Albert King - History of his Guitars

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @ed.z.
    @ed.z. 2 года назад +11

    I had the pleasure to spend about half an hour talking with Albert King before a show at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, NYC. I wanted to ask him about his performance, decades earlier, at the Fillmore East. He was very generous and patient. A genuine blues master, legend, and his smoky voice is unforgettable. He is greatly missed.

  • @stuartpenney6829
    @stuartpenney6829 3 года назад +32

    Saw Albert a couple of times live. Once he couldn't get the sound he wanted and spent half the set berating the sound man. Then he broke a string and with no spare guitar he pulled an E string out of his back pocket and changed it himself while the band vamped. Finally, it all came good and the last 30 mins were amazing.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +3

      Great to hear this thanks

    • @abnerlook3869
      @abnerlook3869 3 года назад +1

      Was that Sawtell RSL?? I was there front row and we got that string and have still got the huge poster from the foyer Tues 4 Dec 199? with canned heat support

    • @stuartpenney6829
      @stuartpenney6829 3 года назад

      @@abnerlook3869 The show I saw was in Perth, W. Australia. I forgot to add that while he changed the string Albert told a long story with the theme: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets the blues. The guitar was one of the Brad Prokopow. King or Dan Erlewine walnut flying Vs

    •  Год назад

      @Lookup2Wakeup So did I. And Buddy Guy & Junior Wells. And I think Otis Rush played there once.

  • @dwightruffin9461
    @dwightruffin9461 Год назад +5

    Albert King was the kindest and nicest guy. I was in the 5th grade in Forrest City, Ar. A friend and me was riding bicycles around the convention center and heard a band warming up inside. I'd been playing guitar since I was 5 so we went inside and I hollowed : I play guitar. and the guy hollowed back well get on up here and I did. He handed me his "V" and I turned it over and played the old song Gloria and the band played along. Well, the old gentlemen started talking about his new amp(big ass Acoustic amp) then he took us out to his Cadillac and pulled a couple albums out and gave to us and signed them! We went back inside and he sat down and talked a few minutes and took a couple sips off that whiskey bottle. I spent the next year learning some Albert King licks. I was as they say: At the right place at the right time and thank the lord I was! Rest in peace sir and thank you for your kindness and the influence you gave me!

  • @johngerson7335
    @johngerson7335 3 года назад +8

    "Big Albert" for sure! Man makes a Flying V look like a toy when he's wearing it. My favorite bluesman, he's the bridge between trad-blues and heavy blues-rock for sure. Thanks Ramon!

  • @frantisca
    @frantisca 3 года назад +7

    Once again, thank you Ramon for this thorough study on Albert King's guitars. In today's race for gear, it really humbles one to look at the master's first guitars !
    I had the pleasure to record Albert king in 1973, while I was woking for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Albert played his Lucy made by Dan Erlewine as I was sitting in the booth with Stax Engineer/Producer Henry Bush (what a character !) and we later all had a party with Chico Hamilton who sang me happy birthday (boy what memories...).

  • @limpindug
    @limpindug 3 года назад +13

    Enjoyed this short history, Albert one of the Giants, sadly not many left now. Respect and stay healthy all.

  •  3 года назад +7

    Looking forward to the next video. I was lucky enough to see him several times in London the late 80s and early 90s.
    The man had such presence on the stage. During a gig, he would take everything out of the PA except for his guitar and voice, and make the band really quiet. Even the incorrigible talkers, including the ones I would have already asked to shut up, would stop talking to see what was going on.
    He's my favourite blues guitarist. He could make one note do the work of a five minute shred. Utterly captivating on stage - and I'm not one who goes for the 'show', but the music.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for a brilliant comment

    •  3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow You’re very welcome.
      I was lucky enough to see all the great blues men that came to London, except for John Lee Hooker, due to few dates and work commitments. But that’s ok, as I’m not a huge fan. I like him, but can’t listen to too much.

    • @TheVatonaught
      @TheVatonaught 3 года назад +1

      loved your post.

    •  3 года назад

      @@TheVatonaught Thank you.

