I hate this song. I listen to it everyday. And it just keeps getting better. But, but, I can't elevate this and only this to #1 on my playlist, people will think I'm stark raving mad!
Like I said,... I hate this ridiculously cool old blues song...
Buchanan was with the original Hawks (later known as "The Band"), and Levon Helm says he was a strange person with weird eyes and a bizarre sense of humor. And where Ronnie Hawkins wanted showmanship in his musicians (dance steps and so forth) he just let Buchanan stand on the side of the stage and play the living crap out of the guitar. You can hear his influence on The Band's Robbie Robertson, though Robertson on his best day (I feel) can't touch what Buchanan did on an average day.
@playrealblues : Dino Kruse once brought me a bucket of old parts and a swamp-ash Tele body he picked from a friend in New Orleans. He promised to come back and show me how to replicate an exact copy of a '61. Tele, with the single pick-up. (I guess he was thinking it might sound somewhat like the one shown here.) A month flew by, and I decided to tackle it on my own. The result was, unfortunately, that someone in NO is playing a very expensive unsigned replica. -tsg
To get his legendary sound Roy experimented with many industry innovative techniques including making small cuts in the paper of the speaker cones, but I agree that his sound is all his, I've seen people pick up the crappiest quality nylon string guitar and play like gods. RIP Roy...your music and memory are still alive.
Yep, you're also right. To make things more complicated, not only every guitarist achieves his own sound through his playing technique, also the different guitars can put a slightly different colour (or call it voice) to the result. I agree, holding another guitar beauty in my hands make me play slightly different.
My father turned me on to Roy when I was 12-13 years old. Strange circumstances brought me to Roy as my father frequented a small barber shop on Route 1, Hybla
Valley in Fairfax County, Va. Roy was taking a break from playing on the road & drying out from a narcotics addition. After our haircut, my Dad would walk out to the car & fetch his Gibson Super 400. I dont remember much about their playing but my Dad was a Jazz musician & he had no interest in R&B til he met Roy.
@britturner: Yep, i see you know what i mean. Some people think if they only buy the same guitar and the same other equipment they would sound like their idols. But this is not true.
Every musician has his own sound (at least the better ones). The Jazz Guys knew this already a long time ago. Miles Davis sounds like Miles, any other Player - even with Miles original instrument - will sound different. Even so with Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Page, Jerry Garcia, Santana etc. 1 note is enough to recognize.
@playrealblues It's true, I was once accused of having special pickups, amps and effects or something I used to cheat(?!). I just had a cheap stock sg into an ampeg bass amp with a rat distortion and tube screamer. It's all in the fingers and personality of the player.
sometimes blues can get really repetitive and simplistic. I hate the blues sometimes because of how repetitive and simplistic my playing becomes. I hear the blues is used to express emotion but ironically the blues has a tendency to piss me off.
Not all of what this guy is playing is bad but every now and then he plays something I've played hundreds of times in my solos and I cringe a little bit inside!!!
@playrealblues the sound comes from you?? if i played your guitar it would sound the same as if you were playing it. the amp and effects on the amp or effects peddels create different sounds.
Not really at all. Of course you will hear effects thats being used, but first of all it comes from the musician himself. btw, i never use any effect pedals, only plain guitar and tube amp. The rest is in the fingers, man!
@squaredave2002 What do u mean by that hes dead,I just heard of him,and im 50ive been a hard core Zappa fanatic since i was 14,This dud Roy kiicks ass.
@squaredave2002 I did 8 mo. in that stinking hellhole known as Fairfax Co. jail and I can tell you from 1st hand experience that those Sherriff deputy's are the biggest bunch of sadistic bastards I ever encountered way back in my jail'n days. I would NOT doubt at all, that there was more to it than Roy simply hang'n himself. RIP, your the greatest Roy!
I'm sorry everyone. I'm not trying to be morbid, just to get it straight. Roy hung himself, right? I don't want to get him confused with someone else.
Have you ever heard of a guy called Rory Gallagher. Great Irish player. Dead now, no more than many other greats like Stevie Ray. I'd advise Rory Gallagher. One of my Heroes
I don't know why it helps to compare guitarists. It's all subjective and they each bring something different. I love Roy but Danny doesn't do it for me for some reason. For more Telecasting, try Bill Kirchen.
