Roy Buchanan - Green Onions

[obiwan6885]

@snakeweirdo Oh, but I did compare Roy to Jimi. Why? Because they were both pioneers on the guitar. Look it up, kid. I've been playing music since I was 5 & have been formally educated in music. Get over yourself, don't think you can educate me on guitar playing, or even music for that matter. His biography says that he was shy & would've been humble about being compared to ANYONE. But Les Paul, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Lennon, Merle Haggard...etc...etc...sing his praises & say he was a pioneer.

[bucknorm]

HOLY CRAP!

[pamelamazzarone]

I have some photographs of this show...great show!

[Satchmoeddie]

Is this Roy's Guild T-250?? I know he endorsed a guild guitar that was basically a Telecaster body with what was dubbed a cake knife headstock. I went to the auction for his guitars, and saw a Guild and a Tele with a BC Rich neck, as well as Fenders and a couple Les Pauls. Unfortunately the items went for more cash than I had, but less than his widow deserved to get.

[Kristopful]

Roy was out of the box.

Never heard any guitarist do the stuff he does with out any sound effect peddles. (and I've heard a lot of great guitarists)

Freakin Genius.!

[99silverstone]

Roy Buchanan would have been a great heavy metal artist, but he was about 30 years to soon. That guy is practically shredding that guitar. Definitely ahead of his time, and half out of his mind. I love it!

[MrSiDSaN]

i just started to listen Jack White , and now found this solo ... my world was destroyed ) i thoud that i know how should i play , but now stereotips are gone )

[9lontoonieful1]

A great song played very well!

[jax1moi8]

6 people didn't like it? And said so? EH?

Clowns!

[Lambrechtsen]

Please welcome... Dennis Hopper on the guitar!

[5jerry1]

Buchanan has SUCH a spastic technique but he looks so relaxed while performing.

[DogCatchersBand]

Guild T-250 Guitar in Pearl White with EMG Pups (black tape over the headstock because GUILD dissed Roy by not naming the guitar "The Roy Buchanan Model" even though he helped design it).Roy never got his due!

[TheStatue1]

too much guitar  acrobatics for this type of song.

[Barnekkid]

Wow, he just sort of exploded! What kind of tele is that with that crazy looking headstock?

[powellallan]

Hung himself, what a waste. That guitar sounds like a dozen screaming eels being tied together on a supersonic trip down to hell, and I'm an atheist.

[JustAintthatWay]

@powellallan oh man yours may be the most perfectly decriptive youtube comment

of all time but im an agnostic so i need more proof ha ha but no joke damn excellent description

of buchanan's sound t/y for it

[Renhjarta]

80's tele copy.. boss digital delay.. roland jazz chorus solid state amp.. Man, it´s all in the hands!

[gsquared38]

HOLY SHIT

[pparada63]

onions are forever.

[SuperLeadguitar]

Smokin hot!

[MrBluesjamman]

i love the original version by booker T and the MG's, i have been absolutely blown away by roy buchanans version. great loss to music. imagine how this guy would be playing if he were still alive today.

[Snotra]

Someone call the cops!!!!!! Hey is having his hairy way with that Tele GUITAR!!!!

[dingoswamphead]

Who let that wild animal onstage? Great video, and thanks for the close ups.

[mturbevi]

Must have been Roy Buchanan´s answer to the heavy metal guys who are into speed picking or something like that. Roy Buchanan was a pretty great musician who could play with anybody but this version makes you want a beer.

[209esperanza]

love this thanks tolstoyman2 for the share

[RockTheOcean4me]

I just say wow !

[reddibacon]

PUBES!

[skullphuxx]

Roy blows a string at 2:50 and still destroys it and finishes clean. The original Tele Shredder!

[skullphuxx]

@skullphuxx After many reviews. there was not broken string. My apologies.

[BluesMan88]

What brand was that tele clone he's playing here? interesting sound

[wherenthehellubeen]

@BluesMan88 That is a Roy Buchanan Tele that Guild put out. They only made about 210 of them in 1985... 86 and I am the proud owner of one. Some people like em and some don't. It is said that Roy wasn't really happy with the design they came out with but I love mine.

[Draugoth]

Only one thing to say about this: Bad-f**kin-ass.

R.I.P. Roy

[steviewguitar]

it made me think of buckethead . this is off the hook .

[buzz834]

Well this is something really different!!!

[reddibacon]

that sounded like a retarded vagina

[qiaorusi]

With Roy he wasn't trying to play the "right" notes. He was exorcising demons. I saw him four times, and I was planning on seeing him again at Tiger's Pub in Clifton Park, NY. Then one day I'm riding in my car and the radio announcer says the show was cancelled due to Roy's death. What a bummer.

