Buddy Guy 1965 - Out of sight

[rollingstopp]

this performance is soooo cool---rockin blues

[PaulDA2000]

Wow, I never knew he performed a version of James Brown's big 1964 hit!

[wc4dblues]

he looks a little like JIMI in this video, I first noticed this on his ' a man and his guitar'

album... Or am I crazy? look at the album before you start saying I'm nuts though.

This is AS GOOD AS IT GETS....BUDDY...BUDDY...BUDDY.­.N..MORE BUDDY.

[gwhtf4]

EXCELLENT...HE WAS AMAZING...

[harmonicazhin]

@gwhtf4 WAS!? He's still alive and still IS amazing. :)

[fpcrunner]

@gwhtf4 yeah I just saw him a few weeks back in Daytona, and I can assure you the man has still got it, and some.

[wattors]

Excellent, thanks

[alainlubinmuSICK]

I really doubt Buddy Guy wants to see someone doing Buddy Guy. He wants to see and hear original blues players with their own unique style of the blues. Dont' get me wrong, the guys you have all mention are great, but they do sound much to much like Buddy. Also, you might say Buddy is a blues guy, but you can too say that he was also known as a "pretty boy" or definitely "pop star" in his younger days as well. Along with countless other great musicians. Remember what "pop" means.

[renegaderadiofm]

@alainlubinmuSICK you're right...and it's sad that nowadays artists considered "pop" (afterall pop is short for poular music) for the most part don't have the talent nor passion for music like the "pop" of old.And it's all the radio stations fault!!!

[Gagagrr]

Anyone else thinking of Papa's got a brand new Bag? Killer!

[PaulDA2000]

@Gagagrr - The reason you're thinking of 'Papa's Bag' is because 'Out Of Sight' was put out by Mr. Brown a year before 'Papa's Bag' and was the 1st time Mr. Brown gelled the funk into a complete song, he even had the long vamp at the end, which was unheard of up till that time.

[Seawalker23]

I cant believe what i see and hear ... What a great moment

[snowypetrel]

I love this format, video the telly, it's really friendly, loses some of the coldness of digital tech. My mum takes pictures of lizards when she sees them on the telly.

[lstcougarlady]

To see BG 44 years ago is a treat. Thanks for all your efforts to upload this. It's perfect to me. :))

[WallowingGrizzly]

" Buddy, the crazy blues master...blazin a trail with his mighty stratocaster"

Buddys a wild child man, nuttin better

[kzearo]

What DVD is this from?

[ChunkyBoots]

Call it what you want but this is rock n roll at its best!

[diosf99]

Clap clap clap clap ... great great great

[Oldskoolmusiclvr62]

A rare TV performance by Buddy Guy doing a James Brown cover,very Amazing indeed Buddy Guy should've recorded this version on Chess Records & released this as a single.

[LouisJr]

who performed this first? buddy guy or james brown?

[JosephNScott]

"who performed this first? buddy guy or james brown?" James. Buddy isn't very known as a songwriter, he's just one of the best blues guitarists ever and one of the best blues singers ever.

[taildragger51]

JosephNScott; I agree again. What saddens me today is when Buddy has to hand over his crown to mere "pop star" pretenders like John Mayer. Buddy's legacy is worth more than this! At least if he handed it to Bobby Radcliff it wouldn't be so bad. Radcliff has a similar sense of urgency in his playing/singing that smacks of BG.

[stizodd]

I gotta tell you, there is some truth to what you're saying but that Mayer guy, knows how to lead a band. Mayer has great tone but rushes his solos and mushes his phrasing areound. It sounds like licks he learned from a "Learn Blues Guitar" book. However, Buddy loves the kid and he does respect the blues and doesn't bastardize it too much. And remember, guys like Mayer will be turning the next generation on to Buddy's, etc records...

[taildragger51]

stizodd: Yes, i agree with you but with me it's just a personal thing where i consider John Mayer more of a "pretty boy"pop star celeb rather than a Blues man

similar to when Bruce Willis posed as a bluesman back in the 80s. Personally i'd rather listen to Kirk Fletcher or Joe Bonamassa, who really carry the Buddy Guy torch.

[Gtarist62]

Mayer's a good player, but you don't believe him when he plays. Buddy, Albert and Stevie...you believe them.

[geeyouknit345]

well dont worry to much because i love the blues and im gonna bring iot back the real blues not that fake mayer shit

[Rolandvids]

@geeyouknit345 well before u do that ive been doing that for 35 years and now im playing on the street for a living dont be stupid ill tell you what buddy told me 25 years ago u play good and u can play these blues but you got to do the rock thing like stevie and eric and the stones or you arent gonna get anywhere do like they did and then come back and help anyways check out my playing roland duguay

[JosephNScott]

To see film footage of Jimi Hendrix in the audience at a Buddy Guy show, search on:

Jimi Hendrix watching Buddy Guy play

[JosephNScott]

Hendrix based his visual act very much on people like Johnny Guitar Watson and Buddy Guy, except he added another wrinkle by dressing and wearing his hair like Bob Dylan.

[taildragger51]

JosephNScott; That's true..and Buddy & Johnny 'Guitar' Watson learnt their stuff from Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones and Earl Hooker. Buddy knew both real well and even gave Earl Hooker his slide and said "take this.. you use it better than me. Buddy sang alot better than the rest though. Also NOBODY looked better with a Strat than Buddy Guy especially with that slick mohair suit. The man looked very handsome.

[JosephNScott]

"Buddy & Johnny 'Guitar' Watson learnt their stuff from Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones and Earl Hooker." I don't disagree, but JGW was making records years before Buddy, and I think Johnny was a peer of Eddie and Earl, if you know what I mean.

"Buddy sang alot better than the rest though."

Thank you, he's one of the great blues singers, and how great a guitarist he is distracts people about that sometimes. I think of Buddy as (among other things) the heir to Lowell Fulson, which is saying a LOT.

[taildragger51]

JosephNScott; Absolutely. Sorry,I didn't mean to convey the message that Buddy & JGW were contemporaries..their careers were years apart.

No doubt about it, JGW was using feedback/distortion in 1952. He picked up from Guitar Slim's accidental usage of distortion. Mind you,i think the STYLE of playing in each case comes only from T. Bone Walker. Buddy's frenetic, almost psychotic vocals really conveys what the Blues is all about.

[JosephNScott]

Deliberate distortion was increasingly coming in in R&B guitar during about '47-'51 too, by Pete Guitar Lewis (with Johnny Otis), George Freeman (with Joe Morris), on pianist Jimmy McCracklin's records, and by singer/guitarist Jimmy Baby Face Lewis, for instance.

Best.

[stizodd]

It is well documented that Buddy was a huge fan of BB King's, and that BB started playing blues because of a T Bone song he heard when he was a child. Your assesment of Buddy's early style is spot on.

[taildragger51]

stizodd: Oh yes, once again you're right. The long guitar cable and wild antics that Buddy used when young really were learnt from Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones. Buddy testifies to this. Buddy also looked really tall,slick & cool like Guitar Slim. He looks great in this film clip.

[evanfrmheaven]

i absolutely love this, Buddy Guy is opening up a can of wippass !

[jessupar]

that's whupass ;P

[LegendaryBrolly]

What dvd is this from?

[TheDev01dOne]

The DVD is just called 'The American Blues Festival 1965 - 1969' I think. It is the same DVD that has Buddy playing with Big Mama Thornton.