Buddy

fossy

-- he puts on a good show :D

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Midnite Mick

Seen Buddy guy a few times. Awesome musician and a character. Granted I seen him in the early to mid nineties.

Gadabout

Wish I could have made it down to Austin for some Blues and BBQ. Been a few years since I have seen Buddy Guy but he usually does a great show. How was it?

F1nut

I only wish he'd play more and talk less. Other than that, a true master and legend.

adam2434

F1nut wrote: »

I only wish he'd play more and talk less. Other than that, a true master and legend.

I have to agree. Although I have the utmost respect for him as a musician, his antics can get tiresome - sometimes it's like he's being a parody of himself.

fossy

it was another great show -- and yes buddy can get a bit long on the talk -- but it's a very small price to pay to see one of the true legends left --

He probably does this at other shows ( I have only seen him at stubbs & at the crossroads guitar festival ) but at one point, while playing, he comes into crowd & works his way around & plays for about 15 minutes or so -- walking & playin solo's --- really cool -- all i could think when he was a couple feet away from me was-- he must be blinded by all flashes goin off in his face ---- everyone pattin him on the back -- but no one touched the guitar !!!!!!!! haha -- he does have a "few" ppl to help him get through the crowd

sda2mike

i saw buddy 5 or 6 times. last time was nov of '06. i'm still amped up about that show!:cool: 4th row and he was smokin!

George Grand

The only time I saw Buddy Guy was in the late 60's at the Sheaffer Music Festival in Central Park. He was the warm-up act for The Mothers. A good man.

heiney9

He's among my favorite blues players. We have a couple local blues players here that have modeled their playing style after his and have actually played with him at his club "Buddy Guys-Legends" in Chicago.

Just last week I was checking out his website to see if I could catch him around here this summer. He's playing about 2 hours away next month and he's also playing Milwaukee WI, SummerFest around the 4th of July.

He is a great blues player and has a great influence on many guitar players.

heiney9

Also if you like Buddy Guy, check out Luther Allison. My favorite recording of his is Luther Allison-Live In Chicago; 2 cd live release. CD1 is live from the Chicago Blues Festival in 1995 with Otis Rush closing the show in a medley.; CD2 is live at Buddy Guy's Legends

Sadly Luther died in 1997 at age 58 of lung cancer in a hospital in Madison Wisconsin.

It was while living with his family on Chicago's West Side that he had his first awareness of wanting to become a full-time bluesman, and he played bass behind guitarist Jimmy Dawkins, who Allison grew up with. Also in Allison's neighborhood were established blues greats like Freddie King, Magic Sam, and Otis Rush. He distinctly remembers everyone talking about Buddy Guy when he came to town from his native Louisiana. After the Allison household moved to the South Side, they lived a few blocks away from Muddy Waters, and Allison and Waters' son Charles became friends. When he was 18 years old, his brother showed him basic chords and notes on the guitar, and the super bright Allison made rapid progress after that. Allison went on to "blues college" by sitting in with some of the most legendary names in blues in Chicago's local venues: Muddy Waters, Elmore James, and Howlin' Wolf among them.

As accomplished a guitarist as he was, Allison wasn't a straight-ahead Chicago blues musician. He learned the blues long before he got to Chicago. What he did so successfully is take his base of Chicago blues and add touches of rock, soul, reggae, funk, and jazz.

Well into his mid-50s, Allison continued to delight club and festival audiences around the world with his lengthy, sweat-drenched, high-energy shows, complete with dazzling guitar playing and inspired, soulful vocals. He continued to tour and record until July of 1997, when he was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Just over a month later, he died in a hospital in Madison, WI; a tragic end to one of the great blues comeback stories.



Sorry for the derail, but Luther is another one of my favorites and puts a smile on my face just like Buddy Guy.

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edossin4

Buddy rules! I've seen him multiple times at Legends in Chicago back in the 1990's. Since then I've seen him all over. He was in the Rolling Stones movie 'Shine a Light' and did a fantastic version of 'Champagne and Reefer'.