Otis Rush - It's my own fault, baby

From "Bellinzona 2001, Switzerland".....

[@jayeifler8812]

Yeah Otis Rush was where I first fell in love with song.

[@stevetessier6568]

How much I miss my dear dear teacher, mentor, my lifelong friends. I can not express in words. He was the greatest friend that U ever enjoyed in my life. May he be long celebrated, and remembered.

[@astrid4532]

So brilliant, so excellent. Slow burning blues, amazing and second to none. I just love it! This is real music, which is not made any more. He's such a gifted musician! RIP, dear Otis. We dearly miss u!!!

[@sheilafahey7302]

My cousin Marty Sammon was such an amazingly talented keyboardist for Otis Rush (and then for years with Buddy Guy) Sadly, he passed away last weekend. 😢 I will miss him and his magical piano style. 💔

[@mikebreen4381]

so sorry for your loss! Saw Marty many many times w Buddy! Great talent, beautiful spirit!

[@bullhandy]

Sheila. I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Marty on the South Side of Chicago. You have my sympathy. 😢

[@5thbassdrum]

I miss him Marty was cool and funny. We had a FEW beers on this tour. I'm the drummer in the video. Sorry for your loss, I think he told me that he had a daughter, I hope she is well.

[@08Blacksky]

this man was sheer genius! I cant enough of his blues!

[@jimpetkoff]

one of the most soulful guitar players ever

[@Ironheads6509]

RIP SIR. I already miss you. Thanks for all you left for us to continue to enjoy. Prayers to your wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

[@oldlady7589]

Keith Smith ..A true legend. Many Prayers to Otis' family. Rest n Soul Heaven.

[@KRxN11]

One of The Greatest Guitarists/Vocalists Of All Time!

[@zfrank6995]

Otis with his favorite rythmn player. Rip Otis and Barstool Bob

[@jamesdouglas2312]

Been to Bellinzona 1986, beautiful, checked out Montreau,Such a beautiful place, country. History playing the blues!

[@Martinincanada]

One of the few blues greats with a great tenor voice I learned.

[@forestbirdgirl]

loved your sound Otis...the inspiration of so many Bluesmen/& women...RIP

[@KingKull1971]

You can tell Otis Rush was a huge influence on Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. Just listen to the similar tones and vibrato. Outstanding 🥲

[@xo5042]

again we are all so so lucky to have been graced by such a brilliant artist - just read the comments below. and what a performance here there and everywhere. bless you Otis RUSH

[@KRxN11]

One of The Greatest. one of The Most Intense "Slow Burners", one of The Greatest Voices/ Musicians who Ever Walked This Earth! Long Live My Hero Otis Rush!!!

[@KRxN11]

Absolutely. Highly recommended: Lp. recorded live in Japan: "So Many Roads" on Delmark

[@jimheckert5383]

Kenya Nkhrumah a

[@mccurryburg]

Kenya, I agree with all of that. Otis could do it all. RIP

[@kevdean9967]

I named my Dog after him. He was that mystical blues man when I was a kid. I could hear how Clapton was basically doing Otis Rush on the Beano album and as a solo artist Clapton effected that throaty singing voice that Otis had. I can hear what a huge influence Earl Hooker had on Otis' playing too!

[@geraldjohnson848]

April 29: Happy birthday Bluesman-singer-songwriter-guitarist Otis Rush. Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, simonsaid66. Blessings

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

SO GREAT! I remember , i guess it was way back in 1968 and I bought a John Mayall Album with this number. Thankfully, Mayall put all the original artist’s names on the side of the song, and it opened up an entire world of Blues for me that’s lasted to this very day . . Still playing . Forever ! Hmmm, here’s some lyrics for my next song: When I die don’t cry for me , a harp and guitar next to me and well, I’ll work on the rest. Hahahha

[@shonuffdalake9273]

AND he's still got IT after all the yrs. Love u Ole MAN..

[@msaintpc]

Man, that tone! Awesome, awesome tone for days!

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

Finally...something worth listening to

[@gasar8964]

Otis is no doubt one of the greatest blues played that ever lived !

[@cidertom5140]

Pure blues!!!

[@JAMR_592]

Classic Otis Rush Tone. Hits as hard as the first time I heard it.

[@pinkrobin6334]

upside down lefty, always blows my mind

[@algatte2441]

Me to, I think that is so Cool, guess that's the way those Lefties pick it up the first time.

[@craigmccauley5807]

I love the blues!

[@bubbapatton2088]

One of the best ever!

[@howardsilberberg1284]

i want this guitar! the best sounding es335 i have ever heard.

