Some blues licks are just plain fun, too bad for me the music is generally predictable and boring. When's the last time something freaked you out on a blues record? Made you fear God and Devil?
Lovely stuff. I see there are lots of comments about comments on this site, but I can't find the original comments. But I can see its all about whether whites can play blues or not, etc. etc. blah blah. Of course they can, Paul Kossof is a good example. But why go on about it in racist terms. Why not just mention the artists and praise them (or criticise if you must)
The problem is the white brother cannot let go, loosen up and let go and relax as his black brother can . . Whites is always way too tight . . and it shows in the playin style . . .
@Diogenes1360 That's true but the real problem is that "The Brothers" aren't playing the blues AT ALL any more. I mean where is the Howling Wolf, The Chuck Berry the Jimi Hendrix of THIS generation. They've been replaced by Kayne West, P Dippy and Poop Doggy. The last 3 I mention CAN NOT PLAY ONE DAMNED INSTRUMENT BETWEEN THEM!!
Let's be real now....if it hadn't been for Albert King Clapton, Page, Hendrix and Stevie Ray wouldn't have had a foundation to build on.... T Bone is so great Duane Allman really was a student of his. Of all the English guitar slingers Keef will be remembered.
There are a lot of people who I have shown this to who were like "Ya, it's just another blues guy." But when I gave him context, telling them that he was the pioneer of single note solos, they definitely started to think about him differently.
Also, I find people who associate certain music with a certain colour of skin narrow-minded. Blues is a universal feeling, it has its roots in slavery and opression but everyone regardless of the colour of skin a person happens to be born with can have the blues and play it just as passionate.
Wow, what playing. And the whole ensemble has a great chemistry. Memphis Slim weaves his spell but never gets in T-Bone's way. A question for the musically knowledgeable out there. At about 3:43 T-Bone plays a run that really sweat. It seems to be off the blues scale; maybe a run off some passing chord. Anyway, if any body can analyze it, please let me know.
Don't hate me for replying without an actual answer, but i doubt t-bone played that run with any knowledge of what it might actually mean in the realm of music theory. Him, like many others of his time learned to play the guitar mostly by ear then went back to learn the theory behind it when they needed it. My approach to learning from these guys is simply listening and copying by ear without really analyzing what they are doing to much, i find that you get the real feel that way =)
@metart93 Just for a bit of bio on T-bone. He could sight read sheet music for the guitar and the piano, and he did play with jazz bands in Texas, Oklahoma, and California and jazzers don't respect you unless you have the knowledge and the chops, so T-Bone probably had some knowledge of theory on top of his natural talent and one of a kind style.
T-Bone was really one of the best ever... and every now and then I have to play this vid to hear how good a guitar can really sound.
@Odin029 T Bone wouldn't employ anyone in his Orchestra unless they could sight read music.
He came out form that big band era when everything was played in horn keys, Eb,F,Ab, Bb...the same reason why Chuck Berry does the same. (and without T Bone we'd have NO Chuck and hence NO rock players today)
Whoawww whoawwww howwww hold up hold up! Where did that steam come from yikes ooo now this is so hot it just has to be the bluessssssssssssssssssssssss...
i love the blues and i more then anyone say no arguing just enjoy the music, but no one should talk shit about clapton! white, black, whatever hes magic on the guitar.
@bozner88 It's not that simple. Robert Jr. Lockwood was heavily influenced by RJ as a teen, so was Johnny Shines, and Muddy Waters. Muddy is the key. He mentions RJ by name to Alan Lomax in a 1941 interview. You can hear entire phrases lifted directly from RJ recordings in Muddy Waters earliest recordings until Muddy found his own voice, so if RJ did nothing other than influence Muddy Waters then he'd have done a lot, but of course he did much more.
thats called mind transferance! useing the Guitar as a mind reader .At this level it ceases to be a musical instrument ,and becomes an external element of his unseen inner blues man
who in their right mind gave this a thumbs down? my guess is they were stoned or drunk or something and pushed the wrong button. So far, only 10 dummies.
wud love to see him in his prime, when hed do the splits and play with the guitar behind his head n yall know he plays with the guitar at that angle cos he was a violinist before he played guitar
It's because SRVs playing is usually a stylist rip of T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins & Hendrix. SRV didn't stray too far from these guys. I just wish SRV had as much soul as he did guitar tone and note accuracy. Compared to T-Bone, SRV sounds like a robot.
If you want to learn the blues, learn all this old stuff first... it's the source.
nah, I grew up on SRV. there are many devotees here in Houston, TX. there's music with WAAAAAY more soul that SRV. He's good, but sounds a bit stiff next too the real deal.
its funny that guy almost sounded like Jack Kerouac.. But lets not shine the light on that poor soul, but on the one to be hailed in this fine fine peice of american music.
