As he stepped forward with the guitar, the standing ovation just drove him back, ... As he stepped forward a second time, the standing ovation him drove him back again. As both Carlos Santana and Steve Miller both observed, he had tears in his eyes. B.B. himself said he was overcome. He didn't know what he had done to deserve this, and the fact remains that the white hippies from that period were running ahead of the curve. They knew what was hip.

Dick Waterman