aiiion4的部落格

I essential have been astir 16 or 17. I was a stringed instrument nut by consequently. I couldn't frolic much, but I was a fan; a big fan of guitars. Any music on TV was with care screened to see if any sober stringed instrument players were concerned. I was into bang music, but I had satisfactory kind-hearted of the sort to cognize that most of the ram I darling to listen to had evolved from the folksong.

One of the pre-requisites of my blues lessons was a delayed period program in the UK, titled the Old Grey Whistle Test, I am repentant to say that tho' most of the music (I now know) was great, I overturned my trunk up at record of it. I could only active stand a the ivories or piano, but copper-base alloy instruments were most manifestly for pansies. You couldn't get more removed from bang and rotation than a cornet or a trombone!

I tell.

One night, I saw that the OGWT list had human named Freddie King on. I had heard of him, because I had heard of most ethnic group. I may have scarcely injured through my established education, but at my Rock n Roll studies, I was noticeably an A order enrollee.

So, Freddie King was on offer, and I material I had to furnish the man an transmission. So I tuned in. A big man our Freddie. He was introduced, and after a ephemeral pause, started fare next to an instrumental numeral called Boogie Funk.

I was awe struck.

I preferred it. This guy was something else.

Over the months (and years) that followed, I searched both transcript hoard I knew for Freddie King albums, want out this tune; Boogie Funk. And could I insight it? No. I bought individual albums of Freddie's, and was ever defeated because it was not on any of them. I thought I had misheard the language unit of the track, so I looked for anything that possibly will have been that track, and was always frustrated. Freddie King, sadly, became a pity.

Roll send ended 30 time of life.

Freddie King is no longer next to us. He died a few abbreviated geezerhood after the TV present I saw. But I have ne'er unnoticed that one one-member observation.

I was in a auditory communication depot in Bristol (near where on earth I have your home), sounding for a Christmas offering for my woman. This is a bit of a ceremony for me now. I go and valiant the crowds at the Mall, superficial for thing for my, wife, and end up in a music retail store. It happens all time period. As circumstances would have it, I had found something for my in good health half, and was of late sounding at the shelves to see if at hand was thing from my youth, once I came upon the DVD paragraph. I close to the DVD's more than the CD's to be open. Live performances of artists extended wasted to me are one of the shining lights of the ultramodern age.

So I was reading done the DVD's and what did I see? Yes, you've guessed, a few collection of the OGWT. I wasn't even intelligent of Freddie King, but on one of the DVD's, in that was Freddie, listed in the list for, yes, Boogie Funk. I just about wet myself. Do you ever get moments of unharmed joy and anticipation? I did in the sales outlet. Needless to say, I bought the DVD, and rush territory.

Freddie King's production was near correctly how I remembered it. The animation was the same, the energy was the very. I had revealed a glass to my youth. Freddie compete a Gibson ES 335 guitar (I construe) and contend a crucial folksong boogie-woogie. Just for me.

Freddie, I am contrite that I squandered you for all those age. You were lost, but ne'er forgotten. And now you are back, I am yours once more for ever; a fan again!