Post by GnLguy on Jan 3, 2014 12:01:04 GMT -6
After I work thru more of the instructional material that I've accumulated over the years, I want to start working on some of Freddie King's instrumentals. Freddie is my fav of the 3 Kings and he had some great instrumentals in addition to the great blues that he played.
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Freddie usually played a Gibson ES of some flavor, I think it may have been an ES345 but he used several plus Les Paul guitars with P90s. Couple the growl of a p90 thru a Fender Super 6 Reverb (100 watts of 6L6 power into 6-10" speakers) played wide open AND Freddie used metal finger picks. Talk about in your face attitude. Freddie had it all. Nicknamed the Texas Cannonball
I've linked 3 of his songs below, only 1 is an instrumental. Freddie had an incredible blues voice to go along with his playing. He was a big guy, his ES almost looked like a ukelele around his neck and he really muscled the guitar for all that was in him
Goin' Down
Sweet Home Chicago
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San Ho Zay
The Stumble
Freddie usually played a Gibson ES of some flavor, I think it may have been an ES345 but he used several plus Les Paul guitars with P90s. Couple the growl of a p90 thru a Fender Super 6 Reverb (100 watts of 6L6 power into 6-10" speakers) played wide open AND Freddie used metal finger picks. Talk about in your face attitude. Freddie had it all. Nicknamed the Texas Cannonball
I've linked 3 of his songs below, only 1 is an instrumental. Freddie had an incredible blues voice to go along with his playing. He was a big guy, his ES almost looked like a ukelele around his neck and he really muscled the guitar for all that was in him
Hideaway
Goin' Down
Sweet Home Chicago
