Live At The Regal

I don't know what it is about the blues, they're just so depressing.

Classic bb not my fave live blues. I like rip and roar. Prob not too 1000

yep, it's a blues album alright. out of all the blues albums i have heard this is probably the bluesiest album good flow though, nice audience interactions. it just feels so samey

Þetta er aðeins of mikið swing fyrir minn smekk. King sjálfur er fínn en nær samt ekki alveg í gegn til mín. Má hlusta, en ég þarf ekki að gera það aftur.

Pas mal!

It is what it is.

Chill, nice old school vibes

Vocals are incredible and is the part that stuck with me. Not sure if blues is going to be a genre I listen to a lot but there is much to appreciate here. Would attend this performance if I could :)

I was prepared to hate it because I don’t care for live albums, but it’s just a recording of his performance and was actually really fun to listen to

It’s pretty good album, the soloing gets a bit much after a time though

Like... live

Enjoyed this album

Easy listening

live album

Pretty sure I’ve heard this one played at my barber shop

I played this full blast at my mum's funeral and my auntie came so hard that the church got permanently closed.

No references to leukaemia

Big jazz for a Sunday morning

Its blues, its live, people are yelling. Probably a big deal for its time, but can't say its incredible.

It was fine. Just some blues.

a bit vegas and those chicago blues leads just aren’t my thing but it’s a good punchy band

Between this, sam cooke, and even lynyrd skynyrd I've gotten a good mix of different types of blues and soul recently. This wasn't quite as good as those and there isn't a song that really sticks out to me but it's definitely a really solid 3/5. Fun live music atmosphere and decent music.

ok

Live Blues, pretty good live performance but I wasn't bowled over by the music.

Not bad.

Yes this is a good album, and the guitar playing is fantastic, but over a whole album it lacks the deep devilment of the best blues. He's a showman rather than a shaman.

Same as more old blues or rock'n roll, was I guess brilliant then but now seems bit outdated.

Okay I guess

It was nice

Klassisk ok blues.

Cool

I've gotten quite a few blues-y type albums now, and I'm starting to warm up to it a bit more, so my new challenge is now overcoming the next threat: live albums. That's what makes this so complicated, I understand a singer can really put their all into a live performance to make it better than any studio recording (Frampton Comes Alive! springs to mind) but often these songs just aren't as good as something with no random audience members cheering the whole time or the usually less than optimal sound quality, but I will admit, despite what the number down below may seem like it says, I did enjoy the album. It's just when it comes to something like this it's hard for me to think too much of it, and the addition of blues, which I already struggle to decide if I like or not, makes it a bit more of a mixed bag for me. I can understand why this is considered one of the best live albums of all time, I just can't fully get into it.

Generally speaking, not usually a fan of live albums - unless it's an act I'm really into. BB King's Live At The Regal kind of sits in the middle for me. On one hand it's a great masterpiece in amazingly good blues with fantastic guitar solos, but on the other, it's a live album. What this album also is - it's pretty tight, there's no real rambling or over-drawn-out solos, which help keep the vibe up and about, without getting bogged down. Best: How Blue Can You Get? Worst: Woke Up This Mornin'

good

I much prefer Hound Dog Taylor.

Mr. King brings the blues, the purples, the yellows, the magentas and the salmon pinks. How Blue Can You Get alone is worth the price of admission. Which was probably 20 cents at the time. Only complaints are how they splice two separate concerts together and it impacts the continuity a bit, and also the ending is much too lackluster for an album that kicked off this hype.

A great voice and a good listen

I’m not a big blues person and I thought this was sometimes chaotic but B.B. is sort of the gold standard of the genre.

I don't like live albums on this list, but I gave it a listen and was very pleased. BB King is a legend and it was great to hear him conversing with the crowd. I'm biting my tongue but glad this was on the list.

Damn, RIP to the legend BB King. Such an amazing guitarist, one of my favorites in the blues game. It's a shame he's one of the several notable black artists that are confined to a single live album on this list. I can't say I'm familiar with his catalog enough to pick a studio album, so I'm giving this a fair shake. It's good, but a live album can only be so good for me. The energy is definitely there. The guitar work is, as expected, excellent. Unfortunately I just end up wishing for studio recordings. Favorite tracks: Sweet Little Angel, It's My Own Fault, How Blue Can You Get. Album art: The picture is nothing special, but I love the frame design and the vibrant font choice here. About as good as it could be for a live album/performance photo cover. 3.5/5

Good King live album, some of the lyrics sound outdated regarding how to treat women, but solid guitar playing

It's honestly pretty good. Doesn't change my opinion about live albums being doodoo feces, but this B.B. King guy can play some nice tunes. The writers just kind of threw random live albums into the book to show that those exist as well - like seriously, Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous? Cheap Trick's "Live at Budokan"? This album is probably one of the few that actually deserve a spot. I'm usually not a fan of blues, so a live blues album getting a 3/5 from me would most likely be a shiny sparkly 5/5 for fans of this kind of music.

