Roy Buchanan - Green Onions

Booker T and the MG's "Green Onions" being ripped apart by Roy.

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[NancyHey]

Roy Buchanan's guitar work on this has me flabbergasted and awestruck. This was intense and fantastic. He is one of the Top 5 or top 10 of rock guitarists. May God rest his soul.

[coopertrooper87]

Hendrix was great! But Roy said it himself

"Theres no such thing as number 1"

Its not a compitition, stop treating it like one. Neither man was better than the other!

[dacrowster]

@coopertrooper87 Still Jimi was the best :)

[obiwan6885]

@snakeweirdo Oh, but I did compare Roy to Jimi. Why? Because they were both pioneers on the guitar. Look it up, kid. I've been playing music since I was 5 & have been formally educated in music. Get over yourself, don't think you can educate me on guitar playing, or even music for that matter. His biography says that he was shy & would've been humble about being compared to ANYONE. But Les Paul, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Lennon, Merle Haggard...etc...etc...sing his praises & say he was a pioneer.

[CantDenyDime]

@NancyHey there's too many out there dude. there aint no top 10 or top 5 or top 20 in hell or anywhere else. pretty sure guys like buchanan and alvin lee are constantly over shadowed by scale spewers like steve vai and john petrucci. people don't know what good is anyways, they're impressed by quick scales and thats it

[bucknorm]

HOLY CRAP!

[pamelamazzarone]

I have some photographs of this show...great show!

[Satchmoeddie]

Is this Roy's Guild T-250?? I know he endorsed a guild guitar that was basically a Telecaster body with what was dubbed a cake knife headstock. I went to the auction for his guitars, and saw a Guild and a Tele with a BC Rich neck, as well as Fenders and a couple Les Pauls. Unfortunately the items went for more cash than I had, but less than his widow deserved to get.

[Kristopful]

Roy was out of the box.

Never heard any guitarist do the stuff he does with out any sound effect peddles. (and I've heard a lot of great guitarists)

Freakin Genius.!

[JustAintthatWay]

@powellallan oh man yours may be the most perfectly decriptive youtube comment

of all time but im an agnostic so i need more proof ha ha but no joke damn excellent description

of buchanan's sound t/y for it

[JustAintthatWay]

@qiaorusi wow i was trying to think of some way to describe what it's like to

hear roy buchanan play man that 'exorcising demons' of yours captures it whole

he was at once both the most intimidating and impressive guitarist i ever saw live

dude was actually scary to be near like if you made eye contact w/ him

he'd come over and knock your ass out for looking

yeah that guy had some demons man i hope he has peace now