Rock Roxx

[KGIII]

that song still gives me goosebumps

This song does this for me:

Full disclosure: I've known her since she was a learning-the-trade coffee shop girl. I've been on stage with her a number of times. I know her well enough to have gone to her wedding.

She's achieved quite a bit of fame since those early days playing for a few bucks (and tips) in coffee shops. Her husband (Trucks) is a fantastic guitar player and her own playing has improved a great deal over the years. If there's a famous blues musician, she's been on stage with them. Some of my favorite shows are those she did with the late BB King.

If you dig around on YouTube you can find them (and others) in England. If you do that, pay attention to when the camera pans the audience. Even Slash was there! One of the most endearing moments I've ever witnessed was when BB King decided he wanted to wear Slash's hat. (If he wants to wear your hat, you let him. Well, not now. He's too dead for that.)

Anyhow, she has some fantastic work. She now has quite a bit of fame in the blues music industry/genre. She's no longer playing for a half-dozen people in a coffee shop.

 

[wizardfromoz]

I quite like that, the name is familiar but I think it is the first time I have heard her. There is a Joplinesque sound to her voice, I feel.

BB King? Saw the great man with U2 in 1989, that will be coming up when I get to covering my 25th concert (we are at 9 so far), a fair way away.

Keep on rockin'

Wiz

 

[KGIII]

BB King? Saw the great man with U2 in 1989,

I'm a huge blues fan, so I've seen BB many times. I'm not actually sure how many times. I'd have to spend time thinking about it as I never kept a mental list. I've been to a whole lot of shows.

As hinted at above, I even went to England (Royal Albert Hall) just to go to a specific show that had a bunch of my favorite people in it. That's not even the furthest I've gone for a show.

Music has been a pretty big part of my life.

BB King was the most gregarious person on stage that I've ever witnessed. I suspect you could have been a beginner with your instrument and he'd have still let you play and encouraged you. I never did share the stage with him. LOL

 

[KGIII]

If you like Tedeschi Trucks you should like this.

LOL I was at their wedding, However, I've never played with him. I've met him a dozen or so times.

Man, for a pair of musicians, they've been married for quite a while. That doesn't happen very often.

If I have the story correct, they met each other when she was opening for the Allman Brothers Band, well the incarnation of the band at that time. Trucks was playing slide for the band and had his own band at the time. Eventually, some members of that band formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Derek and Susan.

She's come a long way. Early on, she saw some success even though she wasn't a 'fantastic' guitar player. She largely played fairly basic chords and some blues riffs scattered about. It was her voice that got her the fame, in my opinion. Today, she's quite a good guitar player - even playing riffs while singing at the same time.

We met when she came to the Boston area to study. I was still HQed in the area and still actively performing with a band at the time.

I don't have any juicy stories. If I did, I'd say that I don't have any juicy stories to respect their privacy. But, really, I don't have any juicy stories.

If you don't mind me asking, how is it that you came across the Tedeschi Trucks Band?

 

[Windmill]

Put your lights on

 

[Windmill]

An end of night boozy singalong with Chas and Dave.
Good drinking session must have been had.

 

[Windmill]

SRV with W C Clark instrumental

 

[Condobloke]

All these fancy guitarists !....all you have to be is 8 years old.....

 

[Hillbilly H]

LOL They did not kill me. But almost!

 

[Condobloke]

video unavailable ^^^

 

[Hillbilly H]

video unavailable ^^^

E.L.O.
I'm Alive

 

[Condobloke]

can you see this one ?

 

[Hillbilly H]

i can see it LOL.

 

[Hillbilly H]

Sign of the gypsy queen.

 

[Windmill]

all you have to be is 8 years old

Or a bit older and do Back in Black with a couple of mates.

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[wizardfromoz]

My 10th concert was Australia's Renee Geyer, whom I saw at Brisbane's Her Majesty's Theatre (same venue as I saw Melanie).

This was 1977 but I am unsure of the date.

Here's a couple of her songs, "Say I Love You" from 1981

and "Heading In The Right Direction"

 

[Windmill]

Steve miller live.

 

[Windmill]

Buddy Whittington live.

 

[wizardfromoz]

I heard this young lady for the first time last night on The Graham Norton Show, although she has been around for 3 or 4 years.

This is Griff, live, with "19th Hour"

I will be listening to some more of her work.

Enjoy and

Avagudweegend

 

[wizardfromoz]

My 11th concert was Joe Cocker at Festival Hall Brisbane 6th July 1977.

Sadly, it was during one of his numerous substance abuse periods, and he was so drunk (or other substance/s) that he could only last one hour and 15 minutes, which was a half the time I regarded as a good concert by a professional.

Delta Lady many of you may recognise

but this other one, N'oubliez Jamais, I only heard a couple of years ago, this from Cologne in 2013, the year before he passed away.