Interesting for a blues album I guess.

I dig the blues and all but for some reason BB King never really did a whole lot for me. He's certainly a great showman and guitar player, and maybe that's my problem; that it comes across too slick and polished - even in a live setting.

Je vais vous faire un aveu: j'ai toujours confondu B.B. King et Ben E. King, le chanteur de Stand By Me. Et puisque il n'y a aucun moyen pour moi de savoir lequel des deux a fait cet album, je m'abstiendrai de le critiquer.

B.B. King n'apporte absolument rien au générateur, proposant un album déjà entendu des tonnes de fois et ne lui permettant d'accéder à rien d'autre qu'un 3/5.

Liked songs: How Blue Can You Get?, You Upset Me Baby, Help The Poor Not my favorite genre, but this is about as good as blues gets. The mix is astonishingly good for an album from the 60s. 3/5

Really solid blues album. Maybe it’s because it’s older, but a lot of the songs sounded really similar. I’m also a fan of guitar led blues, and the guitar sounded more like an accent here.

Solid but not my genre and not a big fan of live

Album was ok. Sound was great. Maybe a tougher album to start this all off with?

Uno de los grandes, pero el album me parecio normal

I really want to like the Blues. I’d need to hear some better material though. There were a couple of good songs

Live B.B. is the best B.B.

I grew up with the Blues Brothers and thought don't they just sound so damn good, and then you go back and listen to the originals, those that inspired them...Live, B.B. King...well, damn.

I guess if I need some blues in my life then this is a good one to have in my collection. No doubt that B.B. King is good at what he does but nothing really grabbed me on this album except for How Blue Can You Get?

Hmmmm, hot blues? Didn't quite grab me. Fave track - uh, "You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now" maybe? I listened to the album twice through and none of the tracks particularly stood out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Zoals vaker gezegd, ik ben geen fan van live registraties. De muziek is prima en als je er destijds bij was, was het waarschijnlijk een geweldige avond. Helaas ben ik ook iets te weinig blues fan om het alsnog een geweldige registratie te vinden. ***

A solid live album by Blues legend B.B. King. Not being too familiar with these songs, I was able to get into it solely because of the response from the live audience and King's playing ro them. The album was short, just over 30 minutes but it makes me wonder how much was cut. I would like to go back and hear these songs as recorded.

Traditional blues, very well played.

B.B. King gives a great performance on this show, I and the audience can agree to that. For someone not too familiar with blues music, I still found this pretty enjoyable. Favorites: "Every Day I Have The Blues", "Please Love Me", "Worry, Worry"

Very jazzy and bluesy and definitely one of the absolute best at it, but not quite my taste. Not sure about the live aspect of this album either but I did feel like I was at a speakeasy in 1950s America.

I'm not the biggest B.B. King fan, I'm not sure what it is. Feels a bit like a slightly dumbed down version of the blues or something. Still, this is a fun live record that for me feels like good background listening.

Très classique comme Blues, mais vu l’année, je dirais que c’est très bien.

Pas habituellement mon genre et encore moins les albums live, mais celui-ci est bien fait et démontre bien le talent de l’artiste pour livrer un spectacle. Pas trop long en plus.

Blues con todas las letras. Buena voz y sintonía. Para amantes del género

I’m not sure I was able to give this one a fair listen. It was on while I made dinner and did stuff around the house, so I wasn’t able to fully focus on it. What I heard I liked, but a lot of it sounded the same. Maybe I’ll change my mind upon second listen.

The recording is great and its all very tight but it does kinda wash over me....The guitar solos are great... but tberes just not enough light and dark. Embarrassingly sorry.

Groovy

Bluesy

I can appreciate this but I'm just not that much of a B.B. King fan. Personal taste really

Why did they let a bb be king

It’s great, but loses a lot of Re listen potential since it’s a live album

decent live album

A bit over orchestrated and showy for me but I bet it was amazing if you were there

Great album!

Not bad. Gave it a few plays through, but probably won't play it again

Good, but not the best B.B.I’ve heard.

Powerful live blues album.

Great performance but the songs all sound the same.

