Roy Clark Guitar Wizard

[Pan3405]

Why playing a spanish based type of music on a steelstringed C&W guitar... ?

[apple736]

@Pan3405 martin d28 baby!

[guitarsRkool1]

wow, just incredible, first time hearing this.

[omacoi3]

that bass slap part....it´s impossible!!! Roy is some kind of super mutant cooked up in a lab or something

[joeylodes]

Still amazing

[wawalb]

Wow!  Absolutely incredible!

[Ignaciomrozas]

Sounds like a mess to me!!!

[edantes2006]

2:18 he stole that from Mean Streets off Fair Warning :P

[gr8rootbear]

KEERAP.......awesome.

[cantstopknitting]

Amazing!

[johnnyd63]

Humbled!

[operafan64]

I love the Odd Couple, and this is one of my all-time favorite episodes precisely because of this perfomance. I first saw it more than 30 years ago and never forgot it. Amazing!

[aamurphy123]

WOW!



[caponebrutus]

chet and roy the best guitar players of all time

[DiceCarlinKinison]

simply put...the best ever guitar player

[bushey26]

Love you Roy!

[spiek56]

If I could move my hand that fast, I'd never leave the house.

[robertsimmons55]

I.......uh.......er.......ya know........well.......it's like...........wait, let me watch it a few more times and maybe I'll be able to wrap my brain around it and be able to write a comprehensible sentence!

[laqutis]

the man is a master

[trigger72420]

beat this bitches!!!!!!!!

[wesstevens]

He was paying before Joe was born, that's just a comment designed to disturb everyone. Roy has been around a LONG time! I'm sure they could both teach each other something, great guitarists have a mutual respect for each other...

[gunman5566]

@anjelina1940 really??!!

[homer655]

he gave me goosebumps

[hsj469]

Shee-it!  I missed THAT episode of The Odd Couple!

[Avalanche1368]

Funny, I suddenly have this urge to go out and fight a bull....Darn good that Roy. Used to catch him on TV, when I was a young-in...

[bergerfry]

Still the best solo I have ever seen. Up there with Buddy Rich 1975 solo.

[XxStonedImmaculatexX]

Whats amazing is that hes strumming instead of finger picking.

[tbw315]

14 people regret getting an Eddie Van Halen tattoo.

[satchrules101]

@tbw315 joe satriani did teach him how to play

[tbw315]

@satchrules101 Roy Clark had won two national banjo championships and the world guitar flatpick championship by age 15... 8 years before Satriani was born. Also, this episode aired when Satriani was still studying under Billy Bauer.

[anjelina1940]

@satchrules101 idiot

[satchrules101]

@anjelina1940 why am i idiot im just saying satriani gave him lessons don't be mad joe is god

[anjelina1940]

@satchrules101 You are an idiot.... Roy is my cousin.... he plays by ear and self taught, he never took a guitar lesson in his life.

[toejam498]

@anjelina1940 it shows- he's more of an entertainer and percussive player, than a 3 note per string wizard like gambale

[anjelina1940]

@toejam498 Your comment is techinically incorrect.... so goes internet know-it-alls !

[toejam498]

@anjelina1940 he's an ol school, fingerpickin banjo style percussive entertainer, great fun to watch angela, but no vai or gambale, and yes I know my stuff

[anjelina1940]

@toejam498 Opinions are like assholes... everyone has one.... doesn't mean shit when you try and use words you don't know the meaning of.... percussive? any string instrument, drums, piano etc, etc is a percussive instrument... so what the hell is your point/ You like synth rock ... thats your perog... has nothing to do with talent and ability... grow up!

[toejam498]

@anjelina1940 get your dick off of his cock loser.some people like you just dont get it. you must be young

[toejam498]

@anjelina1940 he's a strummer, except for the part at 2 :18 which is again dork... percussive

[irishgrl]

@toejam498 "strummer?" apparently you've not heard him play banjo? the man is a known wizard on the frets. pfft.

[toejam498]

@irishgrl hence my statement finger picker you joke

[anjelina1940]

@irishgrl You are a lame ass that doesn't know shit about guitar or pickers... go away moron.

[anjelina1940]

@irishgrl  You are correct, and "toejam" is a moron

[satchrules101]

@tbw315 i didn't know that. but i know satriani gave him lessons take that one to the bank !!

