It was always a joy to see Roy at the Crossroads, his steady gig. Hung himself after a DUI in his jail cell. If that ain't the blues. Roy. There always hope baby.
It sucks how roy, mike bloom field, rory gallagher, mick taylor blues guitarists like that dont get as much credit as they should compared to page, hendrix and all them lot
@captslicnic can you back that comment up that jimi hendrix said that
bout roy? cause i also saw somewhere else that jimi hendrix said that bout rory gallagher. just want to no did he say it bout the 2 of them or are people just full of shit..
Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the greatest guitar player in the world. Jimi responded with "why do you ask Roy Buchanan".. just sayin'. Thats high praise.
In spite of his obvious virtuosity, it is plain that Roy totally gets Neil Young. That is what is so cool about all of Roy's covers. He totally GETS what the artist was trying to say. Same with Hendrix and all the others that he covered. True genius.
A few years back when Rolling Stone listed their Top 100 R&R guitarists of all time, they had Buchanan coming in around #55. Ain’t that a load of crap. I put him in my top 10, with this being one of the best solos i’ve ever heard.
I'll add, when young guitarists learn to exude more than the smell of jock straps and Axe in their solos, and touch on subjects like pain, human misery and joy, compassion, a sense of mystery, etc., then they will become 'musicians.'
There is a great blues tradition of mimicking a woman's voice with your guitar. This consummate solo is Roy's interpretation of a woman begging and struggling for her life. You can find similar treatments in some of Hendrix's solos, particularly 'Machine Gun', where you can hear the cries of women and children in war.
This is a brilliant solo, filled with passion and anguish. No shredder can match the emotional intensity of this, unless they stop trying to impress, and start trying to feel.
Hey Joe on Thats what I am here for, thats the reason I became a guitar player myself, thanks forever Roy Buchanan, all the others just impressed me while you made me feel the burn inside. Hope to met in heaven.
this is the first song i ever heard of roy buchanan playing and i have to say that this song literally changed my life...as a guitar player myself it sometimes makes me want to quit when i listen to this cause roy buchanan is so far from where i'm at lol....thanx to lee32uk for posting this cause this song is one of the best song's/cover's i've ever heard if not the best....thanx again
"even though its a cover of a Neil Young song"? Neil Young was a fucking badass. Ain't no 'even though' 'bout it. The fact that an absolute king like Roy Buchanan would choose to cover it is a testament to Young's compositional ability...but man, this kills me. Everything about this recording is just perfect. Neil Young is a genius, but not on electric guitar. Roy fills that gap.
The last time I saw Roy was at the ElMocambo in Toronto. He autographed A blow-up of him on a previous gig there. He signed it "Love is Truth's Way" It was an honour to be invited into his dressing room and have a quart with him.
OMG , does this take me back to Roy live in concert, in P.A. & O-Hi-O,. Some incredible shows that I was lucky enough to have been at. Thankx & R.I.P. Roy.......
A lot of people think Roy hung himself, but Rolling Stone did an in-depth article that points directly to his murder by cop, while in jail for a trumped up drunk in public, and disturbing the peace charge. While he was Barbecuing in his own back yard with his family, a next door neighbor complained about the CD deck they were playing for the private gathering, and when police arrived to tell him to turn it down, Roy told them to leave, and they arrested him. Read between the lines .....
@hbbeverlymusic Are you really buying that line bro? Buchanan was one tortured soul with one seriously zealous christian upbringing. How much more do you need to screw you up? Not every muso dies at the hand of the 'man'...just Jimi...and Janice...and Kurt....and Marvin....and Stevie Ray....and Frank...but onther than that, it never happens.
@daverlb Just repeatin' the facts Bro.... Rolling Stones' writers have never been proven wrong on any of their serious investigative pieces. Lemme guess.... you're a cop? Can't blame you for being defensive of your own kind, if you are. But hey - it happens... Roy was on top of the world at the time of his death, and in fact was celebrating a new album that was just finished, and ready to drop. These are facts from his wife, who should know whether he was happy or not.
@hbbeverlymusic Haha no I'm no cop and I have little or no respect for them either. I'd just like to see some evidence and there has never been any. What happened to the new album? I'll admit I haven't read the RS peice and would like to, but I just can't buy into this. I managed to meet him briefly when he was in NZ years ago and there was something dark and tortured about him. I wish I had managed to say more than 'Hi, welcome to NZ, and I love your work' but I had about 60 seconds to speak.
Roy wasn't a singer? He played his feeling through his music-he spoke to all with his sound. Very blessed to hear his sound and be friends to connect with his feelings
on whether all these blues songs mentioning doing bad things against women means the singer is a misorgyist or what the hell you want to call it, since the being of time, the sorrows of men and women---honesty--all happiness is the same and beautiful, but like the dying of a flower death and sorrow can be too---and a constant theme of both sexes, and i dare to spectulate even of a unisex world
Remarkable how Roy played this Neil Young cover. And I saw Neil live at the Paramount in Oakland....all by himself, no band with him...just Neil and his various guitars and when he played Down by the River, I thought the roof was going to come off of the building. And I saw Roy more than thirty years ago at Carnegie Hall, too, and he was freakin' outtasight.
