I was fortunate enough to see & hear Albert Collins and the Ice-Breakers many times during their prime era in the late 1970s and 1980s at Fitzgerald's - a club in Berwyn, IL, not far from the West Side. No one could do what Albert did - his entire sound and approach were unique and so was his band. Still remember Albert trailing his 200-ft. long guitar cable going outside to play to passers-by on the street. Think Albert and his band sound powerful coming out of your stereo? Yep, but try sitting ten feet in front of the stage when they were in the house!
Blues guitar at its finest !! I never realized he capoed his strings till I saw his videos/that explains why his tone is not like anyone else's- it makes the string vibrations different !!!###
THIS GUY >.......ON STAGE ........LIVE ........ONE OF THE BEST ......EVER ...... REALY ENJOYED HINSELF ...... ALWAYS VERY KIND TO HIS AUDIENCE .........HARDEST WORKING MAN PLAYING THE BLUES .... EVER !! ALBERT ......... U ARE SO FOREVERV MISSED ......... AND HIS BAND ....ALWAYS ......... OUTSTANDING !
VERY GOOD INTERPRÉTATION FROM THIS SONG AND DÉVIATION SOUL AND FUNK " PLAYED WITH MR ALBERT COLLINS ...GREAT PLEASURE FROM THIS SONG WITH MANY INTER.. BUT THIS SELF MAGIC....THANKS ...JACKYFAN 👍FRENCHY TRUE.ALBERT COLLINS is a true bluesmen. .....
What a bassist is Johnny B. Gayden, my favorite one of all blues bass players. He sounds like a " horse fart ", loud and clear kkkk. Sorry for that country comparison, but he is fenomenal, simply the best !!
Reese Wynans was playing on my Hammond B3 for this concert. I had rented it out for the filming of Austin City Limits. I got a call that there was a glitch in the Leslie cabinet and went down tweak the issue. I fixed the tube issue and cranked organ up and started playing on it. I turned around and Albert was standing there with a big grin on his face. He was an exceptionally nice man and a wonderfully incendiary and expressive entertainer. The horn section were truly the best guys in Austin at the time. Derek O'Brien was smooth understated fire. Albert's rhythm section were always funky and in the pocket. Albert was the Master of the Telecaster for a reason. His ability to utilize dynamics in concerts was legendary.
Got to open for him in San Diego once. He rolled in from L.A. twenty minutes before his slated time cool and collected, set up, and blew the roof off the place. It was a lesson in professionalism.
Very cool..we never did an opener for him,but ,I did have a chance to chat with him..Ive met my share of "Headliners",but this guy was a cool cat,man..we got to get into the green room with him,and he was so relaxed and very much in touch with the players of that era..Very cool cat..Im happy for you to get to do an opener for him..
Albert came into Detroit, and played at the fabled St. Andrews Hall......late '80's. I think it was a Belkin show. I never missed a downtown concert, being a DJ at 2 of the hottest downtown Clubs. About 4 mins. into his stage entrance, the lights changed, and so did I. All those rock concerts at COBO, the Eastown, the Grande.........became a blur of rock music. Same old, etc. When Albert performed, for that audience, that night, he played the Blues, and the Telecaster. He changed lives......................and than thanked the entire audience, for taking time to come see him. That, ladies and gentleman, was/IS Albert Collins..
I saw him once at Antones in Austin. We were out in the parking lot and he came pulling up ... in a Lexus! I recall being slightly disappointed that he wasn't in a Cadillac.
I like the hum bucker in the neck position,and he knows how to get the most out of it..RIP,god speed to a good man and a heck of a musician..Heaven has one heck of a great band..
There are some comments here about the drummer. Albert never hired any bad drummers. This guy has the funk. It's hot, it's greasy, it's stinky and we like our funk like that.
@Ded Boi If it wasn't for this comment section I would've never thought to scrutinize the drummer ... and now that I have ... I don't fucking understand what the scrutiny is ...
His name is Soko Richardson. Formally with Ike and Tina, John Mayal and many more. I’ve played with him and had lots of fun. Sloppy???? You must have went to one of those schools….PIT, BIT,GIT etc…….! Get real!
grande voce quel suo modo strano e unico di suonare la chitarra il suo feeling hanno fatto di albert collins uno dei mostri sacri del blues. rip grande albert
Johnny B. Gayden is the bass player; he's on most of the records that Albert did on the Alligator Records label and he toured with Albert for years. I had the pleasure of doing sound for these guys twice. I remember Johnny as a very nice, friendly and funny dude as well as being a monster bassist.
