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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
Did comedy in his spare time too....
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^ I haven't seen that movie since it was first released, but that skit has remained clearly in my mind ever since.
I just saw Tinsley Ellis play a show last night, and he told a story about B.B. King playing a show for teens which he attended as a 15 year old, and how B.B. stayed after the show to meet the kids and chat/pose for pictures/sign autographs for "what seemed like a couple of hours" and how unbelievably kind and gracious he was. He also said that, as a young musician, "everything sort of fell into place for me after that."
I got to see B.B. a couple of times, and although I never got the chance to meet him, I got the impression that he was a class act both on and off the stage.
R.I.P.