Doyle Bramhall ll - EC´s tour

[checkyerbrain]

Doyle is a monster......Wow!

[jammyjoyful]

WHY IS DB II NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME ? ? WHY DOESN'T HE FILL STADIUMS LIKE LADY GAGA, DOES, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE?? He doesn't need flashing lights, ridiculous costumes, a contingent of male stripper dancers, to cover for mediocre musical talent, like so many "musical artists" currently do. DB II is a gifted blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer. It kills me that he plays back-up guitar for the likes of Sheryl Crow, or is showcased once every 3 years at Clapton's Crossroads Festival.: (

[mitchakotaco]

@jammyjoyful come out to Texas broski. I see him alot in ATX. But now that he's with Sheryl he's been doing a lot more studio work. so i have been seeing him less an less.

[DesperadoBrett]

Doyle is SICK!

'n' I'm just cryin' in my beer!

I drink quite a bit of beer... ...ya'll know what I mean!

DB

[shufflebop]

That solo was magic...

[stiggs61]

Your right.! Didn't even think about that.

[stiggs61]

For a guy .Who learned how to play the guitar the wrong way.He is awsome!

[megajames3000]

@stiggs61 albert king did and he was amazing

[richiewichie]

COOOOOOOOL!

Which Strat is he playing? What Year??

[oeyesea]

It's not like Clapton has anything to proof. I think at this point he's really more about promoting the whole world of blues music than he is about being a self-absorbed artist which is great since most people never develop that level of maturity or even spirituality, some might call it, about the things they love.

[rvjayoung]

Doyle at his best. Thanks!

[fistchips]

COOL!!

[cristianblues22]

unos de los mejores bluesman de la actualidad!!

[justin4453]

Doyle is as proffessional as a bad-ass can be. And vica-versa...

[henlar007]

Check out the Arc Angels DVD and CD , trust me ....ITS AWESOME!! Doyle is the man.

[hananjaverduyn]

Doyle is the best!!!Nobody can compare to him (except eric), NOBODY!

He deserves a spot in the hall of fame!

[selrahc2nd]

i saw doyle for the first time when smokestack opened for clapton back in 2001...he completely melted my face off

[daveisbowie]

amazing, considering that he strings his guitar 'upside down'...not heard of many doing that.

[doylekrisT]

I stumbeled upon Doyle by accident just now...very happy I did! Wow!  another talented Doyle in the world! He ROCKS!

[carboncage]

This guy is amazing:)

[hutcheasties]

Woah - I wasn't too fazed at the beginning but he soon lit that shit up! All in the bends and phrasing. You don't need fast fingers to get this stuff right. Sweet notes at the end.

[Gitars5]

wow, allmost as good as EC

[stratguy1688]

Ummmm, way better buddy...

[Gitars5]

???

[VercettiVice]

lol clapton just stands there and watches, to the right of the video hahaha lovely.

[dzezydzerk]

genious of simplicity!

[headlygrange3]

Totally a living legend. Nobody can take this guy playing lead blues. Nobody

[headlygrange3]

Doyle is without a doubt the greatest blues guitarist alive today ( once EC dies of course ) ;)

[TxGuitarPlayer]

I've never heard Clapton's band better. Doyle is the Spark Plug!

[moonshinealice]

A true Legend .... just gets better with age.

[emiliamota]

Doyle is amazing ever!!! His tunes, bends and felling are unbelievable... He freaks me out... Forever more and moooore!!!

[MissFunkentelect]

This is straight FIRE!

[NafanPF]

one of the best guitarists in the history.period

[Chefarg]

Hooked on Bramhall's guitar licks! Bon Magnifique!

[dougfujimoto]

this guy is so damn lucky to be able to play with clapton. I can play as good as him and you dont see me going all over the world with eric clapton and derek trucks...lucky bastard

[jongell]

Hahahaha! If you can't hear Doyle's mastery then you're listening for something else in the blues than I am (and Clapton and SRV don't seem to have a problem with his playing...) Have a think about how simple this solo is, and yet how intense it gets; Doyle's gut-wrenching tone and sense of space is totally humbling. The guts and soul it takes to play this simply and powerfully is beyond 'playing good'

[blooznut]

You said it!!! Not only do you eat it, you experience every little bite. When you're done you only ache for more.

[kzearo]

Please post a video of your playing then. I'd be amazed if it could even break the surface of Doyle's soulful playing.

[slapshot2940]

wow dude.....that's one of the most arrogant things i've ever heard......the thing is....the people who really are as good as the pros don't post how they are on youtube........typical phase in the advancing guitarist where they think they are the best.....your next phase, hoping you still advance, will be a harsh realization that you're not.....

[stratguy1688]

no--wrong--Eric is a good song writer, but over rated guitar player..

[bluesyblue2]

finally someone agrees with me

[texas2904]

I think his older stuff displayed more of his guitar playing talent.

[amb25304]

you better put the crack pipe down...your obviously high and sooo wrong!

[amb25304]

my post was for stratguy1688

[namdlefhtes]

I think that it is the other way around. Much better guitar player than song writer, at least these days.

