Earl Hooker

[dirtyxmexican]

hes like a right handed jimi with a les paul thats not upside down

[WilliamD41]

Eat your heart out Eric

[politicalidiot1]

Honey Badger don't give a shit, neither does Earl Hooker the baddest bluesman to ever live.

[dirtyxmexican]

@politicalidiot1 really? the honey badger. that gets annoying when you live in Louisiana but hate lsu

[Termiroman]

Does this composition have a title?

[GtrSoulO]

@Termiroman "Off the Hook".

[bschuit]

I guess clapton have listened a lot to this guy, not to say steel a lot.......

[woodbell67]

He's playing Magic Sam's guitar !

[OakBluffer]

@woodbell67

wrong, woodbell67,

It's Earl's guitar, and Sam's playing Earl's guitar on that night when the German promoters Fritz Rau and Horst Lippmann filmed that segment of the American Folk Blues Tours. Geez. Concentrate. Why on earth would Magic Sam have a guitar in his hands with Earl Hooker's name splashed all over it?^%$# Oh yeah, ...I guess it's cuz Earl got it all hot with that fancy and toothy tongue action...

[woodbell67]

@OakBluffer You didn't get the joke.

[BluesHeavy]

Young guitarist pay attention look at his hands he didnt even move that far from where he began with that solo yet it sounds like its busy as hell.

[peonwarrior]

Does anyone know about this Drummer ? incredible

[SiKxBlAzEr]

wow i can hear so much jimi hendrix in this guy

[barba666ruiva]

@SiKxBlAzEr

i can hear so much hooker in hendrix! cheers =]

[sunrisechicago]

so damn overlooked and underrated. The west side boys back then seemed to add the element of fun and while trying to catch up to the great southside legends they also seemed to form more support for eachother than competition

[BordiniBlues85]

o_o sound city amps !!!!!!!!!!

[DAVO1984FI]

Hard Stuff!!!

Didn't know before Earl Hooker, bad miss!!

[scpmr]

круто

[antonverdonk]

It doesnt show here but he is more then anything the king of the slide guitar!

[seedogreed]

Before Jimi there was Earl !

[sgrroiii]

Credit Schmedit ! What the man needed was cash . Probably would have lived a few more years .

[bluesify100]

T Bone Walker, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, and Buddy Guy all combined into one -Earl Hooker

[backwoodsgps]

i love people

[0scarito1990]

chido valedor baja mas rolas de este cuate :-)

[EVEgoFLOWERS]

real rock'n'roll!

[busessuck1]

This man deserves just as much credit as hendrix

[Okpolosi]

He was a man to contend with.

[PaulAsbell]

This drummer doesn't LOOK like Sam Lay, and he doesn't PLAY like Sam Lay.

In 1969, I played in both Sam's and Earl's bands regularly. I know that Sam didn't go to Europe w/ Earl that year.

[PaulAsbell]

Oh, yeah. By 1969, Earl's tuberculosis was in full swing. He was NOT drinking pints of whisky.

[Masterphonic]

Ten dollars say Earl drank a pint of whiskey before getting up on stage.

Guy's got chops, though. There's no doubt about that.

[lordkoos]

@Masterphonic

I agree. Not at his best by this point...

[ANealis]

what a great jam

[nosorog91]

Isnt this piece's name "Off the hook"?

[seedogreed]

Anyone join me in thinking this was the early Hendrix ?

[Stoogybill]

@seedogreed Hendrix played in a band similar to this, that would tour the chitlin circuit before he went to the UK. 

[andrewtournavitis]

@seedogreed

Earl was a cat that could play all kinds of American music.

He was the best on wah - wah pedal and one of the bests on slide quitar.

I ve got several LPs of him, but no number could ever be enough.

What a big loss that TB took him away so early.

No other musician sounds like him.

Rest in peace my friend EARL HOOKER.

(cousin of JOHN LEE HOOKER).