T-bone is just so great. So clean and soulful. Thank you so much for posting! (You can sure tell the Chuck Berry must have been listening real real hard to T-Bone back in the day.)
Before Jimi Hendrix there was T Bone Walker and before T Bone there was Robert Johnson. Each generation building on the genius of the one that came before.
@pierrevanbentum Your right, they were actually more contemporaries. But I listed RJ as an example of the older style blues players that did influence T-Bone. It's a shame if RJ had lived I wonder what he would have done with an electric guitar. As it was T-Bone was the blues innovator on that particular instrument.
@p8ntbala14 John Frusiciante is pretty good of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, only time will tell who people think is on the same level as these guys. Who would you pick?
@doorsgirl100 theres no other way to put it, tbone is the father of electric blues. the same genre of music that would lead to cream, the hendrix experience, bb king, chuck berry, black sabbath. the list goes on
@jeezuschryst Well Howlin Wolf was part of the tail end of that generation but his prime was in the 50s and 60s so even if he was older its still different generations of blues
@doorsgirl100 Sorry, But T-Bone's career started LONG before Robert Johnson. Recording about 10 years earlier and working Dallas with Blind Lemon before that. No doubt Robert Johnson's single string work was influenced by T-bone and Blind Lemon Jefferson. T-Bone was the real father of electric blues. Yes even before Muddy. T-bone looked younger than his years but don't let that fool you. He's close to 60 here....It's hard to believe his urban sound predates Johnson but it is the truth.
@vantageIIx Your right. I was talking more about their innovation and style of play. Robert was the master of acoustic blues. T- Bone the master of and innovator of the electric blues and of course Jimi Hendrix used feedback to change the blues into a psychadelic rock style. Because of his early death Robert's prime was late 20's early 30's whereas T-Bones prime is the 40's and 50's.
how did civilized and actually talented black performers disappear and in turned into rap/hip hop shit sung by untalented arrogant pieces of shit in this turn of the century....from the greatest jazz and blues players/singers to a bunch of loud dirty niggers
@sdime59 wow your ignorance is astounding. are all black performers nowadays rappers? are there not any african american blues players or jazzmen/ women in modern times??are there not any rappers who sing about positive things and political awareness? i'll give you a hint.. yes there are !!! why lump everyone in one category? and if you want to call someone dirty perhaps you should start with yourself.. anybody capable of spewing that racist idiotic rhetoric must be filthy!
@dharmapunkchick i accept i am very ignorant...but its just sad to see that people with out talent are making it big,they have their own shows they are on tv every fucking minute..they play in stadiums while true performers and true musicians are forgotten paying in bars and small venues...bb king plays in a no name club while piece of shit soula boy plays at the mgm in vegas...and no one cares for big band music even if its for free,bluegrass or jazz...so i am an asshole an idiot but
@poontangsta1 thanks the masses are easily brained washed by videos of untalented pieces of shit as long as the girls are hot or guys are good looking....
@sdime59 it is called the music industry, it is not by accident what you hear today as entertainment is piped through our radios. We as African Americans know this is by design. The talent is still there however what you hear is for the most part garbage. By the way the only nigger is yo mama.
@mrstanbmw yeah music industry only cares bout money so they shove our ears full of shit pure shit,,,,yo mama is so nigger a nigger owned her in the past
I love playing along with this with my sax, such a nice sound together, it's like a backtrack for any horn. He has a voice similar to a breathing instrument.
@jacksondk1244 Yup... you're right. I noticed that it was the guitar cable about 20 minutes after registering my comment... just didn't know how to retract it. I listened more closely to the closing and realized the 1st string had to be intact... so I went back and used a little "stop-action" and could see it was the cable. Doesn't change my opinion of his talent compared to some of today's "flash & fancies" that call themselves musicians.
Wow... look real close and you can see he snapped his high e string at 3:29... laid back for a second and then went right back to cruisin'. True pro... made for the 'once only' live takes of early television. Today it would be "Cut!... let's try that again...oh yeah, and while your restringing try changing your shirt...I'm not liking the color contrast to the background." Ya gotta love these older originals. So real!
deftjohnholler your coment makes me happy. Very nyce, man ... "Lessons of a man (ussually white) and wearing baseball cap, etc) guys it´s true. The true blues is this one, it´s no learned by coping.