I don't know teleevangelist. Put him up against Danny Gatton and you have one hell of a hard time deciding who was better. Either way Roy Buchanan was one HELL of a player!
No one yet, can play a tele like Roy...he stands the test of time, and as of yet, no one walks forward, and says anythang, lol, rip roy, you are loved...wynn ^5
The Man had More feel, and Soul than a lot of other Players of his time. Even when you think he may be playing out of tune he actually wanted those notes in there so he can resolve to the root in an unorthodox way. Notice his picking hand, and how he uses his other fingers along to create the intensity, and texture of the motif .Seymour Duncan actually wound his pickups for this particular Telecaster in this Video. Another Genius " Roy Buchanan" whose time came too soon. Thanks for the memory
That said, Roy buchanan sorta did start a new type of guitar playing wich no one else was able to master becausehe died before he could ever become really great!
Hands down..the MASTER..no one else got those harmonics consistently! First he was a disciple of the guitar then he mastered it. Ask Jimi or Stevie or even Billy or whatsisname...Eric, they will tell you!
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Roy plucks a string. The vibrations is caught by the pickups, the vibrations are made to eletric signals, which are send through a jackstick through a different set of pedal effetcs, then through an amplifier and then a mixer. I maybe got the order wrong, but my point is that you can get the same sound with a gibson sg, or a esp kirk hamnet signature
bullshit! this is a tele sound and no other guitar would sound like that. why bother buying many different guitars if they all sound the same? stfu man...
i didnt say that every guitar sounds the same, but i said that you can make all guitars sound the same. The most importent is the guy playin the guitar
no you can't ,you could get close, but thats it, even using the same guitar you can't match the same exact tones because their made of wood, and each peice of wood sounds unique
Exactly. Listen to the different songs played on a Telecaster by Michael Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, SRV, and Roy Buchanan. All different players, all different styles, but when they play the same material, there will always be subtle differences in sound solely due to the tree that the wood for the guitar came from. But once again, it will ALWAYS be the man playing the guitar the ultimately decides how his music will sound.
triggersfordreams:To my ear that is traditional or slow blues not a shuffle. Respectfully I just don't hear dotted figures being played regardless of tempo. I've hammered out slow shuffles, fast shuffles, gut bucket, back beat, country etc. for 25+years. As a working blues drummer in GSO NC I've dedicated myself to perfecting the many and varied forms of shuffles played in the Blues. Again no disrespect intended, I love all kinds of music and am glad to meet up with a fellow Blues fan.
I was fortunate enough to see Roy a few times. The last only a week before he died. He was always terrific. No effects, no pedals, he made those unique sounds using only his fingers and his imagination! A true master of the Telecaster.
zebop45 you totally have it right, i dont think you can compare the two and you have to show extreme respect to any of the players on that level of playing no matter what genre band or style
A guitar playing buddy and I stopped at a Philadelphia bar once to grab a beer. Roy was playing. We ended up following this legend on the 'chicken circuit' for the next 5 weeks just to watch and hear him. It felt like a beloved relative had died when he passed away. He will always be missed by this old mediocre guitar player.
Roys "Second Album" to this day remains one of the all-time great blues albums ever..His playing on that is incredible...No effects, not too much reverb,just a pure natural sound..A classic for blues players,imo..
I can tell Walter Trout has incorporated a lot of Buchanan into his playing. That's great because he is a very powerful player and I love hearing the Buchanan influence.
i love old roy blues...and i love reaching back to watch older players... but i have now turned on to where guitar is instead of where it was. Greg Howe, Guthrie Govan and some other players today have taken it to the next level.
B3... Walter is indeed a master, no doubt. And I love the stuff he does, listen to him a lot and he puts on a killer show. But I will bet you even up that Walter is not gonna compare himself to Roy. Roy just had so many tools in his blues workbench that nobody else had or figured out how to acquire. But Walter is a monster bluesman! Whoever you like, the main things is just livin the blues and respecting the tradition! A whole lot of people don't understand what the blues are about.
Claiming a particular guitarist is the greatest ever is obviously a personal thing, but to me Roy Buchanan was unmatched by anybody else. If somebody else comes along that can move people emotionally more than Roy did I will travel as far as I have to to see them doing it.