Back digging my man Albert again. I lived in NOLA 1966-76 and not a day goes by that I don't miss it. Place got into my soul and my bones. They never heard of red beans n'rice anywhere else and nobody knows how to make a sandwich anything like a Po Boy. Ask for a shrimp and oyster combination and they just stare at you, they only know what sliced white bread is, and Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Poppa Stoppa and Longhair are totally unbeknownst to them. I know exactly what it means to miss NOLA!
Yeah,Derek O'Brien ( and Denny Freeman) are 2 great "under the radar " TX guitarists who are just as talented as JLV/SRV and all the rest.I followed AC out of Antone's and back in again a couple times when he did his famous unwinding cord walk outside of the club.Once he stopped traffic outside a club in Chicago where the door led directly out to a main drag,the folks in the cars had no idea what was going on.Precious memories! We loved ya Albert!
yeah, had a buddy brilliant drummer, but occasionally when he got half cut and in the mood, he'd throw us all off on stage with his impromptu extra rolls, and we almost all lost our footing and started looking at each other to get the music and song back on track!? heh heh, yeah got to watch these guys when they're high and a bit extra happy; a recipe for stage disaster. the backbone of the music, and all that jazz, along with bassists of course 😊 🤘
Albert always had smoking' bassists. I especially liked Johnny B. "Be Good" Gayden on funkier stuff and Aron Burton for laying down such a nice pocket and groove.
I'm no expert on drumming but I think the drummer here is doing what Albert wants him to. There is a long history of bluesmen giving the drummer the business if he plays at the wrong time, or plays too much etc. There're some vids of Albert King doing it, and Freddie King, and Lightnin Hopkins looked like lasers were going to shoot out of his eyes at a drummer on a video, or it could have been the bass player. Either way, the fact that Mr. Collins didn't turn around and hit the drummer with his guitar is enough for me to know that he wanted the syncopated funk he was playing.
Derek O'Brian DEF has his very on style, he is here honoring Albert sound and style. If you don't know his work, check it out, awesome strat tones and very a very confident mature style!
I saw the second guitar player backing up james cotton- I think!:) I got to see albert many times in the 80s - his bass player almost got as much attention as albert. albert was in the top 5 or 10 of blues players in the 80s I believe. I played with guys that were in alberts band and they all said he took care of the band untill you played poker with him ha ha
I believe Albert wanted the drummer to do all that crazy shit . They rehearsed for sure and it was most likely part of the arrangement. He didn't want a typical in the pocket beat for this one. It's good to add a different touch to blues which can become repetetive at times.
What drums were you listening to? Listen at 2:05 - 2:09. Even Albert was a bit thrown off by that, not to mention he starts the tune at one tempo and jumps up by like 10 clicks within a minute. Sloppy sloppy
The video doesn't lie. Doesn't matter who and where he's been, if it's a mess up, it's a mess up. People make mistakes, why do you think the people you behold as legendary are infallible? That's so dumb lol
Oh yeah,Ive read lots about GS doing the same kind of thing and riding on the shoulders of his valet,etc.(I lived in N.O. for 24 yrs,and also heard much about him on WWOZ ) But the thing is I was THERE to see Albert,regardless of where he may have picked up the idea.BTW Albert did a killer rendition of "The Things I Used To Do" that same night he stopped traffic in Chicago.
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The only guitarist I know that kept the ashtray on his tele.
This man a absolute genius. His phrasing is unmatched
There was only Albert Collins. Still freakin epic! Forever revered Big Man!
Johnny B Gayden on bass-one of the best bassplayers-period !
He may well be, but his tone, prominence and grove are completely wrong for this song.
This rhythm section... god dayyym!
there are folks out there sayin' he´s playing wrong !, Lol
To this day, there is still nobody quite like The Iceman!
I never really felt the electric blues guitar the same until I heard Albert Collins. NO ONE PLAYS LIKE HE DID!! Amazing!
AMEN !!!
His legendary and unique technique is the reason !