[@Drpickup]

Stringbreaks - I know the feeling :-) Great Performance

[@robertnieten7259]

Electric Blues nothing like it !

[@rondy702]

Dude's got the best band ever!

[@almaysri743]

pure blues,, just awesome

[@timo.6634]

RIP Otis!

[@hjeffkennedy1249]

legend for sure!

[@msaintpc]

Pure genius! The backup guitar player ain't no joke either!

[@corkleijn4493]

Is that Buddy Whittington?

[@iket.9930]

@@corkleijn4493 Barstool Bob Levis. R.I.P.

[@algatte2441]

I thought the same thing, wish I could have seen n heard them play live. What a great band.

[@lennyc624]

One of the few lefties who plays with a guitar strung for a righty.

[@haloskater24]

james crowe dick dale, lefty dizz, Eddie Clearwater, dickie Thompson

[@algatte2441]

Eric gales, Albert King, that is amazing playin right there

[@despinaluigini7991]

Ammiro Otish Rush. E' tra i migliori del blues.

[@55tuddy]

The bill that night was Otis Rush, Garry Moore and Bernard Allison..

[@tonetone7572]

one of the cornerstones of blues electric guitar . a disciple of T- Bone Walker who developed his own unique sound a lefty playing backwards and upside down and major influence on Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page , Mick Taylor ect.. and many many other rock "giants"

[@jimlabos]

Saw him only once opening for Jimmie Vaughan. His band played a long set (too long) and overplayed everything. I guess they had something to prove. When Otis came on he played 1 note and POW! Hit home right away. He was not in his prime but I've seen most of the legends and his playing that night still had a special feel all his own. RIP one of the greats and maybe one of the last if not last of the greats.

[@ReggieSears]

Otis Rush should have never opened for Jimmy Vaughan. EVER.

[@kevingoodson9042]

Jimmie Vaughan wouldn't have been worthy to carry Mr. Rush' guitar case.

[@jimlabos]

@@ReggieSears maybe but it’s show business. Don’t blame Vaughan. As far as we know Vaughan asked for him so he could have a gig. They are two great artists that were friends. This denigrating one artist over the other is just your ego posturing.

[@jimlabos]

@@kevingoodson9042 why even say that. Have you ever seen either live or met them? Just enjoy them while they are here. We’ll Rush is gone now but Vaughan is still playing classic blues. Not many left now. Cheers.

[@ReggieSears]

@@jimlabos I know how this business works.

[@craigmccauley5807]

Great show!

[@walterotte3478]

RIP Otis...

[@headlessspaceman5681]

RIP Mr. Rush. Hope they have plenty of left-handed guitars for you to play in the Afterlife.

[@bluesdriver6699]

That is Blues Guitar !!! My Buddy Johnny V must be smiling on me right now!

[@11sophiemarie]

Good grief that man's voice only got better with time. He was definitely far too under acknowledged. Wow, a true blues master!!!

[@soerenguitarlessons9947]

What a voice! Otis guitar playing is very personal too. That said, It is funny, that the rhythm guitarist takes over and you hardly notice, because he is so much into Otis´style. The band is really good. good stuff!

[@BackToTheBlues]

It's a pretty close approximation, isn't it!

[@iket.9930]

Bob Levis was the other guitar player. R.I.P.

[@soerenguitarlessons9947]

@@iket.9930 thanks for comment, I will try to check Bob Levis out on you tube, I was very surpriced that he could play so much in the style of Otis Rush

[@grosper]

Great!

[@bymyself9487]

DONT KNOW HOW TO LOVE YOU THE RIGHT WAY EVEN THOUGH YOU DONT LOVE ME NO OTHER BOYS FOR ME💙

[@marjoryrainey1988]

Man that sounded Good!

[@timo.6634]

Can really hear Clapton in a lot of this. To be 100% clear, Clapton took this sound from Otis. Eric was smart to do that.

[@AdrianAndersson]

Otis really deserved much more success than he ever had

[@frogeregis]

Too Good !!!

[@blueslideguitar7605]

One of my all time guitar and vocal heroes. Am I the only guitar player that noticed he's playing with a broken string? That's why the other guy finished up the song. That fantastic soloing on 5 strings!

[@clydedahler9572]

Bad Man on his getbox Otis Rush

[@williamgeorges5761]

El mejor blues que escuche muy bueno

[@5thbassdrum]

The piano player playing with us in the video is a very cool guy he's playing with Buddy Guy now. Why would you say he should F... off? He's very talented and a good guy.