[MrJdvance]

@satchrules101 and where did you get that information? i would love to see ANY evidence that joe satriani gave guitar lessons to roy clark...i mean maybe they jammed together a few times and talked shop... but lessons? COME ON, MAN! and im not hating on satch...but the shit just dont sound right

[StoptheLibs]

four words can only express my thoughts...''son of a bitch''...



[UnseenEntityMetal]

months later i still feel the need to say''wow...just wow''

[boruff68]

Insane



[Greycrossing]

Humbling to watch.

[ronald4654]

Could you imagine what its like when he wacks it?

[crockettsx]

simply amazing

[telemaster1953]

great song, roy is one of the best

[dogstarserious]

All I can say is WOW!......for the guitar players out there look up Tommy Emmanuel ;) Enjoy ;)

[Aliendear]

I have noticed, that in the way some of these guitar geniuses of the late 60s - seem to evoke a sound that sounds like the description of the new Christ, that he is mexican or something. I know what I am hearing, and I've heard it before in other music. Alot of you will not understand what I mean, but those of you with song and feeling Will know what I mean. I think this Christ was supposed to show up sometime in the Seventies, and do soul saving from there, through the 90s.

[another2centsworth]

Roy, Chet, and Jimi are the best of all time.

[duster71]

@another2centsworth and Frank -----Zappa

[Thompsae]

I wish i could see what his right hand was doing at 2:17

[davidroxs]

what song is this ?????? :o

[UnseenEntityMetal]

@davidroxs ...i feel sure its malaguena played slightly diff for tv..dudes a fuckin genius i been comin back to this for a month or more reinspred every time..its actually heavy as hell w/ distortion...str8 metal....this is way way heavier than any zep or bto or w/e passed for heavy back then..but then i look for heavy in odd places

[ghsr82]

2:18 most epic thing i've seen in my whole life

[FirstFiveFrets]

That guitar saw Roy and knew he was gonna get played.

[countflatula1]

@FirstFiveFrets yes sir!!

[mv150]

I just figured out who started speed metal , it was roy sweeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!

[AuburnWahine]

Roy clark is awesome

[marlok1964]

Roy's body was just a vessel on this one !!! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING !!!!

[crornel]

Jesus isn't that good at guitar.

[ThePhallystorm]

The right hand is far more important in this technique, and Roy has it down ten fold. Not too many can pull this off.Look at that picking hand go, and coordinate when strumming, and tapping. He RULES!!

[gregwddriver]

Wow. Just...WOW!

[Mlczdk1]

Roy Clark is one of those guys born to play strings.His tallent has been recognized certainly but under rated.We glorify our rock stars and give a passing knod to guys like Roy Clark......Well hes done quite well anyway

[aphamilton]

0:27 music

[kingcruze1]

Just fought a Bull came in and watched this. Damb had to do it all over again! That Bull was tough. P.S. no animals were harmed during this event!

[inkdclown]

fuckin A !!!!!! lol

[emt1605]

I still say one of the best

[slim2924]

a true master.....

[highintel]

crazy!

[MrWalksinStorms]

It just doesn't seem humanly possible, does it?!

[secondseen]

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Soxpert]

Holy shit, I knew he was good, but hot damn!

[wardchandler]

Roy Clark playing Malaguena was a huge inspiration for me learning to play guitar as a kid - he and Chet always left me scratching my head ... "how the heck to the DO that???". Thanks for posting this.

[UnseenEntityMetal]

lost my internet during my move from house to larger house and for 2 weeks i had this in my head...finally i can resume ultimate listning pleasure...pure baddassery in action

[TheLar1969]

2:16 BLOWS MY MIND!!

[Corniator]

imagine this guy fapping o.o

[straightedger9]

Holy crap!! \m/ \m/

[knk4ever83]

DDAAAMMNN!!!! love him

[thomas1245100]

a LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tbam0327]

wow that has to be one of the best guitar solos ever........

[DonBaldy]

V.A is home to many great musicians, haven't heard of a lame crybaby band/musician there yet and probably never will.

[JesusSatanAllah]

Roy kills that guitar. Amazing energy.

[UnseenEntityMetal]

still equally amazing...

[GPSmarketingsystems]

Roy is an amzing guitar, banjo, fiddle player. An absolute vituoso.

[UnseenEntityMetal]

still amazed

[jonwlowe]

Loved watching Roy on Hee Haw when i was a kid.