    • @kevinharnan8378
      @kevinharnan8378 3 года назад +1

      Saw Albert King & John Lee Hooker in 80s. Both unspeakably great

  • @jinjxmusic
    @jinjxmusic 2 года назад

    I'm glad you made reference to the strat at the end. I've always wanted to know what was the deal with that one. :)

  • @michaeltaylor8734
    @michaeltaylor8734 2 года назад +8

    Albert's V that was repaired by Rick Hancock in Memphis was actually in Albert's hotel room in West Memphis where he was staying at the time. A tornado came through West Memphis at I-40/55 at Ingram Boulevard and destroyed Albert's hotel room, thankfully Albert was not there at the time but LUCY was. Michael Woody, Alberts bus mechanic at the time went by to check on Albert but he was not there, this was before cell phones. Michael saw Lucy lying on the floor with the neck broken in several pieces and took the guitar along with Albert's other possessions and later caught up with Albert to return to him. Albert took the guitar to Rick and the rest is history. I know this to be true because I knew Albert,Rick and Michael Woody.

  • @Sldumas1983
    @Sldumas1983 2 года назад +1

    Great stuff man, Albert is one of my top favorite guitars all time I was just in the 4th grade when he died and I remember crying saying dang I hoped to meet him one day, I to play upside down it just feels better to me that way.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  2 года назад +1

      Thanks Samuel - he was the source!

  • @derekclacton
    @derekclacton 3 года назад +2

    Great video Ramon 👍 Born Under a Bad Sign and I’ll Play the Blues For You are two of my favourite albums of all time. Albert King was also one of Gary Moore’s biggest blues influences. Moore told of them playing a session together, after which King told him to play every other note ... Gary listened to his advice 🎸 Looking forward to your follow-up video.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Thanks Derek, yes I loved his work with Gary - style video coming tomorrow!

    • @derekclacton
      @derekclacton 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow That’s brilliant! Will it involve a suit?

    •  3 года назад +1

      You can see that in some of his later work. In particular, his cover of Al Kooper’s I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know on his last album. I don’t think there’s a better version and the playing is sublime.

    • @derekclacton
      @derekclacton 3 года назад +1

      @ Absolutely agree.

  • @b.rodclark7349
    @b.rodclark7349 3 года назад +6

    'I Wanna Get Funky' album is from 1974, not '86 and that Stratocaster was only for the photo session of that album and it's not known that he ever played that Strat. In 1977 my father took my mother brother and me to see him at a cocktail lounge in Detroit and it was the Erlewine Lucy V he played that evening and I would never forget the way he looked at me with a smile singing 'I'll Play The Blues For You' and did he ever? That was around the time he came out with 'Call My Job' which was recorded here in Detroit at United Sound System Studios.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +2

      Thanks

    • @AdrianAndersson
      @AdrianAndersson 3 года назад

      You are right in that we don’t know if he ever played a strat at one time in concert. I don’t see why he wouldn’t be able to play a strat however if it was setup in a way that albert preferred. Photos have surfaced of him playing an epiphone riviera once in concert though.

    • @b.rodclark7349
      @b.rodclark7349 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow no problem!

  • @donciseau
    @donciseau 3 года назад +4

    Great video and very educational too!

  • @michaeltaylor8734
    @michaeltaylor8734 Год назад +4

    Another guitar fact about Lucy. Before Albert died he had been playing gigs at Blues City Cafe on Beale St across from BB KIngs Club in Memphis. Albert had been locking Lucy in the club owners office in between shows. When Albert died the guitar was locked in the office and the owner and his son claimed it was "NOT" there... so LUCY was supposedly MIA for many years until Steven Seagal began to visit Memphis Beale St. and became friends with Blues City Cafe owners. Magically!! next thing ya know Steven Seagal had acquired LUCY from where do ya guess???? LUCY left Memphis secretly and Seagal still has LUCY to this day.

  • @BatmanBoss
    @BatmanBoss 2 года назад +2

    Albert King 👑

  • @glenkepic3208
    @glenkepic3208 3 года назад +3

    This is a great ! Just thinking about Gary Moore's "King Of The Blues" today. "He was born in Mississippi, 1924 " :).
    Blues At Sunrise is a must have for any Blues fan.
    I bought a 'best of" about 10 years ago and the cover photo looked the '67 style was a sunburst.
    After playing V types since the 80's, the only Gibson SB i ever saw was one family had. He played it from Slim's to CBGB's.

  • @maartendijkstra9829
    @maartendijkstra9829 3 года назад +1

    Love the history of his guitars videos! Thanks

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Thanks Maarten lots more coming very soon

  • @TheOlmecindian
    @TheOlmecindian 3 года назад +1

    Awesome video as always 😎

  • @KaptainKlips
    @KaptainKlips 3 года назад +1

    Love the series! Cheers.