@gnarlycharlie666 like he said in the songs, they usually cheated first what would you do if the next kiss from her was from him?...me I'd shoot both.....
@gnarlycharlie666 That's because the women attracted to stardom often deserve to be shot. Gold digging bitch deceivers preying on talented though naive men. These cunts are worth more dead.
@gnarlycharlie666 I saw Roy live twice. Once just before he died, He came across as a very sensitive artist. You had to see him live to appreciate him.
The Fairfax County police version of Roy's death is hanging by suicide in county jail after being picked up drunk. Not his first run-in with the law here. I lived a few miles away and knew Sheriff Carl Peed. From all accounts this is the accurate story.
All music is personal and "in the ear of the beholder" so to speak. And it's certainly NOT a competition. But for me personally I have never heard anybody even come close to Roys intensity and virtuosity!
Like this live but like the version on "You're Not Alone" better. One of the coolest rock & roll experiences was seeing Roy in Gainesville Florida sometime in the mid '80's. Somehow got a front row seat in the Florida Theatre. He saw me grooving,even if seated,saw I knew his music. Asked me between songs if he was in tune. I replied with, "Ehhh", like sarcastically,"You're almost there". We both laughed sharing the joke. Classic moment.
Unfortuantely, Roy was murdered a year or two later.
This is awesome! you know you learn something new everyday... and Today i learned there is an awesome guitarist named Roy Buchanan.... I will positively check out more of his music.
Roy makes this more of a blues tune, and does it well.
I suppose if one were to really, "study," (Ha! as if you need to,) the song lyrics, even with Neil playing it out with more of a grinding sound, it's perfectly set up as, music and lyrics, with a slower tempo, blues tune.
1257trebor i hope that you see this reply.Cause I am the man that can tell you who's singning and not on this.The instrament that is singning this is a Telacaster guitar.As for you trebor you can't know Roy Buchanan cause Roy let his telacaster sing,cry ,weep n moan for him.The only skill 4 Roy involved in his music is his soul. The voice is that of Roy himself as he wrote it with Buddy Miles. Get ur facts together folks,Cause the Royster's dead and you will never hear soul music like his again
@wolfjb6 Wow, I feel honoured at the mere sight of this comment. A truly great guitarist and musician. Such a tragic end...but like you say, at least we are still blessed with his music.
No, it isn't Billy Price! Billy had left Roy's band by then. It's likely a guy by name of Gary St. Clair, who also did the vocals on the studio version.
Love this version, also check out the Down By the River by Buddy Miles, also super souly. And there's a version by a band called the Brooklyn Bridge that is awesome funky.
I have loved this guy since mid 70's. I'm so thrilled that so many are getting to hear him still. I have the "MY BABE" cd but I don't know how to share it with you all. I really love all the songs on that. It's more rock n roll with way less tripy guitar but you'll have so much fun rockin' out to it if someone can put it out here. Yeah the least known guitar master. I didn't know that Jimi Hendrix said that about Buchanan being the best...thanks for posting that. so cool.
Check out 5 string blues. I think it"s on Roys albulm called 2nd edition. The first time I heard Roy he was doing his version of "Hey Joe". We were listening to him on the radio on our way home from a dead show. Needless to say I was a fan 4 life.
Wow I was just researching this song. I've liked Neils original version for like 20 years. I've never even heard of this guy. Why? I'm kinda pissed nobody has turned me on to this guy......his playing on this song is freakin awesome
I highly recommend the Panther Hall recording circulating the internet. If you wanna ACTUALLY cry listening to pure bliss, thats the bootleg that does it everytie. Excellent quality too. Maybe ill rip and post it for everyone after exams.
On a chat show /Jimi Hendris was asked "What does it feel like being the best electric guitar player in the world?". Jimi said "I don't know, ask Roy Buchanan."
@dantean Ran into the line in the intro to a Guitar Player Magazine piece on Roy Buchanan (mid-late 70s, IIFC, it may or may not have been an interview,but it was the cover story). The interview from which the quote was taken was with Dick Cavett. I understand that the whole of the Dick Cavett Show footage is going to online access, but I lack the bandwidth to locate the quote. I don't know if that's wiki-sufficient citation, but that's what I gotBest, JC
@ktel60 I've seen the Cavett interview & it's not that unless he's on a second time which I haven't seen. On the show I've seen, Jimi says he hates compliments, compliments don't mean anything, and Dick, to be funny, replies, saying "you're considered the greatest guitar player in the world," at which Jimi laughs in an "aw shucks" kinda way, without any mention of Roy. If you remember it from a Rolling Stone I'm sure it happened, only the Cavett interview I've seen doesn't have Jimi saying that.
no one does this song better than roy, he is the undisputed telecaster player and one of my top 5 guitar players at least in my life, may you rest in peace brother, you paved the way for so many, you rock, it so sucks that you died, so young, and for such a chicken shit coverup of your death, I loved you in tha day, I still love you, and respect you totally, not many can walk in your footsteps dude, not many at all...there are no more like you, we so need you back here right now
'covered neil's song as well as his style of lead guitar......of course he kicked the lead guitar up a few notches...aye. Roy was brilliant, way under rated. thanks for the upload
best album of roys was you are not alone,and some with mack and vaughn, but the best liked of mine is you are not alone, guitar on the moon cover,seen through a space suit blinder
If I never heard Roy Buchanan play the guitar, some days I would feel like nobody ever understood me. A buddy turned me on to Roy in the early 80's. I saw him in Toronto in 86, and it was amazing. Truly a sad loss.