[mogges1]

Is roy Clark still with us,or has he passed on

[kevjay777]

@mogges1 He's still going strong. And even when he does "pass on" he'll still be going strong. Can't wait to hear him play a harp like that.

[UnseenEntityMetal]

...skipped a day,felt like shit...this is dope for me

[UnseenEntityMetal]

a week later and im still comin here 4 or 5 times a day...im now a roy clark fan...true genius

[fentleyboa1]

I think the sideburns had alot to do with it !

[UnseenEntityMetal]

im enthralled by this...amazing

[UnseenEntityMetal]

...........speechless

[UnseenEntityMetal]

...fuck its badder every time i watch it

[shibby1965]

ROY you are a master of the strings:)

[AuburnWahine]

I remember watching this as a kid and it still wows me

[UnseenEntityMetal]

..i keep finding myself back here watchin this....fucking amazing...straight mastery and metal as hell

[UnseenEntityMetal]

fucking wow....

[UnseenEntityMetal]

thats straight black metal w/o distortion...

[steeltag]

holy cow! I never knew really......how good he is. wow

[Syzygy60]

Roy played many instruments so my guess is people don't see him as just a guitar player.

[38ddkelly]

Jack Klugman looks like he's in awe

[VaderMode1]

Any guitarist worth his/her salt would fall over at this....amazing. "Blurry" wrist action? Are you kidding?? Wow...Great, great musician

[dafirenze117]

show me better guitarist than this musical genius

[Syzygy60]

did u c how tony was eyeing Roy,ouch!

[Syzygy60]

I like Wagner

[guitarbob63]

The old and even some of the new country players were I think the overall talented of any genre of guitar music. You could name but a few rock guitar players that could sing as well as they played.Clapton...Miller,SRV...­Knopfler..Mayer..but country man...Jerry Reed ..Roy Clark.,Glen Campbell,Vince Gill,.Keith Urban,Marty Stewart.,Willie Nelson...Junior Brown....I'm not the biggest country fan but you look up these guys and they can sing the sweetest ballads then turn around and blister on guitar

[diskinetic]

Makes me want to go out and fight a bull!

[bikerpastor71]

HELL YEAH. From 2:30 - 2:40 or so that struming was amazing, along with the rest of the song. I will agree with Physhead that he is overlooked for being legendary, on a commerical scale.

[IAMCORNDOG123456]

GOOD.......LORD!!!! I knew he was a great guitarist but have NEVER heard this! HOLY CRAP!

[Stevetheperformer]

Roy Clark was one of the great guitar players of all time. The fact that he was not a handsome man was a major factor that he never got the credit he deserved.

[BOULDERDP]

and people say the shredders are great. this beats em all hands down. he also plays banjo and violin just as well.

[Eddieguitarloebs]

Roy baby! yeah man...i've loved Roy all my life but for some reason he's been out of my thoughts for a few years now,like i almost forgot he was one of the baddest cats around on the guitar!...Thank you! i am restored! What a blessing to have Roy Clark in this world!

[5150zombie]

I didn't know roy clark 5 mins ago. EVERYDAYS A GIFT.

[ab19901]

@5150zombie I'm old enough to remember when Roy Clark made his first appearances on TV - the Tonight Show and in a recurring role on the Beverly Hillbillies. He was one of the original hosts (along with Buck Owens) on the old TV show Hee Haw. He's an excellent comedian.

However, he is a genius with a guitar a true talent. Far too few people have heard of him.

[beamerreamer]

Roy Kicks BUTT!!!!

[twilliamsusmc]

can any body on earth before during or after, be better than this guy? i really doubt it. if any body can out do roy clark on many string instruments......

[maximadog]

All hail Roy Clark.

[DB73093]

His picks must get destroyed after every practice

[DB73093]

His picks must get destroyed after every practice

[TierodMcslush]

Sounds like a stand up base!!!!!!!!! at 2:15

[TierodMcslush]

wish they could have put the slow motion camera on his hand on Mythbusters or something....

[wab3300]

He plays with passion ... Roy Clark is the best ever !!!

[tadsharpe]

its a flamenco MALAGUENA played on a steel string, fella! Roy took techniques from different cultures rarely used or seen here.... no lie..... they train teenagers IN SPAIN with this stuff!

[JefferstChmilst]

@14pughj No shit! Where you from?

[JefferstChmilst]

So apparently he's my 2nd or 3rd cousin. That's cool.