  • @misterwillguitar
    @misterwillguitar 3 года назад +1

    One of mt favourite players sir! Thank you!!!

  • @promerops
    @promerops 3 года назад +1

    Hi Ramon, It's taken me a long time to get to this video, but I'm so glad I have - it's the usual fascinating, informative and entertaining presentation. I have this vague idea in my mind that, during a lull in his career, Albert operated a bulldozer and was then 're-discovered' and put back on stage. I can't seem to find any reference to this in my 'library' and an internet search mentions the bulldozer work as being vey early in his life. A great pity I never got to see Albert live. Thanks and regards,
    Colin.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      I think you are right - I did read that also. Great comment thanks

  • @josephpashka7369
    @josephpashka7369 2 года назад +2

    Albert King played the white Prokopow guitar during a WTTW Soundstage concert in Chicago in 1982. My photo of him there is on Wiki. He was so cordial. It would be nice if WTTW would release video of that show. It was on TV.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  2 года назад

      Thanks for this Joseph, and thanks for the info

  • @Longhorn.Rock_Roll61
    @Longhorn.Rock_Roll61 3 года назад +1

    Great ur back .

  • @marksguitars5617
    @marksguitars5617 3 года назад +1

    very nice, I was able to see the pink sparkle V at Stax Museum, great info, thanks for sharing

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Pleasure Mark, oh thats nice and shows what a nice guy Billy Gibbons is.

    • @marksguitars5617
      @marksguitars5617 3 года назад +1

      @@TheGuitarShow yes indeed!

  • @markwright9352
    @markwright9352 3 года назад +1

    I do enjoy these 👍🏻

  • @willdenham
    @willdenham 10 месяцев назад

    I discovered Albert with an old friend and bandmate. We developed a strong bond over our love of Albert. One day I was listening to Floyd and it seemed like almost everything Gilmour was playing sounded like Albert. His David's tone on Wish You Were Here is pure Albert. I guess that's why I like Gilmour so much.

  • @rams6702
    @rams6702 3 года назад +3

    kinda cool that two of the three kings both had encounters with a lucille and named their guitars after them

  • @BatmanBoss
    @BatmanBoss 2 года назад +2

    My favorites of his songs are “As Tge year ago passing by” and “I’ll play the blues for you”

  • @sauletto1
    @sauletto1 3 года назад

    Great video ! Thank you for this !

  • @rickslickrickharvey9112
    @rickslickrickharvey9112 3 года назад +1

    Came home to both V's on my bed
    My partner , gibson blues rep, memphis was his band leader at peabody alley , club at the peabody memphis find gary belz there might be some vids of his show
    Albert was a gentleman. I had a blast hanging out with him his last years on beale st miss you my friend . Barb. .

  • @guitarmanrommel3865
    @guitarmanrommel3865 3 года назад +5

    It was SRV who Introduced to the world by playing in the Let's Dance album with Bowie. He said 'I wanted to see how many styles of music Albert King's playing fits "

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +2

      You are write he did introduce a new generation but Albert had hits in the 1960s and he was always on the scene with BB King . Thanks Gutar man Rommel.

    •  3 года назад +2

      I love Let’s Dance as a song and an album.

    • @davidallen346
      @davidallen346 2 года назад +1

      @The Guitar Show One of Jimi Hendrix guitar hero also Clapton in the Cream band cover born under the bad sign and Feel Free solo was inspired by Albert King as well

    • @guitarmanrommel3865
      @guitarmanrommel3865 2 года назад

      @@davidallen346 and what about Strange Brew of The Cream! 👍Mark Knopfler's lead on Dylan's Another Slow Train Coming.. Albert King influence.

    • @guitarmanrommel3865
      @guitarmanrommel3865 2 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow thank you!✌️🎵

  • @robinrhodie1540
    @robinrhodie1540 3 года назад +2

    OH LATE GREAT ALBERT KING OF BLUES MAN GOD BLESS LIVING LEGEND OF BLUES MAN ALL AWAYS 🎵🎵🎵👑👑👑🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @PeteBrill
    @PeteBrill 8 дней назад

    l saw Albert at St Paul Prom Center l think 1979,he was great,had one of his albums,don't know what happened to it.Anyone notice at the 9:20 mark he is playing with his left hand on te neck,any ideas?Perhaps the picture was taken in a mirror.

  • @xrhstosm7
    @xrhstosm7 3 года назад +2

    Excellent, as John Mayer introduction of Albert King in Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!

