[andrek]

People, do you know Buddy Guy? If, then you know Adolf Galland.

Buddy Guy is one of the last real blues guitar players on earth. I think he is 80 years old or maybe a bit younger. He can really play guitar. He can play his guitar on a higher level as for example a Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix - but only if Buddy Guy likes to do that! He very much likes to play with the audience. He is a talker and a very folksy guy. Most of his shows ran about 70 minutes. It is 15 minutes of talking and 50 minutes of music and 5 minutes of nothing. He is unique and authentic. The people love him.

I have a older colleague who is a blues fan and who did two interviews with Galland. He said that Galland was very similar to Buddy Guy. He was authentic and never played a role. He was always himself. He wasn' t a intellectual like a Steinhoff, but he could talk big and this way he made hundereds of personal contacts and those contacts helped him much in wartimes and after the war.

In relation to a Lent or a Steinhoff he was a boor.

Did he ever had a office in Berlin?