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  • @naturyl PS I stick to my Quiet man remark we all see people in our own perspective.

  • @naturyl am watching this video again and I think I was wrong and You were right this is just a really crappy recording and vid,

    unfortunatly we never got to see Roy in a live setting but my husband and I have been big fans of Roy Buchanan for 35 years way before youtube or PC'''s if you want to hear some rare stuff type into youtube bar Roy Buchanan Hot Wires. if you hav'nt heard it all ready I recomend #'s 1, 8,and 9 great stuff. no joke:)

  • not good enough for Rolling Stone.

  • I have my doubts as to weather this is Roy in the vidieo part of this joke of aperformance it's roy playing alright but even with the crappy picture quality you can see the performance is to animated for Roy's signature quietman demenor.

  • @gwlhbt58 "This joke of a performance?" What are you listening to? This is genius, and it's all Roy. I don't think you know anything about Roy if you think "quietman" was his "signature demeanor." Have you only heard "Sweet Dreams?"

  • @5jerry1 I agree!

  • This should be reposted, with better visual quality, and with the sound in synch. That being said, I don't think this is one of his better performances. I really do like him, but something isn't gelling here.

  • Like #420! My accomplishment for the day.

  • that's definitely shredding a guitar

  • lol bassist sounds like shit dumplings

  • the video is no hq but the song is still one of the best

  • gooood.

  • A true guitar god. thanks for sharing this.

  • orgasmiiic...

  • This gutarist is just pissing about.

  • @Koureas true its called the acient art of guitar playing try watching the whole video nit the first 20 sec or maybe you prefer john mayer( in more than way than one?) j.k.

  • Roy IS god .Period. No further comment.

  • OMG I just wet myself @ 1:20 LOL

  • Master Guitarist.Jeff Beck dedicate the tune>Cos we've ended as lovers"in loving memory of Roy.

  • WOW this guy is better than Hendrix!!

  • That bassist know how to destroy song.

  • @TalkerWalker I've heard that long time ago. it was perfect. this vid have serious sync probl. and definition it's bad !

  • Just like others say... Roy had a superior technique and too much blues for playin', he had lost his time on any rock band... he had the blues... and he really knew how to make his guitar speak for him!

    R.I.P, master Roy

  • Listen to Roy Buchanan Master Delay and Make his Guitar sound like a violin with the old volume control trick!

  • Hmm. Jimmy Page sure ripped this guy off. Oh. I mean "paid tribute."

  • Hmm. Jimmy Page sure ripped this guy off. Oh.  I mean "paid tribute."

  • I firmly believe that Roy would not have been able to handle playing in a rock band. His talent was superior to anything then and now. I heard the Beck, Clapton tribute, but with all due respect, Roy sounded better than the two put together....

  • Not the best.There is no best anyway.Everyone is good at his own.But Roy was the most soulful guitarist,ever walked Earth!Really a guitarist,not a poser or a showman as most of the rest are...

  • @JHKHSVJSSRV

    On another 'tube video someone in the audience called out "You're Number One!!!" Buchanan replied by saying "There is no number one...But I love ya for thinking it." (or something to that effect.)

  • @5jerry1 Great minds think alike ;)

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  • And some people say Roy was lacking in teqinque: -

    Point made I think..

  • OMG......Roy was ripping shit out that Telecaster. Never seen Roy let loose like that before.

    Fukin A+ & the rest.

    *For fuck sake, stop talking about who is the best....it's getting really tedious.

  • Greatest guitar talent: with Albert Lee and Jimi Hendrix.

  • As Roy said in Germany, "There is no such thing as NUMBER ONE, but I love you for thinking about it."

  • Just freakin listen to that guitar.....

  • @TheBrowndawg That's like saying Coldplay is better than Radiohead

  • too shrill

  • Roy was my friend. He did those effects by hand with only reverb. We did a version of Red House in Baker Park in Frederick one year with a couple drop in guys who brought horns OMFG I wish someone who might've taped it would come forward with a recording of that afternoon..

  • @TheDigitalDadonUTube Umm, no way is that just a reverb - it's clearly a delay (plus reverb). Probably a simple bucket-brigade analog delay pedal with the spring reverb from his amp, but you can get sounds like that out of a tape echo like a Roland Space Echo or a WEM Copicat too. But you can't get them with just a reverb (or at least not with the reverb technology available at that time).