this has been my favourite blues for a very long time. it demonstrates every quality i have ever looked for in music; tonal variety, coherent melodic narrative and a self contained, naturalised vocabulary: something that no lesson from some guy (usually white) wearing a baseball cap and holding a small piece of plastic in their right hand teaching you about positions and fingering can ever express. this is the best blues tutorial i have ever listened to
i'm sensitive to the irony that the blues tradition is being kept alive by a race responsible for the medley of cultures and the resulting poverty and oppression that moulded the style and then sought to mould it into something new. something didn't translate though and clapton, bonamassa, kossof et al do not do for me in a whole solo what t bone walker does in a single phrase. its that difficult to define feeling of 'authenticity'. i must be prejudiced against plectrums :)
thanks. you're right. i've looked at the other clips of t bone and he is holding 'something'. i guessed he was strumming with the tip of the index. it must be as thick as sixpence to get such a great tone from it.
he does have lovely tone doesn't he? surely he's not exclusively a thumb player? without the upstroke i think the thumb stops you from sending out an endless string of notes and gives the phrases more space although i have heard of some players up picking with the thumb (joe pass?) i'm always happy to be corrected. excuse my obsession with technique.
@deefjohnholler I agree with the T-Bone saying more in one phrase than those artists but it's not because of race. It's preference. You're more open to T-Bone for whatever reason while being closed to those artists you mentioned. It ain't a big thing. Causing hang-ups on a good video with some good vibes is, though. Race issues will never die if people like you keep this up. All this silliness over things no one can choose to be. No wonder "white" people play the blues now. It's all our fault.
@Willinthehall well said. Slavery and the disgusting wide spread nature of racism in the past was not, and could not, have been influenced, supported, or participated in by me since I wasn't born until the 80's, when white society was at least starting to view other races as equals. The fact that i'm lumped in with the slave owners of yesteryear frustrates me no end.
@Willinthehall I agree with that last part particularly. I was talking to a friend of mine who mentioned that too(He is black) Said something like "I can see black people complaining that White people stole the blues, but look at black music now. It's at the intellectual level of peanuts. White people will look back and say "Look, you didn't want it!"
@deefjohnholler I noticed you are a white British musician who teaches Clapton-style blues, yet you have stunk up this comment section with smack talk about "white guys who teach position and fingering" and how British bluesmen like Clapton and Kossoff "don't do it for you".
@ericdlayne fuck you I'm a 50 year old middle class white guy...after what I done been thru in life, I can play the "blues" as good as bb. buddy or sonny- boy williamson...and I'm sure they would agree....amen bro
I think there's nothing to say about a song like this... just press replay!!
matheussaleme 9 hours ago
Some blues licks are just plain fun, too bad for me the music is generally predictable and boring. When's the last time something freaked you out on a blues record? Made you fear God and Devil?
TubeFreakJonas 5 days ago
This is some fantastic stuff!
madmex66 1 week ago
EPIC!!!
alohaila 2 weeks ago
1:19
Whipping Post!
Onetinsoldier 3 weeks ago
the godfather... of yes,,, your rock n roll
SneakerZeeker 1 month ago
Lovely stuff. I see there are lots of comments about comments on this site, but I can't find the original comments. But I can see its all about whether whites can play blues or not, etc. etc. blah blah. Of course they can, Paul Kossof is a good example. But why go on about it in racist terms. Why not just mention the artists and praise them (or criticise if you must)
SuperDjoubert 1 month ago
Some of the dumbest comments on youtube here. Shut up and just listen idiots
GODSELFINFINITY 1 month ago
Lo considero uno dei più grandi chitarristi blues,tutt'ora attuale,fonte da cui attingere a piene mani........
brothermanico 1 month ago
This man is the embodiment of that disgusting blues attitude that seems unattainable to many...R.I.P.
GuyNamedCarl 1 month ago
Haunting...
chooseyourblues 1 month ago
Soo good. so much feeling in his music... i love how he holds the guitar, crack up lol
MrMcnuff 2 months ago
I would give an arm, and a leg just to be able to watch him play one tune!
gotheblues67 2 months ago
@gotheblues67 I'd give my genitals.
GuyNamedCarl 1 month ago
LOve it! His almost lap style playing is unusual. I'd be breaking my wrists playing the guitar like that :)
rediryou 3 months ago
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modir91 3 months ago
humbling...
shaofu424 3 months ago
When you listen to T-Bone's licks and lead all the blues players have copied him in some way. What a great player.
We miss you T-Bone. Thanks for leaving all the great music.
Thanks for sharing this great clip.
cw605 3 months ago
Hot stuff!
amusingmyslf 4 months ago
My favorite blues guitarist and my favorite blues pianist on the same recording.
efanshel 4 months ago in playlist efanshel's Favorited Videos
An incredible talent, he makes it look so easy.
Thanks for sharing the video.
kingshearer2 4 months ago
The problem is the white brother cannot let go, loosen up and let go and relax as his black brother can . . Whites is always way too tight . . and it shows in the playin style . . .