His gigs were often attended by other guitarists who basically stood in awe watching him tear that Tele to pieces, of course this was in between making it cry and whisper sweetly. God Bless you Roy, and thanks!
no doubt jimmy had that awesome rock and roll presence and an overwhelming power that nobody could match but come on its Roy Buchanon as a guitarist he runs circles around page.
Roy was like Stevie Ray, he never ran out of licks. It was like a channel that just ran through him. Never saw SRV or Roy freeze up with that,"what do I play next look". Clapton does it all the time, or EC will just play some crap cause he isn't "feeling" it. Roy and SRV, only 2 players I've seen, play all night, you never get bored. AMAZING...
Roy was definitely one of the least appreciated guitarists of all time....I feel lucky to have seen him play in college. He has such a unique sound....I agree it's more his playing than the guitar. That given, and as I don't play the guitar, what makes the telecaster such a better blues guitar than the strat (in my opinion)?
Dude....very astute observations coming from a non-player! Even a lot of guitar wannabes dont' realize it's "in the fingers"...
Roy would sound like Roy no matter what guitar was in his hands. Guitar players are a finicky bunch with very sensitive ears. Each has his own pet tone he likes, and certain guitars deliver and others don't. A good guitar has many qualities cheap ones don't have. BUT,a great guitar player sounds great on a cheap guitar and a lousy guitar player sounds lousy always!:)
THANKS ROY, I'm going out and gettin' me a Telecaster! Never owned one before. You know the folks at Gibson Guitars ridiculed this instrument when it first came out? They stopped laughing when it outsold everything they came out with.
its so hard to keep up with him mentally, and feeling every note when hes on a role, its too big of a release from his soul for me too fully understand it, and im totally blown away everytime i hear him. The rythm shuffle was well done, tempo was spot on... to the brink then realese. RIP roy
There was something dark & spooky about Roy. He always seemed like a man living close to the edg. A humble,spiritual guy who was constantly fighting demons..and it came out in his music. Like him, his music had a duality to it. Nobody sounds like him. Spears ones heart with just one note.
The intro to Roy's Bluz always sends chills up my spine. No doubt, that guitar embodied every ounce of his soul. Though he couldn't sing very well. Lol. too much soul in the guitar to sing :P
Roy is great, but for me the two greatest exponents of the Telecaster are Scotty Anderson and the ultimate player, the genius that is Danny Gatton who I think had loads of soul and feel - his jazz playing is exquisite. I would also give kudos to Jerry Donahue - no one bends a string like him.
I don't think I would make that statement SirCallahan17. Gatton was influenced by Roy but I wouldn't say that Roy was his "teacher" by any stretch of the imagination!
Guitar God, Love you Roy, R.,I.P best unknown player still. And hes been dead for many many years Long live Roy Buchanan, one of the top 5 players to have ever picked up a Guitar. No question, if you disagree , you know very very little about the guitar and Roy. .........R.I.P Roy
SRV is a hack. Sure, he knows the licks, but he has no taste. He always plays at Warp 9. No buildup. Actually, that is too harsh, but the sentiment stands.
Those of us from Washington DC make the natural comparison of Roy to Danny Gatton. Danny could probably outplay Roy, but Roy had more Soul in his playing.
and the SOUL is what it's all about Qazy...that's the difference between great and just another playa....you can't imitate SOUL...either you got it, or you don't..
Don't get me wrong, I saw SRV and Roy live here in Australia, and I love SRV, but If you think straight you know SRV borrowed heavily ALOT from other players. Roy invented his own style from absolute scratch, and could play almost any style with total mastery that very few can reproduce. That's why Roy is king. He didn't copy anyone, they copied him.
Yeah,I guess he just liked to do it on stage,like in Germany,and in the rest of the world.And I guess a lot of people liked to watch him ? So keep on tryin Cldf,mabey you`ll get to do it there to some day to, good luck!!
Roy kinda reminds me of ole Pete Townsend
rmachayes 2 months ago
he does not just play he independently mutes any thing he does not want to hear, with his hands to get that sweet tone coming through. Scary good!
gonedeepseafishing 6 months ago
oh this man can play blues very well
janomolnar 7 months ago
I hate this song. I listen to it everyday. And it just keeps getting better. But, but, I can't elevate this and only this to #1 on my playlist, people will think I'm stark raving mad!
Like I said,... I hate this ridiculously cool old blues song...
