Freddie King - Look Over Yonder Wall-Live In LA 1970_3 .mpg video free download


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Look Over Yonder Wall - well what can I say? This is a funky version of Elmore James' song. King phrases just in front of the changes. I am told that this adds tension - a trick used by Clapton & Bloomfield in later recordings. My guitarist friends tell me that he sometimes races ahead by a full bar or more (I'm a drummer, so I have no idea!). He even plays behind his head - something we can see Stevie Ray Vaughan (Live @ The Mocambo) & Joe Bonamassa do much later on. And what about the 70's clothing! I remember it well because I lived through it. Freddie was a real showman & a gentle giant of a man.

Freddie was also a great influence on Eric Clapton(http://www.ericclapton.com/ ) and many others who have followed Clapton & were Clapton's contemporaries, such as Mick Taylor (http://www.micktaylor.net/Bio_aboutmt.html) & Lonnie Mack (http://www.lonniemack.com/). Clapton freely admits that Freddie King was the first guitarist he tried to copy (in the John Mayall & The BluesBreakers (http://www.johnmayall.com) years. As lovers of blues/rock music, we should be aware of where the influence for modern blues/rock came from.

(Freddie was born in Gilmer, in the east of Texas in 1934 (the oldest of nine children). His family moved to Chicago in 1950. In 1962 he moved to Dallas, Texas. He died December 28, 1976. He was survived by his wife Jessie and seven children. He was only 42 year's old). Another musician to die young. Buy his CD's - try Hideaway or King of the Blues. There are many, many CD's & DVD's available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo... Visit his web-site : http://www.freddiekingsite.com/ Keep the Blues Alive!

Comments

8 years ago

Fran Morales Fuentes

El rey de reyes... el padre del blues...

8 years ago

Claude BERNHARD

Great moment,....friends !!

8 years ago

2quundar

almost unbearable. But, please Freddie, gimme some mo'.

8 years ago

sandro cantini

grandissimo freddy

8 years ago

Rudi Mwongozi

Actually Mr. Edweird Show Albert King DID change his name...to King... It was Albert Nelson...he changed it to King (maybe inspired by B.B.). So the name is NOT the reason he didn't get as much recognition...

9 years ago

Günter Tauchner

Freddie King

9 years ago

garyguitar

I saw him twice. Used to play all over NE Texas for years. My bro got his Hideaway album as a DJ demo when it came to his radio station in the early 60s. We learned all the tunes and did them for years. Still do some of them. To me, the greatest blues guitarist/singer ever.

9 years ago

ronnieguitar99

I think I'm a pretty fair blues guitar player but I'm not for sure what is meant by "phrasing just in front of the changes". Freddie probably wouldn't either. He just tears into it and rips them notes out of that guitar. That's what I try to do.

9 years ago

Patrick Wybouw

BLUES NEVER STOPS BLUES IS LIFE 

9 years ago

Patrick Wybouw

VETTE SONG

9 years ago

Roko Rey

The King

9 years ago

Attanun Plamit

sexy king

9 years ago

Pat Allen

Freddie King was a staple of the blues community for almost a quarter century. He successfully blended Texas and Chicago blues sounds resulting in his own unique style. 

10 years ago

Rich Gleason

nothing like guitar and amp. no pedals or distortion. love it

10 years ago

Cheech Chong

Freddie is one of Angus Young's favorite guitar players. So now I see where Angus Young got his herky jerky moves from... Except that while Freddie has rhythm Angus has none. All in all I still love em both!

10 years ago

Ibrar Siddiqi

Man, this track has got me feet tapping.

10 years ago

sgdeluxedoc

If you get the chance, get the Bear Family box sets of Freddie - one covers his King/Cotillion/ Shelter years, and the other is his RSO "Burglar" years with a ton of awesome live recordings, many never before issued, in better sound than any of the previous issues ever had. The "red" box (his King years) is ALL mixed into stereo, right back to 1961. Not the dirty stereo mixes that "collectables" put out either. Together with the perfect mono mixes on "Blues guitar hero".. you're set!

10 years ago

sgdeluxedoc

Absolutely right.. if you asked him, he'd say it's "just how I play" Like most blues players, it was 100% ear.. but since that's what you hear music with, what else do ya need ;-)

10 years ago

bluesmain1

clowns talkin the king can do no wrong

10 years ago

johopeweisz

well, that ain't what he said, big mouth!

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