Although the album "MY BABE" is probably not his signature album, the cover of it was truly a look at Roy. He is sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant, and his date across the table is his true love, his guitar. Many of us wish we had such a loyal friend.
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Its a shame only 91,542 views.Also a shame like our country is becoming with Nobama and the other gov. socialist.LETS TAKE THIS SHIT BACK USA forever.Anyways roy buchanan is the shit?
I couldn't agree more with all the comments praising Roy Buchanan. I think the only other guitarplayer that could stand toe to toe with Roy was Danny Gatton.
Roy and Danny are without a doubt, 2 of the greatest guitar players ever. That's saying a LOT, when you consider all the other GREATS before them: T-Bone Walker, Joe Pass, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, etc. These guys could play jazz, rock, blues, and country, as though they were their only genre, and they mastered them all.
I am a little older cat and when i was a wee lad I can remember my dad saying that here is a great gutar player but he always overplays his music. He was talking about Roys work with Merle Haggard. I found him on my own in the early 70's amd the love affair continues fabbott1962
Yes, Roy was a sharecroppers son from rural Arkansas, where he still has family. He was always approachable and humble, and never forgot where he came from. Read his biography, American Axe, if you want to learn more.
Not only was he technically a great player, but he had the "soul" in his playing that stood him head and shoulders above most of the so called guitar gods !
I've become big into jazz lately, infact I'm training myself to get into a Jazz program in college for guitar. I just can't forget people like Roy though man.... They changed the definition of feel. Django and Wes are incredible, but I think Roy's there with them lookin at the same object from a different angle.
the other night i was laying in bed listening to this on my ipod. and i started to really concentrate on what roy was playing, and during the solo when he starts doing the volume swells and tone swells, i teared up. it was magical.
this is amazing!!Im only now starting to get into roy buchannon and I am glad I can still find new music (even if its not from my generation) thats amazing!!! Definetly one of the greats ! does anyone know what album this is from??
Love this!! And now I see where Buddy Miles got his inspiration for his own version of this tune - not from Neil Young...
recovering16 1 week ago
hello god!
TranzphatMusic 3 weeks ago
Wow this song brings all bad memories...
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Check my channel out as well (click on my name) and see/hear me play guitar!
BrockDavisson1978 1 month ago
The Stones wanted him to fill in after Brian Jones.
paddycat1000 1 month ago
It was always a joy to see Roy at the Crossroads, his steady gig. Hung himself after a DUI in his jail cell. If that ain't the blues. Roy. There always hope baby.
paddycat1000 1 month ago
God bless you my friend.
gebak18 1 month ago
It sucks how roy, mike bloom field, rory gallagher, mick taylor blues guitarists like that dont get as much credit as they should compared to page, hendrix and all them lot
DazedConfused1969 2 months ago
@DazedConfused1969 True artistic genius will eventually be recognized but certainly not contemporaneously!!
gebak18 1 month ago
@captslicnic can you back that comment up that jimi hendrix said that
bout roy? cause i also saw somewhere else that jimi hendrix said that bout rory gallagher. just want to no did he say it bout the 2 of them or are people just full of shit..
jimjk963 2 months ago
@jimjk963 only about rory thats true i dont think he said that about roy but im sure he would
DazedConfused1969 2 months ago
gnarly, just saying what?
kenny6gman 2 months ago
Jimi Hendrix was once asked how it felt to be the greatest guitar player in the world. Jimi responded with "why do you ask Roy Buchanan".. just sayin'. Thats high praise.
captslicnic 2 months ago
My speaker's cranked to....eleven..!!!
gmizz07 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Roy Buchanan
In spite of his obvious virtuosity, it is plain that Roy totally gets Neil Young. That is what is so cool about all of Roy's covers. He totally GETS what the artist was trying to say. Same with Hendrix and all the others that he covered. True genius.
