B.B. King at the national press club 1/23

[Slipkid@gnn.com (Ian Derby)]

You're probably wondering why my subject title is on a Who list, but that's 
your problem.  :)


Seriously, BB King was talking about blues music and it's current racial 
divide (IE.  Young whites love it, young blacks point to the blues as their 
"parents music").  On three seperate occasions during his speech, he went 
out of his way to name the Who with the Stones and Cream in giving blues a 
new audience.  


Now what I find funny is even though the Who did begin covering BB King and 
others of his peers early in their career,  I always felt the Who turned the 
blues upside down.  By interpreting the feeling of what a conventional blues 
singer/guitarist may express in a song, the Who converted that into sheer 
power chord rock.  Even Cream kept the original intent of their covers 
intact, as powerful as they were.  


Not that this post means a whole lot, but I'm just impressed that a musician 
such as BB King would include the Who in widening the blues audience.  IMO I 
never saw it that way.  




"I'm pissed off, I'm pissed off all the time" ---Ray Rhodes