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  • >> B.B. King: I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time.

  • You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like.

  • When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

  • I like to feel in most cases like I'm a big guy with long rubber arms

  • that I can reach around my audience and swing and sway with them. Move them with me.

  • Many nights I can't. Many nights I can't,

  • but you do like a good manager do with a baseball team: you keep pulling pitchers.

  • >> Joe Smith: Keep trying.

  • >> B.B. King: Yeah, keep trying. [laughter]

  • >> [MUSIC: B.B. KINGLUCILLE”]

  • >> Joe Smith: How did that guitar gets its name?

  • >> B.B. King: I used to play a place in Twist, Arkansas. Still there, Twist, Arkansas.

  • They used to have a little nightclub there that we played quite often.

  • It used to get quite cold in Twist. They used to take something

  • looked like a big garbage pail and set it in the middle of the floor,

  • half fill it with kerosene, and would light that fuel and that's what we used for heat.

  • Generally, the people would dance around it and they wouldn't disturb this container.

  • This particular night, two guys started to fighting

  • and one of them knocked the other one over on this container.

  • >> B.B. King: When they did, it spilled on the floor.

  • Now it was already burning, so when it spilled, it looked like a river of fire.

  • Everybody ran for the front door including yours truly.

  • But when I got on the outside, then I realized that I'd left my guitar inside. I went back for it.

  • The building was a wooden building and it was burning so fast when I got my guitar,

  • it started to collapse around me. So I almost lost my life trying to save the guitar.

  • Well the next morning we found that these two guys was fighting about a lady.

  • I never did meet the lady but I learned that her name was Lucille.

  • So I named my guitar Lucille to remind me not to do a thing like that again. [laughs]

  • >> [Music: B.B. KingLucille"]

  • >> B.B. King: The early years when I was starting, if you were a blues player,

  • you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places.

  • People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing

  • and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar,

  • and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  • >> Joe Smith: You came out of relatively hard times, a lot of blues players did.

  • Is it necessary to have hard times to reflect that music?

  • >> B.B. King: No, it's not. It helps though. [laughs]

  • >> B.B. King: Hard times don't necessarily mean being poor all the time.

  • I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family likes everybody else but them.

  • That hurts and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get.

  • I've known people that would have problems with their love life.

  • This is kind of how blues began,

  • out of feeling misused, mistreated, feeling like they had nobody to turn to.

  • Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did

  • because there are people having problems all over the world.

  • >> [Music]

  • >> B.B. King: I don't like to feel that I owe anything.

  • I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.

  • When people give me all these great compliments,

  • I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice.

  • A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes."

  • I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything,

  • but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it.

  • When someone do say something negative,

  • most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

  • >> Joe Smith: You know who you are.

  • >> B.B. King: I like to think that I do.

  • >> [Music]

  • >> B.B. King: Some of my friends would tell me from time to time, Eric Clapton said this,

  • or Jimi Hendrix said this. I spoke with John Lennon once after I had seen in,

  • I believe it was Life Magazine, where people were asking questions,

  • "say, what is it you would like to do?" One of his things was to play guitar like B.B.King.

  • That's when I started to find that a lot of the young musicians had been listening to me.

  • I didn't know and, for the life of me, sometimes still wonder why.

  • I've had my feelings of doubt, I think, in music,

  • but to think that there are people, that learned to play by listening to my music,

  • those dark days wasn't dark after all.

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