:)
ChezKiva 8 months ago
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MadeInGermany011 9 months ago
Buchanan was with the original Hawks (later known as "The Band"), and Levon Helm says he was a strange person with weird eyes and a bizarre sense of humor. And where Ronnie Hawkins wanted showmanship in his musicians (dance steps and so forth) he just let Buchanan stand on the side of the stage and play the living crap out of the guitar. You can hear his influence on The Band's Robbie Robertson, though Robertson on his best day (I feel) can't touch what Buchanan did on an average day.
5jerry1 9 months ago
@playrealblues : Dino Kruse once brought me a bucket of old parts and a swamp-ash Tele body he picked from a friend in New Orleans. He promised to come back and show me how to replicate an exact copy of a '61. Tele, with the single pick-up. (I guess he was thinking it might sound somewhat like the one shown here.) A month flew by, and I decided to tackle it on my own. The result was, unfortunately, that someone in NO is playing a very expensive unsigned replica. -tsg
ChezKiva 9 months ago
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ChezKiva 10 months ago
ITS THE SINGER NOT THE SONG, THAT MAKES THE MUSIC MOVE ALONG!!!
buchananstreet 10 months ago
he dance with the guitar genius Roy!!!
latinoyam 11 months ago
To get his legendary sound Roy experimented with many industry innovative techniques including making small cuts in the paper of the speaker cones, but I agree that his sound is all his, I've seen people pick up the crappiest quality nylon string guitar and play like gods. RIP Roy...your music and memory are still alive.
Splatasmagore 1 year ago
gotta lab it!!
CarlosRomulo07 1 year ago
Among the very best Tele Players on the Planet.......I do miss him!!!
montyphoto1 1 year ago
@urheadonastick
Yep, you're also right. To make things more complicated, not only every guitarist achieves his own sound through his playing technique, also the different guitars can put a slightly different colour (or call it voice) to the result. I agree, holding another guitar beauty in my hands make me play slightly different.
playrealblues 1 year ago
My father turned me on to Roy when I was 12-13 years old. Strange circumstances brought me to Roy as my father frequented a small barber shop on Route 1, Hybla
Valley in Fairfax County, Va. Roy was taking a break from playing on the road & drying out from a narcotics addition. After our haircut, my Dad would walk out to the car & fetch his Gibson Super 400. I dont remember much about their playing but my Dad was a Jazz musician & he had no interest in R&B til he met Roy.
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1954tele 1 year ago
@britturner: Yep, i see you know what i mean. Some people think if they only buy the same guitar and the same other equipment they would sound like their idols. But this is not true.
Every musician has his own sound (at least the better ones). The Jazz Guys knew this already a long time ago. Miles Davis sounds like Miles, any other Player - even with Miles original instrument - will sound different. Even so with Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Page, Jerry Garcia, Santana etc. 1 note is enough to recognize.
playrealblues 1 year ago
@playrealblues It's true, I was once accused of having special pickups, amps and effects or something I used to cheat(?!). I just had a cheap stock sg into an ampeg bass amp with a rat distortion and tube screamer. It's all in the fingers and personality of the player.
britturner 1 year ago
sometimes blues can get really repetitive and simplistic. I hate the blues sometimes because of how repetitive and simplistic my playing becomes. I hear the blues is used to express emotion but ironically the blues has a tendency to piss me off.
Not all of what this guy is playing is bad but every now and then he plays something I've played hundreds of times in my solos and I cringe a little bit inside!!!
gotta love guitar...
SweetandSourLips 1 year ago
Sounds like it's whistling
Bassist10288 1 year ago
@playrealblues the sound comes from you?? if i played your guitar it would sound the same as if you were playing it. the amp and effects on the amp or effects peddels create different sounds.
jonnny9000 1 year ago
@jonnny9000
Not really at all. Of course you will hear effects thats being used, but first of all it comes from the musician himself. btw, i never use any effect pedals, only plain guitar and tube amp. The rest is in the fingers, man!
playrealblues 1 year ago
As good as it gets
2711913 1 year ago
great! great! great!
vinilosblues 1 year ago
The man with the guitar ... "effective" only in the fingers
Excellent !
MaripozaM 1 year ago
Roy was great but now one did it better as a White guy then Stevie Ray!!!
datnewg 1 year ago
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TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
Youse is Da Blues Roy!!!