Diogenes1360 4 months ago
@Diogenes1360 That's true but the real problem is that "The Brothers" aren't playing the blues AT ALL any more. I mean where is the Howling Wolf, The Chuck Berry the Jimi Hendrix of THIS generation. They've been replaced by Kayne West, P Dippy and Poop Doggy. The last 3 I mention CAN NOT PLAY ONE DAMNED INSTRUMENT BETWEEN THEM!!
ricchardo 3 months ago
@ricchardo You are so right!
Diogenes1360 3 months ago
@ricchardo
AMEN, my man!
67goldtops 1 month ago
Legendary! Crazy- Almost like he has having an orgasm with the song.
No contemporary comes close to the icons of the 80s.
KatorAbaagu 5 months ago
como se mueve el guacho... ni decir de como toca, grandeeeeeeeeeeee
soulimp 5 months ago
Let's be real now....if it hadn't been for Albert King Clapton, Page, Hendrix and Stevie Ray wouldn't have had a foundation to build on.... T Bone is so great Duane Allman really was a student of his. Of all the English guitar slingers Keef will be remembered.
Ingr9821 5 months ago
There are a lot of people who I have shown this to who were like "Ya, it's just another blues guy." But when I gave him context, telling them that he was the pioneer of single note solos, they definitely started to think about him differently.
SuperRockgod666 5 months ago
i like it, but some people CAN DISAGREE.
rubenocasar 5 months ago
legendary...!
786Laika 5 months ago
Shaman
Danh103663 6 months ago
I like how they still had ridiculous names even back then lol
Zimnyification 6 months ago
MESTRE T-Bone
natan0nashton 6 months ago
日本語でおｋ
atnek919 6 months ago
Great voice, great guitar playing. T-Bone rocks!! Greetings from a southamerican fan.
bichomaldito 6 months ago
damn... that IS music! *removes evveryting on he's mp3 and puts T-bone walker on it*
pongboy1100 6 months ago
Why is there even a dislike button on this song?????
damudaphuckinpimp 7 months ago 3
I love how he holds that guitar. So unorthodox yet so cool!!!
ryanspeed 7 months ago
Is it just me or can anyone else hear a Lonnie Johnson influence in T Bone's music?
rievans57 7 months ago
This clip is a monument
Also, I find people who associate certain music with a certain colour of skin narrow-minded. Blues is a universal feeling, it has its roots in slavery and opression but everyone regardless of the colour of skin a person happens to be born with can have the blues and play it just as passionate.
vendetta00 7 months ago 2
@vendetta00 "I don't believe that old crap that you have to be black to play the blues."---Buddy Guy.
EasyAce 7 months ago 5
He's not playing notes, he's not "performing", he's just...
caquish 8 months ago
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Bone just kills the intro to this song.
qtip1064 8 months ago
Bone just kill the intro to this song
qtip1064 8 months ago
wow. 12 villages are missing their idiots...
ugmodude 8 months ago 41
@ugmodude Amen...How can anyone dislike this..There is just so much passion and it is so unique
69dangerdog 4 months ago
according to human evolution theory, they say apes evolve to humans then humans evolve to t-bone walkers
Jetluffyq8 8 months ago 4
Wow, what playing. And the whole ensemble has a great chemistry. Memphis Slim weaves his spell but never gets in T-Bone's way. A question for the musically knowledgeable out there. At about 3:43 T-Bone plays a run that really sweat. It seems to be off the blues scale; maybe a run off some passing chord. Anyway, if any body can analyze it, please let me know.
written12 8 months ago
@written12
Don't hate me for replying without an actual answer, but i doubt t-bone played that run with any knowledge of what it might actually mean in the realm of music theory. Him, like many others of his time learned to play the guitar mostly by ear then went back to learn the theory behind it when they needed it. My approach to learning from these guys is simply listening and copying by ear without really analyzing what they are doing to much, i find that you get the real feel that way =)
metart93 8 months ago
@metart93 Just for a bit of bio on T-bone. He could sight read sheet music for the guitar and the piano, and he did play with jazz bands in Texas, Oklahoma, and California and jazzers don't respect you unless you have the knowledge and the chops, so T-Bone probably had some knowledge of theory on top of his natural talent and one of a kind style.
T-Bone was really one of the best ever... and every now and then I have to play this vid to hear how good a guitar can really sound.
Odin029 7 months ago
@Odin029 T Bone wouldn't employ anyone in his Orchestra unless they could sight read music.