[PaulAsbell]

NOT Sam Lay. Ask me how I know...

[Masterphonic]

@PaulAsbell How you know?

[lordkoos]

@PaulAsbell

The drummer is Robert St Julien, isn't it? He went on to play in Clifton Chenier's band for many years... wonder if he's still around.

[peonwarrior]

@lordkoos anyway this is a kick ass binary drummer

[naabjr]

The drummer is Sam Lay, prove me wrong

[GtrSoulO]

@naabjr Wrong... I have the DVD; it's Robert St-Julien.

[naabjr]

Wish there was more footage of Earl Hooker. He held the title of king guitarist in Chicago at the time (yes over BB, Buddy and Otis). He would just drive to a town and make money (not that way anymore). He always had custom made bad ass guitars too. Great footage, thx.

[chuchungo1]

Hooker Earl Zebedee: Guitarrista, Organista, pianista y cantante (Clarksdale, Mississippi, 15 de enero de 1930 - Chicago, Illinois, 21 de abril de 1970). Dotado de una marcada personalidad, introdujo nuevas técnicas sin adulterar la pureza de la tradición. Su etapa más brillante se inició en 1960, en Chicago, y duró sólo diez años, ya que le sorprendió la muerte. Muchos de sus pares lo consideran como el mejor guitarrista de blues.

[flamencoprof]

Well I'm not gonna argue who did it first, but I could hear/see elements of Clapton, Hendrix, James Brown, Rory Gallagher at Montreaux.

Go Earl!

[TheBoneRanger1968]

Impressive.

[mrkennedy4321]

wow great!!!!

[louquino]

who is the drummer?

[naabjr]

@louquino Just a guess but I think it was Sam Lay the same guy live with Magic Sam live in Ann Arbor in 1968. They sound the same, but I'm not a drummer.

[niiles11]

@naabjr Drummer is definitely NOT Say Lay.

[louquino]

who is the drummer?

[louquino]

who is the drummer

[donottawaguitar]

cool

[Fr3derick]

Excellent!!!

Grandma mary

[thebluesrockers]

Great Jam, thanks for sharing this.

you know R&B used to stand for Rhythm and Blues, but now it stands for Rap & Bullshit!!!!

it makes you wonder how that ever happened huh? somethings make no sense.

[Bluezking]

Junior Wells said in an interview that E Hooker cd do more than a monkey with coconut.He wd change string while playing.5****

[thebluesrockers]

@Bluezking that title makes laugh. I will have to get that one now. I have heard a lot of tunes from Earl, I don't know if he was related to Johny lee Hooker or not. do you know?

I sure love his style, his solos were ground breaking. Johny may have had a better voice, but Earl sure could play those solos

[Bluezking]

as far as I know Earl & John Lee Hooker r related.

[bib4tuna]

Cousins

[TenyaChigliak]

they are cousins and E played Rhythm&blues and J played talking blues

[ambilevous]

this is fantastic! where the hell did you find it?

[fuxgood]

Just goes to show ya don't need an expensive high end guitar to make it sound good. And how about those stick on mail box letters?

[TiggerOaks]

This guy was way ahead of his time. What he did on this video seems punk to me.

[IpkisStanley]

nice reminds me of freddie kings instrumentals of probably around the same time

[Bukettorin]

hahah 3 :36 :D jimihendrix1967 love you :D

[diamondbackseye]

Earl Hooker is the guy that all the famous Chicago bluesman talk about... They say he mighta been the best if he didn't pass on so young...

[elbratzo]

badass. awesome

[crayhead]

Thank the hell outta ya!!!!!

[BordiniBlues85]

SNOOKS ON SOUNS CITY AMPS!!!

[numinousbludger]

Yes indeedy. Well spotted.

[montecore18]

This is fucking crazy

[javonblue]

what's the name of this song it's one of the best instumentals ever

[guitamasta]

Off the hook

[jimihendrix1967]

3:36 :DDD