[@bluzturk]

Because some people are just idiots and most come to see and not to hear. Otis is a Legend. There would be no Buddy Guy or SRV if it wasn't for his early trailblazing in the Blues.

[@peterlloyd5285]

Because he overplays and doesn't leave space.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

Oooohhh, Otis Rush playing his ES-345 semi-hollowbody guitar.... and getting that same killer tone he got on his classic 1970s LP "Right Place, Wrong Time"... just doesn't get any better for blues fans. All he had to do was play a couple of notes and you knew it was him. One of the all-time greats of the Chicago blues scene and "West Side Sound," and of the blues in general. In the pantheon of the masters of the instrument and his vocals, too.

[@mrmockatoo6786]

I agree with everything you said except it was an ES-335 he was playing. I had a cherry red 345 - called a Gibson stereo - which was one step down from BB's 355 (Lucille) and both guitars had the tone selector below the bridge within a circular gold disc. You'll note that Otis's guitar only has the two volume and two tone pots. I seem to remember him playing a 345 in an earlier era. Freddy King (another great blues man) certainly played a 345 and tortured and brutalized it in a joyous explosion of sound.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

@@mrmockatoo6786 - You're probably right. I went off the research I did on the internet - which may not have been correct - in making the ID in the first place. I am not an authority on Gibson semi-hollow guitars, so I defer to your greater expertise. Thanks for writing, and whatever it was Otis Rush played, he made it sound great. I saw him live with Strats and with Gibsons and he made all of them cry and sing, to borrow Mark K.'s famous line....

[@mrmockatoo6786]

@@GeorgiaBoy1961 Thanks mate. I checked out some earlier clips of him because I was sure I'd seen him play a cherry red 345. I wish I'd made a note of the song but I found him playing a right handed 345 (upside down of course) so the tone selector and volume/tone pots were above the bridge. Always loved him since I heard a Bluesbreakers album recorded in the UK in the 60s where Otis, Champion Jack Dupree and others got together with John Mayall and Clapton on various tracks. I think Otis played some piano on a couple of tracks too.

[@GeorgiaBoy1961]

@@mrmockatoo6786 - That Bluesbreakers LP must have been great. John Mayall really knew how to get the right guys together, didn't he? I was fortunate-enough to live not all that far from Chicago for much of my life, so I got to see/hear many of the greats up-close and personnel. Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Albert Collins, and many others. Otis just had the prettiest vibrato, he could really make a note work for a living, know what I mean? I could go on for hours just about his playing, but his vocals were equally great. I'll always treasure those hours spent at Wise Fools blues cub listening to him play. "Right Place, Wrong Time" remains one of my desert island blues album picks. Just a tremendous recording.

[@mrmockatoo6786]

@@GeorgiaBoy1961 I spent a lot of time getting my blues chops together on that album. I envy your Chicago connection. Living in Australia I got to see Freddie, BB, Eric, Mayall (who was a real blues-icologist), Hounddog Taylor and a few others but never got to see Otis live. But thanks to KZbin we get the next best thing. From memory, he didn't play guitar on the Bluesbreakers album but cut it up on the piano. Gambler's Blues is one clip that shows him playing a 345. I think having the strings set up for a right-handed player allowed him to wring the vibrato out of those high notes as he did. Anyway, nice talking to you man. Stay well.

[@jackhollywood6269]

No words magic

[@andythomas706]

simonsaid66: Great upload. It's that vibrato!

[@pateagle7191]

superwide deluxe vibrato.

[@sergiosonlinework-sranjovi4304]

🙏🙏💥💥💖💖💥💥🙏🙏

[@craigmccauley3972]

Cool blues!

[@jaimemoracarter3018]

FELIZ 79 GRAN OTIS RUSH

[@eleftorios2705]

d'accord maintenant

[@Luis-op8iy]

Estes músicos americana que toca e canta blues são uma referência pra nós

[@lkslasdf6479]

Ill jam with you someday RIP Otis Rush

[@fearofnot]

So Right! :) Otis is how it's done!

[@dkthomas8610]

Dario is he still playing ??? I didn't know that he had a stroke years ago I'm the drummer on this video.

[@msaintpc]

DK, you're one fantastic, intense drummer and didn't miss a lick! Man what a show you guys put on that night. I played with the late, great Pete "Guitar" Lewis (Johnny Otis's former guitarist and the musician who played on Big Mama Thornton's "You Ain't Nothin' but a Houndog) in Bakersfield, CA circa 1962-1964, where he went to live after his departure from the Otis band. During that time, Bakersfield being an important stop on the chittlin' circuit, we were honored to have Otis there for one night at the Cotton Club on Lakeview Avenue. Every black person living there was either from Mississippi, Georgia or Arkansas, and the youngsters were at that time listening to the same music as their parents, so needless to say, he "turned the mutha out". Him and Lowell Fulson were the best I'd ever seen or heard. I'll call around and try to find out whatever happened to Otis. I know he's still with us though. I'll let you know soon as I find out.

