Must See T-Bone

Here is what I love about YouTube; every time I get on there looking for something, I find something else.

This morning, while having coffee, I read an article in Guitar World magazine about Jimi Hendrix’ last gig. The article said that there was video, on YouTube, of the ill-fated 1970 show at the Isle of Fehmarn.

I guess I have some kind of morbid fascination with this kind of stuff so, I went hunting for the video. I didn’t have the magazine in front of me so, I typed in things like, “Hendrix Last Gig” and “Hendrix in Germany”. I found some stuff from the Fehmarn show but it didn’t seem like the video described in the article.

You know how they always have those links to related videos. I like to click on ones that don’t seem to be related in any way.

Anyway, there was a link to T-Bone Walker performing “Don’t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong”.

T-Bone Walker is the shit. People don’t listen to, or talk about him enough. This guy had it going on. He was suave. He sings great and plays great. He has this way of mixing cool jazz runs with blues stuff that dog bites the spine. To me, that is like a sweet/savory gourmet dish.

Great line in this song; “Your love is like a faucet, you can turn it off or on”. Who can’t relate to that?

By the way, every time I find one of these YouTube vids, that I really dig, of an old jazz or blues guy, it’s from some 60’s era T.V. show that was originally aired in Europe somewhere. Why was our own media not documenting these important pieces of our own culture?

The info on this video says; This was recorded for the Horst Lippman’s TV show called “Jazz gehört & gesehen” (Jazz heard & seen) on the SWF ( German TV station located in Baden-Baden).

Good job Horst.