Albert King - "As The Years Go Passing By" Live Sweden 1980

Albert King interview and playing "as The years go passing by", a tribute to the one and only king of blues

[@ladyjhuston]

Hello all, that's me, Lady "J" Huston, playing on Trumpet with the legendary Albert King in 1981.

[@morrieswigs]

Fools put the interview right over his solo🙄

[@Defundemorats]

morrieswigs Albert's solo and I do believe accompany guitar Pena are absolutely ripping it during the interview I have been watching this concert for years and every time it gets to part I get a sick feeling in my stomach why oh why in the world would they have chosen that song and that time, I applaud the swedes for making this video happen and they did a great job except for that spot, they screwed that one up big time!

[@dylannicolodi4673]

Just a guess, but possibly it wasn’t done intentionally to keep the performance special for those who were actually thereto see it live. On a positive note the interview is very revealing of Alberts Characters and genuine personality. My two favorite parts, “ if I changed the strings it might mess up my style, and I don’t wanna mess up my style, I don’t think Lucy would like that” and “I would just have to play the other guitar until I got this one fixed, and then I would give the other guitar back” The velvet bulldozer was such a fitting description to Albert! Oh and of course can’t forget that outro/solo, one of my favorite performances of his, along with “Cadillac assembly line” 🤘Blues Power🤘

[@dylannicolodi4673]

Does anyone know where I can listen to the full version, without the cut solo?

[@stevetessier6568]

We were friends for a lot of years.Albert was like a beloved Uncle to me. One cold wintery night outside of Nightstage in Cambridge Mass.I crawled under the bus.To help Albert who was working on it. Slim, he said hey man you got a power lantern...And laughed.As I held the huge light.Yea boss I heard you called for illumination....!!!! That's nice Albert growled as the wind whipped at us.We buttoned up the problem.And Cleaned up our hands with mechanics waterless soap.And went into the club....All night we talked and laughed.And had a taste of 2 together. Albert was always the same.Very very kind to me. And a wonderful friend. His advice was always good. He was just like family to me. I miss him, deeply.I was blessed to call him friend. He was one of a kind.....!!!

[@nuzzy_futsacks6726]

Amazing story Steve, Albert is such an incredible guy im to young to have ever of met him but your story made me feel like I knew him aswell thank you for sharing

[@merkjanoosterhoff1590]

Nice story! Thanks for sharing it..

[@theemeraldfox7779]

Truly a legend and my all time favorite!

[@LinnVaveon]

♥ EPIC.

[@intheblues]

bout to break open a can of kick arse on the drummer lol

[@madmax8949]

It's "whoop" arse.

[@dwightpatterson9477]

that brother could sang, and play the guitar.

[@waterwells7576]

There is nothing wrong with telling someone that your tired and need a rest . Thank you Albert for helping me realize that .

[@theodosios2615]

Touring constantly is not the easiest thing to do.

[@linos1987]

“I like playing for the kids and for the people that like to hear me playing. If they enjoy me playing, I enjoy playing” simplicity. Honesty.

[@pretorious700]

Albert was a very underrated singer. He gives me chills.

[@AU-pu9vl]

Better than BB

[@timothylewis2450]

The velvet bulldozer 😊

[@blackxicano6123]

​@@AU-pu9vlI used to think that way, too, until I learned to appreciate all the Blues greats for their own unique styles and sounds.

[@lisaweaver986]

No, No sweetheart.This man built and so inspired musicians. Very to high as artist to others

[@colt49ers97]

​@AU-pu9vl no just as great as BB

[@rvic11]

No exaggeration, he must have the most recognisable sound of any guitarist EVER. I'm a player myself, who love classical, blues, jazz and rock guitar...I never fail to hear that it's Albert playing.

[@kc7154]

rvic11 His sound comes from his fingers....doesn’t use a pick so he has a fat sound.

[@woodey028]

It's the space between the notes. Every not screams out. SRV lead me to Albert...

[@aaronbrown0417]

Bb Albert jimi and Santana i know IMMEDIATELY when I hear Em

[@tsuki586]

Hear layla from eric clapton.

[@steezymongo1270]

@@tsuki586 no

[@jamiemcmillan6742]

Pure, raw emotion. Absolutely spellbinding.

[@bloodyleech]

god................. the guitar cry's so beautifully....... fuck that tone......... I've watched about 20 times... and it never gets old

[@bennyfromthe72]

Those bends are tearing my soul with joy.

