This week, the world lost a legend when B.B. King passed away. There are few people in history who could connect with B.B. on his level, who could talk about things that only B.B. would understand. There have been very few people in history that were on his level...Slash was one of those people.

That relationship, being two of a small group, gives you some kind of instant kinship. So you may interact with people in that group differently than you would react to others. Which is why it's not that big of a surprise that Slash would give B.B. King his hat. The surprising part, was how happy it made B.B.

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