  • @childsplaymusic.... uhhh, Roy didn't use pedals, DigitalDad speaks truth, you speak BS.

  • @oeddie99 OK, It's quite possible that it's not a pedal - as I said it might be a hardware tape unit. But it is definitely not just a reverb - you can hear the individual echoes. And echo (AKA delay) FX are by definition not reverb FX - related but different. Roy died in 1988; by the late 70s digital FX units (not pedals - rack-mounted hardware) that did multi-FX including reverb and delay were also available. I've 35 years experience in pro music & production - what have you two got?

  • @oeddie99 (ran out of space - continues from my post beginning "OK, it's ...") The digital multiFX didn't become affordable or commonly used on stage until the early 80s. I've just checked Roy on Wikipedia, and guess what - from 1976 Roy used an Echoplex (hardware tape unit) and much later a Boss DD2 "the first mass-produced digital delay in a compact pedal format".

    Busted, suckers! I speak truth, you speak BS.

  • @childsplaymusic DD2's were great! I wish I still had mine.... and could sound like Roy too :)

  • @MalquiLans I'm still using a DD2.....and loving it!

  • @childsplaymusic I stand corrected child, thanks for the info.  Have a great day.

  • @oeddie99 Sorry if I came across as OTT. I shouldn't reply to posts when I've been drinking LOL. @MalquiLans & @TrapDaddy65 I wish I still had my Boss DM-2 delay - a really nice example of the bucket brigade pedals I mentioned in my original post. Like a fool I got rid of it and replaced it with a digital monster in the 90s :facepalm: The DM-2 sounded better, if noisier. Warm, rich, organic ...

  • @childsplaymusic No problem cpm drunk posts are usually more interesting than sober posts of you can interpret them. I believe you are correct that Ropy did employ a pedal in the later stages of his career according to his biography "American Axe". Seems he only used one to sorta appeal to the younger generation but I believe he was more comfortable without one.

  • hey browndawg r u outta your f**** mind? check out Down by the river from guitar on fire or youre not alone if those blues dont turn into a smurf then u DONT KNOW BLUES

  • @321wwc complete sarcasm dude lighten up ;-)

  • My God !!!!!! He could make that guitar scream and cry. Seen him live over the years many times. He was truly one of a kind. No one has come close to him and I don't think anyone ever will. Wish he were still with us.

  • cant get enough of this jam!!!

  • @urankjj  slash hahahahahahah

  • @frylocdub Slash 2day gone 2maro, ROY 4-ever = 2 of the best of the Best. ROK ON!!

  • Genial!

    

  • Backing guitar sucks here. Should just let Roy play by himself.

  • Terriblle at best!!!!!

  • you might even dot your i?

  • I saw this same video back in the 90's I think it was on the USA Network on a show called Night Flight. It was my first introduction to Roy, and since then, I have acquired every single recording I could find, including some boots of audio and video, which I am going to put up soon. A true master of the guitar, the best ever.

  • seen him play live believe me he had a thing with his music --a friend - had so much power with his playing--he spoke through it --lost soul but I will always listen & keep him alive--he was a great person

  • When it comes to blues guitar, Roy knows ALL and is ALL.

    This man lived and breathed the blues and tore it up like no other.

  • Roy was...is,RIP,one of the all time Guitar Heroes.I had the honor of attending one of his performances, before he passed away. It was at this Great Funky, Honky Tonk at Solana Beach,San Diego.Appx ten miles north of La Jolla.You go there and you are at a regular 'old fashion bar', with a mini stage. It takes you, literally back in time.The bar is smaller than an arena stage. Saw B B King, John Lee Hooker there.Leon Russell was just there last week.It is called Belly Up. (BellyUp.com)

  • This mother can jam!!!!!!

  • nobodie comes close to this man every time i put this on at pts everyone loves it

  • Did your body get the message sent by Roy B. ?? Mine did....

  • Greatest Telecaster player that ever played a Tele/Wynn

  • @teleevangelist you do know Albert Collins played a tele

  • Without further delay, ladies and gentleman, Mister Roy Buchanan..... Play it again Roy !!!!