BuckHill87 3 months ago 3
it is BILLY PRICE on vocals...mis informed people are well, mis-informed and ROY blows the shit out of every other Guitarist including Hendrix!
bluesy6619 3 months ago
this is the best roy song ever, other than the messiah will come again
wordwizard612 3 months ago
A few years back when Rolling Stone listed their Top 100 R&R guitarists of all time, they had Buchanan coming in around #55. Ain’t that a load of crap. I put him in my top 10, with this being one of the best solos i’ve ever heard.
t4fnut 4 months ago
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young did it well but this is a killer cover!!
loonybin007 4 months ago
Young made this popular, good Canadian Boy as he was, but this was the ultimate version!!!
geeksgaloremarmora 4 months ago
the first time i have heard of roy this blew me away thank you very much
dragonflychainsaw 4 months ago
what ever nice guitarplayer, i saw him in kaufleuten switzerland, 1A
cernful 4 months ago
take that Bill Mac
Jimala3 5 months ago
It is Billy Price singing this.
yokindo 5 months ago
I'll add, when young guitarists learn to exude more than the smell of jock straps and Axe in their solos, and touch on subjects like pain, human misery and joy, compassion, a sense of mystery, etc., then they will become 'musicians.'
thudson 5 months ago
@thudson Spot on.
desolationrow 4 months ago
There is a great blues tradition of mimicking a woman's voice with your guitar. This consummate solo is Roy's interpretation of a woman begging and struggling for her life. You can find similar treatments in some of Hendrix's solos, particularly 'Machine Gun', where you can hear the cries of women and children in war.
This is a brilliant solo, filled with passion and anguish. No shredder can match the emotional intensity of this, unless they stop trying to impress, and start trying to feel.
thudson 5 months ago 5
@thudson
At the part where he makes the guitar 'cry' @5:55 I kept thinking of it meaning Please, No, just from reading this comment lol
Kr0nic777 5 months ago
@thudson A lot of shredders love Jimi and Roy.
wailnshred 2 months ago in playlist More videos from lee32uk
i wish there was a video, this is some incredible guitar playing
cheeseppuff 5 months ago
unreal.
what else can one say.
rest in peace,
chumpkilla 6 months ago
how can a people press dislike? O.o
stifmarra 7 months ago
Hey Joe on Thats what I am here for, thats the reason I became a guitar player myself, thanks forever Roy Buchanan, all the others just impressed me while you made me feel the burn inside. Hope to met in heaven.
lslboss 7 months ago
Knowing the the person Neil is he would love this brilliant renditions of his classic!
I'm with Neil.
brently2009 9 months ago
HO-LY SH-IT It's Billy Use to watch him and his band play I don't know how many time in centeral Pa.
GTPstarter 9 months ago
HOLY S__T i thought that the buddy miles version of this song was the bomb but this,this is straight butter.
docmcoy1 10 months ago
this is the first song i ever heard of roy buchanan playing and i have to say that this song literally changed my life...as a guitar player myself it sometimes makes me want to quit when i listen to this cause roy buchanan is so far from where i'm at lol....thanx to lee32uk for posting this cause this song is one of the best song's/cover's i've ever heard if not the best....thanx again
lyydf4life 10 months ago
This is sooo BEYOND WORDS Roy Buchanan and Peter Green are the best I've ever heard !
welder342 10 months ago
Go Ahead Roy!!!!!....equally good as Neil's...in a differnt way
d1sailer 11 months ago 2
"even though its a cover of a Neil Young song"? Neil Young was a fucking badass. Ain't no 'even though' 'bout it. The fact that an absolute king like Roy Buchanan would choose to cover it is a testament to Young's compositional ability...but man, this kills me. Everything about this recording is just perfect. Neil Young is a genius, but not on electric guitar. Roy fills that gap.
Mind-numbing.
xNewOrleans 11 months ago
The last time I saw Roy was at the ElMocambo in Toronto. He autographed A blow-up of him on a previous gig there. He signed it "Love is Truth's Way" It was an honour to be invited into his dressing room and have a quart with him.
GREGTAR2 11 months ago
This guy really had his own way of playing. Even Danny Gatton copped some of Roys stuff. Now that's a major compliment.
Barnekkid 11 months ago
This man could play the blues. I rememberwhen they announced his suicide on the radio. Shame. RIP Roy and may you be rockin it somewhere.
marto880 1 year ago
OMG , does this take me back to Roy live in concert, in P.A. & O-Hi-O,. Some incredible shows that I was lucky enough to have been at. Thankx & R.I.P. Roy.......
urankjj 1 year ago
This is magic... So... I don't have words... It's just... Wow... This touched me... Man, that stuff went deep...
gab1280gh 1 year ago
A lot of people think Roy hung himself, but Rolling Stone did an in-depth article that points directly to his murder by cop, while in jail for a trumped up drunk in public, and disturbing the peace charge. While he was Barbecuing in his own back yard with his family, a next door neighbor complained about the CD deck they were playing for the private gathering, and when police arrived to tell him to turn it down, Roy told them to leave, and they arrested him. Read between the lines .....
hbbeverlymusic 1 year ago
@hbbeverlymusic Are you really buying that line bro? Buchanan was one tortured soul with one seriously zealous christian upbringing. How much more do you need to screw you up? Not every muso dies at the hand of the 'man'...just Jimi...and Janice...and Kurt....and Marvin....and Stevie Ray....and Frank...but onther than that, it never happens.