Shamagogue 1 year ago
sucks he died :( unique player, one of a kind
jib36 1 year ago
He's Telling a whole story without singing a word. Awesome!
propolispills 1 year ago
2:18 - 2:24
and21cap 1 year ago
consider John Cipollina when thinking about great guitarists
jltardiff 1 year ago
Roy was MURDERED in a jailcell in Virginia! Picked up for a bogus DUI. There oughtta be a Law.
squaredave2002 1 year ago
@squaredave2002 What do u mean by that hes dead,I just heard of him,and im 50ive been a hard core Zappa fanatic since i was 14,This dud Roy kiicks ass.
loislombardo 1 year ago
@squaredave2002 I did 8 mo. in that stinking hellhole known as Fairfax Co. jail and I can tell you from 1st hand experience that those Sherriff deputy's are the biggest bunch of sadistic bastards I ever encountered way back in my jail'n days. I would NOT doubt at all, that there was more to it than Roy simply hang'n himself. RIP, your the greatest Roy!
BringerOfLight2012 1 year ago 2
@squaredave2002 I believe it was drunk & disorderly. Roy didn't drive.
lanadoitch 1 year ago
@squaredave2002
lanadoitch 1 year ago
geez.that intro would put. neil youngs tone to shame...razor blade city...but the guy can play...
johncartelli 1 year ago
I'm sorry everyone. I'm not trying to be morbid, just to get it straight. Roy hung himself, right? I don't want to get him confused with someone else.
Seriously.
theScytheofGod 1 year ago
I used to pretend my my Kitty-cat was a guitar and play by pulling on its tail... Mreowwr.... (just kidding) lighten up. Roy was cool~
rawzone1 2 years ago
Have you ever heard of a guy called Rory Gallagher. Great Irish player. Dead now, no more than many other greats like Stevie Ray. I'd advise Rory Gallagher. One of my Heroes
myhorsetom 2 years ago
I don't know why it helps to compare guitarists. It's all subjective and they each bring something different. I love Roy but Danny doesn't do it for me for some reason. For more Telecasting, try Bill Kirchen.
Cheers
vacuumvibe 2 years ago 3
what's the big deal
it's a guitar like any others
guitarsorrow 2 years ago
I don't know teleevangelist. Put him up against Danny Gatton and you have one hell of a hard time deciding who was better. Either way Roy Buchanan was one HELL of a player!
sivad2 2 years ago
@sivad2 /Albert Collins, another signature Telecaster player?
teleevangelist 2 years ago
@teleevangelist Who would argue against such a point? Of course!
sivad2 2 years ago
No one yet, can play a tele like Roy...he stands the test of time, and as of yet, no one walks forward, and says anythang, lol, rip roy, you are loved...wynn ^5
teleevangelist 2 years ago
Monster... Take care, God bless... H.
himvpdmr 2 years ago
thank god that he make me hear musik like this!
dahansl54 2 years ago 2
He had something special in his playing - not only technically - Great
Wagiblues 2 years ago
Telecaster Master
merc1110 2 years ago 3
The Man had More feel, and Soul than a lot of other Players of his time. Even when you think he may be playing out of tune he actually wanted those notes in there so he can resolve to the root in an unorthodox way. Notice his picking hand, and how he uses his other fingers along to create the intensity, and texture of the motif .Seymour Duncan actually wound his pickups for this particular Telecaster in this Video. Another Genius " Roy Buchanan" whose time came too soon. Thanks for the memory
phallystorm 2 years ago 6
Does guitar playing ever get us good as this?....Doubt it!
kipperthree 2 years ago 14
este señor si que sabe
aguante buchanan
elgord24 2 years ago
this is some dam fine music
PasMasta 2 years ago 2
just incredible !
linkhumper 2 years ago
wow!!!this is sick!
ColonelFuckwadd 2 years ago
That said, Roy buchanan sorta did start a new type of guitar playing wich no one else was able to master becausehe died before he could ever become really great!
DaveRingle 2 years ago
Tone heaven! Roy and a Tele.
woodshome11 2 years ago 7
Hands down..the MASTER..no one else got those harmonics consistently! First he was a disciple of the guitar then he mastered it. Ask Jimi or Stevie or even Billy or whatsisname...Eric, they will tell you!
mazakman1957 2 years ago 7
I think you'll fing that Rory Gallagher was the master.