He came out form that big band era when everything was played in horn keys, Eb,F,Ab, Bb...the same reason why Chuck Berry does the same. (and without T Bone we'd have NO Chuck and hence NO rock players today)
taildragger53 6 months ago
@written12 k it's a whole tone riff. (only 3? wt scales exist)
wblakesx 8 months ago
what an amazingly clean recording visually and audio.
BaxterD 8 months ago
I wish I was borned in 1930's,i would see all of the blues kings live,today I can only watch stupid justin bieber live !!!!!!!!
OHUHAHEH 8 months ago
Whoawww whoawwww howwww hold up hold up! Where did that steam come from yikes ooo now this is so hot it just has to be the bluessssssssssssssssssssssss...
mel11172 9 months ago
as a guitar player .....the opening guitar playing that t-bone does ....its like a wealth of lessons ...
snuffelsuf 9 months ago
i love the blues and i more then anyone say no arguing just enjoy the music, but no one should talk shit about clapton! white, black, whatever hes magic on the guitar.
karatecamel 9 months ago
Puro sentimiento...puro blues...
paranoidchileno01 9 months ago
damn, get that stupid railing out of the frame
1952Telecaster 9 months ago
@bozner88 It's not that simple. Robert Jr. Lockwood was heavily influenced by RJ as a teen, so was Johnny Shines, and Muddy Waters. Muddy is the key. He mentions RJ by name to Alan Lomax in a 1941 interview. You can hear entire phrases lifted directly from RJ recordings in Muddy Waters earliest recordings until Muddy found his own voice, so if RJ did nothing other than influence Muddy Waters then he'd have done a lot, but of course he did much more.
Odin029 9 months ago
i see where chuck berry got it
gokolink 9 months ago
The way t-bone plays around with timing and rhythm is just amazing
wootoodoo 9 months ago
woman you must be crazy?
MetalMexa666 10 months ago
innovative way to take the guitar :P
francko72 10 months ago
Great!
darlene1029 10 months ago
What a phenomenal upload. Much thanks.
bigbabyjesus12 10 months ago
Happy Birth Day!
npoentaemreis 10 months ago
T Bone was an original and has never been surpassed as a :guitar player, singer, or song writer.
To this day his influence is felt in: Blues. Rock, and Jazz--none better...
absurdplanet 10 months ago
T Bone was an original and has never been surpassed as a guitar player, singer, or song writer.
To this day his influence is felt in: Blues. Rock, and Jazz--none better...
absurdplanet 10 months ago
omgooodnessssss
sweetadeline003 10 months ago
RESPECT!!
krayzi3bone 10 months ago
If you will dislike this legendary musician, why do you even bother to watch and try to understand the depth of this music?
Battohan 11 months ago
T-bone DESERVES the word GREAT. He makes his guitar TALK. Really TALK. to me he is head and shoulders above the rest
snuffelsuf 11 months ago
This guy is stoned all day, love it.
MARKOXDXD 11 months ago
How could anyone in their right mind dislike this
13Geffen 11 months ago
thats called mind transferance! useing the Guitar as a mind reader .At this level it ceases to be a musical instrument ,and becomes an external element of his unseen inner blues man
geisterbahn1 11 months ago
he can make that guitar sing the best
bobmunkfish 11 months ago
He wasnt from LA he was from Dallas
GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep 11 months ago
t-bone is a bad-ass guitarman!
gibsongold1970 1 year ago
wow!
yojoe71 1 year ago
TBone is the bomb! So amazing of a player.
cgabler91191 1 year ago
Have you ever seen something so totally personify the definition of cool? That's right, i thought not
Bassist10288 1 year ago
Awesome
Jollyj239 1 year ago
MR. ELEGANT MAN
javeca 1 year ago
that was mind blowing
smithers89able 1 year ago
Oscar Peterson and Cannonball Adderley have a similar control of Rhythm to T Bone Walker .Totaly Polyrthymic
mickhutchinson 1 year ago
His Polyrhythmic phrasing is still way ahead . He's in and out of different rhythms in a very subtle , natural and clever way . Briliant !!
mickhutchinson 1 year ago
My all-time favorite guitarist.
083770 1 year ago 2
T-Bone Walker and Charlie Christian had the same guitar tutor.. The Fathers of the Electric Blues and the Electric Jazz guitar... Check it out.
elvispreseli 1 year ago
Pioneer, innovator and others owe this man a debt, way ahead of the learning curve.
mrstanbmw 1 year ago
You can't dislike this...
TheLolispasaviolis 1 year ago
i smell alcohol lol
wackyshredder 1 year ago
T-Bone is the most elegant musician I know. More then blue eyes or any other. He is also one of the best guitar players.
thecoololdcat 1 year ago
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thecoololdcat 1 year ago
I have always wondered about how certain people just seem to be touched by the hand of God...T-bone makes me feel that I have been too...