3.5

Initial thoughts: would be great on vinyl, listening to while i’m cleaning the house. reminds me of dad. Fav from album: It’s my own fault 3.5

Fairly early stuff, and not many tracks I'm familiar with. Love it though!

blues is einfach nicht meins aber musikalisch ists sicher top also gibts einen zusatzstern

Goes so. Bissl stressig. Aber natürlich gut gespielt

BB stond op laag volume maar gaande weg realiseerde ik me dat hij meer had verdiend. Dit was tof!

Not bad B.B., not bad.

Prima hoor.

Good but not my favorite. Wouldn't listen to it on my free time but I can appreciate it

Meh. I've said it before, but Chicago blues is so samey and boring. It's such a shame that a genre as interesting and diverse as the Delta blues evolved into it.

I like BB (not to be confused with a certain ex Israeli prime minister!), but I think that over the years we have received better blues than this.

Stsndard blues, nice

Easy blues not too blues well played.

Pleasant listen!

3.5/5 it was nice, but needed something more. I'll have to relisten.

Sounds like a fun concert, crowd engaged.

Hard not to enjoy.

2021.11.11

This album is made so much better by the live audience. Feels good to hear a bunch of people just absolutely losing their shit to blues music

"I gave you 7 children, and now you want to give them back" BB is complaining about this lady but he never thought to wrap that shit up? Classic voice and classic riffs. BB knows how to do the blues nice and smooth.

I grew up listening to this. It’s part of the soundtrack of mg childhood and brought back great memories.

Bb king is bb King. But it’s life…

It's nice to listen to the Blues Boy for the first time. Can't say that I'll relisten anytime soon, but it was good enough.

Bit Jazzy for me

Not my favourite genre, but can appreciate that this guy is one of the legends and it being a live album makes it that little bit more special.

Good for blues good for a live album but still not really doing it for me.

I dock this one star because it was a bad version of a live album. Edited wrong

Good blues music

Protiv ovog žanra nikad ne bih ništa loše rekao. Jednostavno ako si u tom điru, to je nešta predobro. Općenito BB King je tata mata, a ovaj live album to govori. Nije mi wow album, ali jednostavno je dobar i vrijedi ga se poslušati.

Good for the genre. 3/5

Not my favorite live BB King album, but you really can't go wrong with this kind of thing.

I thought it was a solid live album - BB sounded great. 7/10.

классный блюз (наверное?), но не совсем моё

I know the blues is cool and the album was nice, but it kinda blurred into background music for me after a while.

Poggin. Awesome voice on the lad. Let's all give a hand for the band! Seems like a cool dude. I liked most of it.

Nice listening and enjoyed hearing the crowd.

Cool live album, great backing band, very repetitive but that’s blues for ya

Dont really like blues. He was very passionate in his lyrics. Fav songs: How blue could you get & Help the poor

ca. zur Hälfte gehört. B.B. King halt

Live albums should not be on this list, but this is a nice one.

Veoma opusteno. Svidelo mi se. Lep zvuk na giatari idk

i’m sorry but i just had a breakdown over a jazz recording and this is triggering my fight or flight senses also i am noticing a 60’s trend 🧐 ok nvm my this is doing things to my live music withdrawal no cause i miss concerts SO MUCH shout to the woman who just howled (marry me, you won’t) no cause i want to get drunk and dance to ‘sweet little angel’ in my kitchen while having a life crisis (cigarette optional) i am having fun ok this woman is my everything THE FLOW BETWEEN TRACKS I AM AT A CONCERT bb, who hurt you? ok but ‘how blue can you get’ is a baddie anthem v much in love with the energy we have created in the studio the flow’s been interrupted 😞🤚 worry, worry is 6 minutes...i’m bucklin up simp energy ngl not the misogyny DAMN yeah that was super yuck cant believe i sat through 5 minutes of wailing for the moral of the song to be mega small dick vibes again, howling woman in the crowd be my wife challenge ok, the first half of this album is CARRYING this second half with everything it has first half supremacy idgaf ‘help the poor’ makes me feel mischievous 😏 no this is just a simp album shakin my ass 🤫 cause this whole album would be better if the simp favor wasn’t dialed to 10

Live at the Regal is an absolutely necessary acquisition for fans of B.B. King or blues music in general. A high point, perhaps even the high point, for uptown blues.