As for Tele's Albert tCollins got some pretty sweet tones from his, and have you ever seen the vid of Prince playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the George Harrison Tribute?

[billyhigdon]

that Prince solo was insane

[JustAintthatWay]

@qiaorusi wow i was trying to think of some way to describe what it's like to

hear roy buchanan play man that 'exorcising demons' of yours captures it whole

he was at once both the most intimidating and impressive guitarist i ever saw live

dude was actually scary to be near like if you made eye contact w/ him

he'd come over and knock your ass out for looking

yeah that guy had some demons man i hope he has peace now

[elletsco]

why does youtube even give you the chance to offer a text comment on this video? what the hell can you say?

holy sh*t !

[Bluizex7]

Roy was a true master of the guitar. The Broadcaster, that then became the Telecaster was "unforgiving" in that what was played was exactly what came out. So many relegated it to rythm duties, while only a few masterful guitarists would dare pick one up with intentions of lead. Roy made the Tele talk like nobody else.

[eyevangogh]

How Completely Awesome, would it have been......to see Roy, & Alvin Lee Square-Off

YIKES!

[oeddie99]

@eyevangogh Alvin Lee? I saw Alvin get blown off the stage by Skynyrd and Al Collins in '75 @Boston Garden, Alvin was pissed that he got shown up so bad. I was a huge A.Lee fan until that night. Roy would've left Alvin sucking his thumb and crying for his mommy on the side of the stage.

[IpkisStanley]

lol it's funny cause it's true

[guitarristachileno]

wow roy. way to be a fucking badass.

[barkulator]

I recall as a kid players said Telecasters were only good for rhythm, great for clean chords, but you couldn't do anything else with them, second banana guitar player in the band used them and the lead player had a strat or paul. Until this guy came along and showed us all how great a Tele can sustain (in the right hands that is)

[shafer9]

One of the original shredders.

[pirrostsakas]

Sloppy

:-(

[GoDAMNYankee]

You're a fucking waterhead. Why don't you try and prove it? On the Live @ Austin City Limits, he was tanked; and that didn't inhibit him from being spot on. You're probably just jealous that you'll never be half the player that Roy was. So, go fuck yourself.

[Beerchasers]

Never seen Roy as an old guy before! Guess the fingers kept on picking right up til the noose took his breath away.

[srvvaughan93]

l unico inimitabile

[myzticc66]

Fuckin Awesome!!!!!!

[fnkyolsol]

I don't care for it.

[NancyHey]

Roy Buchanan's guitar work on this has me flabbergasted and awestruck. This was intense and fantastic. He is one of the Top 5 or top 10 of rock guitarists. May God rest his soul.

[CantDenyDime]

@NancyHey there's too many out there dude. there aint no top 10 or top 5 or top 20 in hell or anywhere else. pretty sure guys like buchanan and alvin lee are constantly over shadowed by scale spewers like steve vai and john petrucci. people don't know what good is anyways, they're impressed by quick scales and thats it

[abnerrblues]

he gets the devil!

[javadude54]

I had the Roy Buchanan album this was on, Loading Zone. Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn also played on the track. Both Cropper and Buchanan took a couple of solos and it was very interesting to see where they both took it. Of course, Roy took the song where no one else could... that goes without saying. The Heat of the Battle is my favorite cut on that album.

[mario21128]

the one part had a zappa-esque lick

[gentry738]

this guy kills

[soutltank]

great one

[coralseaclyde]

Cops killed Roy.. Sad..

[cduffynyc]

Bill! - How the hell, if you ever heard him once, could you ever forget Roy???

[billmossII]

I listened to Roy Buchanan back in the 1970s. I forgot how incredible this man was. I'm enjoying the hell out of this.

[Phrix0s]

The phrasing is really something else. This guy rocks.

[xtranet1]

Roy's a Boy!

I saw Roy first row center at Park West - Chicago in 1979. He gave me a pick.

That was Bad Ass!

R.I.P. Roy

[elletsco]

if i'd have done this first, i'd bury my head in the sand. there is no way that roy buchanan should not have done green onions first. hendrix who?

[blhristov]

nails may serve something else but biting!

[snakeblues]

hey roy!!! you are the devil!!!!

[smokybrick]

Truly an awesome guitar player. Even if he does overdue it now and then, there is much to learn from him. His harmonics and licks are great how he does them :)

[greencat6666]

looks like a cab driver....makes clapton, page, van halen, etc look like Mr Rogers neighborhood.......

[altadena57]

Great comment; Made me laugh; Thanks!!

[fhgk9]

It all fit pretty nicely for me.

