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Albert Collins
Albert Collins
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atty1chgo
725 posts
Oct 12, 2013
6:31 AM
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Albert Collins died 20 years ago in November, 1993. I'll never forget how excited I was watching Live Aid in 1983 when George Thorogood brought Albert on stage for "Madison Blues" This was really the only blues music played throughout the entire Live Aid set of concerts.
Albert Collins was a great blues guitarist, who played with passion and emotion and feeling.
The clip with The Allman Brothers Band below is from July, 1993, just a month before the diagnosis of lung cancer which took his life five months later.
Last Edited by atty1chgo on Oct 12, 2013 6:50 AM
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1847
1188 posts
Oct 12, 2013
8:20 AM
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nobody gets out of here with out playing the blues
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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colman
269 posts
Oct 13, 2013
3:40 PM
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I saw Albert many times and the best thing i remember
is when He hit the hot blues licks he would bug eye
and scream on that tele...
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6SN7
377 posts
Oct 14, 2013
12:33 PM
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I will never forget the first time I saw Albert at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence. It was September of 1980 and had gone to Brown University that evening to see Bob Marley and the Wailers with a friend. He had the tickets and I had the car, but I told him that I had to go see Albert after Bob Marley. He said fine, that he would sleep in the car while I check out the show. So we parked the car in front of Lupo's and I went in the club. Because of the Marley show, the joint was completely empty except for a handful of people including a bunch of businessmen who were there to drink. By the end of the first set, every one of those guys bought a CD and had Albert sign it.
As for my friend, he eventually came into the show after woke up in the car as Albert walking out of Lupo's playing his telecaster. Mr. Collins crossed the street, with a trailing 100 foot guitar cord, and walked into another club called The Living Room while playing. As I recalled, they were hosting a pro-nuke concert with some new wave thrash band. You should have seen the faces of these "new romantics" when the Master of the Telecaster walked into that club. A couple of them followed Albert back to Lupo's, priceless!
Last Edited by 6SN7 on Oct 14, 2013 12:36 PM
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