An interesting thing happened last night. A friend of mine, George, was given tickets to the BB King show at the Jubilee Auditorium — and his wife couldn’t go, so he took me! Thanks George! It was a great show — He’s an old guy (81 years old) and spent a lot of time talking, but it was fun and he played some fantastic music. We were most impressed with the bass player and drummer, who played – literally – non-stop for 2 hours. Even while BB was talking, they were vamping behind him — continuously!<\/p>\n
Now the cool part. Nicki, another friend of mine, had met BB King’s bus driver at a bar a couple nights before. He gave her some tickets to the show, and offered to take them backstage afterwards. Well, she let George and I tag along, so we went and met BB King!<\/p>\n
It was very cool! There were about 20 of us that went backstage, and it was like BB was holding court. He was sitting in a comfy chair, and you went to him, he didn’t come to you. But he seemed like a really nice old guy. Asked us how we were, what we thought of the show, you know, small talk stuff. But still, it was VERY COOL.<\/p>\n