Buddy Guy - "Damn Right, I've Got the Blues" live from DirecTV's "Guitar Center Sessions"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU5xA6ty0a4&tracker=False

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[livetohike]

1. Nice

Thanks for posting this :hi:.

[old mark]

2. I have posted this before, but...EC says Buddy Guy is the best...Buddy says

Magic Sam's the best....

EC & BG (with Robert Cray) live, Sweet Home Chicago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Hopv3VQ8A


Magic Sam, Live in Germany-sitting in with Earl Hooker's band-playing Earl's guitar....Magic Sam's Boogie....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOJC5Lv0qrs&feature=more_related

All there guys amaze me.
Thanks, AV!

mark

[bluesbassman]

3. Awesome tone, unbelievable feeling, incredible technique...

Buddy is the MAN. A national treasure.

[old mark]

4. Another live Buddy Guy performance, with the Stones in 2006 - "Champaine and Reefer"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15W7DrOIbCQ


a great old Muddy Waters song...Buddy's voice soon has Jagger playing harp instead of singing...

"Give me champaine when I'm thirsty, and reefer when I wants to get high..."

mark

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I either read or heard an interview at the time this was released...

...I forget the source but it was a conversation about Buddy's performance, that it wasn't a "friendly jam" but a "reckoning," and when he stepped out on that stage it was serious business...that he was out for blood, that it was his stage.

I can see that in his playing...he is always soft-spoken and humble, especially when talking about other players, but when he goes to work, he goes to work.

I saw him live at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, part of a package show with Dr. John, The Faboulous Thunderbirds (post-Jimmy Vaughan), and B.B. King. He opened with "Sweet Home Chicago" and just bludgeoned the air with that opening riff, hit it with such precision and power and volume that he immediately claimed his authority.

He was, is, and will always be the best.

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