Showing posts with label Albert Collins and the Icebreakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albert Collins and the Icebreakers. Show all posts

March 28, 2025

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers LIVE FT. Mason CA FM 1988-09-11

LIVE   
FT. Mason CA 
FM 
1988-09-11

Goodie from the Master of the Telecaster !

                   1  You Playing with my Mind                           
2 I Aint Drunk Im Just Drinkin
3 Black Cat Bone
4 Too Many Dirty Dishes
5 Frosty
6 ENC Dont You Lie To Me #
7 Tired Man

With Elvin Bishop Katie Webster Donald Kinsey Big Daddy Kinsey #
Debbie Davis  on track #1

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October 15, 2023

Albert Collins LIVE Graffiti-Pittsburgh, PA 1992.05.01 -

LIVE 
Graffiti-
Pittsburgh, PA 
1992.05.01 -

Superb  sound quality recording. 
Enjoy

Setlist: 

Disc 1

01. Watermelon Man
02. Talk
03. Instrumental
04. Albert Collins Intro
05. Black Cat Bone
06. Dirty Dishes
07. Shoe On the Other Foot
08. Mind Your Own Business//

Disc 2

01. //Mind Your Own Business (cont.)
02. Talk
03. If You Love Me Like You Say
04. Things I Used to Do
05. Same Old Thing
06. Applause
07. Master Charge
08. How Sweet It Is

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KRAKEN                  1FICHIER
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November 16, 2021

Albert Collins LIVE 1989-01-19 Houston

 
Rockefeller's
Houston, TX
January 19, 1989 

The Iceman is hot ... as usual!
 great soundboard quality !

SET LIST

01. "instrumental"
02. I Wonder Why
03. "Albert intro" > Listen Here
04. The Lights Are On But Nobody's Home
05. Master Charge
06. Natural Ball (fades out)
07. Albert intro > Jam
08. I Got That Feelin' (level switch at 6'44")
09. Too Many Dirty Dishes
10. I Ain't Drunk
11. Frosty (cuts out)
12. The Things That I Used To Do
13. Soul Serenade


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ZIPPY                   SOLIDFILES
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January 17, 2015

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers Live In Bern Switzerland 26-04-1986 AKA: - Sudden Frost



More from the Master of the Telecaster !

This great recording was a promo for  an European tour from the mid/late 80ies!
Probably was sent to local radio station before Albert's upcoming local concert!
Ten tracks here of real Texas Blues !
Enjoy folks and support your local music scene!

NEW LINKS:
June 15/19


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February 20, 2014

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - Live at the Chestnut Club 1986

Back with the best of the blues brought by our mate The Rippin' Frog, today we have an excellent Albert Collins soundboard recording.


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There has never been and may never be again a bluesman quite like Albert Collins. "The Master Of The Telecaster" was born on October 1, 1932, in Leona, Texas. A cousin of the legendary Lightnin' Hopkins, Collins emerged with a blues sound and style all his own, featuring a combination of icy echo, shattering, ringing, sustained high notes, an ultra-percussive right-hand attack, and an unheard-of minor key guitar tuning (taught to him by his cousin Willow Young). Deeply influenced by T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker and Gatemouth Brown, Collins absorbed the sounds of Mississippi, Chicago, and especially Texas. He formed his own band in 1952, packing clubs around Houston. In the early 1960s, Collins' "cool sound"instrumentals like the million-seller Frosty (recorded with a young Johnny Winter and Janis Joplin in attendance at the studio) and follow-ups Sno Cone and Thaw Out were all over R&B radio. Soon he was sharing stages with his idols Gatemouth Brown and T-Bone Walker.
Then, in the mid-'60s (following a move from Texas to Kansas City to California), Collins broke into the rock 'n' roll world, releasing three albums produced by members of Canned Heat, and began playing the San Francisco psychedelic circuit. But Albert's greatest success came after he signed with Alligator in 1978 and cut Ice Pickin'. It won the Best Blues Album of the Year Award from the Montreux Jazz Festival, and was nominated for a Grammy. His following Alligator albums helped earn Collins every award the blues world had to offer. And, along with Johnny Copeland and Robert Cray (who decided on a career as a bluesman after seeing Collins play his high school prom) Collins cut the Grammy-winning Showdown!.
Even after he was firmly established as a major modern bluesman, Collins never got too big for his fans and friends, and never took things easy. And he never relinquished the wheel of his battered tour bus that he loved to drive so much. Along with his band, The Icebreakers, Collins' live shows -- driven by his kinetic stage presence -- were legendary testaments to the power of the blues. With his untimely death in 1993, Albert Collins left behind a blues legacy that continues to amaze and delight blues fans all over the world.