Dalgren969 1 year ago
10 ppl lack ears
dharmapunkchick 1 year ago
who in their right mind gave this a thumbs down? my guess is they were stoned or drunk or something and pushed the wrong button. So far, only 10 dummies.
satinhooks 1 year ago
wud love to see him in his prime, when hed do the splits and play with the guitar behind his head n yall know he plays with the guitar at that angle cos he was a violinist before he played guitar
GRANDMASTERKANE 1 year ago
This is awesome! It reminds me Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughn. If you want, check out my original blues song "Bittersweet Goodbye" on my channel.
RocknPak 1 year ago
@RocknPak
It's because SRVs playing is usually a stylist rip of T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins & Hendrix. SRV didn't stray too far from these guys. I just wish SRV had as much soul as he did guitar tone and note accuracy. Compared to T-Bone, SRV sounds like a robot.
If you want to learn the blues, learn all this old stuff first... it's the source.
satinhooks 1 year ago
@satinhooks
That's bullshit. You couldn't hear soul if it called you a fuck head like I am now. You pathetic bastard.
figaz555 1 year ago
@figaz555
nah, I grew up on SRV. there are many devotees here in Houston, TX. there's music with WAAAAAY more soul that SRV. He's good, but sounds a bit stiff next too the real deal.
satinhooks 1 year ago
@satinhooks TBone inspired BB King. End of story.
wootoodoo 1 year ago
@wootoodoo
...and so did BB's cousin, Bukka (Booker) White.
satinhooks 1 year ago
wow, his expressions are off the hook...this was amazing to watch...i can only imagine the mastery, as i don't play guitar, but it sounded wild...
crackfarm76 1 year ago
its funny that guy almost sounded like Jack Kerouac.. But lets not shine the light on that poor soul, but on the one to be hailed in this fine fine peice of american music.
sydneydowful 1 year ago
A real, real classy player. This playing talks to me.
gearoiddom 1 year ago
T-bone is just so great. So clean and soulful. Thank you so much for posting! (You can sure tell the Chuck Berry must have been listening real real hard to T-Bone back in the day.)
bluthngrn 1 year ago
Before Jimi Hendrix there was T Bone Walker and before T Bone there was Robert Johnson. Each generation building on the genius of the one that came before.
doorsgirl100 1 year ago 56
@doorsgirl100 haha yea, and hendrix was the last one...
iotaminnesota 1 year ago
I am sorry? Tbone has nothing to do with RJ
pierrevanbentum 1 year ago
@pierrevanbentum Your right, they were actually more contemporaries. But I listed RJ as an example of the older style blues players that did influence T-Bone. It's a shame if RJ had lived I wonder what he would have done with an electric guitar. As it was T-Bone was the blues innovator on that particular instrument.
doorsgirl100 1 year ago
@doorsgirl100 and before robert johnson......Son House!
shredabilly13 1 year ago 2
@doorsgirl100 what wil come next?
kenneman972 11 months ago
@kenneman972 I don't know. I'm open to suggestions.
doorsgirl100 11 months ago
@kenneman972 Joe Bonamassa...
jeTTa002 11 months ago
@doorsgirl100 but who is this generation/
p8ntbala14 11 months ago
@p8ntbala14 John Frusiciante is pretty good of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, only time will tell who people think is on the same level as these guys. Who would you pick?
doorsgirl100 11 months ago
@doorsgirl100 i think tbone is as important as robert johnson.
ryanhashton 10 months ago
@ryanhashton I agree!
doorsgirl100 10 months ago
@doorsgirl100 theres no other way to put it, tbone is the father of electric blues. the same genre of music that would lead to cream, the hendrix experience, bb king, chuck berry, black sabbath. the list goes on
ryanhashton 10 months ago
@doorsgirl100 uhhhhh T Bone was a bit older than Johnson
jeezuschryst 10 months ago
@jeezuschryst Well Howlin Wolf was part of the tail end of that generation but his prime was in the 50s and 60s so even if he was older its still different generations of blues
GrisGrisOnUrDoorStep 10 months ago
@doorsgirl100 Sorry, But T-Bone's career started LONG before Robert Johnson. Recording about 10 years earlier and working Dallas with Blind Lemon before that. No doubt Robert Johnson's single string work was influenced by T-bone and Blind Lemon Jefferson. T-Bone was the real father of electric blues. Yes even before Muddy. T-bone looked younger than his years but don't let that fool you. He's close to 60 here....It's hard to believe his urban sound predates Johnson but it is the truth.