Rory learned from Jimi and became better. Then Eric, Billy, Brian may, SRV, and all those followed.
DaveRingle 2 years ago
It's magic! (Сказка!)
RUMINY3000 2 years ago
God I LOVE Tele blues.
mrmikerotch 2 years ago 3
he's the master
WhiteDwarf18 2 years ago 2
love that tele sound.
BlueRoseRocketBand2 2 years ago 2
Incredible stuff...a real guitarist...unreal!
kipperthree 3 years ago
Wow! Roy's guitar sounds so nice. I'm not a huge Tele fan but wow what a nice clean sound. Amazing. TG for you tube.
Jimiimij 3 years ago
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Roy plucks a string. The vibrations is caught by the pickups, the vibrations are made to eletric signals, which are send through a jackstick through a different set of pedal effetcs, then through an amplifier and then a mixer. I maybe got the order wrong, but my point is that you can get the same sound with a gibson sg, or a esp kirk hamnet signature
SauerPilsner 3 years ago
bullshit! this is a tele sound and no other guitar would sound like that. why bother buying many different guitars if they all sound the same? stfu man...
delirio1987 2 years ago
No i didnt said that idiot. Can you even read
SauerPilsner 2 years ago
and what did you say?
delirio1987 2 years ago
i didnt say that every guitar sounds the same, but i said that you can make all guitars sound the same. The most importent is the guy playin the guitar
SauerPilsner 2 years ago
no you can't ,you could get close, but thats it, even using the same guitar you can't match the same exact tones because their made of wood, and each peice of wood sounds unique
shinybald36 2 years ago
Exactly. Listen to the different songs played on a Telecaster by Michael Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix, SRV, and Roy Buchanan. All different players, all different styles, but when they play the same material, there will always be subtle differences in sound solely due to the tree that the wood for the guitar came from. But once again, it will ALWAYS be the man playing the guitar the ultimately decides how his music will sound.
BuRnT53 2 years ago
Great stuff to be sure but its not a shuffle.
Cooleemee43 3 years ago
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triggersfordreams 3 years ago
triggersfordreams:To my ear that is traditional or slow blues not a shuffle. Respectfully I just don't hear dotted figures being played regardless of tempo. I've hammered out slow shuffles, fast shuffles, gut bucket, back beat, country etc. for 25+years. As a working blues drummer in GSO NC I've dedicated myself to perfecting the many and varied forms of shuffles played in the Blues. Again no disrespect intended, I love all kinds of music and am glad to meet up with a fellow Blues fan.
Cooleemee43 3 years ago
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triggersfordreams 3 years ago 3
There's no need to say this one is better or that one is better. I love to hear him play in his own style. Roy left this world
without finding his balnce as a man. But I miss him, as an artist he had not finished .
lastsinger 3 years ago 2
It's marvelous, fantastic ... .. .
Pourquoi l'excellence se fait-elle si rare ... .. . et ne dure t-elle pas ?
Novalee
Azymuthan 3 years ago
THE FINEST BENDING AROUND
flettjordan 3 years ago 3
PERSONALLY, I don't think anyone's better than
Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy and Roy Buchanan (though John McLaughlin, Eric Clapton, Albert King, Eddie Hazel come close for me)
mrhosehose 3 years ago
Nice List... I'd ad Buckethead and Zappa, but you're spot on.
groovinhigh 3 years ago
define better
haowenjason925 3 years ago 2
Choosing notes that others wouldn't, tone, not overplaying, experimental technique, a level of fluidity but with complete control
mrhosehose 3 years ago
I was fortunate enough to see Roy a few times. The last only a week before he died. He was always terrific. No effects, no pedals, he made those unique sounds using only his fingers and his imagination! A true master of the Telecaster.
Johng10000 3 years ago 4
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i agree, but Albert Collins owns the name of the Master of the Telecaster
Ichigo743 3 years ago
zebop45 you totally have it right, i dont think you can compare the two and you have to show extreme respect to any of the players on that level of playing no matter what genre band or style
ghostzapper2006 3 years ago
A guitar playing buddy and I stopped at a Philadelphia bar once to grab a beer. Roy was playing. We ended up following this legend on the 'chicken circuit' for the next 5 weeks just to watch and hear him. It felt like a beloved relative had died when he passed away. He will always be missed by this old mediocre guitar player.
