Posted by Plummer on September 16, 2009, 11:54 pm, in reply to "Wow..."
you can be famous, and still be one of those "meat & potatoes" guys. Witness BB King.
I saw him when he was not so famous, at least not any more, at the time. This would be in the mid sixties, at the Saginaw Theatre, which held all of about five hundred people. Me and my cousin were the only white people there that night, and it wasn't full by a long shot.
So we sat there, and watched this man absolutely wring himself out for about three hundred people. Gave it everything he had, and that was plenty. It was one of the best shows I ever saw.
Saw him a few years later, after my generation (who?) discovered him, in a big, sold-out venue, and he did it just the same. Blew the place up.
A friend of mine who used to be a trucker, met him once on the road, when he was refueling his bus. It was actually him at the pump. Chuck said that he was very nice, talked to him for about twenty minutes before he took off. I still envy him that chance occurance.
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