[UBIQUEROL]

personal preference i guess then

[sammray]

ABSOLUTE WORK OF ART!!!!! - Total mayhem combined with finesse - Designed to make people like me happy and upset the purists - Nobody did or does it better - Rock on Roy!

[garmonbozia318]

Amazing playing and technique, but where's the soul? I'll take the 4:25 version by the mg's (on youtube) any day of the week.

[FIRECRACKER392]

HOPE YA LIKE THEM ONIONS SMOKED!!!

[wfd57fatman]

That was some of the strangest outer space guitar sounds I've ever heard! Only Roy could speed pick harmonics like that! RIP Roy!

[eliasthegreek]

The ultimate blues guitar player EVER.

thank you for posting that video.

[iceman273]

a very unfortunate rendition of this song. Does not sound like music to me.

[JayIceColdD]

Sick solo... but I don't feel it fits the song.

I mean, the shredding, bending, harmonics, and sounds he makes is crazy, but why do this on a blues track? This is more of a metal solo.

Plus, audio isn't what it could be, so maybe it loses something there...

Still... boy is sick.

[Fuzz0Lord]

are you serious? this dude is one of the best Blues guitarists ever, so it's only natural for him to solo over a Blues Track.

besides, back then this stuff was meant for the stage.

[JayIceColdD]

But it's like listening to Zakk Wylde shred a solo over Pride and Joy. It's impressive, but it just doesn't seem to fit.

[hawkdogie]

i agree

[gbrycki]

What guitar is that? Body looks like a Tele but the headstock doesn't.

[boerborn]

it is a Guild T200 guitar.

yuk !

Roy's talent would have made any guitar

sound great.

[iagobroxado]

I always thought it was a Jackson/Charvel tele-style.

[guitrewdrew]

I Love Roy Man ,,,he was one of the best awsome Blues player,

[brutalblues]

Far better players than you will ever hope to be respect Roy for the emotion and innovation he brought to the table (in the 50's,60's & 70's). This may not be his best performance ever, but to call him a hack just shows your ignorance.

[musicmatty67]

A lot of flash and go, but no justice to the song at all. I have yet to see any tasty licks that sound classy on the Tele. He's not a favortie of mine when it comes to playin the Tele...I prefer clean and choice licks over speed and hack style.

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[obiwan6885]

Roy Buchanan has played some of the cleanest licks you'll ever hear on a Telecaster. There was a lot of depth to his playing. Live, he tended to get really guttural and nasty with his tone and playing. There are a lot of people that would give their soul to play half as good as Roy...his playing style was kind of creepy because at times it was so intense. I'd put Roy Buchanan up against anybody, even Jimi Hendrix.

[sonnybuddy2001]

Right on... when I was a kid, I was turned on to Buchanan way before I'd even had a sniff of Hendrix.. when I heard Jimi, I said, "yeah, he's cool, but not as good as Roy."

[oramikleepunk]

I understand what your saying....I perfer Buddy guy,Albert king,and Chuck Berry over Hendrix any day.

[grga888]

You may like those guys more than Jimi, but a fact stays. Jimi Hendrix is the best guitar player of all times, like it or not.

[coopertrooper87]

Hendrix was great! But Roy said it himself

"Theres no such thing as number 1"

Its not a compitition, stop treating it like one. Neither man was better than the other!

[wigle666]

well, he said "there is no such thing as number 1, but thanks for thinking of of me"

[dacrowster]

@coopertrooper87 Still Jimi was the best :)

[MadMonkeyExpress]

another fact,the thing about being the best,is there is always someone better.

[scottladoucheable]

@obiwan6885 Roy and Jimi did play together.

[snakeweirdo]

@obiwan6885 You can't really put something so clearly which isn't clear. Music is subjective. Look it up. And I am sure Roy Buchanan would HATE it when you compare him to Hendrix.

[Cadabra65]

Is there any proof he was asked to play with the stones?

[gbrycki]

Not really. His biography, "American Axe" has no story about it other then Roy saying he turned down the spot. Unlike, say, the Rory Gallagher book where it documents Rory meeting with the Stones and waiting 2 days for Keith Richards to appear before giving up and going home. When you look at the list of guitar players who were alledgedly asked to join the Stones, it reads like almost every guitar player on the planet.

[oeddie99]

no pedals or wah wahs

[santacruezz]

He could play anything he wanted...with soul...if it is needed to emphasize the feel of the song he played lightning fast!

[ayahuascayage]

When I saw him, he dominated the stage. The other musicians were kind of incidental. The Stones asked him to join their band, but he declined. I repsect him for that

[bluesdog53]

Thanks for adding!  R.I.P. Roy.