[@rvz77]

They are tearing my soul. PERIOD

[@coriannm318]

Yup he was a power bender, amazing, deep raw emotion in each bend 😶😎🎶🎸🙏🏼

[@timothylewis2450]

Because of the way he taught himself, and the way the strings were upside down, he pulled his bends down instead of up.

[@lightninboy1979]

Love how he yells at his band during the first few bars! Dude be like come on! Wake the fuck up!

[@mrstanbmw]

lightninboy1979 Albert was notorius for calling out the band and especially the sound man and I knew people who knew him and the word was that Albert was an ass kicker on and off the stage but at the same time a very sweet man, he just didn't play

[@cacadodo666]

Fucking hell. That outro. So hard to hold tears back. Shit.😞

[@treygotbandzstreyway5736]

i grew up on this blues then i raised my children off this

[@britishfreeliberationparty5634]

so have I,my don loves albert

[@Truthisspokenful]

His guitar licks are one of a kind..I love plenty of other blues guitar artists but Albert King's upside down strings, left handed lucy, is like a burning hot knife(the licks) through soft butter(my musical/emotional receptors of my brain)....just rips me a new one..like it was said, if you can't feel this you gotta hole in your soul...It usually takes quite a bit to make me "feel" let alone cry but this song, especially this version him being getting old,makes me wail like a baby. RIP true King

[@clap67]

He really mean it..when he says,"..those of you who wish to have someone to love..(pauses..)like me..I'm alone.."good God..the expression on his face..this man really knows what the blues is all about..

[@karlmoody4891]

He says..I'm a loner..:)

[@cooperwhaley3340]

he fixed their clapping

[@darkmanillinois6975]

One of the best blues songs ever written. It speaks to your soul. God rest him. Just one of the all time best blues song.

[@timothylewis2450]

Agree. Gary Moore used to do a killer version, but Jeff Healey’s is my favorite. Fire! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXrOgJSKi9prq68

[@tippimail1]

Peppermint Harris wrote it-{"It is also credited to have been written by 'Deadric Malone' (a pseudonym of Don Robey), owner of Duke, which was a customary practice for some producers and label owners at that time".}Fenton Robinson recorded it in 1959-Fenton wrote Somebody Loan Me a Dime.

[@ribluesy]

Thanks, I always thought this was an Albert King song. I just listened to the Fenton Robinson version, both are excellent.

[@crankyfrankification]

my favorite King... no disrespect to BB...but Albert is the king

[@PrincessSilverDawn]

This man has serious BLUES

[@mikehays3481]

The man played from the 50’s to the early 90’s, I was working in Memphis when he passed from a massive heart attack. What a unique guitar virtuoso

[@matthedlund502]

I'm so glad I got to see him perform live in the early '80s. When giants walked the earth!

[@dustintroisi7401]

I absolutely love how they cut the first solo out... that's very good video editing

[@edwardlouisbernays2469]

Albert King borned up Luxora Arkansas, Mississippi County, I met his brother in 1970, we were convicts at the 'Mississippi County Penal Farm." He was a Tractor Man, and they threw him in Jail every Spring because he could drive the tractor for Capt. Dan Blogett , who ran the Penal Colony for Profit.We was given $5.00 a day against out Fines (Public Intox was 90 Days and $90 fine, you had to Finish your 90 days Then you start on your Fine, figure 90 Dollars at $5 a day, I am old (70) and feeble minded, this was a long time ago.

[@DanielIsasky-ny5gv]

Man that was fucked up them putting yinz in jail so they can profit yeah I'm from Pittsburgh PA. Love some Albert King and SRV.

[@yeevvooihan]

Albert's vocal line at 1:48 ("there is nothing I can do") is where the famous lead guitar riff in "Layla" came from. Eric Clapton said in an interview that Duane Allman based the Layla riff on this vocal line, but twice as fast.

[@mossstephen1066]

Remarkable of that is true!

[@kc7154]

msteve - only one person alive today to say if it is true...if he said it I’d think it’d true....

[@chrismorgan7494]

I can definitely hear it. I totally believe it.

[@richardthompson3104]

@@kc7154 Bobby Whitlock is still with us isn't he?

[@jasonsmith902]

Which bit

[@nextelito]

...you can actually hear every emotion in every single notes, its amazing how this man can express so many things with six strings...

[@mariannerasmussen3003]

+eduardo arturo astudillo rodriguez its only 5, Albert never used the 6th, and rarely used the 5th

[@moonpie22399]

+Marianne Rasmussen That not true. He just didn't play it as often as most people. Take overall junction for example. Also when he outlines the key of the song, he plays the lower octaves of the key, so he uses the 6th.