BB King, what can you say. He's got such a distinctive blues voice and his guitar stylings are second to none. But Live At The Regal doesn't really stand out to me. I enjoyed the stories, but it felt a little out of place on a best 1001 albums list. Fav Tracks: "Help the Poor" and "Sweet Little Angel"

Solid live outing from BB King. The blues are well delivered but a little rote if it wasn’t for his immense voice. Again, I have a hard time considering most live albums in the same context as these others. Interesting document, but not entirely essential. Favourite track: “Help the Poor”

It's good music, but I would have way way way preferred studio recordings over live recordings. Bleh. Not sure why the Albums Generator is doing this to us :-( Probably a 4 or maybe even a 5 for the studio recordings of the same tracks.

high quality blues, good compositions, great playing and a bit of musical variety

Some good tunes. The live album element gets a bit grating though, all the talking and screaming crowds dont add anything

The first thing I noticed about Live At The Regal is that the drummer and bass player are horrible and the horn arrangements add absolutely nothing to the presentation. On Every Day I Have The Blues, the drummer takes the tune at at the most literal thudding blues shuffle I have ever heard. He singlehandedly ruins the cut and the bass player is almost as bad, with his thoroughly unimaginative note choices. The horn charts are seemingly ported over from a Vegas review with no blues feel whatsoever. That's a terrible shame because there's a lot that's good about this recording. King's voice is in great shape and his guitar playing is just fine. The audience is clearly there to have a good time; they're incredibly responsive, to the point that they're integral to the power of the recording. King has them eating out of the the palm of his hand. Thankfully, the drummer and bass player aren't as wretched on the downtempo tunes and the horns aren't as up front either. Okay, maybe the drummer and bass player were only warming up on Every Day I Have The Blues. They're not quite as awful on the other uptempo tunes. Okay, in the end, the reason to listen to this album is B.B. King and the audience, who are both on fire. The band and arrangements are mediocre at best. This scrapes by with a 3/5

Very good classic Blues.

That was a fine live album. His vocal range is quite impressive.

No soy muy fan de BB King. De todos los blueseros, se me hacía que era el que tenía el sonido más “genérico”, el que uno identifica con el blues cuando no sabes mucho de blues. Entonces medio lo descartaba, no era Howlin Wolf pues. Pero este disco creo que me pone en mi lugar. Dan ganas de haber estado ahí. De hecho te sientes ahí, sentado en la mesa del rincón, fumando sin parar, tomando whiskey. El disco lo tiene todo: baladas tristes, solos intensos, sensualidad, baile, sudor, lágrimas. Aquí realmente está el template para el sonido de media Inglaterra: Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Ten Years After, no sé, yo creo que casi todo el rock inglés. Y bueno, de la lista interminable de gente a la que le debe dinero Jimmy Page por robarles, BB King está en la cabeza. Sigo sin ser fan de BB King pero lo respeto más. Y este disco está muy bien para acompañar con tragos. Supongo, no lo he hecho. Se me ocurre. Reconocimiento a la banda de BB King. Tight. Help the Poor.

Wat een soepele jazz. Heerlijk

Ok

good album, something i wouldnt mind listening to but not my go to album either

This album feels more like a tribute to the man and the concert than to the songs which comprise an album. Very good, nevertheless.

Very jazzy, but good background music

This isn't Miles but it's still good. Track 1: Jazz song. BB is charismatic and has a great voice. Track 2: Jazz song, but good stuff, more my thing. Very 'Barfly' with Mickey Rourke. Tells the story of how he wanted something but got something different. Lots of audience screaming. Track 3: These are simple and relatable songs but very formulaic. Of course, the formula was more or less perfected here. Some WICKED guitar at about 3:00. Track 4: Big hand for the other musicians, very considerate. A song about how women are bad. Track 5: Nice Dick Dale-esque start. Can't understand what he's saying, probably about how women are bad. Track 6: Greatest Hits of Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra. Women = bad. Track 7: This is like being trapped in a Scorsese movie. We follow the guy from 'Home Alone' as he walks through a casino and then shanks a guy. Track 8: This dude doesn't have a lot of luck with the ladies. Track 9: This sounds a lot like something I heard a few tracks back. Track 10: Actually good, my favourite track of the record. Reminds me of 'Down In The Hole'.

Influential no doubt

Fine - didn't dislike it, but probably wouldn't seek it out

Apparently 1965 was a little bit of a sexist time. Outside of that, How Blue Can You Get is awesome and the rest of the album definitely solid. I could go back and listen again.

Not too bad. Would listen if it was on.

As much as I tried to listen to this...I really couldn't push through. Not my jam but can appreciate the music stylings of this legendary blues artist.

classic blues, Holds all the vibes. Really takes you back to what the 60's concerts were like with the screaming girls and chit chatting to the crowd about relationships. Super chill. 3.5/5

Such a great album, except where he jokes about hitting women.

