MerleHaggard with Roy Buchanan and Roy Nichols Live

[sherriffofhongkong]

This is a great post.... I'm a huge fan of both Roy N and Roy B.....

[fltrbvr]

Roy looked boored, but I wasnt there for the show. I love Merle but I bet Roy felt like a stand in.

[keithalan10]

@fltrbvr You are confusing bored with coked up...roy was the shit

[fltrbvr]

@keithalan10 Roy is the shit. He's my favorite bluz guitarist. I think Livestock is his best album.

[keithalan10]

@fltrbvr I started listining to roy in 72, he has always been my favorite too. I think his best album was his 4th on polydor, I forget the name of it, it"s not available on cd so my wife found an old album and had a cd made...she's awesome...another good one is called Buch and the Snake Strechers..it is old (60s) bar recordings...later

[karennorwegian]

@keithalan10 Hideous tragedy was losing him!

[4to88strings]

@keithalan10 The first time I heard Roy was his Second Album, so naturally that's my favorite. Amazing. I thought I had already heard all the greats. It was like discovering plutonium:>) I like Loading Zone alot too. Maybe because Stanley Clarke plays bass on it as well. I was lucky to see Roy twice, meet him briefly once and drank a Heini with the band. I have my list of favorites but Roy is in my top 5. My favorite is Jeff Beck and he says Roy is the best. Go figure.

[greygland]

is roy playing thru the offset marshall amp? not a country rig by any means

[hagblay]

MERLE WAS SO YOUNG THEN---ANYONE COULD TELL AT THAT TIME THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE GREAT--SO NATURAL--SO DIFFERENT--GOD BLESS MERLE HAGGARD AND HOW HE HAS DONE MORE FOR COUNTRY MUSIC THAN ANYONE--TY BOB FOR SHARING---JOHN

[GabeMacDonnell]

wow...

[dalekenjarvis]

Buchanan not only spanks that plank but makes it squeal to!!!!

[heymama1]

@dalekenjarvis Spanks that plank? I like it. You're right. A tele is like a nice plank of wood with some hot strings.

[dalekenjarvis]

@heymama1 I believe that spank the plank was a reference to the sound the old school country pickers got from a telecaster. It was a combination of speed, Hammer-on and pull-offs and a few other things.Some of them used finger pics . Anyway, once those guys start pickin you just start to grinnin! you just can't help it. Or as The Lovin Spoonfull put it "Well there's  1352 guitar players in Nashville and they can pick more notes than the number of ants on a Tennessee ant hill" :-)

[heymama1]

@heymama1 Thanks for the info. I happen to live in Nashville, so I get to see those plank spankers on a regular basis. I saw Roy Buchanan years ago (I didn't know who he was, I was just out and about one night and walked into this small club and caught the last 20 minutes of his set. The entire audience was mesmerized.

[Sylford]

Thanks for posting this clip, it's amazing. However, it wasn't filmed at the Blackboard, it's Pat and Charlie's in Ridgecrest, California. There are a couple of pages about filming this in the Buchanan book "American Axe."

[GraveMistake1]

Merle Haggard + Roy Buchanan = Epic Win

[magprob]

This is freaking amazing! Thank you very much. I'm learning Roy Nichols guitar from Doug Seven, and I want to know all about him. This is a missing piece.

Roy Buchanan could play the sap out of the rafters!

[37terraplane]

Roy and Roy, OH BOY!

[seans10]

What a fantastic upload. Great. Thank you!

[Alpha7xxx]

Holy COW THIS IS GREAT! Buchanan played with The Hag?! How did I miss this?

The Bakersfield Sound FOREVER! Thank you!

[dilapsio]

Thank You so much for this video!

[IGOROZKARSKY]

TWO OF MY FAVORITE SONGS

+ MY FAVORITE KIND OF PEOPLE !

[gtinms]

For what its worth, this entire documentary is available via torrents. No time to explain, google it.

[mink61]

Great piece of film, thankyou.

[captaincat40]

I think this was from the PBS show Greatest Unknown Guitarist in the World. From 1971 I think.

[Satchmoeddie]

Oh hell yaeh

[Margarethdiggs]

Love the music! But my question is at the beginning, Is that the grapevine going into Bakersfield? Also what year was this recorded?

[larrybillguitar]

freakn awesome



[MrFreightdawg]

Man, this is what it was all about when I was a young man. Impressive, to say the least.

[quikvmax]

Roy Buchanan was the baddest of the bad.RIP

[hillbillyboy77]

Great number

[goevo1]

Was this on a show or DVD?

[guitarman282002]

Old school tele pickers. Brent Mason learned from these guys and Jerry Reed.

[brucefanmark]

All I know is he played through Fender amps...

[Bumptiously]

first: THANK YOU 4 POSTING THIS !!

second: does anybody know Roy Buchanan's pick up configuration and what amp he was playing through? ( I play tele, I damp down on my right hand to get harmonic notes, but I still have trouble getting any signal as hot as Roy B without sacrificing the biting tele pickup tone to some humbucking pickups.)

[MrLocostSeven]

@Bumptiously ''This is what roy buchanan was known for making the telecaster cry."

[ExpatBlues]

Alpha Centaury Treasure!!

Thanks for sharing!! Left me speechless!!

The Doc

[p0psHarlow]

Beyond hen cluckin' this is some hen screamin' from Roy Buchanan, all the while keepin' it country. Merle even yodels on the Jimmy Rodgers song, he doesn't always. The second song is a sweet Lefty Frizzell classic.

[crocidile75]

Wow

[MrMudclub]

The guys are outstanding.I love Mr Buchanan because he just has a unique style and plays from the heart.

[TheGramper100]

this is so cool..merles in his prime and both roys on playin so great