Edited sentence: "  He was kind, generous, and a gentleman.Albert Collins dropped out of school in the third grade.Albert Collins frequented guitar shows and gave his time freely to fans.Cray band).From the shocked and bewildered look on the faces of the people on the bus, those who followed Albert outside about fell down.He is missed as a person as well as being missed as a musical genious.He loved people and lived to entertain.He never learned to read and never had a formal guitar lesson in his life.In Detroit he revealed that he not only couldn't read music but he could not read (having dropped out of school in the third grade).Just as he walked outside with his 100-foot guitar cord a city bus pulled up, so Albert got on the bus.Meanwhile on stage Richard Cousins and I would hold down the tunes trying to ignore this blazing 110 db plus guitar solo since Collins would hear us on a delay.San Francisco club (R.Still playing of course.Tom Murphy writes:  We backed Collins at a downtown Market St.When asked about the tapes for sale where one can learn to read and write music like Albert Collins for 59.55, he remarked "funky chit, ain't it