daverlb 1 year ago
@daverlb Just repeatin' the facts Bro.... Rolling Stones' writers have never been proven wrong on any of their serious investigative pieces. Lemme guess.... you're a cop? Can't blame you for being defensive of your own kind, if you are. But hey - it happens... Roy was on top of the world at the time of his death, and in fact was celebrating a new album that was just finished, and ready to drop. These are facts from his wife, who should know whether he was happy or not.
hbbeverlymusic 1 year ago
@hbbeverlymusic Haha no I'm no cop and I have little or no respect for them either. I'd just like to see some evidence and there has never been any. What happened to the new album? I'll admit I haven't read the RS peice and would like to, but I just can't buy into this. I managed to meet him briefly when he was in NZ years ago and there was something dark and tortured about him. I wish I had managed to say more than 'Hi, welcome to NZ, and I love your work' but I had about 60 seconds to speak.
daverlb 1 year ago
Roy wasn't a singer? He played his feeling through his music-he spoke to all with his sound. Very blessed to hear his sound and be friends to connect with his feelings
wolfjb6 1 year ago
OUTRAGEOUS
mmalmgre1 1 year ago
on whether all these blues songs mentioning doing bad things against women means the singer is a misorgyist or what the hell you want to call it, since the being of time, the sorrows of men and women---honesty--all happiness is the same and beautiful, but like the dying of a flower death and sorrow can be too---and a constant theme of both sexes, and i dare to spectulate even of a unisex world
omunhvilag 1 year ago
I saw Roy at Alex Cooley's in Atlanta a couple of times he was amazing.
ImNotHungryIPromise 1 year ago
I cannot describe what's happening here... That was out of time, out of the world, out of everything.
Marseille5 1 year ago
Remarkable how Roy played this Neil Young cover. And I saw Neil live at the Paramount in Oakland....all by himself, no band with him...just Neil and his various guitars and when he played Down by the River, I thought the roof was going to come off of the building. And I saw Roy more than thirty years ago at Carnegie Hall, too, and he was freakin' outtasight.
samanthaoaklandcd 1 year ago
I've been watching a lot of Roy videos recently and I've noticed most of his songs are about shooting his woman.....just sayin
gnarlycharlie666 1 year ago
@gnarlycharlie666
This is a cover of a Neil Young song.
lee32uk 1 year ago 3
@lee32uk I know I just think it's funny. A lot of blues are about killing women haha. No disrespect though, I love the blues and Roy is a god.
gnarlycharlie666 1 year ago
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@lee32uk I know I just think it's funny. A lot of blues are about killing women haha. No disrespect though, I love the blues and Roy is a god.
gnarlycharlie666 1 year ago
@lee32uk kinda sorta but not really; it started with all four of them
loonybin007 4 months ago
@gnarlycharlie666 I just favorited this - I don't give a f*** who shot whom. Roy, Neil and Jimi ALL rule.
bigmammadawg 1 year ago
@bigmammadawg Well said!
YankeeClippa 1 year ago
@gnarlycharlie666 like he said in the songs, they usually cheated first what would you do if the next kiss from her was from him?...me I'd shoot both.....
MrImStoned 1 year ago
@gnarlycharlie666 What are the others?
Barnekkid 11 months ago
@gnarlycharlie666 That's because the women attracted to stardom often deserve to be shot. Gold digging bitch deceivers preying on talented though naive men. These cunts are worth more dead.
FuckngBastard 3 months ago 2
@gnarlycharlie666 I saw Roy live twice. Once just before he died, He came across as a very sensitive artist. You had to see him live to appreciate him.
wailnshred 2 months ago in playlist More videos from lee32uk
The Fairfax County police version of Roy's death is hanging by suicide in county jail after being picked up drunk. Not his first run-in with the law here. I lived a few miles away and knew Sheriff Carl Peed. From all accounts this is the accurate story.
jodo201 1 year ago
All music is personal and "in the ear of the beholder" so to speak. And it's certainly NOT a competition. But for me personally I have never heard anybody even come close to Roys intensity and virtuosity!
Zebop45 1 year ago
Very cool,knew this was some badass shit the first time I heard it , great stuff ,thanks for it....
flathead59 1 year ago
nice shit
CoSeK 1 year ago
nice shit
CoSeK 1 year ago
He's so great!! Can u see??!
Ariosvaldo670 1 year ago
Like this live but like the version on "You're Not Alone" better. One of the coolest rock & roll experiences was seeing Roy in Gainesville Florida sometime in the mid '80's. Somehow got a front row seat in the Florida Theatre. He saw me grooving,even if seated,saw I knew his music. Asked me between songs if he was in tune. I replied with, "Ehhh", like sarcastically,"You're almost there". We both laughed sharing the joke. Classic moment.
Unfortuantely, Roy was murdered a year or two later.
karmabites1 1 year ago
@karmabites1 jail raped and murdered
SharingonMadara 1 year ago
@SharingonMadara
What? When & where did this happen? I didn't know about that.Why was he iin jail. Thanks.