  • I saw Roy play while I was doing LSD at the Old Orpheum theater in Boston......He was Blowing my Mind. Telecasters are amaizing guitars. My lead guitar player had a Rose Wood Telecaster......beautiful in sound and in appearance.

  • Astonishing!

  • Too much delay

  • who's the "best" ? like you said depends on your mood but ANY list without Roy, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Django Rhiendhart on it is surely flawed.

  • He died under messed up circumstances. My stepdad was one of his best friends and told me I was the best he knw next to Roy

  • @squaredave2002

    cool story bro

  • I build telecasters, and ma nicname is teleevangelist?

  • Finest ever fuckin ever Telecaster guitar sound ever recorded!/wynn

  • Finest ever fuckin ever Telecaster guitar sound ever recorded!/wynn

  • Were is the original hd post ??

  • wah wah buchaniano

  • really extraordinary

  • Really a grear guitarist and performer. Love the sound !!

  • this is the BEST blues intro ever.god bless roy buchanan?

  • RIP roy

  • Dude, thats scary good shit. Play it again Roy!!!  Mahalo...

  • 1:20 BOW DOWN motherfuckers im roy buchanan.LOL so bad ass

  • anybody have a copy of drowning on dry land or if six was nine?

  • he is one of the greats - a light is shining inside him.

    so it is with all the good ones. the feelings are real

  • Absolutely,one of the most underated guitarists there ever was!!!I'm a liitle late in coming to the party he was throwin' through his guitar-playing,but he was,and still is awesome!!All I'll say about his death,is that,it was unfortunate in coming,regardless of the circumstances!!Great footage of the Man in action!!R.I.P. Roy Buchanan!!!

  • Einzigartig...

    ...genial... durchgeknallt...

    er war ein ganz GROSSER!!!

    leider nicht groß rausgekommen...

  • i'm a cop. come get some.

  • A PBS television documentary called Roy "The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World". Stinking cops murdered a great guitarist and got away with it as cops usually do. People should start killing cops. All of them are corrupt because the good ones backup the bad ones.

  • phenom!!!

  • Jeez if you want to eat everything that's been said about his voice just stick v=lLhdS-8-YS8 in the URL above.

    Meanwhile I'm listening to some of the finest, most inimitable guitar playing you can find, right here on this page.

  • bless roy

  • 1988 performance...

    greatest musicians died always young...

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  • Dude his wife opened the coffin(why was it closed} duriing the wake to show bruises on his head ....cop job..who is now a sherriff

  • Saw him play this song at a club about a month before he died. Very very Loud.

  • An all around gifted guitarist, his range is amazing, he had a good recording career and was never really famous. I find that admirable !

  • Worst BASS tone ever!

  • im gessin he'd blaze, then trip-out on his effects for a few hours !  !

    sure glad he did tho!

    r.i.p.

    Roy.

  • How does he do the Guitar Howl so good?

  • Damn, every time I hear him I suddenly remember how REALLY good he was!

  • this guy must have used size 9 strings.huh?

  • rory et roy a une lettre pres les deux plus grand guitariste a mes yeux,

    ci le paradis existe j'éspere que vous pouvez vous tapé le boeuf la haut

  • Bien vu :) Ca me fout envie de chialer de savoir qu'ils sont morts...

  • He was one of the most amazing guitar players ever but a poor singer.

  • I agree. One of the best I've ever seen, but can't sing for shit. Why didn't anyone just tell him: "dude, the vocals... umm.... maybe we should get a singer, because you just kinda talk, like you're on the phone, and it doesn't do your playing any justice at all."

    One of my favorite guitarists to watch, though.

  • In fact it's one of the main reasons why Roy wasn't happy. He just wanted to play the guitar, yet they made him produce albums where he sang...

  • its blues not pop dont need a great voe just need to feel it blues is kinda talking nyways

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  • Es una gran pena que el video no esté en buenas condiciones, esta canción es de mis preferidas de este gran MAESTRO!!!!

    De cualquier modo, gracias por el esfuerzo de subir esta joya.

  • roy buchanan a guitar´s legend.

    i think he is one of the best in all the history.