[winkofaneye00]

That was a great solo.djteleboy,I dont agree that Doyle's playing is weak or sloppy.Bonamassa is all about technique rather than feel,John Mayer is not quite the finished article on guitar,but Doyle plays with real soul.And as for your comments on EC,well,your just plain wrong.The guy's a recognised genius.He has more feeling in one bent note than most people ever have in a lifetime of playing.Also check out Edith Funker on myspace,Doyle plays amazing solos on both those tunes.

[goofyrat]

disagree about bonamassa, he has the magic combo of technique and feel. Saw him live earlier this year and i can say he is the greatest guitar player i have ever seen. There are far better songwriters out there ie mayer, but for me Bonamassa is the best guitar player in the world at the moment, and i dont say that lightly.

[djteleboy]

bonamassa is light years ahead of this guy. he's as good as most of the guys i play in the local bar seen.the 64 strat sounds good but he dont move me.. it is cool the way he strings the guitar.

[LeftHandedJay]

how can he play chords man ?

[jimtoxford]

you're flat out wrong... DBII is unparalleled, plus his tones are way sweeter than Bonamassa. Bonamassa has a little of the 'guitar-teacher' about him, if you know what I mean....

[guitarthroat]

I think Joe is fantastic but you really can't compare them to each other. They are like night and day. BUT, I think that DBII has a more "authentic" Blues sound and feel. Joe sounds like he listens to way too much Eric Johnson. Joe has great technique, but it just doesn't have the same feeling as Doyle.

[ThoughtXdMyMind]

@jimtoxford

It is indeed a shame that people need guitar teachers nowadays, just to hit a note and bend it with some feeling. lol

[djteleboy]

dolyle is probably a great guy, but his playing is weak and sloppy. in the crossroads dvd he does'nt belong on the same stage as trucks.bonamasa has triple the talent he has. sorry

[whobludaphot]

He can't suck that much if Clapton likes playing with him.....you would think he would know real talent more than you or I

[djteleboy]

the truth is clapton is not a super gifted player, he got the whole package.BUT as a player its weak he plays the same boring lines over and over. he thinks when he plays he does'nt feel what he plays. he was great at the cream reunion. as younger players go, im just taking about raw talent! joe bonamasa is king.check out some of his utube riffing video's . joe can play eveything and anything!doyle is not in same league. sorry

[whobludaphot]

I know Joe well, he was part of my friedns production company and he is a fine musican....but there is a reason may people havent heard of him...they are all gifted, but not for nothing as young guitar players go John Mayer has them all and the whole package

[djteleboy]

john has what we call the whole package! playing song writing etc.. but bonamasa wiil mop the floors with john;s playing. great country licks great slide and dobro, off the hook guitar talent. his singing and song writing needs work..im just takin raw guitar...

[stringbenderb5]

These players are all great Doyle, Clapton, Bonamasa, don't forget, Robert Randolph,D. Trucks, BUT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BEST LIVING BLUES PLAYER ALIVE?? BUDDY GUY!!!! anyone on here who hasn't seen Buddy needs to go see him and learn something!

[djteleboy]

correct my friend! seen buddy many times, his energy is amazing! best blue's player of all time.......

[taildragger51]

Doyle and Kirk Eli Fletcher are among the finest young blues guitarists alive today. Both have impeccable feel and superb tone.

[siskokidd]

That's GD beautiful.

[milktrey]

Doyle ruins Eric Clapton concerts :(

[LynneGo]

Blazing Hot.

[dunlap31]

Wuh-how-how-WOW!!

That's a song any guitar player, bass player, drummer or key player could spend a long time practicing with at top volume.

Brilliant.

[canadianroot]

there's eric just shaking his head at the end. consumate musicians and true professionals really don't give a shit about who's better, they just wanna play. they let hacks like us get in to pissing contests over them.

great video. would have been good to see a bit of back and forth, though.

[microcrubeguy]

raw power...

[mcleanartists]

holy shit

[photopicker]

i got to jam with doyle at a tiny little oyster house in santa rosa one night - I had no idea who he was at the time but his sound knocked me out

[Sannyasin7]

Incredible, that dynamics and silent in his music, master dosage of sound!!!

[guitarthroat]

Yeah, he can squeeze every last drop of soul from that stratocaster.  Love the Albert King bends!

[Kcisk]

Got his new CD "Is It News" yesterday from him. Turns out he is a friend of my moms, got the case Autographed and all. He is a really cool guy.

[dbfan]

"IS IT NEWS" is the CD of Doyle Bramhall "Sir", Doyle bramhall ll´s father.

[dunlap31]

Doyle Bramhall (Sr.) is a fantastic shuffle drummer, songwriter and singer. He is where Doyle Bramhall II got his musical and other DNA.

[StevieRayVaughan84]

I prefer him when he was in the Roger Waters's tour "In the flesh" in 2001..there,he's simply amazing!!!

Anyway,also with Eric Doyle is fantastic too!