5thcorps 9 months ago
@5thcorps My understanding is that t-bone was influenced by Lonnie Johnson...which i could see
snuffelsuf 9 months ago
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busessuck1 8 months ago
@doorsgirl100 I think T-Bone Walker was older than RJ...
vantageIIx 7 months ago
@vantageIIx Your right. I was talking more about their innovation and style of play. Robert was the master of acoustic blues. T- Bone the master of and innovator of the electric blues and of course Jimi Hendrix used feedback to change the blues into a psychadelic rock style. Because of his early death Robert's prime was late 20's early 30's whereas T-Bones prime is the 40's and 50's.
doorsgirl100 7 months ago
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T-Bone's guitar pickin is a fine as frog's hair
drjerkle 1 year ago
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drjerkle 1 year ago
damn this is GOOD!
dharmapunkchick 1 year ago
amazing sound, amazing playing, amazing voice. amazing!
musclegas 1 year ago
T bone had great dynamics.
qwerly45 1 year ago
RESPECT
madosamabinladen 1 year ago
how did civilized and actually talented black performers disappear and in turned into rap/hip hop shit sung by untalented arrogant pieces of shit in this turn of the century....from the greatest jazz and blues players/singers to a bunch of loud dirty niggers
sdime59 1 year ago
@sdime59 wow your ignorance is astounding. are all black performers nowadays rappers? are there not any african american blues players or jazzmen/ women in modern times??are there not any rappers who sing about positive things and political awareness? i'll give you a hint.. yes there are !!! why lump everyone in one category? and if you want to call someone dirty perhaps you should start with yourself.. anybody capable of spewing that racist idiotic rhetoric must be filthy!
dharmapunkchick 1 year ago
@dharmapunkchick i accept i am very ignorant...but its just sad to see that people with out talent are making it big,they have their own shows they are on tv every fucking minute..they play in stadiums while true performers and true musicians are forgotten paying in bars and small venues...bb king plays in a no name club while piece of shit soula boy plays at the mgm in vegas...and no one cares for big band music even if its for free,bluegrass or jazz...so i am an asshole an idiot but
so wat
sdime59 1 year ago
@sdime59 The fact you are here writing means they are not forgotten. Anyway, you wouldn't want to listen to the same stuff as the tasteless masses.
poontangsta1 1 year ago
@poontangsta1 thanks the masses are easily brained washed by videos of untalented pieces of shit as long as the girls are hot or guys are good looking....
sdime59 1 year ago
If T-Bone heard you say that he'd probably pop you in the head with his guitar. You're an asshole.
bensmith3200 1 year ago
@sdime59 it is called the music industry, it is not by accident what you hear today as entertainment is piped through our radios. We as African Americans know this is by design. The talent is still there however what you hear is for the most part garbage. By the way the only nigger is yo mama.
mrstanbmw 1 year ago
@mrstanbmw yeah music industry only cares bout money so they shove our ears full of shit pure shit,,,,yo mama is so nigger a nigger owned her in the past
sdime59 1 year ago
I love playing along with this with my sax, such a nice sound together, it's like a backtrack for any horn. He has a voice similar to a breathing instrument.
willwelsh816 1 year ago
was he srv's biggest hero? or not
idstarman23 1 year ago
This is called "mastery". None better.
CoolFreeHardBop 1 year ago
ohhh my god ohmygodohmygodohmygod
Antithesis209 1 year ago
Great googally moogally! This is great!
970blues 1 year ago 2
..., this guy has the magic ingredient ..feeling !!!
lovelandre 1 year ago
..., this guy has the magic ingredient ..feeling !!!
lovelandre 1 year ago
@jacksondk1244 Yup... you're right. I noticed that it was the guitar cable about 20 minutes after registering my comment... just didn't know how to retract it. I listened more closely to the closing and realized the 1st string had to be intact... so I went back and used a little "stop-action" and could see it was the cable. Doesn't change my opinion of his talent compared to some of today's "flash & fancies" that call themselves musicians.
freelancevt 1 year ago
Dick Mcintire , Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker are the Fathers of Electric guitar
steinsteel 1 year ago
Wow... look real close and you can see he snapped his high e string at 3:29... laid back for a second and then went right back to cruisin'. True pro... made for the 'once only' live takes of early television. Today it would be "Cut!... let's try that again...oh yeah, and while your restringing try changing your shirt...I'm not liking the color contrast to the background." Ya gotta love these older originals. So real!
freelancevt 1 year ago
@freelancevt That was the guitar cable you saw.
jacksondk1244 1 year ago
me encanta a simplicidade e ao mesmo tempo sofisticação
saudações brasileiras
mmspg 1 year ago
me encanta a simplicidade e ao mesmo tempo sofisticação
saudações brasileiras
mmspg 1 year ago
deftjohnholler your coment makes me happy. Very nyce, man ... "Lessons of a man (ussually white) and wearing baseball cap, etc) guys it´s true. The true blues is this one, it´s no learned by coping.