I was fortunate enough to see & hear Albert Collins and the Ice-Breakers many times during their prime era in the late 1970s and 1980s at Fitzgerald's - a club in Berwyn, IL, not far from the West Side. No one could do what Albert did - his entire sound and approach were unique and so was his band. Still remember Albert trailing his 200-ft. long guitar cable going outside to play to passers-by on the street. Think Albert and his band sound powerful coming out of your stereo? Yep, but try sitting ten feet in front of the stage when they were in the house!
No one had his tone too.
Blues guitar at its finest !! I never realized he capoed his strings till I saw his videos/that explains why his tone is not like anyone else's- it makes the string vibrations different !!!###
In my opinion, this is one of his best live performances.
My Guitar Hero...Mr. Albert Collins !
What a drummer.
Johnny B.Gayden i Soko Richardson...obožavam ih i tu inovaciju i varijacije blues groova!!! A. Collins jedan jedini!!
That drummer is on fire!!!
I saw him several times. As far as I'm concerned, this is a typical show for Albert.
Typically INCREDIBLE !!
Love the Blues and I definitely love Albert Collins! ❤️
THIS GUY >.......ON STAGE ........LIVE ........ONE OF THE BEST ......EVER ...... REALY ENJOYED HINSELF ...... ALWAYS VERY KIND TO HIS AUDIENCE .........HARDEST WORKING MAN PLAYING THE BLUES .... EVER !! ALBERT ......... U ARE SO FOREVERV MISSED ......... AND HIS BAND ....ALWAYS ......... OUTSTANDING !
Now, THAT boys and girls, is a groove so deep... you'd never see the surface again from there...
Some real rifts..In the pocket..
One of the great bluesmen and one of. my personal favs. Love that Tele and the band 🎶
I love the blues😎
VERY GOOD INTERPRÉTATION FROM THIS SONG AND DÉVIATION SOUL AND FUNK " PLAYED WITH MR ALBERT COLLINS ...GREAT PLEASURE FROM THIS SONG WITH MANY INTER.. BUT THIS SELF MAGIC....THANKS ...JACKYFAN 👍FRENCHY TRUE.ALBERT COLLINS is a true bluesmen. .....
Albert Collins was ahead of his time. He was the guitar whisperer, boy could he play.
Now THAT, youngsters, is the Blues. Comes from the soul, right through the hands and mouth. You can't learn it, you have to FEEL it to play it.
The great Soko Richardson (1939-2004) on drums, the perfect sense of time...
That Big band sound behind Albert really suits and props to that pro drummer embellishing the style too.
The Master of The Telecaster. RIP Albert Collins....
I love this groove (bass) .... Awesome!! Albert Collins was the BLUES!!
What a bassist is Johnny B. Gayden, my favorite one of all blues bass players.
He sounds like a " horse fart ", loud and clear kkkk.
Sorry for that country comparison, but he is fenomenal, simply the best !!
Reese Wynans was playing on my Hammond B3 for this concert. I had rented it out for the filming of Austin City Limits. I got a call that there was a glitch in the Leslie cabinet and went down tweak the issue. I fixed the tube issue and cranked organ up and started playing on it. I turned around and Albert was standing there with a big grin on his face. He was an exceptionally nice man and a wonderfully incendiary and expressive entertainer. The horn section were truly the best guys in Austin at the time. Derek O'Brien was smooth understated fire. Albert's rhythm section were always funky and in the pocket. Albert was the Master of the Telecaster for a reason. His ability to utilize dynamics in concerts was legendary.
Got to open for him in San Diego once. He rolled in from L.A. twenty minutes before his slated time cool and collected, set up, and blew the roof off the place. It was a lesson in professionalism.
Very cool..we never did an opener for him,but ,I did have a chance to chat with him..Ive met my share of "Headliners",but this guy was a cool cat,man..we got to get into the green room with him,and he was so relaxed and very much in touch with the players of that era..Very cool cat..Im happy for you to get to do an opener for him..
Albert came into Detroit, and played at the fabled St. Andrews Hall......late '80's. I think it was a Belkin show. I never missed a downtown concert, being a DJ at 2 of the hottest downtown Clubs. About 4 mins. into his stage entrance, the lights changed, and so did I.