  • @purk12 nah uh, slash is way better ;-)

  • @TheBrowndawg slash hahahahahahah

  • I can see how, back then (60s-early 70s), he would have been very influential. Pretty original playing for the time. (I know this is a later clip).

  • Roy the great, as ever. Sad thing the audio is horrible, esp. since this seems to be the only "When a gittah ..." on YT

  • Clapton once said the best was Alan Holdsworth. How to compare Mclaughlin, Zappa, Buchanan, SRV, Beck, Page, et. al? if you love it, that's the best!

  • great!rest in peace,roy!

  • who is the best guitarist of all time you ask?depend's on the mood your in!

  • No bests..only favorites. My fave if Jeff Beck...I can hear how much JB "borrowed" for Roy and then took it in another direction. Used to listen to Roy in the 70's and I forgot how incredible he was. What a dunce I am. He was amazing.

  • Either that or which video you watch - since all those douches go from vid to vid starting unending conversations about their thinking one guitarist is better, or faster, or plays with more "feeling", etc.

  • well stated! and I could not agree more.

  • The below response is for the "creditsforcarbon" dufus. And by the way anyone who backs a lamebrain idea such as "credits" for carbon emissions cannot possibly be either sane or more likely over 22 years old..

  • mmmh... arpeggios from hell? :D

  • Picture is blurry.

  • That´s why a Telecaster is a Telecaster!!!

  • credits i dont no if you ment that to sound racist but it did. he was an awsome guitarust and frankly i dont think many people care that hes black hes just one of the best if not the best guitarists of all time.

  • as I said know him from DC in the small clubs Great his music and playing is awsom

  • "HENDRIX" Will Never Lose His Place In The History Of Electric Guitar Music - because HE WAS THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY! HE WAS THE FIRST

    TO TAKE THE ELECTRIC GUITAR TO PLACES THAT NO ONE HAD EVER HEARD BEFORE, PLACES THAT OTHER GUITARISTS HAD NEVER EVEN VISITED!

    After He 'paved the way' and 'Cut the path'

    for others to follow - It was then easier for

    other 'Guitarslingers' to Imitate him or else to build upon the foundation that he laid ! But Roy B is certainly up there with the BEST ! "

  • "CREDITS4CARBON" ...'Where did you get that False Information From ?" Stevie

    Ray Vaughn wasn't even A NAME guitarist

    when Hendrix was alive ! ACTUALLY - HENDRIX WAS STEVIES HERO AND STEVIE BUILT HIS GUITAR STYLE AROUND HENDRIX ! Since Your 108 years of Age - I would have thought that you'd know this because you've been around long enough to know !" And if you

    haven't noticed after all these years,...JIMMY'S MUSIC FEATURES HEAVILY ON STEVIES C.D's AND IN HIS LIVE CONCERTS! 108yrs Old?!

  • @beethovenbix . Who you tellin"?  Albert King was Stevie's Daddy!

  • You're a funny guy. Given that Jimi Hendrix died in September of 1970, a point in time at which SRV was not yet 16 years old, I doubt very much that Jimi was citing SRV concerning anything. Further, it is a well known fact that SRV and his brother Jimmy taught themselves to play guitar, partly by listening to Hendrix tunes.

  • He said Rory Gallagher I believe

  • When Hendrix played there was not born Vaughan, jaja. Also he said Rory Gallagher. Rory Gallagher is the best, Buchanan is one of the best ever! And Hendrix and Vaughan have more fame another thing. Rory and Roy UP Hendrix and Vaughan DOWN.

  • ACTUALLY he said BILLY GIBBONS! It is documented...he said it on the tonight show with Johnny Carson! Stevie Ray was around, but not quite developed yet .

    BILLY GIBBONS of ZZ TOP is the man Jimi said was the best. HOWEVER, he jammed with Roy Buchanan and left in a daze, saying he had just been blown away according to a biography of him. FACT dude!

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  • Well he's may be the best, but the first "revolutionary" was CLAPTON (I mean "modern revolutionary", otherwise we should mention Chuck Berry or the likes).

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  • Hey Xlnt virtouoso MUSIC check out yosteven1 for more bluesy country sound of theft ob agenda

  • perfekt

  • The only solution is for you guys to be locked in a room and have a guitar face-off! Without a doubt it would be the greatest performance ever.

