Its also germane to remember that Albert had a horn section. I have seen Albert King and he had a 3 piece horn section then.
His guitar player at the time, whose name escapes me, if I ever knew it, had one of those machine gun shaped guitars which I think might be incendiary these days and dangerous.
A black man with a machine gun officer! Heck a white man with a machine gun. My X with a machine gun!
This was in the 80's in Boston where they make missile guidance systems for MIRVs but machine guns are a faux pas and rightly so.
They still sell such Kalashnikov shaped guitars on e-bay. Anyway Albert's guitar 'Lucy' was a Gibson Flying V which itself is an unusually shaped instrument. Good luck playing that sitting down! Want one anyway!
So I like this lesson a lot and Steve has a lot of respect and some unique things to say about Albert and his style.
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