All those rock concerts at COBO, the Eastown, the Grande.........became a blur of rock music. Same old, etc.
When Albert performed, for that audience, that night, he played the Blues, and the Telecaster. He changed lives......................and than thanked the entire audience, for taking time to come see him. That, ladies and gentleman, was/IS Albert Collins..
Are still playing..Look me up CAPTAIN JACK WATSON on RUclips..
I saw him once at Antones in Austin. We were out in the parking lot and he came pulling up ... in a Lexus! I recall being slightly disappointed that he wasn't in a Cadillac.
I like the hum bucker in the neck position,and he knows how to get the most out of it..RIP,god speed to a good man and a heck of a musician..Heaven has one heck of a great band..
I love AC... but I don't think he EVER used the neck pickup.. That swith is always 'all back' every time I saw him, and every clip I have seen....
Bravo!!!! Albert was so talented....love to watch his facial expressions! Too much!
Stevie.ray vaughb
The Master of the Telecaster !!!
There are some comments here about the drummer. Albert never hired any bad drummers. This guy has the funk. It's hot, it's greasy, it's stinky and we like our funk like that.
Chainsaw Curtis Rt on brother
Agreed. He's an excellent drummer or he wouldn't be onstage with the great Albert Collins.
He’s good but sloppy
@Ded Boi If it wasn't for this comment section I would've never thought to scrutinize the drummer ... and now that I have ... I don't fucking understand what the scrutiny is ...
His name is Soko Richardson. Formally with Ike and Tina, John Mayal and many more. I’ve
played with him and had lots of fun. Sloppy???? You must have went to one of those schools….PIT, BIT,GIT etc…….! Get real!
grande voce quel suo modo strano e unico di suonare la chitarra il suo feeling hanno fatto di albert collins uno dei mostri sacri del blues. rip grande albert
When I die I'm gonna find Albert Collins and play rhythm behind that Boss in funk heaven.
Saw the Master of the Telecaster Live in the 80ties. Great Blues Man.
That's gotta be Johnny B Gayden back there on bass. I love his style.
I am digging on the bass, that is fantastic stuff
Johnny B. Gayden is the bass player; he's on most of the records that Albert did on the Alligator Records label and he toured with Albert for years. I had the pleasure of doing sound for these guys twice. I remember Johnny as a very nice, friendly and funny dude as well as being a monster bassist.
Mr. Collins, MR. COLLINS !!!
This is DYNAMITE ! Great playing and Great band.
Back digging my man Albert again. I lived in NOLA 1966-76 and not a day goes by that I don't miss it. Place got into my soul and my bones. They never heard of red beans n'rice anywhere else and nobody knows how to make a sandwich anything like a Po Boy. Ask for a shrimp and oyster combination and they just stare at you, they only know what sliced white bread is, and Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Poppa Stoppa and Longhair are totally unbeknownst to them. I know exactly what it means to miss NOLA!
Yeah,Derek O'Brien ( and Denny Freeman) are 2 great "under the radar " TX guitarists who are just as talented as JLV/SRV and all the rest.I followed AC out of Antone's and back in again a couple times when he did his famous unwinding cord walk outside of the club.Once he stopped traffic outside a club in Chicago where the door led directly out to a main drag,the folks in the cars had no idea what was going on.Precious memories! We loved ya Albert!
Great band too! Derek O'Brien played a killer guitar solo...
Hats Off To Albert Collins.
This whole revue is kicking ass with Albert Google gawd
One of the true greatest guitarists and a real performer !
One of the greatest bluesmen of all time.Fabuloso.
From Austin, a beautiful city to visit. Blues funk - awesome mix !
Funkiest Bluesman in the entire universe!
Así se canta el blues
The MAN Albert Collins !
surely the best bluesman !
yeah, had a buddy brilliant drummer, but occasionally when he got half cut and in the mood, he'd throw us all off on stage with his impromptu extra rolls, and we almost all lost our footing and started looking at each other to get the music and song back on track!? heh heh, yeah got to watch these guys when they're high and a bit extra happy; a recipe for stage disaster. the backbone of the music, and all that jazz, along with bassists of course 😊 🤘
The master at work. Beautiful 🥰
great share, where are the blues lovers out there!? this is one of his classics.. yes he has quite a few of those.
Drummer is one of the best there is
the bass player behing sounds great !