FatherTimeST1300 1 year ago
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@FatherTimeST1300 @SharingonMadara my dad told me that. it might just be a rumor, but idk
SharingonMadara 1 year ago
@SharingonMadara my dad told me that. it might just be a rumor, but idk
SharingonMadara 1 year ago
This is awesome! you know you learn something new everyday... and Today i learned there is an awesome guitarist named Roy Buchanan.... I will positively check out more of his music.
larryoduncan 1 year ago
This is awesome!
larryoduncan 1 year ago
Roy can bend those strings!
EvangelineEvangeline 1 year ago
Excellent!
EvangelineEvangeline 1 year ago
Down by the insane river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago
@curiousgeorge555 This much madness is too much sorrow...................
EvangelineEvangeline 1 year ago
@EvangelineEvangeline Good come back. So true tho' , it is too much sorrow. )-'
He should not have left us as early as he did.
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago
This first time i heard this was last year when i was 14. Needless to say, i nearly shit myself in awe.
Such a huge talent
MIKEDURSTEWITZ 1 year ago
Roy makes this more of a blues tune, and does it well.
I suppose if one were to really, "study," (Ha! as if you need to,) the song lyrics, even with Neil playing it out with more of a grinding sound, it's perfectly set up as, music and lyrics, with a slower tempo, blues tune.
Thanks lee32uk.
Thanks Gabriele.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 1 year ago
zappa is zappa an roy is bluz, mutant apples and ethereal oranges. music is the best, we win
timetowatchmusic 1 year ago 23
waw! amazing guitar play! 10x for posting this version!
demerzzel 1 year ago
Oohlalala .... listen to this after a smoke ...
123ThisIsMe 1 year ago
1257trebor i hope that you see this reply.Cause I am the man that can tell you who's singning and not on this.The instrament that is singning this is a Telacaster guitar.As for you trebor you can't know Roy Buchanan cause Roy let his telacaster sing,cry ,weep n moan for him.The only skill 4 Roy involved in his music is his soul. The voice is that of Roy himself as he wrote it with Buddy Miles. Get ur facts together folks,Cause the Royster's dead and you will never hear soul music like his again
grenooch 1 year ago
This guy is truly blessed... This music is fantastic!!
Always good to find guitar musicians that just play their souls out... !
sailentshadow 1 year ago
topol on electric guitar...........
nutheadable 1 year ago
Roy backed alot--was a great friend-old times in George Town M street---miss him but glad he's still here through his music
wolfjb6 1 year ago
@wolfjb6 Wow, I feel honoured at the mere sight of this comment. A truly great guitarist and musician. Such a tragic end...but like you say, at least we are still blessed with his music.
nicholass21 1 year ago
who's singing on this ???
1257trebor 1 year ago
@1257trebor
Billy Price is doing the singing on this.
lee32uk 1 year ago
@lee32uk
No, it isn't Billy Price! Billy had left Roy's band by then. It's likely a guy by name of Gary St. Clair, who also did the vocals on the studio version.
MrBlueoval57 10 months ago
@MrBlueoval57
Album notes credit Billy Price as vocals.
lee32uk 10 months ago
Definately alot of soul in this version...
MrBill96 1 year ago
h.peter0425 beutyful
hpeter0425 1 year ago
Love this version, also check out the Down By the River by Buddy Miles, also super souly. And there's a version by a band called the Brooklyn Bridge that is awesome funky.
AboyWhisKeyboard 1 year ago
@AboyWhisKeyboard
richiemabie 1 year ago
I watched him and his protege, Nils Lofgren, play this on public TV a million years ago and loved him forevermore.
Harpgrinder 1 year ago
Amazing he wqs a wonderful friend-heard and felt his music - wow the days- he will always be in my heart
wolfjb6 1 year ago
I have loved this guy since mid 70's. I'm so thrilled that so many are getting to hear him still. I have the "MY BABE" cd but I don't know how to share it with you all. I really love all the songs on that. It's more rock n roll with way less tripy guitar but you'll have so much fun rockin' out to it if someone can put it out here. Yeah the least known guitar master. I didn't know that Jimi Hendrix said that about Buchanan being the best...thanks for posting that. so cool.
dannachanna 1 year ago
One of The best blues guitarists ever !!!!!
master...
RIP
I always loved hearing this song....the cat like screeching beautiful !!!!!!
bluemagicsmurf 1 year ago
Check out 5 string blues. I think it"s on Roys albulm called 2nd edition. The first time I heard Roy he was doing his version of "Hey Joe". We were listening to him on the radio on our way home from a dead show. Needless to say I was a fan 4 life.
SuperJoshman420 1 year ago
So under rated. I used to listen to this all the time years ago and just be absolutely blown the fuck away.
