Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
Sad sad day today.
I first saw BB in 1977 (which is frighteningly close to 40 years ago - good Lord) in a small club in Seattle and saw him a few times over the next 20 years or so. Hadn't seen him in a long time and every time he came around I'd think "I should go see him - I'm not gonna have too many more chances". I guess that'll never happen now, but I'm happy I was able to when I did.
That guy had the sweetest vibrato of any blues player I ever heard. He could say more with one note than most guys could with 100. Not the rawest blues guy out there - we had Muddy Waters for that, but just an incredible sound from that semi-hollow Gibson.
He's gone, but as long as his music lives on, the thrill is NOT gone!
-Ray
I first saw BB in 1977 (which is frighteningly close to 40 years ago - good Lord) in a small club in Seattle and saw him a few times over the next 20 years or so. Hadn't seen him in a long time and every time he came around I'd think "I should go see him - I'm not gonna have too many more chances". I guess that'll never happen now, but I'm happy I was able to when I did.
That guy had the sweetest vibrato of any blues player I ever heard. He could say more with one note than most guys could with 100. Not the rawest blues guy out there - we had Muddy Waters for that, but just an incredible sound from that semi-hollow Gibson.
He's gone, but as long as his music lives on, the thrill is NOT gone!
-Ray