[@BluesHeavy]

No matter what style of music you want to play every guitar player should start by studing this Man. This song alone will teach you everything you need to know about playing guitar. 1. Tone 2. Patience (Less can be more) 3. Bending& Vibrato (Make it talk) 4. Playing with feel and feeling 5. Building emotion into your song bring the volume down and hammer it at just the right time and then back down again bring your audience into the song. 6lead the Band. streets smarts compared to book smarts.

[@joebarriga-9945]

without the blues there would be no good music. no stones,no clapton, and not many others who have based their music as their own, their muse. this this blues is sweet love,and has saved many a poor soul.

[@merkjanoosterhoff1590]

So true!

[@madmax8949]

If you don't dig the blues you got a hole in your soul. I'll be forever grateful that I got to see Albert twice, once in Little Rock at a small club and once at the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas. He played on the back of a flatbed trailer and I've never seen anyone before or since who could seduce a crowd like The Velvet Bulldozer. R.I.P.

[@KarenDBrame]

Now the show producers KNOW they could have put those credits at the VERY end, AFTER MR. ALBERT KING 👑🎸 played his LAST note!! 🎤⬇ #ImJustSaying

[@dawgpost90]

The interactions with his drummer are priceless 😭

[@barbarajames7747]

Albert King is one of the best blues singer I have ever heard. . Thank God for giving the world this great artist. May he RIP

[@larqprod]

I don't want too much out of life except I hope to one day love something in the same way as Albert loved his guitar Lucy.

[@rvz77]

That's asking for trouble. To love like that especially a woman is very dangerous. Itll destroy your life. Itll break your heart with no hope. It's better to have a woman love you like that and give your love to a guitar like Albert's Lucy.

[@loredanamassini9484]

Exactly dont waste your love on girls... Dream on my dear

[@MrCircus177]

The way the crowd started clapping on the off beat and he corrected them is so sick lol

[@jameslujack1717]

He is teaching the blues.

[@depretorevincenzo6617]

the godfather of the blues I was lucky to have met him his music touched my soul

[@darkmanillinois6975]

What a soul, thank you god for this soul. Thank him for everything he went through he will never know how much he meant to so many. God bless him and keep him close, see you on the other side.

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales7218]

Albert King, nacido Albert Nelson (25 de abril de 1923 - 21 de diciembre de 1992) fue un influyente guitarrista y cantante estadounidense de Blues. Considerado uno de los Tres Reyes del Blues a la guitarra (junto a B.B.King y Freddie King), su altura de más de 1.90 metros y sus 118 kilos de peso le valieron el sobrenombre de The Velvet Bulldozer (la aplanadora de terciopelo).

[@BackToTheBlues]

That's some wonderfully fiery playing at the end there!

[@YaoEspirito]

A whole live song, and all we see is his face? Strange camera work!

[@chrismorgan7494]

You can certainly see how pissed off he was at the drummer. Lol

[@bluesatsunset]

R.I.P. Velvet Bulldozer. Albert King inspired so many artists including Stevie Ray Vaughan. For that alone, he deserves to go down in Blues history as a true legend.

[@zoetaviaoliver6512]

he's my favorite blues singer.

[@archangel3386]

Eric Clapton underated as hell also. He maybe better than hendrix as crazy as that sounds. Hendrix is in the top 4 Albert The Greatest soul power and maybe the only ever. Prince as a guitarist needs to be in the top 10 hes a artist more than soul power.

[@marlon1171]

He truly gave himself completely, heart mind and soul for his audience and his music! Albert king was truly unique and the tone of that v guitar was incredible and he played it clean, no effects, nothing but his amazing voice and thoses huge paws on thoses strings. Ripeace Albert king.

[@Baby-zy8hb]

I Met Albert King when I was 15..I Love and Miss Him..He was a Gentleman and THat Guitar..

[@90sRockWhore]

he's bored of playing the same exact songs as the other 15,000 blues guys are playing. jesus they all sounded the same basically. id be bored too.

[@squierred]

Albert King is a Blues Legend! I love this clip with interview. It shows Albert's love of his trusty guitar. His vocals are smooth and his guitar justs cuts deep into ya! Blues music at it's finest!!!

[@barbarajames7747]

Albert, my love 💕 will follow you as the years go passing by. RIP.