  • Lol

  • roy made the guitar talk.....

  • he is not the only one ! HEIN !^^

  • I am a huge RB fan, saw him LIVE many times back east. Never got to see Jimi H. ,but grew up with his Electric Lady land Lp and all of his music back in the day. They both have there own styles that complement each othe,r so let the listener make there own call.  ps ---GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!

  • no negative feedback "floofynut". i threw out the concept that, while i love what hendrix did for the guitar, and is regarded as the king for it, he may not ultimately be the guitar king when compared to other masters. i happen to think rb was far better than jh. opinion only. (as usual, i am very opinionated.) just thought i would hear someone else's opinion for a change on rb. he is not my favorite (unless beer is involved) , but i love to listen to him. arguments and advice welcome.

  • rb is better than jh

  • hendrix who? someone please argue the case that he understood his guitar better than buchanan, because i don't get it.

  • hendrix would NOT wipe the floor with roy. both are great. and to be fair roy is probably better technically and has slightly more soul. however both are amazing. please dont give me negative feedback, i'm just saying both are great :)

  • Both were genious, both died in weird ways, both played on Fender axes. Need more comparison ?

  • exactly thts whay i said.both are great.:) i just hate it when ppl always say someone is better than the other :)

  • @floofynut true, but id still say on the soul front they are on par IMHO

  • @floofynut ... they would wipe the floor together.

  • @floofynut I'm pretty sure that none of them would want us to vote for the best. They are both great.

  • When you arrive at the level Jimi and Roy play at, "better" is a totally obsolete term. Both of them had nearly perfect control over their instruments. Most people say one virtuoso is "better" than another when they really mean that they just prefer the other's sound, or when they just want to stir up shit.

  • I saw Roy in Houston at Rockafellers....must have been '87 or '88.. This bass player was with him. I remember that green Fender. I was really impressed with him. I don't know who he is. Does anyone?

  • I think the bassist is Jeff Ganz. I'm currently reading Roy's biography, American Axe. It says his rhythm section at the time was made up of Ganz on bass and Ray Marchica on drums.

  • Endless Sustain.Chief of the Telecaster.

    Roy i miss you.

    switch

  • Mr. Buchanan is the master.

  • dont give a rats ass bout no base,dig on the master

  • WOW! that bass does sound kind of clunky.Too bad cause the guitar is awesome.I have a 8 year old cuz that can play circles around this awefull bass player.

  • Totally incredible brilliant.

  • oh god what a sound!

  • I never have cared for this song. That is some killer guitar playing though.

  • That's the story the Texas Law say's , that they found him hanging in his jail cell.

    There was also stories of unexplained physical

    marks etc.on him......what a terrible ending to such an Awesome Talent....He was Titled :

    The World's Best Un-Known Guitarist.

    Ain't it strange how we lost SO MANY greats in that mid-late 80's era...? Then how other's

    career's exploded...? hmmm...

  • It was not in Texas. It was in Fairfax Virginia August 15 and i believe it was in 1988. Not sure

  • Bass or no bass Roy is absolutely without a doubt thee best! Now I heard a rumor - can anyone confirm - that Roy hung himself in a jail cell? 'hope that's not true my cuz used to play with him in the late 70's and actually had him come to a small town north of Pittsburgh Pa and played... 'don't know what hapened to my cuz either...

  • fuckin a

  • some of the worst bass playing i've ever heard in my life. i don't care if i offend anyone with that comment - sue me!!

  • Don't worry carpybv; I totally agree with you; you're not alone in wishing Roy had a more complementary bass player/sound for this concert. Way way too "metallic" sound coming from the bass; It's just a 3 piece band, the bass should be deep and thumped, solid, in the groove, setting the foundation for Roy to scream.

  • Roy

    The God of Telecaster.

    The Telecaster is the ultimative Tool.

  • I still say,at 7:24, that is Rimsky Korsakov`s,"Flight of the bumble bee. But I guess Only Roy would know!

  • from :24 to 1:09 is the best playing i heard in my life so far

  • no offense, but then you probably have no idea of guitar playing. he simply fades in with the volume knob and a delay, really nothing special.

    roy is a great guitarist and he can play way more better stuff :)

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