Cougaram 3 years ago 5
Roys "Second Album" to this day remains one of the all-time great blues albums ever..His playing on that is incredible...No effects, not too much reverb,just a pure natural sound..A classic for blues players,imo..
kevmarcum 3 years ago 3
Well , I must say, blues is music of all people in the world ....
Big hello to all people in the world who live with this kind of music ... :)))
BluesForSunrise 3 years ago 3
Walter Trout is good,Roy Buchanan is Inacreditable!!!!!
andrefelipee 3 years ago 2
I can tell Walter Trout has incorporated a lot of Buchanan into his playing. That's great because he is a very powerful player and I love hearing the Buchanan influence.
tallmunchkin 3 years ago
i love old roy blues...and i love reaching back to watch older players... but i have now turned on to where guitar is instead of where it was. Greg Howe, Guthrie Govan and some other players today have taken it to the next level.
xpoppiox 3 years ago
really are they playing better shuffles?
shinybald36 2 years ago
B3... Walter is indeed a master, no doubt. And I love the stuff he does, listen to him a lot and he puts on a killer show. But I will bet you even up that Walter is not gonna compare himself to Roy. Roy just had so many tools in his blues workbench that nobody else had or figured out how to acquire. But Walter is a monster bluesman! Whoever you like, the main things is just livin the blues and respecting the tradition! A whole lot of people don't understand what the blues are about.
-Z-
-dw-
Zebop45 3 years ago 2
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Walter Trout is the living master . Check him out!
B3zzz 3 years ago
Claiming a particular guitarist is the greatest ever is obviously a personal thing, but to me Roy Buchanan was unmatched by anybody else. If somebody else comes along that can move people emotionally more than Roy did I will travel as far as I have to to see them doing it.
His gigs were often attended by other guitarists who basically stood in awe watching him tear that Tele to pieces, of course this was in between making it cry and whisper sweetly. God Bless you Roy, and thanks!
Zebop45 3 years ago
If you like this guy check out The one and only Walter Trout
B3zzz 3 years ago
Roy is definately top3 for me, but I still prefer Jimmy Page.
Murreh 3 years ago
no doubt jimmy had that awesome rock and roll presence and an overwhelming power that nobody could match but come on its Roy Buchanon as a guitarist he runs circles around page.
originalboobfan1 3 years ago 3
Guess you haven't seen Jimmy Page properly then, I suggest White Summer 1970 at Royal Albert.
Murreh 3 years ago
Roy was like Stevie Ray, he never ran out of licks. It was like a channel that just ran through him. Never saw SRV or Roy freeze up with that,"what do I play next look". Clapton does it all the time, or EC will just play some crap cause he isn't "feeling" it. Roy and SRV, only 2 players I've seen, play all night, you never get bored. AMAZING...
ECwashr 3 years ago
Roy was definitely one of the least appreciated guitarists of all time....I feel lucky to have seen him play in college. He has such a unique sound....I agree it's more his playing than the guitar. That given, and as I don't play the guitar, what makes the telecaster such a better blues guitar than the strat (in my opinion)?
InterlochenFan 3 years ago
Dude....very astute observations coming from a non-player! Even a lot of guitar wannabes dont' realize it's "in the fingers"...
Roy would sound like Roy no matter what guitar was in his hands. Guitar players are a finicky bunch with very sensitive ears. Each has his own pet tone he likes, and certain guitars deliver and others don't. A good guitar has many qualities cheap ones don't have. BUT,a great guitar player sounds great on a cheap guitar and a lousy guitar player sounds lousy always!:)
theriffer 3 years ago
its in the mind finally...
moderjoker 3 years ago
wonderful
flatpicked 3 years ago
THANKS ROY, I'm going out and gettin' me a Telecaster! Never owned one before. You know the folks at Gibson Guitars ridiculed this instrument when it first came out? They stopped laughing when it outsold everything they came out with.
bopmanfromspace 3 years ago
Problem is, your tele won't sound like THAT.
The tone your drooling over is from his fingers.
Bill
billville111 3 years ago
That and the Bill Lawrence Black Label pickups he has in them...
Shamino1 3 years ago
its so hard to keep up with him mentally, and feeling every note when hes on a role, its too big of a release from his soul for me too fully understand it, and im totally blown away everytime i hear him. The rythm shuffle was well done, tempo was spot on... to the brink then realese. RIP roy
coolcatzattack 4 years ago 4
Thank You My Friend!! Totally agree!! Loss for words here... You said it!!!!
