Kenny Vaughan on Jerry Garcia, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jeff Beck, Leo Fender 

This is part 2 of a 3 part compilation of Kenny Vaughan interviews. I'm hoping this will make it easier for people to find all of these stories. These are clips from interviews I've done with Kenny over the years, so feel free to share this video with anyone who might enjoy it. Here's part one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dN3wIgpXijU.htmlsi=6PyOTht8fHY4vme5 Here's part three: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hwpLW1r8GJE.htmlsi=EBUHAbGHTZdsbM5A

Kenny Vaughn is like my old best friend I never met.

Kenny is a true musicologist who should be a professor!

I love the all the Kenny Vaughan interviews. Such a cool guy. Tells great stories like he was a good friend.

I remember some of those early "interviews" with Jerry Garcia -- he was so smart, so articulate, so original, always ready to go someplace that was unknown territory to the straight media, but it made brilliant sense! Captain Trips indeed.

"Was there anything in that bottle...?" 🤣🍺🇺🇲

Love Kenny Vaughn, his playing, his knowledge and his story telling, but as a devotee of Gram Parsons, sessions like this frequently overlook that Emmylou Harris connected with James Burton, Glen D. Hardin and Ronnie Tutt because they all played on Gram's albums GP and Grievous Angel, which is where Emmylou (wonderfully) broke through.

Kenny is a treasure. Can't say I would know this much about him or his experience without you Otis. Mahalo.

Kenny is the best interview ever. Every time.

Kenny's enthusiasm for Fender guitars is fantastic. Makes me feel like a kid again.

I don’t know how many more hours of this you have but, keep ‘‘em coming!! I love story time with Otis and Kenny! 🤘

I love how he giggles when describing how high they were! 😂 I love Kenny’s story telling of the past. Thanks for these interviews, Otis! ❤🤟🎸

Love Kenny Vaughan. Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives are a great band but they collectively have the most music knowledge for a group of four I've ever seen.

❤ I’m listening for Kennys impersonation of JLL at the Palomino saying “boo boo”

Great stories. Yes Garcia was special.

Kenny’s a wealth old guitar and amp history! He’s awesome!

I could listen to Kenny tell stories all day

Kenny is awesome. Such a master of his memories. Anyone that can tell stories from the late sixties and early seventies with any detail at all is pretty incredible! 😎

Absolutely the best. I first found of Kenny on the Lucinda Williams DVD from 98 Dec from Austin City Limits. The 8 minute version of Joy with the other guitarists Jim Lauderdale and john jackson was amazing. Kenny went totally out of control. I totally loved it. What Kenny can do that the vinyl collectors cannot is to raise up the passion of those early days. He has the total feeling which is hard to communicate. I also grew up in the 60's. I think I am a bit older than Kenny but I am not a musician. I respect his technical expertise for the guitar. I am just someone who passed through the times who has immense respect for the creators of our culture.

Such a chill and insightful view into his experiences with some of the greats. For one thing, I do know that I couldn't have made the same WISE decision about NOT meeting "The Guv'nor"😅, though!! But that tells me a lot about the respectful type of person Cuz is. Also, I can really appreciate his comment on Jerry Lee-- "No one will ever understand him"--- struck me in a way to want to explore JL music further. Jerry Lee had such a notorious personality that overshadowed his music for those of us that don't know his real talents well. But the anecdotes Cuz gives here about Marty's Unc are the best ----just hilarious ❤😂

In addition to being a wealth of knowledge, Kenny is one of the best guitar players ever folks. I'd put him up against anyone. Peace.

One of the more important aspects of JG and the GD is that it was always "without a net". "They were terribly inconsistent". It was a high wire act that had the potential for disaster, ie Monterey and Woodstock. But when they mastered the wire... Look out. Nothing better than a band locked in. Happy 80th, Jerry! Thanks Otis and Kenny

the first trip to England Dead footage is so very entertaining. Right after the scene Kenny mentions in the trailer you see a very young Ozzy back stage drinking a beer. That festival was evidently one of Sabbath's first big gigs. Garcia still used the twins as pres mounted vertically most his career going into JBLs, plus also that Mcintosh amp is kinda key.

Your on a roll! Keep the story tellers coming. Really enjoy Kenny and all of them!

I went to high school with a friend who became a close friend to Kenny. My friend recently passed away. My condolences to the family and Kenny. On another note, I had the privilege to hear Kenny play with the Don Kelley band on lower Broadway many years ago. Just awesome.

Kenny’s a good story teller. Really easy to listen to him.

This Kenny v run has pulled me out of a funk during this season of life. Thanks Otis - AJ Covington

Time after time, Kenny Vaughn is just the best interview. You ask a few questions and it’s like winding up the energizer bunny with great stories and encyclopedic music knowledge

These are my favorite videos on your channel and that's saying a lot, Otis. Thanks for compiling these.

