Earl Hooker - Walking The Floor Over You/Off The Hook

[razead]

"thank the hell outta ya"

[swardo]

SQUARE DINKHAM!!



[fiveslots]

all cool drummers were shades....

[hopestarbright]

simply great

[duncbot]

drop guitar mid-solo. kick guitar. pick it up and keep wailing. YES.

[Budyguy222222]

Thanks for this post.

Forgetting for the moment he's brilliant - How the heck did he get that thick overdrive tone from a Sound City and Univox LP copy? Guess it really is in the fingers.

[fuxgood]

@Budyguy222222 A little pick up work helped.

[9timesnine]

Thank tha hell out of ya.

[kvhale]

Earl didn't get that stuff from Jimi or rock guys, they got it from him! These videos are from Earl near the end. He had TB and it flared up several times in his life. He was gone a little over a year later.

[DigitalDragonDust]

Anyone have any idea if this version of Walking the Floor Over You is available anywhere in full?

[alldane1]

i just love that little thing Earl does when he comes outta playin' with his teeth @ 3:02

All these guys from this era deserved way better........i'm just sayin'.........

[nunestunes]

what come out first off the hook or whipout

[tataso]

grosoo!!

[rickyleepilfer]

"Hooker knew when to let loose, and when to hold back.

His guitar rings clear with pure guts throughout 'Anna Lee.'

Conversely, in 'Off The Hook,' lays back and lets each note

float precisely. His control is perfect holding, falling behind

the beat, letting it drag, then in a frantic rush, building to a

climax. He didn't depend upon volume for statements, but

for clarity of expression; that's Earl."

2 Bugs And A Roach

Album Notes by Bill Lee

Guitar Player magazine October 1970

[5jonesville]

This is hillbilly Earl style!



[insidenumbers]

I wonder what happened to that guitar?

[glueforall]

Ha ha! "Thank the HELL out of ya!"....1:32

[brnfaceblondes]

Perfect

[mvktr2]

BB King on Earl Hooker, 'I was never scared to invite anybody up on the stage with me, didn't matter who it was cause I knew I was better than em. I'd invite anyone except Earl.'

Earl Hooker's commercial success certainly never matched his talents. However those talents made him one of the most popular session musicians for many labels. He played with and for most every prominent bluesman of the 50s/60s era as a 'sideman' yet never found broad commercial success Much like Robert Nighthawk

[62rome]

fantastic!!!!.

[BordiniBlues85]

SOUND CITY AMPS!!!!!!!!!! O_O

[benzuckerman]

@BordiniBlues85 GREAT Amps! Not nearly as much recognition as they deserve.

[BordiniBlues85]

@benzuckerman yeahh early hiwatt amps!

[zapwatt]

Wow, able to mimic so many styles and flavors and do it so slickly that you don't realizing he might be making parody. Genius.

[RastafariPoet]

Playing with his teeth lol..

Either he got that from Jimi. Or he also picked it up a bit along the south (Chitlin Circuit).

[Thurble]

It's more likely that Jimi would have gotten that from Earl...

[RastafariPoet]

@Thurble

Don't know why I said that, forget that.

[TheSatanas666]

@RastafariPoet well charlie patton, robert johnson and johnny guitar watson to all dat shit before jimmy specialy johnny he was a huge innovator

[SimfonijskiOtpadak]

Hihihihihi crazy mothafucker!!!

Thanks for up!

[amoferia]

OMG......meowwwwwwwwwwww, pssssssssssfffffffffffttt!!!