3-4

BB King is a great blues singer and guitarist. This is just a showcase of his work. His best album? No idea.

Was fine

Can’t really criticise can you?

50/50

Just fun rock/blues album!

Enjoyable.

Liked one or two songs but overall not my vibe

nice live album

More less.

Is it worth hearing before you die? I don't know. Wiki cites the fact that several great musicians have studied this album as inspiration for their live performances, but that doesn't make something inherently great for general audiences. Is it important? Sure. Am I confused why its on this list? Yeah. I have tried to review albums, and not the list itself, but I am a week in and i've gotten 2 albums that are all covers and this.

Not for me, every song feels samey

like a worse stevie wonder "stewie? isnt that the baby from family guy? harharharhar"

I’m sorry all hail the king and all but it at blue enough for me.

Very Upbeat and big horns. Rather than bluesy. I like a more mellow, slow blues with wistful guitars. Too upbeat. 2.5 out of 5

I am not a fan. Especially because this is a live album

Not a fan of live albums

Otro disco de un directo???? Esta guay, pero es que no creo que sea lo mismo un directo que un disco propiamente dicho pero que sabre yo

Jazz?? I don't like jazz

Bruh…not after what I got yesterday (Im not having a great run for this) Everything sounded the exact same to me it’s really one that I’ll probably forget about

No offense to B.B.King and his music. His overall talent and the other musical instruments featured in his performances are top tier. But other than that for me this album has nothing else going on. I dont think I will be listening to this artist anytime soon.

Felt like half of the songs were the same and that combined with it being live meaning it gets interupted by the audience made it a not so good listen

got vibes, but this just ain’t for me

enjoyed

blarg

I expected going in I was going to like this more than I did. Not sure if it was te live recording or what

not my type

Was okay to listen too just wasn’t really my thing.

Question: What's B.B. stand for? Answer: Blues Boy. That tells me all I need to know about one B.B. King! And a live album, too. Actually, this being a live album probably made me like it more, because at least there's a tiny bit of spoken stuff to entertain me (that is, a tiny bit of non-blues content). But the crowd cheering can go right in the trash. Also in the trash: if I asked somebody for a nickel and they gave me a 20 dollar bill, I'd be so mad. Not in the trash: 'Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand' samples a line from BB's 'How Blue Can You Get' ("I've been downhearted baby / Ever since the day we met"). That's fun.

Clearly this is better than a 2/5 but I have just never had a love for recorded blues. Live is fun, and the bits of guitar playing here are interesting to me, but I sorta glaze over after 1.5 songs. It’s a “me” problem!

ei näitä livelevyjä

Tarttis ehkä olla livenä paikan päällä että tätä vois arvostaa.

Kovaa ajoa, mutta ei nyt varsinaisesti mitään kauheasti mieleenjäävää meininkiä.

This was ok. Got a bit boring a few songs in though. Obviously, a fantastic guitar player and a legend. Just not really my thing.

This is one of the blues greats but this is not the great blues...

Мне это трудро

A bit too slow

This album has earned high praise for 60 years from a variety of critics. It is a pleasing album with even the downtrodden songs featuring a humorous take on the character's plight. When a song deals with immoral behavior, King offers jovial advice to the audience. Adding some grit, King tosses off some stinging, precise single-note runs that helped to put his name at the top of many bluesman lists. Having heard this album, a later live one at "Cook County Jail" and seeing King in person, the above features are all too familiar. King played show after show, and the routine barely seems to have altered, at least in this period, if ever. Like a blues Louis Armstrong, King played a role, perhaps his true persona, over and over for literally 1,000s of shows. It has some fine qualities, but is middle of the road. Sam Cooke took similar criticism for this bland pop when he issued a "Live at the Copa." After his death, "Live at the Harlem Square" came out featuring Cooke cutting loose to show true soul and gospel powers. Maybe a recording exists of King in similar fashion, and I have missed it. It could be that King's slightly less urban take on the jump blues of Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker is not my cup of tea. The "Cook County" album has more moving moments in it compared to the nightclub stylings and banter here. My apologies to a legend, but thumbs down.

I dont like the blues maybe?

Pretty boring but not the worst thing I’ve ever heard

It's a very energetic live set from BB King, that brings a different narrative to some like me, who remembers him as his old and slow version. I'm laughing, of course. I liked it. Not much more than other blues records. It's really ok. Not something I'll be coming back to often. Is it a high 2 or flat 3? I'll decide tomorrow morning and let you know. I think it's a two unfortunately... Although there are qualities to it, it just didn't do it for me yesterday...