I love the thumbnail pic on this video! Is that a Nudie suit he's wearing? Kenny's already cool, but that suit is over the top!

I saw the tail end of that Jeff Beck set at Bonnaroo, and he finished with Day in the Life. Absolutely mind blowing stuff. Stevie Wonder and Jay Z put on incredible sets that night too. What a great day of music.

So I have watched all 4 of these Kenny Vaughan sessions back to back and enjoyed every second of them. Thank you very much Mr. G. Very Well done!

Jerry Garcia was already playing the pedal steel guitar in a 1967 interview at their Haight-Ashbury house. It's in his room, along with his banjo, dobro, etc. Jerry loved American root music of all kinds. I love Kenny Vaugh's recollections on people - he had a great, muted, sense of humor. Letting the story be what it is. Jerry Lee Lewis impression: "If I had gun, I'd shoot that light!" with a straight delivery, with the Jerry Lee's voice:

I love Garcia and the Dead, I love the Pigpen era, I listen to a frew of the later albums, but it's really the 66 to about 77 era I like best, my favourite years are 69-70 and 70 -73.

Otis, you are an outstanding interviewer! Thank you for capturing stories like Kenny's, which are awesome! Please keep doing these interviews, and get some additional interviews with more artists that are good to great story tellers. You're doing a great service for all of us music lovers in the genres that you're covering. So many of our heroes are dying as they reach their 80s and beyond, and it is so wonderful that you are recording these interviews for posterity sake. I swear you ought to get some of your stuff in the Smithsonian!

Kenny Vaughn hands down is the absolute best guitar player in country music.

Kenny Vaughn is the man!

I could sit and talk with Kenny for days.

Love Kenny, just outstanding. We lost a giant with Jeff Beck's passing. No one will ever replicate his sound. I was recovering from knee replacement and did not attend his last appearance here in Indiana. Such a bummer and something we are all going to have to come to grips with. The old marble is spinning.

Stevie Wonder opening for JayZ is world upside down stuff.

Thanks Otis for all these interviews with Kenny,really wonderful stuff.

I could listen to Kenny for ever. Thank you Kenny

my favorite low wattage amp is the Princeton reverb. My Dad bought me one for my birthday in 1972 unfortunately I lost it in a pawn shop. I have wanted to kick myself since. But now Im 64 years old I have a hand made fender tweed deluxe, I think its around 15 watts or maybe a little more. I have built 4 of them from scratch I built them from the cabinet to the chassis and all the parts. They all sound great. I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb. silverface, its a 1972 and I love it also, I think its 22 watts, but my favorite is the princeton reverb that I dont have, maybe I will build me one but the older one without reverb and get a stand alone reverb unit. Thanks man, this is one of best enterviews Ive seen you do. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I seen Robin Trower in 1983 playing a 83 Squire Strat. Show was in a small hall in Chicago Hts. IL

Thanks for posting this. Hearing Kenny's trio arrangements is a treat

I like when Kenny said they did something to the speakers!

Thank you Otis. Kenny Vaughn has to be one of the coolest guys around. Amazing stories! That Dead footage he starts with is incredible. The only place I've ever seen Pig Pen talking. Well worth searching it out. All the best from down under

Love the Kenny Vaughan interviews totally fascinating and interesting! Thank you

Man. To be the fly in that room.

Love listening to this guy, playing or talking! Very interesting to hear his take on musical events and musicians. My dad was a professional musician and he used to do the same thing. While other people just watch someone play an instrument and tap their feet to the tune, others are transfixed by it and realize that they are seeing SOMETHING SPECIAL, even if they don't fully comprehend it at the time. He'd come home from a concert and smile for two days. He'd try and explain it to us and we'd just nod our heads. Of course, none of us really knew what the hell was going on, but he sure did. RIP Pop!! Thanks for another great video. Think I'll go fire up the Cornwalls!

I'll be honest, I didnt know much about Kenny until he hit my YT time line and and all I can say is wow. An interviewer's gold-mine !! Most bigger name musicians aren't exactly raconteurs to say the least but KV has it.. Townsend is an obvious exception, Springsteen too and I just saw Kristofferson pay such a well said tribute to Steve Goodman. His recall, chronology, perception and library of stories seem bottomless. And the gear talk is priceless. Loved his take on Garcia's altered state in the back stage trailer and I suggest he find the April 82 piece on Letterman. Weir was obviously double dosed and Jerry did his best to keep it real. Great post. Thanks.

You can't make this shit up. Too funny. I'm glad Kenny's got a great memory...😊

I could listen to KV All. Day. Long.......

