Aug 312008
This is nice. Freddie King’s take on “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag”. The description says…
Freddie King and Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown playing at The Beat, 1966. Enjoy!
…but I’m not sure if I locate Gatemouth. That may be him by the conga player.
As always….hit pause on the music player, located in the sidebar before playing the YouTube.
I’ll tell you one thing…we got to figure out how to bring back the Go Go dancer idea right now.
Loved the video. And go-go dancers would be a fine addition to Thirst-n-Howl. The problem is the overhead…
We had a piano teacher on faculty here years ago when I started that wore those kind of outfits w/ go-go boots and waaaayyy too much makeup. She was in her late 60s; a true spinster. Never got to see her dance, though…
About the overhead; it’s always an issue but here’s my idea; build a couple of platforms out of plywood, like the one’s the dancers in the video are using. Paint some exclamation points or asterisks with day-glo Krylon on them and invite audience members to get their go go on. And if a 60 something spinster in Nancy Sinatra gear shows up to give at a whirl…get on with your bad self baby.
Freddie is bad, did you notice how he wears his guitar on only his right shoulder instead of running the strap behind his neck? Only guys I can think of that did that are Freddie, Albert Collins and I believe Albert King, all formidable cats.
It’s always good to start your day with Freddie King! There’s another guitarist back by the drumkit with a 335 (I think), could be Gatemouth also. I can’t remember Albert King wearing the guitar on his shoulder, (I should look) but you’re right- all three are the baddest of the bad!!
I may have just been doing that Albert Collins-Freddie King-Albert King thing.
Earl Scruggs does that. Of course, he did that on banjo coming from the Bluegrass Boys, and it’s hard to get a strap over a Stetson.
I never thought about that but, it’s good point. Every time you take the banjo off, gotta take the hat off. Where do you put the hat while you’re dealing with the banjo? On the banjo amp? On the mic? Extra degree of difficulty right there.