SpiritCanaryisland 1 year ago
The production of this video is great. What is the name of It?
frg8888 1 year ago
@frg8888 I found It . Thanks
frg8888 1 year ago
i bluesman non muoiono mai...
marsigliese1973 1 year ago
clean and crisp
kidsareoverrated 1 year ago
100% style
ame624 1 year ago 2
Classic stuff and this video has him with his favorite guitar, a Gibson ES-5.
barbequebobmaglinte 1 year ago
Magnifico¡¡¡¡ me encanta, gracias¡¡¡¡.
divinilla100 1 year ago
this has been my favourite blues for a very long time. it demonstrates every quality i have ever looked for in music; tonal variety, coherent melodic narrative and a self contained, naturalised vocabulary: something that no lesson from some guy (usually white) wearing a baseball cap and holding a small piece of plastic in their right hand teaching you about positions and fingering can ever express. this is the best blues tutorial i have ever listened to
deefjohnholler 1 year ago 26
@deefjohnholler - that's kinda racist ain't it?
johnmac0117 1 year ago
@johnmac0117
i'm sensitive to the irony that the blues tradition is being kept alive by a race responsible for the medley of cultures and the resulting poverty and oppression that moulded the style and then sought to mould it into something new. something didn't translate though and clapton, bonamassa, kossof et al do not do for me in a whole solo what t bone walker does in a single phrase. its that difficult to define feeling of 'authenticity'. i must be prejudiced against plectrums :)
deefjohnholler 1 year ago 18
@deefjohnholler
Your premise might be flawed.
blardosplats 9 months ago
@doorsgirl100 and before RJ - Charlie Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson ma'am...
...In fact T-Bone learned his chops following BLJ around, as well as learning from the likes of Lonnie Johnson and Charlie Christian
busessuck1 8 months ago
@deefjohnholler If you're prejudiced against plectrums, you must not like T-Bone Walker much, since he's using a plectrum here . . . ;)
EasyAce 8 months ago
@EasyAce
thanks. you're right. i've looked at the other clips of t bone and he is holding 'something'. i guessed he was strumming with the tip of the index. it must be as thick as sixpence to get such a great tone from it.
deefjohnholler 7 months ago
@deefjohnholler what about david gilmour?
mikexlong 7 months ago
@mikexlong
he does have lovely tone doesn't he? surely he's not exclusively a thumb player? without the upstroke i think the thumb stops you from sending out an endless string of notes and gives the phrases more space although i have heard of some players up picking with the thumb (joe pass?) i'm always happy to be corrected. excuse my obsession with technique.
deefjohnholler 7 months ago
@deefjohnholler I agree with the T-Bone saying more in one phrase than those artists but it's not because of race. It's preference. You're more open to T-Bone for whatever reason while being closed to those artists you mentioned. It ain't a big thing. Causing hang-ups on a good video with some good vibes is, though. Race issues will never die if people like you keep this up. All this silliness over things no one can choose to be. No wonder "white" people play the blues now. It's all our fault.
Willinthehall 7 months ago 12
@Willinthehall well said. Slavery and the disgusting wide spread nature of racism in the past was not, and could not, have been influenced, supported, or participated in by me since I wasn't born until the 80's, when white society was at least starting to view other races as equals. The fact that i'm lumped in with the slave owners of yesteryear frustrates me no end.
ecclesiasticous 6 months ago
@Willinthehall I agree with that last part particularly. I was talking to a friend of mine who mentioned that too(He is black) Said something like "I can see black people complaining that White people stole the blues, but look at black music now. It's at the intellectual level of peanuts. White people will look back and say "Look, you didn't want it!"
mit7771 3 months ago
@deefjohnholler There's no comparison. In any art form there is the innovator and then there are the millions of copyists.
If it weren't for T Bone to fuse country Blues with Charlie Christian we'd still be listening to Glenn Miller.
taildragger53 6 months ago
@deefjohnholler Well said...
BluesBoogieC 6 months ago
@deefjohnholler I noticed you are a white British musician who teaches Clapton-style blues, yet you have stunk up this comment section with smack talk about "white guys who teach position and fingering" and how British bluesmen like Clapton and Kossoff "don't do it for you".
Doesn't make much sense.
ericdlayne 5 months ago
@ericdlayne fuck you I'm a 50 year old middle class white guy...after what I done been thru in life, I can play the "blues" as good as bb. buddy or sonny- boy williamson...and I'm sure they would agree....amen bro
oreokookie1000 5 months ago