Roy Buchanan 1985 Live
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@wayne653042 Wow, Wayne! Beautifully written, You are a major music devotee!
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Pedals? I don't need no stinkin' pedals. Just give me my tele and a vibrolux and I'll blow you all away. (My paraphrase of the great RB).
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Roy could play in so many styles. It's crazy how he could play so proficiently and so versatile as he did. I could listen to him all day.
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What's the name of the song/
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in 1967, you felt that you were floating in the English Channel in the middle of the night when his band played "Ferry Cross The Mercy" at the Round Table in Georgetown,Wash. DC
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@ld68 Second song is an old standard called 'Linda Lou*
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@bluescat59 That reminds me of going to the Texas Opry house after Dickey Betts and Great Southern in 78. Dickey + band show up. Eventually they get up and play. They start "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and there's some woman in the band they're sitting in with who keeps vocalizing all over everything. Dickey gives her several nasty looks, but she just doesn't get it. He's about to start his solo and she just keeps going. He pus his guitar down and walks off. Broke my heart.
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Roy told me to say "Fuck you and the police." and just keep rockin'...
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Soohoojrj....Berfore you throw the legend under the bus, get your facts strait. Roy had his issues. The night he was killed by the police, he showed up at his house with a stranger he had met the same night. The dude was hitting on Roy's wife and she called the police to get him out. Roy chased him into the woods, when he walked back to the house, the police, mistakenly arrested Roy instead of the D!ck. Roy was assertained, sustained multiple skull fractuers, and Hung himself with a t-shirt
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Billy Price is from Pittsburgh and Roy played there a lot with Billy on vocals. Saw Roy at the old Heinz Hall. He was amazing player on a stripped down Tele and no pedals to speak of. Amazing virtuosity.
When it all said and done, it comes down to the players instincts. I think Roy Buchanan had the best instincts any musician could ask for. Instincts on that perfect tone, instincts on tasteful chops without going too far. More than any other guitar player this is the man to base your playing on. He simply was guided by the most incredible instincts.
There is no reason to go "faster or farther" than Roy Buchanan, but simply really listen to what he played and realize Roy was already "there".
wayne653042 3 years ago 15
In his own style he was a master.
lastsinger 3 years ago 3