  • @williampayne7678
    @williampayne7678 2 года назад +1

    Albert King what a Guitarist.

  • @lucasmanhaes1767
    @lucasmanhaes1767 3 года назад +1

    Great!!!

  • @willpayne6249
    @willpayne6249 3 года назад +1

    AWESOME video

  • @ybblue2732
    @ybblue2732 2 года назад +2

    2:39 that’s not Albert???

  • @marvinwhittaker1760
    @marvinwhittaker1760 2 года назад +2

    I love all of Albert King's material but the two songs that l really like is the remake of Elmore James "The Sky Is Crying" and the 1974 version of "Crosscut Saw".

  • @marvinwhittaker
    @marvinwhittaker Год назад

    I love all of Albert King's Stax material, but my favorites are "The Sky Is Crying" and the 1974 version of "Crosscut Saw".

  • @zetho6190
    @zetho6190 3 года назад +1

    YES!

  • @COLDMKULTRA
    @COLDMKULTRA 2 года назад +1

    Its very interesting that Albert did not swap the strings around (as many leftys do) when playing His guitars left handed .
    A proper lefty 😊👍

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  2 года назад +1

      Yes I agree its a real unique way of playing Ralf

    • @peghead
      @peghead Год назад +1

      Others who didn't restring; Otis Rush and Coco Montoya.

  • @rorysteele9884
    @rorysteele9884 3 года назад +1

    When you do the Tony iommi history of his guitars video I will be looking forward to seeing a Tony iommi guitar style lesson 🙏

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      Okay Ill do both soon

    • @rorysteele9884
      @rorysteele9884 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow cool not trying to bust your ass ♥️

    • @rorysteele9884
      @rorysteele9884 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow am I The only one who has asked you to do a Tony iommi history of his guitars video

  • @Johngonefishin
    @Johngonefishin 3 года назад +3

    About a year ago Juliens auction house had an old Gibson Flying V they claimed was the original Albert guitar..........

    • @AdrianAndersson
      @AdrianAndersson 3 года назад +1

      It was less than a year ago, by the end of last year actually

  • @mrlowquality711
    @mrlowquality711 3 года назад +1

    If you look at Albert Kings live performance in Sweden 1980, Lucy has double cream pickups that look like dimarzio pickups. Anyone know anything about this?

  • @Longhorn.Rock_Roll61
    @Longhorn.Rock_Roll61 3 года назад +1

    One of my favorite guitar players useds or maybe still does Frank Hammons Tesla guitarist a flying V

  • @Alex-lm7cx
    @Alex-lm7cx 2 года назад +1

    Such a shame that one of Albert's guitars ended up in the possession of a tool like Seagal.

  • @divingduck1970
    @divingduck1970 3 года назад +1

    I've been wondering about that picture of AK playing a Strat on the album cover for a while. Did he ever really play one?

    • @AdrianAndersson
      @AdrianAndersson 3 года назад +2

      No picture of him playing one in concert, im sure he has at least attempted to play one off-stage however

  • @haloskater24
    @haloskater24 3 года назад +5

    That Photo of “Albert and Fred below” has been passed around for years. It’s definitely not Albert King, doesn’t even look like him

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for this - yeah I asked around about it - Ive heard one person say its Otis Rush but I don't think so .

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      What were the other photos you were questioning? Or is it just that one?

    • @haloskater24
      @haloskater24 3 года назад +1

      The Guitar Show one of them was tommy McClennan

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      @@haloskater24 what time was that?

    • @haloskater24
      @haloskater24 3 года назад +1

      @@TheGuitarShow 3:40

  • @haloskater24
    @haloskater24 3 года назад +2

    Good video but some of these photos are not Albert King.

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      Ill do a little more research on it - as it stands you might be wrong or correct.

  • @MBRMrblueroads
    @MBRMrblueroads Год назад

    👍👍👍

  • @j.m.harrincourt2208
    @j.m.harrincourt2208 2 года назад +1

    Albert used his guitars with a right-handed string order. Apparently that's how he learned it as a child. This usually happens when a right-handed older sibling or parent owns the guitar in the family. So before he bought his first guitar at the age of 20, he learned to play a 6-string instrument on a right-handed person's guitar.

  • @LuckyKoman7
    @LuckyKoman7 2 года назад +2

    Album I wanna get Funky is from 1973….not 1986.

  • @markwroe4326
    @markwroe4326 3 года назад +1

    Hello.what microphone are you using?