Jdubeats 1 year ago 10
jesus, that was good. Never heard this version before. Wheeeew thanks for posting
apostlewoody 1 year ago
Roy is the truth! No disrespect to Mr. Young because he is one of my all time favorite musicians, but man Roy shreds this song so hard!
connellydc 1 year ago
unbelievable love it
michaeliscool33 1 year ago
Wow I was just researching this song. I've liked Neils original version for like 20 years. I've never even heard of this guy. Why? I'm kinda pissed nobody has turned me on to this guy......his playing on this song is freakin awesome
MrGroove73 1 year ago
@MrGroove73
He should have joined Crazy Horse. Cheers
cockhead1000 1 year ago
I cranked my speakers up to 11! Much better!
dantean 1 year ago
I highly recommend the Panther Hall recording circulating the internet. If you wanna ACTUALLY cry listening to pure bliss, thats the bootleg that does it everytie. Excellent quality too. Maybe ill rip and post it for everyone after exams.
Rattimusd 1 year ago
On a chat show /Jimi Hendris was asked "What does it feel like being the best electric guitar player in the world?". Jimi said "I don't know, ask Roy Buchanan."
ktel60 1 year ago
@ktel60 Are you serious???? Wow! That's amazing. What a quote. U sure it's authentic? I'd love a link to it. Thanks!
dantean 1 year ago
@dantean Ran into the line in the intro to a Guitar Player Magazine piece on Roy Buchanan (mid-late 70s, IIFC, it may or may not have been an interview,but it was the cover story). The interview from which the quote was taken was with Dick Cavett. I understand that the whole of the Dick Cavett Show footage is going to online access, but I lack the bandwidth to locate the quote. I don't know if that's wiki-sufficient citation, but that's what I gotBest, JC
ktel60 1 year ago
@ktel60 I've seen the Cavett interview & it's not that unless he's on a second time which I haven't seen. On the show I've seen, Jimi says he hates compliments, compliments don't mean anything, and Dick, to be funny, replies, saying "you're considered the greatest guitar player in the world," at which Jimi laughs in an "aw shucks" kinda way, without any mention of Roy. If you remember it from a Rolling Stone I'm sure it happened, only the Cavett interview I've seen doesn't have Jimi saying that.
dantean 1 year ago
@ktel60
I think Jimi said "ask Rory Gallagher" not Roy Buchanan
UtkuTheMagnificent 1 year ago
my dad just showed me roy today. Wow, what emotional playing. sad story though.
sm6jesse 1 year ago
No one has ever played the guitar with such " soul" !!
Roy is a true musical master !
tonto4848 1 year ago
DAMN, now this reminds me of why Roy has always been one of my very favorite guitarists of all time.........!!
TaipeiDawg 1 year ago
Yup Yup Yup!!....*****
livingonlemondrops 1 year ago
Roy Buchanan and Billy Price = Pure Musical Gold.
Lets see anyone in today's crop of no talent lip sinking spastic dancing phonys match this.
VideoRanger1 1 year ago
Jimmy Page hasn't got shit on Roy Buchanan!
LUCKYBUCK22 1 year ago
TAKE IT BACK.
MattTheWard 1 year ago
@LUCKYBUCK22 .....very very true bud. doesnt even come close.
tabulaerasae82 1 year ago
@LUCKYBUCK22 no he doesnt not many do
vargason82 1 year ago
just discovered Roy today.....better late than never! wow.....so sweet
thevuduchild 1 year ago
@thevuduchild
Congratulations. Absolutely never too late to discover Roy.....!
TaipeiDawg 1 year ago
no one does this song better than roy, he is the undisputed telecaster player and one of my top 5 guitar players at least in my life, may you rest in peace brother, you paved the way for so many, you rock, it so sucks that you died, so young, and for such a chicken shit coverup of your death, I loved you in tha day, I still love you, and respect you totally, not many can walk in your footsteps dude, not many at all...there are no more like you, we so need you back here right now
teleevangelist 1 year ago
knew him he spoke with his sound--talk through the music---Iheard him a great person and talent
wolfjb6 1 year ago
un grand avec un son cristallin,un roi de la télécaster
mimichou53 1 year ago
'covered neil's song as well as his style of lead guitar......of course he kicked the lead guitar up a few notches...aye. Roy was brilliant, way under rated. thanks for the upload
edj4500 1 year ago
Rock on Roy, God must've needed another awesome lead guitar player in heaven. Rock on Bra!!! Kevin K. Fahring...
kevinFahring1324 1 year ago
As it says when you highlight five stars - AWESOME!!!
44JohnH44 1 year ago
The ony one that should have a fender, signature guitar, dedicated to him, and his memory, but fender never recognized him, well, I do/wynn r
teleevangelist 2 years ago
What a guitar player, he was.
sp1kline 2 years ago
best album of roys was you are not alone,and some with mack and vaughn, but the best liked of mine is you are not alone, guitar on the moon cover,seen through a space suit blinder
woodtowl1 2 years ago
fuck what shit is that guitar on! most be hardcore, oh yeah Roy Buchanan...
dan32113 2 years ago
If I never heard Roy Buchanan play the guitar, some days I would feel like nobody ever understood me. A buddy turned me on to Roy in the early 80's. I saw him in Toronto in 86, and it was amazing. Truly a sad loss.