Albert always had smoking' bassists. I especially liked Johnny B. "Be Good" Gayden on funkier stuff and Aron Burton for laying down such a nice pocket and groove.
super lative so inspiring a sound that travels so far n wide
Derek's the spit of Garry Shandling!
Albert is the true master of the telecaster.
grande albert.forever
That's blues with a killer case of he funks. As good as it gets.
I'm no expert on drumming but I think the drummer here is doing what Albert wants him to. There is a long history of bluesmen giving the drummer the business if he plays at the wrong time, or plays too much etc. There're some vids of Albert King doing it, and Freddie King, and Lightnin Hopkins looked like lasers were going to shoot out of his eyes at a drummer on a video, or it could have been the bass player. Either way, the fact that Mr. Collins didn't turn around and hit the drummer with his guitar is enough for me to know that he wanted the syncopated funk he was playing.
Derek O'Brian DEF has his very on style, he is here honoring Albert sound and style. If you don't know his work, check it out, awesome strat tones and very a very confident mature style!
awesome - the drummer and bass player have it all under control :)
I had no idea Paul Reiser also could get so funky with a guitar! 😎
What a bas ass. Love you Albert:)
My big leg woman...Love it!
Thank for the video
Derek O Brien too.. awesome!
Awesome!!!😎
The spirit is willing....the flesh is weak
slowly drinking a bottle of BORDEAUX GRAND CRU and listening to this is just a great moment ....i'm on a cloud
wowwwwwww!!!
Great playing and Great band........
I saw the second guitar player backing up james cotton- I think!:) I got to see albert many times in the 80s - his bass player almost got as much attention as albert. albert was in the top 5 or 10 of blues players in the 80s I believe. I played with guys that were in alberts band and they all said he took care of the band untill you played poker with him ha ha
Albert always had badass drummers......
Yes, she does have a black cat bone! ツ
This guy is a shredder
Saw this ACL when it aired originally. Explosive. Taped it on VHS and wore the thing out. Incredible performance.
One great Bluesman ,,
Groovy...good job : )
the best ! one note what else lol ! the big sound !
philip banks is a great drummer!
NO ONE LIKE ALBERT COLLINS, HELL YEAH. CASE CLOSE
tem horas q à música chega a perfeição.....
i like his style good sound with the tele nice and brite uses his fingers no pick chicken pickin
The man with the shades on the second guitar is Derek O'Brien. Derek is the main guitar man for Angela Strehli for years.
Ed Makan Looked like Gary Shandling to me
Love this track
I believe it to, awesome rippon on that guitar!
yeah!
Yo soy de Perú es jn estilo diferente sólo par que escuchen personas inteligente saludos a todos del Perú al mundo
I believe Albert wanted the drummer to do all that crazy shit . They rehearsed for sure and it was most likely part of the arrangement. He didn't want a typical in the pocket beat for this one. It's good to add a different touch to blues which can become repetetive at times.
Awesome vid man.. Brings back great memories. Shame can't find the one with Albert Collins, Robert Cray, and Johnny Copeland live
Great footage .. Alberts got that capo thing going on.
Awesome !!!!
Simplement…… super
The drummer is so spot on. He's great and he and Albert, not to mention the band, are playing as a finely tuned machine. I couldn't sit still.
What drums were you listening to? Listen at 2:05 - 2:09. Even Albert was a bit thrown off by that, not to mention he starts the tune at one tempo and jumps up by like 10 clicks within a minute. Sloppy sloppy
Lrllrr
you lost it pal.
your critical on freakin legendary stuff here buddy.
The video doesn't lie. Doesn't matter who and where he's been, if it's a
mess up, it's a mess up. People make mistakes, why do you think the
people you behold as legendary are infallible? That's so dumb lol
very good too !
Yes
Oh yeah,Ive read lots about GS doing the same kind of thing and riding on the shoulders of his valet,etc.(I lived in N.O. for 24 yrs,and also heard much about him on WWOZ ) But the thing is I was THERE to see Albert,regardless of where he may have picked up the idea.BTW Albert did a killer rendition of "The Things I Used To Do" that same night he stopped traffic in Chicago.
Makes we want to dance and eat a big plate of Stubbs BBQ...
O'Brien D., playing in the background :-)
very good