[guitarthroat]

The one and only true heir to the throne of the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Doyle II is simply one of the best artists out there. But I think he could care less about having that title. He is one of a kind just like Stevie was...Great vocalist, great writer and he plays one helluva mean guitar!!!

[slowhand111666]

i would like to hear what o5rsx considers other noodlers.....maybe freddie king....otis rush.....what a goofball

[Ritewanger]

I saw Doyle on this tour and had previously never heard of him. I walked away a fan,and quite frankly found it more memorable than Eric Clapton's performance believe it or not

[ahpollyolly]

Tone and feel to die for...........!!!

[fiorella11]

love it

[bbluesguitarr]

I met Doyle in San Diego at a music store. He let me play his 63 strat great guy, great muscian. He was checking out some old pro reverbs. I told him I was from Buffalo and he must have thought I fell off the turnip truck.

[mtskier05]

No way! Im jelous dude... Im a HUGE fan of Doyle.... he's my hero... Id kill to meet him. GREAT SOLO BY THE WAY!

[dennisdullea]

Anson Funderburgh is 10 times better than this guy.....Easy

[madmexicanproduction]

well i was born here in austin,,, and if ya wanna see some man-handlin' of a strat,,, till it makes ya wanna go home and break all yours,,, well this is a good place to start,,, go get'em doyle II. you iz a badass fer sure. - madmex

[zosoandbadcompanyman]

damn right my friend...moving to austin from fl soon

[nervisnorton]

tasty

[05rsx]

cool but alil to much noodling to me

[jongell]

I suppose you'd call Peter Green a shredder by that maxim...

'noodling' to me is aimless, meandering playing, or at worst playing too many notes in a kind of passionless, detached way. Now, I don't find even a HINT of that in Doyle's playing here, in fact the total opposite! His final chorus is so simple and so moving. Passionate and emotional, this is so far from noodling

[zethmed]

Damn that man is a baaaaaddddd motherfucker. Respect his gangster.

[braci54]

very nonchalent

[IsabellaSnow]

I always thought it was a shame baby Doyle didnt make himself a career of playing blues. He can certainly play it, you people saying he can't are just ridiculous. But the stuff hes released on his own is pop, or summat.

But he can play. You can have grown up with who he grew up with and not know what its supposed to sound like.

[DaveInCalgary]

I thought he put out a good album under the name of 'Arc Angel' about 15 years ago with Double Trouble.

[IsabellaSnow]

He did put out a record with Chris and Tommy (and Charlie Sexton)- but it wasn't blues. They were rock and roll.

[DaveInCalgary]

Rock is nice too :-p.

Do you think this solo would be out of place in a Rock concert? or out of place in a Blues concert?

[IsabellaSnow]

It would be a little out of place at one of my concerts - but then I'm a purist when it comes to my own gigs. ;) But not out of place as a guest soloist, like he is when he tours with Clapton. And surely never out of place in a rock concert, as there is quite a bit of blues-rock in that solo.

I still like it, whatever you label it. But then, I've always liked Doyle so maybe I'm not being objective. ;)

[jimicolors]

Really nice... I love it! "Lefthand" too! Thanks

[al2k86]

Lefthanded + strung backwards, Low E string is on the bottom and High E on the top

[davevr2002]

Can doyle play on time? His wanking around the rhythm is skilless and dumb.

[RogerBiggerstaff]

he is playing in time! As for his being skilless and dumb, I'm not even gonna dignify that remark.

[najspillman]

You are joking right? I would love to see you or anyone else dissing him do what he does - he is freakin awesome, love him to bits. One of the best players I have ever seen.

[bangtango7]

Doyle is a great player. One of te best in my opinion. Ian Moore is also excellent. Check him out too.

[mtskier05]

any guitarist on stage with Mr. Slowhand is in my "Absolutly Amazing" catergory... Im a huge fan of doyleeee.. great musiciann

[idgad]

this is how blues should be played!

[SunnyCool]

wow that was pure... John Mayer can only dream of having this purity in Blues.

[asolognier]

He is so authentic with his blues...

[freakyafronaut]

omg! i came to know of him thru WENDY & LISA, being Wendy's brother-in-law. Man... I knew he could thrash, but i didn't now he wa sso EXPRESSIVE with the guitar, too! Bramhall fans = +1........ !!!!

[paulgibson]

"one of the best guitar players in the world" tommy shannon, i think Tommy is right!!

[mzperx]

simply amazing!



[a420highway]

AWSOME - THANKS FOR ADDING THIS VIDEO - 420 MUSIC

[hendrixk]

굿~

[fenderdeluxe2006]

wow he plays like albert king, right handed strung guitar played lefty, thats cool. how young is he??? he's goood..

[continentalpong]

doyle is 37.

[Borny]

He's got soul!

[sebs26]

yeah this is amazing. great to run into some other doyle fans - i wish there were more of us!  i was at that show and i distinctly remember that solo - totally blew me away. the way he builds it up is amazing. i hadn't seen video of this show before; all i have is a cd. got any more?

[eprimo]

wonderful video

[eprimo]

Awesome!!!!!!!

[eprimo]

WOWWW!!!