4/10

It’s good, but it’s not great, it looses some stars for being a live album.

I mean, just blues, nth special, I fell asleep in a bus to it.

Not bad but not my type

It’s blues. I’m sure it’s very good blues. But it sounds like all other blues

It was okay. Most of the songs sounded the same. The sound of the audience was annoying to listen to.

225/1089 a cool, relaxing blues album. i liked it but i’m not super in tune with the genre and it kinda didn’t stand out to me 47/100

pas ouf

- i am listening to this album while waiting for mum's birthday cake to bake at 9:57pm on a school night. im probably gonna scroll on pinterest while listening! - fave song - woke up this morning overall rating 5.9/10

I do like listening to blues music, but this album reminds me of a particularly dull Jools Holland show. With Jools guesting on piano, obvs. Hilariously, Spotify carried on after the album finished, playing songs from other old blues artists, and it took me 10 minutes to notice that they weren't BB King...

I can imagine sitting in a blues club, knocking back a few and watching this performance perfectly happily but this style of old blues is just not something I ever put on to listen to. I can appreciate his voice, his soulful guitar work the quality of the band but it’s just not something to actively listen to for me. 2.3

Not for me!

0/10 bekannt 4/10 Beste Songs: Sweet Little Angel, every day I have the blues, it’s my own fault

positives: He has an amazing voice with lovely lyrics negatives: the sounds sounded not that different from each other id much rather listen to the studio album favourites -its my own fault -how blue can you get -you upset me baby

For a live album, it was fine. A short listen.

Ikke objektivt dårligt men heller ikke rigtigt noget for mig. Jeg er ikke så meget til blues.

Jazz, inte så bra men inte heller så dåligt, tänkte knappt på att de var igång.

I am not a fan of live albums. All the hooting, hollering, clapping, and whistles just take me right out of the music, and I never really get into the groove. The most overused word in this album was baby. At least the songs were short.

Pull my music-appreciation card, but I don't like this much. Too much band intrusion. Mr. King gets accolades for his voicings, but seems kind of one-note to me. I could really enjoy some of of these if he wasn't singing along (blasphemy?). B.B. can play the blues with few peers. Too bad I hear the guitar too infrequently.

While the first song hit a note with my Weltschmerz, I felt bored with the album.

background music

3/10 - Favorite song: You done lost your good thing now

Guess you had to be there?

Listen to this album at 230am. nothing fantastic about it to me but maybe it was ground breaking for its time. 3/10

Just the blues? Nothing really stood out to me.

I think I like my blues much more scludgey and less like a big show. Also the screaming is annoying. For my friends, I am quite dreadful at listening at words and mostly listen to the tunes. The piano lines are great and super tight brass section. Give the date/time in history and its an extraordinary fck you to the establishment

good blues if you're into that sort of thing (i'm not)

Objectively probably good but really not my vibe

I don’t get why this cat became the standard bearer for electric blues guitarists. He doesn’t strike me as particularly unique or interesting. I mean, he’s fine. He sounds like generic default blues for background music or production value. Or maybe he sounds generic bc he IS the standard bearer & his sound set the bar. Either way I think there’s plenty that do it better & this album is… fine. We’ll call it exactly average. 2 & 1/2 stars. Because the tyrannical powers that be don’t allow half stars we shall round down bc nothing stands out to me as noteworthy or memorable. It’s fine tho.

BB King is for sure a blues master. I found the live version of this album distracting with lots of screaming in the background. Very upbeat jazz style which in all honesty is not my favorite.

I'm not sure. I think this album shows a whole other side of blues, which is great. But I couldn't get past just thinking it sounded nice, instead of really connecting to it. Crowd also didn't add much for me.

I can appreciate the vocals and the sounds. Vibey, I guess, not really my thing though.

I am still a blues dabbler. I’m not entirely sure what I want from the genre yet, but it’s not this. This sounds like blues doing a residency at Caesars Palace or something. Too glitzy. I haven’t read up on this album enough, but it has always seemed to have an excellent reputation, however aside from the personal preference I’ve mentioned it also seems like a weird recording. It sounds like it was recorded in reverse. It starts out like a total rager of a show with an audience barely able to contain themselves, and ends up petering out like a band apologetic for being there and the audience trying to ignore them. I feel like there must be tons of better B.B. King than this.

Another one of those albums that are hard to rate. I'm not the biggest blues fan. At all. I know that big artists have cited this band as very influential to them (i.e., Santana, Clapton, Mayer--I'm not really a fan of any of them either, ha). That said, I recognize and appreciate the influences of B B King... but I don't really enjoy listening to this album.

