Elliot Easton talks about Jesse Ed Davis (Rumble documentary clip) 

Loved Jesse! Did Doctor My Eyes with him and many projects after that. Such a great musician and guy and just tragic.........

For years I thought the “ Doctor my Eyes” solo was done by Danny Kortchmar. It was always one of my favorite guitar solos in that it just seemed to be this melodic stream that flowed from someone that was very consciously tuned to the music. 50 or so years later, after hearing Jesse Ed play along side Elliot Easton live and also running monitors at a Taj Mahal concert, I found out on Leland Sklar’s RU-vid channel that Jesse Ed Davis had played that solo. I then found out that Duane Allman got a lot of his slide licks from listening to Jesse Ed playing on Taj’s records. It is truly heartbreaking that such a great talent has left us and I have deep empathy for the pain felt by those who were a part of his life.

Thanks for this Donna. It was great to put a name and face with someone I had apparently heard numerous times. I went to Wiki and looked at the list of people he had played with. It was full of names we all know. I was floored.

Whenever I listen to his music it makes me sad but it also always makes me happy!

Jesse was a great guitarist and brought attention to people about Native musicians as well!!

RIP JED. With all the love.

I can't "Thank-You" enough for the ultra dare pics + vids of JED. I been looking everywhere + you can bet that this one I'll replay over + over. Much appreciated! ❤

His work with Nilsson & Lennon Pussycats. The brightest stars burn quickest. R.I.P. Jessie “Ed” Davis

excellent, thanks for uploading this.

the best!!! tho, if memory serves it was The Ash Grove not the Whiskey where The Stones came to see him..i was there!

Double E giving the love...I knew it about Tyler and Taj! My God everyone in this video...giving the love

Wow. 62 and I've never been aware of this man. Btw I got here through researching Redbone.

Rest in Peace

So good.

Jesse's Davis Love His GUITAR

Give " states Boro Blues " and "leaving trunk " by Taj Mahal a listen.

I LOVED the guitar parts Davis played on Taj Mahal's self-titled album and Taj's "Natch'l Blues" album. Had no clue who it was at the time, and only learned recently that he played the phenomenal solo on "Doctor My Eyes." Oh, the damage done.

Gene Clark's "Here Tonight - The White Light Demos" album on Omnivore Records from 2013, produced by Jesse -- so beautiful. I also have enjoyed for 50 years now Jesse's playing on Gene's "No Other" album.

Jesse Edwin Davis fue un guitarrista estadounidense, conocido por su trabajo como músico de sesión para artistas como Taj Mahal, Milara Love, Jackson Browne, The Monkees, Neil Diamond, John Lennon, George Harrison, John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart y Harry Nilsson, entre otros.​

Happy Birthday Jesse!

The first time I heard him, as a youbg gitar student in 1970, not yet knowing who he was...it was his guitarplaying on Leon Russell's version of Hard Rain Is Going To Fall.....his playing just blew me away, His playing was so concise, economical, yet soulful, wiht a Great sense of touch and rhtymn. Jesse Ed Davis was a Huge influence on me as a guitarist.

Jesse and Taj

I always wondered who played guitar on Doctor My Eyes.

I hate drug pushers. I hate drugs. when are people going to wake up. Drugs came into my band. I left.

Career Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, Wray's first hit was the 1958 instrumental "Rumble". The record was first released on Cadence Records (catalog number 1347) as by "Link Wray & His Ray Men". "Rumble" was banned in New York and Boston for fear that it would incite teenage gang violence, "rumble" being slang for a gang fight.[11] Before, during, and after his stints with major labels Epic and Swan, Wray released 45s under many names. Tiring of the corporate music machine, he began recording albums using a three-track studio he converted from an outbuilding on his brother's property that his father used to raise chickens, in Accokeek, Maryland. He wrote and recorded the LP Link Wray (1971), on which he wrote about his frustrations. The Neville Brothers have recorded two tracks from it, "Fallin' Rain" and "Fire and Brimstone".[10] While living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, Wray was introduced to Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist John Cipollina by bassist James "Hutch" Hutchinson.[12] He subsequently formed a band initially featuring special guest Cipollina along with the rhythm section from Cipollina's band Copperhead, bassist Hutch Hutchinson, and drummer David Weber. They opened for the band Lighthouse at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles from May 15-19, 1974.[13] He later did numerous concerts and radio broadcasts in the Bay Area, including at KSAN and at promoter Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom venue, with Les Lizama later replacing Hutchinson on bass.[14] He toured and recorded two albums with retro-rockabilly artist Robert Gordon in the late 1970s.[15] The 1980s to the present day saw a large number of reissues as well as new material. One member of his band in the 1980s, session drummer Anton Fig, later became drummer in the CBS Orchestra on the Late Show with David Letterman. In 1994, he played on four songs of the album Chatterton by French rocker Alain Bashung.[16] He went on to release two albums of new music: Shadowman (1997) and Barbed Wire (2000). In November 2017, Easy Eye Records announced the future release of two recently discovered recordings, "Son of Rumble", presumably a follow-up to 1958's "Rumble", and "Whole Lotta Talking", recorded in 1970. The recordings were issued as a 45rpm single in April 2018.[17][18] Easy Eye released another 45rpm single of newly discovered/unreleased material for RSD 2019, "Vernon's Diamond" b/w "My Brother, My Son". "Vernon's Diamond" was recorded circa 1958-59 and is an early version of "Ace of Spades", and "My Brother, My Son" was recorded at the same sessions as "Whole Lotta Talking" in 1970. [citation needed]

Damn it man...R.I.P.❤

The solo on #9 Dream is mesmerizing.

Wow, to hear that the Doctor My Eyes solo was one listen, one take DONE.

Jesse Ed what a player, Jesse & Hubert Sumlin👍😊

He had a snap to his rhythm, you always wait for the solo IN DME

cool

Love it

Think his Keep Me Comin' album is one of the swankiest, but tight performances of all time. That band cracks.

I learned Statesboro Blues when I was 14. 1969.

John Lennon’s Bless You , has some of the most beautiful riffs of JED

Damn you Rod Stewart

Miigwich!

One of the forgotten talents of yesteryear.

And I always thought Jackson Brown was the guitar player

Elliot Easton ?