[@cuauhtemocmorisco3493]

Mr. King could give you something special in his tone but then again youd have to come back to feel it again. The man had the Blue's past the soul and more! Thanks Mr. King!

[@dylanbishop4627]

The king!

[@ernestmartinez9071]

Any body that ever has sang in front of loud guitar amp and drumset and hears albert sing knows hes a top singer.

[@sijuirl]

What a down to earth man...and how simple hes explaining his passion for lucy like a child....legend...

[@ygol69]

@ctyuang isn't the quote "the blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad, thinkin' bout the woman he once had." from Crossroads - Willie Brown

[@lisaweaver986]

This man has inspired so many as a prolific used to his to them as artists. A what music is inspirational and always shall be. That's alright ❤.

[@woodey028]

its now part of who i am. One Love.

[@marvinwhittaker3782]

Albert King,B B King, and Howlin Wolf were three great bluesmen

[@ernestmartinez9071]

Go find another video with someone talking about a guitar like him❤

[@vdeferens]

Smokes a pipe like a BAWWWS.

[@jeffreycregg6078]

When Albert said he was tired pretty sure it was the understatement of the century. Once an act like his becomes popular ( hot) like his did, and others like it, all over the world, and US concert & venue promoters will practically fist fight to book it for their show which can run a guy ragged in only a couple of years! Touring is every Artists decision but the $ is so alluring to them it's difficult to turn it down.He probably had to beg borrow and steal ( demand ) his any chosen time off. If they could they have booked him 365 days a year until he died because the health of the human beings that are required to make a show are not their top priority. And from what I was told he huge in stature, could have a mean disposition when he wanted to but %99 of the time he WAS the nicest guy any one could ever meet. RIP Albert The Whole World Misses you especially the millions of budding blues guitarists and singers that followed you to learn from you, after you, and that still are today! CAN YOU HEAR UP THERE ALBERT? " I hope so"

[@themusicdr]

cry guitar cry. damn albert 'king' really was just that!

[@snappypappy100]

GOAT

[@stephenharper2501]

The boss,! and gold standard of all blue's guitar players 💯🎶🎵

[@1moomed23]

OMG everytime i watch this i get chills down my spines

[@wisesatyr72]

How does he get that distorted tone w/just his fingers..?

[@BarbButler]

💕 💞 💓 💗 💖

[@michavandam]

Oh man, when he finally let's it rip loose near the end...!

[@TRKTKO]

Albert is the first guitarist I've seen who plays with the strings the opposite way. Him, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Jimmy Page, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Allen Collins(from Lynyrd Skynyrd) Eric Clapton, are bad ass Blues Players I would also suggest listening to Robert Johnson, Son House, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Hubert Sumlin, Leadbelly. All of the Early Blues Legends, They are so important. Around the 60's blues went mainstream, only then did we realize where these great songs came from.

[@hadbl12]

Trey Kilgore agreed with everything you posted... Howling wolf is my favorite of all time... but Albert is one of the best guitar players ever

[@coriannm318]

Ya dude was left handed and adjusted his guitar and playing to carve his own style, amazing and inspirational!!👑🙏🏼🎸🎶💖

[@TheGuitarMan71]

Duane Allman

[@timothylewis2450]

Most lefties played right handed guitars upside down but restrung them, he did not. He also only played 5 strings, never the low E, pulling down on the strings for his incredible bends .

[@Blackfootamputee]

Love when he corrected the crowd clapping off tempo. 😂

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Albert King, nacido Albert Nelson (25 de abril de 1923-21 de diciembre de 1992) fue un influyente guitarrista y cantante estadounidense de Blues. Considerado uno de los Tres Reyes del Blues a la guitarra (junto a B.B. King y Freddie King), su altura de 1,95 m y sus 118 kg de peso le valieron el sobrenombre de The Velvet Bulldozer (la aplanadora de terciopelo). ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️

[@BarbButler]

Thank you Mr. Albert King!!!!!!!! 💖 RIP Legend...

[@shane69999]

he was tired then.... little did he know he's have 27 odd years of playing to go..........

[@ImBonez]

6 people thought Albert King was a rap artist...

[@AdrianAndersson]

The crazy thing is he gave that guitar to his adopted "cousin" Lee King just a few days before he passed away in December 1992.

[@KarenDBrame]

Adrian Andersson Why is that crazy? Lucy can't really go where he was going ... #RIHAlbertKingTheGREATEST 💜💜💜👑💜💜💜

[@mullahosk585]

Does anyone know If this concert is available on dvd or cd? It sounds awesome

[@darkmanillinois6975]

A true, underrated, blues god, just saying

[@timkjazz]

So great he brings shivers to my flesh.