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      Hi Mark - I change around but for this video it was a AKG C 2000 E -sometimes I use a Audio Tecnica) a cheap everyday mic for speech. I use a Neumann for singing and playing along with some vintage ribbons.

  • @moonchild4806
    @moonchild4806 3 года назад +5

    Man Seagal also owns Jimi Hendrix's jazzmaster. To be a 2D action star staring in 3 word movie titles

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      I'm a fan.

    • @VideoHound62
      @VideoHound62 3 года назад

      Jimi bought that Jazzmaster at Cotton Music in Nashville, TN., his first pro guitar. They closed a few years ago but in the 1990s I was there picking up supplies for John Prine and they showed me the sales receipt for that guitar.

    • @newking70
      @newking70 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow He runs like a girl.

    • @SlumsofCalabasas
      @SlumsofCalabasas 3 года назад

      You foolz sound salty and jealous

  • @stratman9449
    @stratman9449 3 года назад

    Albert King...the true blues story.......
    and i like his use of the flying V......the best choice then for a "leftie".....

  • @boooboooboy
    @boooboooboy Год назад +2

    Lmao Lucy=Lucifer

  • @marvinwhittaker1320
    @marvinwhittaker1320 3 года назад +1

    Albert King mixed blues and funk together

  • @monkeysbum999
    @monkeysbum999 3 года назад +1

    Alber King

  • @yestoES355
    @yestoES355 3 года назад +3

    Of the three kings Albert is my favorite singer, Freddie is the better instrumentalist/soloist, and B.B is the perfect mix of it all.
    Also, blues guitarist: Steven Seagal? 🤣

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад

      Steven was my hero growing up in the 80s!
      Yeah man the 3 kings! Love them all

  • @depretorevincenzo6617
    @depretorevincenzo6617 3 года назад +1

    I love Lucy

  • @jacestephenweatherall1732
    @jacestephenweatherall1732 3 года назад +1

    He was born in 1923

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      Thanks

    • @jacestephenweatherall1732
      @jacestephenweatherall1732 3 года назад +1

      @@TheGuitarShow you’re welcome

    • @TheGuitarShow
      @TheGuitarShow  3 года назад +1

      @@jacestephenweatherall1732 always great to learn these facts, thank you

    • @jacestephenweatherall1732
      @jacestephenweatherall1732 3 года назад

      @@TheGuitarShow you’re welcome again greetings from Australia, can you do a video of history of bb king’s guitars please?

  • @clarencetrice4442
    @clarencetrice4442 9 месяцев назад +1

    there about half a dozen 😊😊 left 👈 😊 hand guitar 🎸 😅 players only a few they had 2 restring there guitars upside down there wasn't any left 👈 😊 hand guitars even made back then it wasn't until years later on they wasn't common back then at all 😮😮 and there was another king also buddy king I have only heard a bit of his music 🎶 and that was only on the radio 📻 program blues be 4 sunrise never on the radio be 4 then / and when I was growing up there was a radio station that played the blues music 🎶 😊 on Saturday nights and another radio station 2 day / its not like it was like in the 1950s at all when a new song was made U could hear on the radio 📻 😊 or go 2 record store and buy alot of them was be 4 my time the only 2 I remember was plan 9 and peaches record store and there was a 3rd 1 I don't remember it at all that was older I think 🤔 there was a tower record music 🎶 😊 store also 😊😊 OMG 4 25 2O24

  • @Pr0God
    @Pr0God 10 месяцев назад

    Wrong about the tuning but close

  • @newking70
    @newking70 3 года назад +1

    The guitar in the poster looks like a Gibson ES-300, the tailpiece looks like a ES-300.

  • @TonyGilbert1
    @TonyGilbert1 10 месяцев назад

    it really makes me mad the sigal has two of his guitars

  • @simonvanderheijden432
    @simonvanderheijden432 2 года назад +2

    Don't call Steven Seagal a blues guitarist. He's a collector and he can't play worth sh.t.

    • @joshuagibson2520
      @joshuagibson2520 Год назад

      Bingo. Sad that he has that guitar. I'd rather see Bonamossa have it. Fuck Segal.

  • @Coolcat3
    @Coolcat3 7 дней назад

    Steven segal🤦🏽‍♂️

  • @tomcarl8021
    @tomcarl8021 3 года назад +1

    STAX was a hugely successful label when Albert signed with them. Only Motown had a larger market share in R&B and Soul.
    Do me a favor and stick to the British guys, because you clearly know very little about Soul and R&B.