26/1089 не люблю слушать блюз, альбом однотипный, хотя и вроде хороший, но я бы вряд ли слушал это по собственному желанию

прикольно вайбово но не на каждый день

It's not my genre, 1,5/2

Nice and quick, just not my sort of music.

Very old headed but it was nice but too much scream and claps of the lives..

I can tell this is a fantastic live album. The energy is crazy and you can almost touch the atmosphere. ...but it's still blues. And blues, for me, is boring, no way around it. A brilliant live album that does nothing to me musically? yeah, it's certainly possible.

Nicht mein Ding.

Objektiv vermutlich echt großartig, hat mich aber leider eher weniger gecatched.

Finde ich schwierig zu bewerten. Einerseits das Alter richtig einzuschätzen und andererseits als Livealbum. Ich finde die Lieder angenehm, aber es haut mich als Gesamtwerk nicht aus den Schuhen.

ну вообще не моё этот блюз, ни музыкально, ни текстово. они хорошо поют и играют, в ноты, уважаю, но радости мне это не приносит

Some good tunes but it's all blues baby

Not for me I guess

This style of blues doesn’t really do much for me. It takes a genre that started as raw and honest and turns into a Vegas spectacle. The musicianship is good but isn’t enough to carry it.

I have no issue with blues as a genre but for it to really stand out you need to have superior musicianship, particular flair or charisma, or do something out of the ordinary. I didn’t find this album had any of that and it became a bit blues by numbers very quickly.

More live music hurray... The blues is alright I guess. Just not something I'd listen to while I'm not in a dimly lit smoke filled bar with a glass of whiskey or whatever.

Hmm

Not interested in the blues, but BB King’s tone always amazes.

Every song sounds the same

A live blues album is very much NOT up my alley. Barely made it through this one

It's a BB King album. It's ok.

Not bad

I'm not a big blues fan, or indeed live album fan but I thought this was actually quite good.

Not a jazz fan, not a live recordings fan

not my favorite, but still nice!

A solid collection of blues delivered with genuine heart. Nothing to keep me coming back but a good listen.

I’m sure BB is great, but live records do nothing for me :(

it was okay

⭐︎2.5 特筆すべきことがないブルース楽曲ばかり。 ギタリストで有名な人だと思ってたけど、全然印象に残る曲なかった。

The heightened screeching crowd noise distracted from an all time great bringing blues to the masses

2.5

The guy can play guitar, and it sounded like a helluva concert. Overall though, the album was just fine.

errr blues puro, sem surpresas

I did not use a private session on Spotify for this one.

I’m not a blues person but I smiled for him kindly and liked the guitar playing but I kind of struggled to listen the whole way through. 2.5 stars!!!

Really underwhelmed to be honest.

I kinda zoned out while listening to this album. I don’t remember anything from it, and I don’t remember there being anything too special about it.

Artiste connu de nom. C'est la première fois que j'écoute un album complet. Les morceaux dynamiques sont assez entrainants, mais l’intérêt diminue avec le rythme. Et le blues me lasse assez vite. Aucune envie de l'écouter de nouveau. =>2/5

"How Blue Can You Get?" was good! Enjoyed this album a bit more than I thought I would.

I don't really fuck with live albums. But, yeah, guy can play guitar. 2 stars for the casual domestic violence jokes #differenttime

The same blues song 10 times

It’s great as a performance but live albums rarely sit well with me. Albums have a lot of potential to be a real artistic statement, but live albums cannot really have that impact. He’s a great singer though and the band were on point.

I’m sure BB King is great but I found this a little boring, plus it’s a live album

Easy listen, might need more to see if it is 3 stars.

I don't like lisyening to recorded live music

B.B. King has a really good voice, he can make the guitar sing and the backing band was great. But it's very typical blues. Some tracks are more upbeat, some a little slower, a lot of guitar noodling, but it's all pretty similar sounding. I could jump into any of these songs and wouldn't be able to tell them apart. I enjoyed the faster paced tracks more than the slower ones. I recognise the immense talent, but it's not to my tastes. The type of album I'd put one song on at a time if I was really in the mood for it but never listen to it in full.

I wasn't particularly impressed by this.

Wanted to like this more, but it's just so dated.

too much jazz

I'm not really a Blues guy. I don't know, I just find the songs very similar to each other. Like most Rock 'n' Roll, they do follow the standard 12-bar blues form, after all that's why it's called that. The fact that this is live helps sell these performances, as they sound more energetic than they would be otherwise. And while I do appreciate what this record brings to the table here, I don't think I would pick this up and give it a listen in any other context.