[@gordonlewis4280]

Because you understand true art and culture baby many people dont understand this at your level to understand life the blues is 400 years of pain that are hidden in those notes many can copy the blues but albert is the blues to listen to this says alot about you stay involved

[@IOYC]

Why did they cut out the middle for the interview.. argh. Albert King is godlike. The tone and attack on the solo at the end is just jaw dropping. Amazing.

[@LONELION17]

He is the real KING !!!

[@JPTyler]

The voice he has....Fantastic!

[@jayt.1163]

What an absolute legend. Those bends near the end are a powerful

[@coriannm318]

Amen

[@FORTYSIXANPRETTY]

WOW!!! THE LEGEND -"I'M GONNA LEAVE IT UP TO YOU, SO LONG, SO LONG, GOOD BYE, MY LOVE WILL FOLLOW YOU AS THE YEARS GO PASSING BY" THIS IS TOO COLD RIGHT HERE~~~ I LOVE YOU ALBERT KING~~PLAY BABY KISS ~ BIG KISSES TO YOU MY LOVE~~~"AS THE YEARS GO PASSING BY" CONNIE~~~

[@jenspett]

Everytime i watch this im amazed .... the end is so dang perfekt

[@stonesfcr]

thanks for the comments, hes the king of kings i say, hearing his tone is hear electric guitar history on one note

[@willnzsurf]

🤙thanks!💙

[@francfroma688]

Praise god for such a tone that touches chords deep in the soul....he is a master at touching those inner tones.

[@lowrencemayfield4271]

The one and only king among the three

[@SoftwareCollection]

please name the three!

[@lowrencemayfield4271]

Shubham Gaikwad That's easy, Freddie, B.B, and Albert, of course i love the other two but Albert for me is the King

[@SoftwareCollection]

lowrence mayfield Yeah, I guessed it right then! And yeah, Albert is my favorite too. Almost all of his songs are the same, but I still never get tired of hearing them over and over. The same licks but I love them every time. Damn, if that ain't magic, I don't know what is!

[@angelmedium4104]

@@lowrencemayfield4271 bb dude live in Montreal 93

[@UsamaSaleem5050]

GREAT ALBERT KING ....

[@intheblues]

rofl haha :)

[@chumsyalibumsy09]

im 15 and grew up listening to shit. all this crap nowadays, why cant music like this be made anymore. i appreciate albert king more than anyone of my time. so good...

[@michavandam]

He picks the strings with his thumb.

[@RaymondOlivares]

6:57 - 7:19 Albert is King 👑 👑👑

[@morgan2205]

Albert....royalty

[@OliverKostrinsky]

I hat when people say "oh well he wouldnt be around if it wasnt for so and so" of course they would be fucking around and they still would be geniuses.

[@michavandam]

Has this been released on any dvd or so?

[@patriciaberry7509]

May they both rest in peace, but Albert over B.B. for me to the end of time...the "Real King of the Blues!"

[@thomasstanton1111]

i agree my man albert kills it

[@mantrarock99]

The blues in the pure state ... bless from Argentina

[@jamesnevins5448]

Get Albert King Blues At Sunset. Real prime cuts and no fluff.

[@britishfreeliberationparty5634]

the king

[@Mortslake]

another note: listen to the voice..i just love it. that sullen vibrato gets right into my spine..but hey! thats me ;)

[@jamesnevins5448]

Wow. the very end when he really starts hitting the notes is pure emotion and something only few could summon on the fretboard. I've been playing for 20+ years and listening to AK just reminds me what true talent sounds like.

[@brianbard3410]

Albert's newer V was made like a 58 , or 59 , gibbo Korina, but Dan elerwine at stu Mac, had some nice black walnut, which us brittle like mahogany and similar in vibration, he made the Albert king flying V, , with lots of love ❤️ and respect for the original influence of jimi hendrix, Albert king! If you don't dig the blues you have a hole in your soul 💙.

[@EPurpl3]

Is very hard to make a top 10 or 100 of all good players because playing style has changed over time, the riffs are getting faster and faster, people stop listening to uncool music and so on. Sometimes someone cant agree with your opinion and for that person the whole top sux. The only way to make a good top 100 is to divide it between creativity and dexterity. Even so, Prince doesnt stand a chance because he has creativity but in the wrong direction. Who is listening to R&B anymore?