are born for the last few years (Black Lives Matter!). Top this off with the CIA directly involved in flooding the urban areas with illicit drugs such as Heroin and Cocaine and the results are what you see in America today. Democrats have been race baiting with the help of Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton not to mention the backing coming from George Soros and we now have Baltimore in a state of criminal decay with the police being held back from enforcing any order. Really it's all part of the bigger picture for a one world government trying to assert itself by tearing apart the social structure in order to rebuild it according to their own globalist tenants. Divide and conquer. Burn baby burn. Another Bolshevik style communist revolution with a fascist dictator at the helm. Anyhow that's my 2 cents. Sorry to get political but if a moderator chooses to make racially charged statements, I figure it gives the rest of us free reign.
I don't see Uwe's statement as being racially charged and it definitely wasn't political. It was just his observation based on this and four more high profile examples involving black entertainers. It wasn't a general comment about race at all.
Whenever things turn political here, I get complaints. I don't like it when people get offended by political discussions. Let's stop this now.
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Was this the five minute argument or the full half-hour...?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
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I'm trying to imagine a dead persons Four Yorkshiremen sketch, including BB King, Graham Chapman, Elvis, and maybe, just maybe, Salvadore Dali... to ensure a surrealist element...
Maybe that third pint of coffee was pushing the envelope... heading off to buy a new laptop... this ones days are numbered...
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I'm trying to imagine a dead persons Four Yorkshiremen sketch, including BB King, Graham Chapman, Elvis, and maybe, just maybe, Salvadore Dali... to ensure a surrealist element...
Laugh Out Loud
that made my morning
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No prob Dave. I understand that a bass forum isn't the place to get political. I could go on, but will bite my tongue. The new 50's inspired bass I have must have got me thinking like Joe McCarthy somehow.
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Oh my, big, big subject. To put it with Tom Petty: I ain't no racist, I don't even drive.
I had no issues with my daughter's black boy friend, he was a nice enough guy and I wish they would have worked it out. I don't believe in superiority based on pigmentation - the South African Apartheid system was inane in that way. But not being racist against the individual shouldn't let you close your eyes on statistic traits - good or bad - of the collective (as long as you don't automatically transpose your impressions of the collective on the individual - that is racism in my book). Denying that some black communities in the South take better care of their cars than of their houses is closing your eyes on reality, but it's no excuse for assuming that any black tenant will run down the house you let him, yet keep his Corvette or Mustang squeaky clean.
Likewise, it is a simple observation that white cops shoot more blacks than - ever thought about it? - black cops shoot whites. Which can lead you to all kinds of conclusions: That there are too few black cops and even fewer white criminals running from them or, disconcertingly, that the life of even a white man has perhaps more value to a black police officer than the life of a black man to a white police officer. In any case, I haven't yet heard of a drunk white couple being shot a hundred times and more by surrounding black policemen while sitting (or dying) in a car.
And whether people are the way they are (or tend to be perceived as being that way) due to destruction of their former tribal roots, men being torn away from their families and sold as slaves or too many indiscriminate welfare programs is another topic
we won't get to grips with here. (Reality very seldom follows party lines, it's probably all three and then some.)
For the record: I believe that people act in a certain way mainly due to their social influences (family, education, peer group, economic opportunities, role models, social history etc) and I believe to see evidence for that all the time - in contrast, the scientific determination that the amount of pigmentation of your skin determines how you act has yet to be made in my book. It can, however, determine how you are perceived and that is an issue. Hopefully, I manage to avoid it most of the time.