B.B. King – Paramount

here is the info file from Dime

Artist: B.B. King

Date: 1971-05-30

Location: Seattle, WA

Venue: Paramount Theatre

Source: FM (Over The Air)

Lineage: master reel>cdr>flac

Taped and Transferred By: Dick Shurman

Band Members:

B.B. King – guitar, vocals

Sony Freeman And The Unusuals

Joseph Burton – trombone

John Browning – trumpet

Sonny Freeman – drums

Wilbert Freeman – bass

Milton Hopkins – guitar

Louis Hubert – tenor saxophone

Ron Levy – piano

Earl Turbinton – alto saxophone

Setlist:

01. From The Marr-ket Place

02. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)

03. Hot Pants (?)*

04. Blue Monk/B.B. King Intro

05. Everyday I Have The Blues

06. How Blue Can You Get

07. Help The Poor

08. Whole Lotta Lovin’

09. Rock Me Baby

10. Hummingbird

11. Sweet Sixteen/Lucille

12. Band Introduction

13. The Thrill Is Gone

14. Just Like A Woman

* best guess on song title, could be a cover of the Gene Summers and The Platinum Fog’s Hot Pants which was released in Feb. 71. It is not the same Hot Pants as the one recorded by James Brown.

Length: 63:02

Notes:

Here is an excellent sounding and complete FM broadcast of B.B. King at the Paramount Theatre courtesy of taperpat. The recording was done by his friend Dick who recorded this off of KISW-FM using a Sony R-2-R deck when it was originally broadcast sometime in 1972. This is really hot performance by B.B. King and especially his backing band. The backing band’s rendition of Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) by Otis Redding almost steals the show before B.B. can even get on stage.