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June 7, 2013

Albert Collins and the Icebreakers - Crystal Palace 1992

And this way comes The Rippin Frog to present us more blues: Albert Collins, the real KING of the strratocaster telecaster !!!



Albert Collins and the Icebreakers
Crystal Palace Bowl
London
4th July 1992
American Music Festival - Midsummer Blues

Live broadcast on BBC Radio 1 FM

01.Travelling South 4:12
02.If Trouble Was Money 9:26
03.Put the Shoe On The Other Foot 5:49
04.Same Old Thing 6:54
05.Things I Used To Be 6:11
06.Ice Man 8:55

Albert Collins (October 1, 1932 — November 24, 1993) was a blues guitarist, singer and musician. He had many nicknames, such as "The Ice Man", "The Master of the Telecaster" and "The Razor Blade".
He formed his first band in 1952 and two years later was the headliner at several blues clubs in Houston. By the late 1950s Collins began using Fender Telecasters. He later chose a "maple-cap" 1966 Custom Fender Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucker in the neck position and a 100 watt RMS silverfaced 1970s Fender Quad Reverb combo as his main equipment, and developed a unique sound featuring minor tunings, sustained notes and an "attack" fingerstyle.
Collins began recording in 1960 and released singles, including many instrumentals such as the million selling "Frosty".
In the spring of 1965 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri and made a name for himself.
Many of Kansas City's recording studios had closed by the mid 1960s. Unable to record, Collins moved to California in 1967.
He settled in San Francisco and played many of the venues popular with the counter-culture. In early 1969 after playing a concert with Canned Heat, members of this band introduced him to Liberty Records. In appreciation, Collins’ first record title for United Artists "Love Can Be Found Anywhere", was taken from the lyrics of "Refried Hockey Boogie". Collins signed and released his first album on Imperial Records, a sister label, in 1968.
Collins remained in California for another five years, and was popular on double-billed shows at The Fillmore and the Winterland.
Collins moved back to Texas in 1973 and formed a new band. He was signed to Alligator Records in 1978 and recorded and released Ice Pickin'.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Collins toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He was becoming a popular blues musician and was an influence for Coco Montoya, Robert Cray, Gary Moore, Debbie Davies, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer and Frank Zappa.
In 1983, when he won the W. C. Handy Award for his album Don't Lose Your Cool, which won the award for best blues album of the year. In 1985, he shared a Grammy for the album Showdown!, which he recorded with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. The following year his solo release
Alongside George Thorogood and the Destroyers and Bo Diddley, Collins performed at Live Aid in 1985, playing "The Sky Is Crying" and "Madison Blues", at the JFK Stadium. He was the only black blues artist to appear.
Collins was invited to play at the 'Legends Of Guitar Festival' concerts in Seville, Spain at the Expo in 1992, where amongst others, he played "Iceman", the title track from his final studio album.
After falling ill at a show in Switzerland in late July 1993, he was diagnosed in mid August with lung cancer which had metastasized to his liver, with an expected survival time of four months. Parts of his last album, Live '92/'93, were recorded at shows that September; he died shortly afterwards, in November at the age of 61.
Another instance of Collins' humorous stage presence was recounted in the film documentary, Antones: Austin's Home of the Blues. Collins left the building, still plugged in and playing. Several minutes after Collins returned to the stage, a pizza delivery man came in and gave Collins the pizza he had just ordered when he left the building. Collins had gone to Milto's Pizza & Pasta through an adjoining alley and ordered while he was still playing.


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