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B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 12:45 am
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...is now in hospice. May have been subject to elder abuse.
http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/01/bb-king-ab...-daughter/
https://www.yahoo.com/music/blues-legend...15031.html
I'm not a huge fan of his kind of music, but what a prolific man.
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RE: B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 1:29 am
Man, this deeply saddens me. And on the day Benny King died.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 7:22 am
Decades of wonderful music and legions of grateful fans, and the man has to suffer the indignity of being picked over by fucking vultures before he's even gone. Disgusting and saddening.
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RE: B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 11:37 am
Yeah, I read about this. Terribly sad. Looks like his manager is doing the showbiz thing and fucking her client over.
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RE: B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 5:12 pm
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That's not a very dignified picture of him in that TMZ article. I wonder whether he got to agree to that. I mean wtf?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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RE: B.B. King
May 2, 2015 at 7:22 pm
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(May 2, 2015 at 5:12 pm)Alex K Wrote: That's not a very dignified picture of him in that TMZ article. I wonder whether he got to agree to that. I mean wtf?
I was going to click the links until I read this. I prefer to remember BB this way - the power, the passion, and that absolutely amazing left hand vibrato.
I know there's more than a few guitarists on this board (myself included), but Jaysus - this man is up and down the neck of that thing hitting notes most of us don't even know are on there.
I'm going to miss his when he goes.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