Although the album "MY BABE" is probably not his signature album, the cover of it was truly a look at Roy. He is sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant, and his date across the table is his true love, his guitar. Many of us wish we had such a loyal friend.
robertgh123 2 years ago
wow....why hasnt anybody told me a bout him before???
69smitrock69 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Its a shame only 91,542 views.Also a shame like our country is becoming with Nobama and the other gov. socialist.LETS TAKE THIS SHIT BACK USA forever.Anyways roy buchanan is the shit?
MrLocostSeven 2 years ago
most beautiful song i have heard in a long time.
44oz4u 2 years ago
what a loss..
DuaneShailes 2 years ago
my volume went up from 10 to 11 and would have gone to 12 if it was possible....beautiful is the word....
martino1972 2 years ago
A true legend in rock n roll. Always tops my charts.
cashingout024 2 years ago 2
PRIMAL
57stratoaxe 2 years ago
I think the list can expand a little more than what is talked about here. .... but ......
This is like a spirit or a un-natural entity is in this work.
The Piece is enormous, I'll never fade away.
buggadugg 2 years ago
great
mino4206 2 years ago
I couldn't agree more with all the comments praising Roy Buchanan. I think the only other guitarplayer that could stand toe to toe with Roy was Danny Gatton.
Roy and Danny are without a doubt, 2 of the greatest guitar players ever. That's saying a LOT, when you consider all the other GREATS before them: T-Bone Walker, Joe Pass, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, etc. These guys could play jazz, rock, blues, and country, as though they were their only genre, and they mastered them all.
BluesRenegade 2 years ago
Frank Zappa?? No credit is ever given to that man and he was the definition of a true artist!
gettnhecktic 2 years ago 18
@gettnhecktic very true frank zappa is the master os musical artistic well being!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vargason82 1 year ago
I am a little older cat and when i was a wee lad I can remember my dad saying that here is a great gutar player but he always overplays his music. He was talking about Roys work with Merle Haggard. I found him on my own in the early 70's amd the love affair continues fabbott1962
fabbott1962 2 years ago
god that solo is so sad, it always reminds me he hung himself in his cell
gillesduhem 2 years ago
jesse,you couldn't be more right on if you tried.
jctradeshowjoe1 2 years ago
No slur against Neil but this version is the shit. Ungodly guitar that reeks emotion. Killer vocals also...
drivin951 2 years ago 2
Yes, Roy was a sharecroppers son from rural Arkansas, where he still has family. He was always approachable and humble, and never forgot where he came from. Read his biography, American Axe, if you want to learn more.
bro689 2 years ago
All American, and out of Arkanasa.
2inchtube 2 years ago
1985?
roorroorroorroor 2 years ago
Not only was he technically a great player, but he had the "soul" in his playing that stood him head and shoulders above most of the so called guitar gods !
tonto4848 2 years ago
Speechless. He puts most guitarist today (or from any other era for that matter) to shame
MIKEDURSTEWITZ 2 years ago
greatest ever and i don't wanna hear any shit about it. hands down no doubt!
jesseinbuffalo 2 years ago 4
Thanks for putting this up. Roy's guitar playing leaves me speechless...The passage from about 6:00 to 7:02 is inspirational
balcar1 2 years ago
Good Lord Almighty! Must pick jaw off floor. The power of music to alter consciousness.
jefevadc 2 years ago
This is the INSTRUCTION manual on blues guitar.
I waited seven years to get this copy. Thank You!!!
THe amount of sounds he wrings out of that guitar is stunning.
mitchqmitch 2 years ago 3
I've become big into jazz lately, infact I'm training myself to get into a Jazz program in college for guitar. I just can't forget people like Roy though man.... They changed the definition of feel. Django and Wes are incredible, but I think Roy's there with them lookin at the same object from a different angle.
darkedge45 2 years ago 2
My favorite guitarist playing my favorite artist.
FuttBucker667 2 years ago 9
the other night i was laying in bed listening to this on my ipod. and i started to really concentrate on what roy was playing, and during the solo when he starts doing the volume swells and tone swells, i teared up. it was magical.
guitarristachileno 2 years ago 4
never heard this b4 but it blew me away i new roy was good but phew this is brilliant
bristol12bar 2 years ago 2
Best version I have always thought.
bluesjuke 2 years ago 2
Great Billy Price vocals too
52bobb 2 years ago
@52bobb thanks man... i was a little confused cause Buchanan usually talks.
billyhigdon 2 years ago
this is amazing!!Im only now starting to get into roy buchannon and I am glad I can still find new music (even if its not from my generation) thats amazing!!! Definetly one of the greats ! does anyone know what album this is from??
hmoney242 2 years ago
Hi hmoney
The album you want is called 'Sweet Dreams:The Anthology' you can buy it from Amazon. It's a great double album!!!!!
cheers
lee
lee32uk 2 years ago
a street called straight
peterjamesleonard 2 years ago
@hmoney242 Hi dunno this album I know another on CD
Your Not Alone with this song & more
coraliengahuia 1 year ago
wish i could find the tabs to this
miloandotisfan 2 years ago