This is better feel like the last few have been genres that just don't click with me. But then again if I just listened to it more my ear would get used to it and I could appreciate it then, I just really like modern trap music, i like all the elements and the drums and melodies, it's a lot more ecclectic which I like and I'm not gonna let anyone change my mind on that! Trap music is my favourite type of music and ambient. I love these live albums, and the crowds energy and reaction, very engaging

Decent, not really my thing and I'm not a big fan of live albums. Great stage presence though.

Im not a blues fan but the problem with blues albums is that you cannot tell any of the songs apart

I loev his voice and his guitar playing, but I didn't really enjoy this band set up. I'm not sure jolly trumpets and jazzy piano really put me in the right mood to enjoy the blues. He has other recordings I generally put on instead.

This was just Ok. Thought and hoped there’d be more guitar from B.B., but no.

Oh lovely! Another live album! And this one is blues too!

I’m not a fan of live albums at the best of times, so it doesn’t help that the audience is way too loud in the mix here.

Meh. It's like one long song.

I had a professor once who talked about the nature of the blues. There is blues made for two audiences. Traditional blues, played culturally for black audiences is all about the lyrics. When artists crossed over to play for predominantly white crowds, they found the audience didn’t care much about the lyrics and instead it became all solos. BB King, through no fault of his own, is the latter. The Chess brothers found him, polished him up for the white world, and that was it. There’s just a lot of better blues out there.

I like the acoustic blues plenty- recorded in the 30s and 60s- all favorites. the Mississippi juke joint stuff recorded in the 90s is fire too. but this boogie-woogie Chicago style blues rock like here--- can't stand the stuff. just like sandpaper in my ears. there's no blues emotion here- just whisps of the form- it's overworked and underformed. hate it. though I don't disdain BB King himself- so it can have one extra star out of respect.

not my kind of blues i guess

not that good :/

Meh. Not for me

Respect B.B as an artist, but not my favourite album.

I like B.B. King, but not most live albums. This one isn't excluded...

Ist nicht ganz meine Musikrichtung 2/5

It all sounds the same but the blues vibes are fun

Putting aside the historical significance here, this is so thoroughly not my thing

An interesting document of its time.

I think Blues Boy is really a jazz guy at heart. Great chill vibes. I’ll take a cold beer and this record all day.

Love the raucous party vibe. Would probably enjoy it even more if it was on in the background at Catfish Jones or some other dungeonesque bar. Any time B.B. is yell-singing or banging away on Lucille it is electric! I can only take so much blues though. It gets my hackles up anytime I hear the band start playing the standard I-IV-V 12 bar blues structure. P.S. - This album reminds me of when B.B. and his wife were going through hard times in their marriage. She wasn’t a fan of all his drinking and he thought she was cheating on him. After a couple of hard years, she saw him perform this concert at the Regal and fell back in love with him. As a show of her devotion, she went to get B.B.’s name tattooed on her body: a B on each ass cheek. Later that night she called B.B. up to the bedroom. When he entered, she pulled down her pants for the unveiling. He gave the tattoo a look over and said, “who’s Bob?”

BB is in fine voice, as good as any period in his career. The band is absolutely on point- props to the drummer and bass man. The crowd is eating out of his hand, which isn’t surprising seeing the level of playing on display. It’s difficult to put in perspective now how revolutionary his one-string blues playing would have been in 1965, now that every John Mayer goofball plays that way too. It’s sometimes hard to not want to just switch to another recording though. “How Blue Can You Get” at Cook County Jail is one of the most powerful blues recordings ever, this version pales in comparison. Big-band blues has never been my favorite. The best tracks are without the full band and focus more on the legendary guitar and singing.

Live albums are cheating

Some fun parts , no track stands out nothing that makes me wana replay but it was diff and viby enough to merit a low 2

It's good, but I liked Cook County more. C

solid

It's good, but I liked Cook County more. C

A great talent to be sure. Just not something I'm really going to listen to again, especially because Live Albums very seldom do anything for me

Fine but I don't think I care for blues that much.

Blues, jazz, positive, emotional, live, male, mid/slow. Not sure if I ever get into blues. No bad record, but can't think about a mood that this touches me.

Not my cup of tea / da da da dam, da da da dam / nothing but the blues

This album is very fluid and one of the better live performance recordings we've had to go through thus far. I don't know what I was expecting but not this, meaning it was better than my assumptions (but still not great). I don't really like the talking in between the songs or blues in general but you could do a lot worse on this list. I think the order hurt it slightly because I was very over horns and old people music. It gets a 2.0.