[@truckerkevthepaidtourist]

we just lost the Otis Saturday September 29th 2018 after the debilitating stroke he was never hardly able to play again and 15 years of basically the effects of it and stroke was a major One Guitar Murphy who had his but he was able to continue playing a few years after some Rehabilitation Otis however wasn't. Good work behind the kit on this one pretty cool

[@dwathen9]

Very nice drumming there DK. Not familiar with you but enjoyed your performance on this video.

[@VilleMaunu]

Great drumming..

[@matthewfowler5980]

Dk damn I would love to just set next to you while you play,my god you are are a straight rythym keeeper like me I would love to cut heads with you,Happy Thanksgiving

[@XaurreauX]

That Is how it is DONE!!!

[@emiliovargas1967]

nothing but blues

[@panchovcarlo]

I play the guitar left-handed too, but I play with the strings in the normal way. I think it is very cool and probably harder to play that way. Not many do it like that. Jimi Hendrix did not play with the strings upside down

[@santiagoferreiro7655]

el mas grande

[@chelpa2]

The into for Erics' guitar festival, right?!!! So good!!

[@wexwuthor1776]

🤯🤯🤯

[@mikkwik]

he plays left handed upside down

[@GianniPireddu]

brrrr... brividi di piacere.. :))

[@a.k.a.ramblinged9190]

Great Take! Thank you for making it available. Do you have any more material available of Bellinzona?

[@sannyblues1]

♫!!!

[@hugovargascomsille9464]

gool, cepillazo de peralta, gol de México

[@the26121966]

✌🤞🤞 Marinoni Claudio in Milan

[@javiervelascomarquez3225]

Santa Fe.

[@JohnJCash]

Gregory Allman loved Otis Rush. I love Otis Rush. I sit around and jam to his songs Often! But I'm be honest with ya' pplz, that damned announcer bout has me to the point of pulling a frk'n Elvis, Every Single Tiiiime, It starts reaching the end. Is like get the gun, get the gun, Shoot that sumbtch wherever the hell he is I'm tryin to listen here Gd Dammit. Those last few notes are critical to a man that loves Otis Rush!

[@JohnJCash]

Bahahahaha. I know right. It's Important dang it!

[@kennysamson9408]

And he a Left-handed mean like Hendrix

[@mdionisio1954]

2 broken string and no one approached to give him another guitar

[@thomaszaskoda8716]

Possibly he didnt have one still the very best one can be you know god bless

[@papaldanondo]

" Es solamente mi culpa " Es solamente mi culpa, cariño Trátame como quieras ... Es solamente mi culpa, cariño Trátame como quieras Sí, cuando me amabas, eras mi mujer, mi amante En ese momento, pequeña niña, yo no te amaba. Ella me utilizaba para hacer ... Sus propios cheques de pago Para traerlos todos a casa Me gustaría yebarlo a cabo en ladera, ya sabes Y hacer que todas las mujeres vean lo que yo veo. Es solamente mi culpa, cariño Trátame como quieras Sí, cuando me amabas, eras mi mujer, mi amante En ese momento, pequeña niña, yo no te amaba. Ella dijo que me iba a dejar Ella había estado corriendo con otros chicos Ella dijo que me iba a dejar Pero yo voy a estar en Illinois. Es solamente mi culpa, cariño Trátame como quieras Sí, cuando me amabas, eras mi mujer, mi amante En ese momento, pequeña niña, yo no te amaba.

[@dennishorn5694]

Where do you think Led Zepplin care from??!! So GOOD!!!!!!

[@MrFlokos]

so........why did he leave?

[@auhsojnoteek450]

He's quite perturbed. (Nice way of saying he's pissed off and had it. but that it still entertains them)

[@dkthomas8610]

Where did he play with your dad Dario???

[@godmother.jazz-cleopatra]

💘

[@hugovargascomsille9464]

las embarradas de doña margara

[@hugovargascomsille9464]

porque el piano se oye tan verga

[@eduardjacob8710]

Que seria os EUA sem os negros africanos ??

[@stanmccray4361]

Nada

[@randallkennedy2589]

Led Zep

[@laurentpinet2603]

Dommage le pianiste. 🤨

[@songfantasy670]

Piano player is way too busy