[notaras1985]

i thought in the end he'll broke the guitar on someones head or sth. what death metal and crap...:)

[gnevolejr]

This was my favorite Odd Couple episode. I wonder if anyone has ever been able to study and figure out how fast his hand is actually moving?

[Dooality]

0:27

[brianmi40]

Wow, Al DiMeola syncopated strumming there, go Roy, respect!!!!!

[milanparagon]

Malaguena, on a steel string acoustic not nylon

[milanparagon]

Malaguena

[MWGrossmann]

Holy crap.

[nuke97]

At :32 and up they are no longer acting.

[greenmonsterprod]

This is the version of this song I prefer. It was the first version I'd heard, he plays an accoustic guitar, and the faster tempo shows just how great a guitarist he is.

[daffydoug]

Using a flat pick as he does, I can't even figure how he never loses grip on the pick!!

[gza069]

11 people are trying to shake their pick out of the guitar body

[klatoverataknickto]

lol I forgot how good he was. My dad always told me he was the best guitarest of his time....he wasn't kiddin!!

[Dankshasta]

Well have a hearty hee fucking haw! He's just great.

[wakawaka02]

what show is this

[masercot]

@wakawaka02 The Odd Couple

[Jamdor78]

@wakawaka02 The Odd Couple with Tony Randle and Jack Klugman

[onebadapple76]

Fucking Amazing!!!

[gnosis4]

Every Saturday night in my house we watched Hee Haw (I know my parents were hillbillies from Virginia). The show was goofy and corny but they had every top star from country music on there at one time or another. Roy Clark was the co-host with Buck Owens. This clip was from the old Odd Couple show. I think Roy played Felix's cousin in it. I never forgot this guitar piece. It is still fascinating.

[metalliholic]

HOly SHIT!!! who is this guy?

[tehghost132]

@metalliholic Roy Clark

[daffydoug]

@metalliholic Man, that's ol' Roy Clark!!

[Steacy783]

Yeeah haaaaaaa !!! Fantastic !!!!

[trexx63]

Stunning, towering talent.

[BuckyVanBuren]

I heard him say once, Just as people were starting to take him serious as a guitar player, along came Hee Haw.

That set him back. That also set him up.

[hoth260]

eat your heart out eddie van halen

[METHODMAN4EVA]

his wrists move like fricken lightning!!!!

[kecars]

The worst part of all this is that Roy Clark is not considered one of the top guitarists of all time... not even mentioned in the top 100

[Mojomatrix]

@kecars No fooling ! Vastly underrated

[twb176]

@kecars That's because most of the people that write those lists, and the audience they're written for, haven't seriously listened to anything that's not rock.

[daffydoug]

@kecars Maybe those people who made that list had their heads up their ass.

[wire4paladin]

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssssssssssssssssssssssssmok­in"!!!

[AngryHatter]

Malaguena has been his signature song for 50 years. The guy is amazing. He plays so many instruments so well.

And yeah - he invented slap bass.

[RD400D78]

@AngryHatter Roy is a very talented musician though I really hope your kidding.

[coreystewart55]

Reminds me of Early Cuyler on Squidbillies dueling the devil lol.

[bigmrclean]

In Roy's younger days he took a backseat to nobody on a guitar...or any other instrument for that matter. Man he was giving that D28 Hell!

[sportstuber11]

2:19 for the rest of my life

[69erthx1138]

@sportstuber11 Yes, this is so damn cool! It reminds me so much of slapping rhythm on bass guitar.

[satchbooggy]

his power and skills comes from the mutton chops.

[BrickPa]

There's only one explanation! He's not wired like the rest of us and he's running on a 440 volt operating system!

[gyniest]

The percussive guitar was the best part (didn't know that style existed back then). And what was also interesting was the way he did it like bass-style slap & pop (funk).

[flyfishJJA]

@gyniest it is called flamenco, and he's not really doing it right, but it is in the style of flamenco. Roy was a master any way you slice it.

[gyniest]

@flyfishJJA Yes, I've heard of Flamenco, but this doesn't sound like typical technique (e.g. golpe, picado, rasgueado). Modern percussive guitar (e.g. Michael Hedges) sounds quite different, and that's what that part reminded me of. Then again, I'm not an expert in Flamenco, and most of what I know comes from Paco de Lucia. Any way, this is just hair-splitting. You're right that Roy was great, and I'm glad I discovered his work.

[sickdiggitydog]

Holy crap...wow