Aake42 4 years ago
Thank You My Friend!! Totally agree!! Loss for words here... You said it!!!!
Aake42 4 years ago
There was something dark & spooky about Roy. He always seemed like a man living close to the edg. A humble,spiritual guy who was constantly fighting demons..and it came out in his music. Like him, his music had a duality to it. Nobody sounds like him. Spears ones heart with just one note.
mojoelem 4 years ago 2
Thank You My Friend!! Totally agree!! Loss for words here... You said it!!!!
Aake42 4 years ago
The intro to Roy's Bluz always sends chills up my spine. No doubt, that guitar embodied every ounce of his soul. Though he couldn't sing very well. Lol. too much soul in the guitar to sing :P
theprofessiona1 4 years ago
Roy is great, but for me the two greatest exponents of the Telecaster are Scotty Anderson and the ultimate player, the genius that is Danny Gatton who I think had loads of soul and feel - his jazz playing is exquisite. I would also give kudos to Jerry Donahue - no one bends a string like him.
jmsbk12345 4 years ago
DANNY GATTON. YES. Roy and Danny. It makes me proud to be a guitarist from Maryland.
jetzine00 4 years ago
Roy Buchanan was Danny Gatton's guitar teacher
SirCallahan17 4 years ago
I don't think I would make that statement SirCallahan17. Gatton was influenced by Roy but I wouldn't say that Roy was his "teacher" by any stretch of the imagination!
jdomary 4 years ago
il piu grande
frasci68 4 years ago
SUPER-SONIC HARMONICS!!!
eyevangogh 4 years ago
His guitar spoke from his soul..R.I.P. Roy...you wont be forgotten
GR8XKP 4 years ago
probably the best electric blues solo I've ever seen
MatthewDeacon 4 years ago
This guy is something else! If I could play with a fraction of his authority, I would be one happy man.
namidom 4 years ago
ROY IS WAY MO BETTER
jopaulvon 4 years ago
Guitar God, Love you Roy, R.,I.P best unknown player still. And hes been dead for many many years Long live Roy Buchanan, one of the top 5 players to have ever picked up a Guitar. No question, if you disagree , you know very very little about the guitar and Roy. .........R.I.P Roy
nickw66 4 years ago 2
I agree, totally and completely. I would have 'im in the top 3... R.I.P. Roy
DudleyMMoore 4 years ago
SRV is a hack. Sure, he knows the licks, but he has no taste. He always plays at Warp 9. No buildup. Actually, that is too harsh, but the sentiment stands.
Those of us from Washington DC make the natural comparison of Roy to Danny Gatton. Danny could probably outplay Roy, but Roy had more Soul in his playing.
qazyguy 4 years ago
and the SOUL is what it's all about Qazy...that's the difference between great and just another playa....you can't imitate SOUL...either you got it, or you don't..
abisite 4 years ago
SRV and Roy were similar in that they truly became one with the guitar - like Hendrix and few others.
stestro 4 years ago
I still think Stevie Ray Vaughan was better..:)
londoncitystratty 4 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I saw SRV and Roy live here in Australia, and I love SRV, but If you think straight you know SRV borrowed heavily ALOT from other players. Roy invented his own style from absolute scratch, and could play almost any style with total mastery that very few can reproduce. That's why Roy is king. He didn't copy anyone, they copied him.
IK1963 4 years ago
DITTO!
YankeeClippa 4 years ago
He`s The Man
mick210363 4 years ago
Awesome player. Honestly, I don't like the tone of a telecaster, but the way he plays it, I really love it.
You wonder why he never made it BIG, like say SRV....
FirstProject 4 years ago
amazing sound! I listen to blues since 30 yrs but I confess I did not know anything of this absolute master.
It was named "the best unknown guitarist of the world". Unfortunately it's true. RIP Roy
adremoid 4 years ago
Yeah,I guess he just liked to do it on stage,like in Germany,and in the rest of the world.And I guess a lot of people liked to watch him ? So keep on tryin Cldf,mabey you`ll get to do it there to some day to, good luck!!
urankjj 4 years ago
Great Video. Roy was the best!
markJaggi 4 years ago