[2023-07-21]
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omigen
på Gary T'to: Gary berättar om mötet med
Albert King
Svartvitt foto: Erik Lindahl.
Färgfoto
lånat från Garys LP "In the Heat of the
Night".
 Igår
lade Redaktör'n ut fem fotografier tagna av Erik
Lindahl, varav ett är det t.h. Som ni minns: Efter
Albert Kings konsert på Konserthuset 19
januari 1980 begav sig Albert till Hotell Rubinen
där Gary T´to band spelade. Och Erik plåtade.
Idag fick Redaktör'n hälsningar från
Gary T'to himself, plus hans egna inte alltför ljuva
minnen från den kvällen. Vi fick tillstånd
att publicera dem 'as is', och vi är övertygade
om att bloggens läsare läser engelska.
Så här kommer Garys egna ord: |
 We
were playing at Rubinetten. It was horrible.
Drunk obnoxious people but it was a gig. To
make matters worse I had just broken up with
the girl I met in NY and followed to Sweden
so to put it mildly I was not happy. We were
playing Red House and I was soloing eyes closed,
trying to hide from the audience and myself.
All of a sudden the people start clapping
loudly. Eyes still closed I think to myself
“what the fuck is going on? I didn’t
play anything so special?” Eyes still
closed I feel someone tap me on the shoulder
and say “plug me in.” I finally
look up and standing in front of me, with
guitar and pipe, is Albert fucking King!
He asked what we should play and I, like an
idiot, say “Do you know I’m Ready?”
It was only later I realized it was a Freddie
King song and not Albert's! I think we played
one or two more but I can’t remember.
He kept asking me for more amp volume but
at the time I had an old Fender Twin from
the 50’s before they had reverb and
there was no more volume to be had plus we
were both plugged into it!
I didn’t speak to him after but I think
Tom [Reilly, basist] did and Albert told him
something like he wasn’t happy with
his band at his gig before coming to Rubinetten
and when he heard us he thought we had so
much groove that he had to play! And Rubinetten
of all places. That’s the story as I
remember it. |
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Erik
Lindahls 5 fotografier från kvällen: Fotosida
1. Fotosida 2
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P-O
Hesselbom skriver idag (2023-07-21) initierat
på sin Facebooksida
om denna musikkväll. P-O var då trumslagare
i bandet Road
Dust som just hade öppnat för Albert
King på Konserthuset. Och P-O närvarade även
han denna kväll på Rubinetten.
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