Johnny (Guitar)Watson Three Hours Past Midnite 1956 Rpm 455

[tamre58]

LOVE IT!!!!! Thanks for sending it to me!!

[grosper]

Great!

[flashkaput]

lovin' it!

[theshowmecanuck]

A definite contemporary of T-Bone

[AndrewGilmore1986]

Three people went to bed early.

[donottawaguitar]

wow thats the blues guitar

[TushTushTush]

Go Johnny go !

[TheSHIRL1937]

Watson was fortunate enough as a kid to start playing in Houston in the company of Junior Parker, Bobby Bland. Musicians Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland who were all (outstanding guitar masters) recording and touring out of Houston. There's no doubt Gatemouth Brown was a master musician, one of a few that could really nail T-Bone Walker. However, he hated to be tagged as a blues player...he also loved played jazz, CW and pop.

[nickaidanholden]

hes a stud b4 studs

[OdiloZitsch]

No one can play the guitar like Johnny ! ....maybe Jimmy Vaughan ? Thanks for puting the Song into YouTube.

[shadowmalik009]

i love his early stuff like this before he became a pimp and started playing funk (which is fine). id love to find more of his stuff like this.

[TheJourneyAgent]

OH JOHNNY, PLAY THAT GUITARRRRR!!!

[jsnglrd]

frank zappa's good "best" friend excellent noodling that guitar MR WATSON R.I.P.

[timmyh13]

It's alright....I still got my gittaar....Jimi....

[musicpropeller]

Jimi Hendrix - Red House

[DoublePlow]

Theres a Red House over yonder, thats where my baby stays.......Yea Jimi loved him too! Go listen to Red House right after this. Jimi just changed keys a lyrics

[shrubhater]

I love the sound that his fingers make when he snaps the strings. No need for picks (of any sort) here!

[jahlats]

Awesome!! Johnny's the man. He was such a killer blues guitarist.Feel for days

[propolispills]

BLUUUUUEEEEZZZZZZ!!! Yeah!

[rhinokoz]

yeah buddy!

[REDSOXNYG]

classic tune

[davivid]

two untalented people listened to this & quickly hit "dislike," knowing they could never get close to what JGW was laying down.

[unknownkingdom]

This guy was a big influence on Frank Zappa. Prince, too! You can hear both of them emulate his style in their playing.

[ultravioleta3]

So young and so ultratalented and he inspired so many others....he even started rap! Love you JGW - you're the man!

[Mattm1986]

@ultravioleta3

He didn't "start rap". He had an influence on some early rappers and DJ's, like DJ Kool Herc. Big difference.

[ultravioleta3]

@Mattm1986 OK So they didn't call it 'rap' back then but he was doing it! What JGW did back then later gave birth to what we know as rap today.

[yurek112]

only 16320 views ?- its sucks

[chess1458]

@yurek112 lol,I Know,hell i've got some other videos of some rarer stuff and its been up 2 year and they only have 100-200 views.Oh,well,Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!!!

[yurek112]

@chess1458 allright its getting better mate :D

[joshua626]

@yurek112 Like slim shady say if you black you will sell 'half' haha. Im blk!! Im sure if led zepplin did a cover of this song back in the early 70's it would be a million +hits. Im not mad thats the way of the world, but life is to short too not find real mcoys.

[emmoiv]

man was playing slap guitar . . . bare fingers poppin' them strings

[zebpedersen]

Horns from 1:46 onwards...the poodle bites?

[moundcreek]

Johnny "guitar" so ahead of his time! Jimmy Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn copied this guy. He use the wa wa pedal long before Peter Frampton.

[FunDiMaio]

@moundcreek A lot of people used a wah before Peter Frampton. Peter Frampton?

[TheLordOfEltingville]

@FunDiMaio You might want to do a bit of reading up on (and listening to) Frampton. He was dropping a lot of jaws in the mid/late 60s...long before "Frampton Comes Alive" popped him into the American mainstream...

[spackpecker]

Great post....you can tell where the young Mick Jagger got his vocal style from .

[furcifur3]

Jesus, listen to those strings popping. That man had fingers of steel.

[CakeDestroyer]

@furcifur3

It was probably just the action on the guitar being really low, but I prefer the "johnny watson was a cyborg," theory.

[philvis1]

Classic Johnny Guitar Watson, easy to hear the influence he had over Jimmy Vaughn

[johnnymccrowe]

@philvis1 and mick jagger, hear that voice

[MrSoulSamCooke]

I love a little bit of everything

An glad I decided to look him up again!

Great Blues/Licks For 1956!!!

[ElectricBlueOil]

Have this song on my ipod, and I'm lovin' it!

[CosmikZomby]

My friends all thought i was crazy for listening to this,but years have gone buy and now they ask me how I get those sounds outta my guitar I just laugh.This album is one of my secrets!

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

2:23-2:30 is kinda ugly

[ragu0686]

@equallyeasilyfuqyou .....its called The Blues. There is no such thing as 'ugly ' in the blues. its playing with feel, and that makes it awesome, all the time, every time.

[zxcv1234vcxz]

@equallyeasilyfuqyou - That's called _dissonance_. It's deliberately played sound that conflicts with what's going on to create tension, then gradually comes back to the original melody, similar to a suspended fourth chord or triplet feel in a 4/4 song.

[oneill8390]

this sounds amazzing

[boogster123321]

this was the record that made frank zappa pick up the guitar and play rock or R&B

[srercrcr]

Check out Cuttin' In from 1961

[rtblues]

WOW!

[ObdulaG]

No wonder Frank loved it - nice seed - cheers. Great vid too - cheers.

[peterjordanski]

@ObdulaG Frank Zappa R.I.P.

[JacFlash]

@ObdulaG Just read the passage in Barry Miles' "Zappa" about Watson's influence on Zappa, totally can hear it. Great song!

[chess1458]

I Was Always A DooWop Lover,But I Fell In Love With The Blues As Well

[oldschoolen1]

clean sound!