So many gems here! Thanks so much for posting this. Watched don’t F with the Lewis. Favourite line : “ you can’t shoot several people and call it an accident!” Loved it!

Otis… you got cool friends..! 👍🏼❤️

Excellent. 💗✌ Just started reading "Garcia: A Signpost To New Space". Fabulous.

legend

I got to see "the Kiiler" and "Little Richard " play at the Fox. Dave Edmonds played a 335.

Kenny needs to do a Podcast...could listen to this dude read a phone book and be entertained...

There was a depth and richness to Garcia and his playing right up to the end.

Thanks Otis. Great stories!

Enjoy both of y'all keep up the good work 🙂

Im a fan of Garcia but not really into the Dead. I really like the JGB live shows. His playing is so unique and recognizable, like Jimmy Page's ,Jeff Beck's , Mark Knopfler or JJ Cale

I read that book after listening to Kenny! It’s awesome!

Thanks Otis Kenny is a treasure

Mr. Vaughan, thanks so much for doing these interviews. It has painted the picture and honored the artists you spoke about so well. Looking forward to seeing you and the band in Tulsa in November, please work “Don’t Leave Home Without Jesus” into the show if you can please. The acoustic set in OKC this summer sounded great and was so entertaining, multiple talent from all the members…been listening to your “V” album on Spotify…God bless

Just great guy with awesome stories, Thanks buddy

Just so fantastic!

Love this stuff.

In the mid 70s I went to a jam session. For some reason I tried a guitarists brown Vibrolux. That amp has been on my mind to this date. I have never forgotten how my guitar responded with that amp.

Love it. Love it, Love it. thanks for posting. I think I've listened to these before, but I'm digging them all over again and hearing new cool stuff!!

Kenny made some great comments about rootless voicings that I thought was so insightful. Grew up in Golden and took lessons in Boulder and saw Tommy Bolin outdoors after lessons and did Jazz vibraphone gigs in Glenn Miller ballroom with Performance artist Laurie Anderson doing live art

I missed that first UK gig we went to Bath and the IOW which were later on in the summer, but being in college funds were tight and couldn't stretch to going up North as well. When I read the review of the Dead's set in Friendz mag I was SO pissed that I wasnt there.

There is a magic in improvisation that is very different from trying to be a rock star, and being..,well, a psychedelic person,lol I really appreciate that sort of thing, sure not everyone likes that ,but to me it's a very satisfying thing to sit through mediocre bits just to see those moments of magic, I love it when a band is struggling or very loose, and then they just lock into something that allows them to take off, I love that. That's a lot of the magic of the grateful dead.

Thank you Kenny and Otis

Kenny is the shit, one of the coolest guys. Thanks

I could listen to Kenny read the phonebook. He would find a way to make it interesting.

I absolutely love all these interviews and your channel as a whole. Kenny is awesome and such a kind person. Really cool. When he mentioned Hugh Padgham I immediately was reminded of a couple fantastic interviews I watched with him. Unless you are already familiar with these you should definitely check them out. Great stories in there. The YT-channel is "Produce Like A Pro" and the video's name "Masters of Production: Hugh Padgham" Enjoy and thanks for the great content! I'm gonna continue binging through your archive now ;) Cheers Mate

44:40 mins, the way he describes the Strat, how it's still the same, doesn't need to evolve, like it's the AK47, Crocodile or Great White Shark of electric guitars ..

I could listen to Kenny nonstop. (Talk and play 😂)

The Grateful Dead sounded the best when Garcia and Weir played fender and Gibson guitars through Fender amps (and with one drummer). The "Real Grateful Dead", as Vaughan sez...

cousin kenny!.. im a huge fan of yours, marty & scruggs... i just saw the stapleton show in NH, i wouldntve gone if you guys werent opening. the Plymouth, NH last year was awesome!.. my description of Jeff Beck goes like this: nobody made a guitar scream for help like JB did in the yardbirds!.

There's a great clip somewhere of the Dead playin' a ' Playboy After Dark ' gig . Strange ...

Yep! Like everyone here, I too really look forward to Kenny Vaughn stories! 🤘👀👽👽👽

That Leo Fender book is fantastic 🙏

as great as Jeff was if he was never born i doubt music would much different, all it would be is we would not have his amazing playing to listen to--so fabulous to watch him play while strolling around the stage like he's in his living room, one of the greatest players ever

Jerry Garcia had a Mutron,especially in the late 70's.Owsley Stanley or "Bear" as he was known knew a lot about sound and was their first sound guy and that had a lot to do with The Grateful Dead's early sound.

This guy has a cool way of telling interesting stories.

I wonder if they(Jerry Garcia's tech's) bypassed the preamp section on the twin reverbs. I thought about it like this... The PREAMP section really colors the tone so maybe they bypassed it somehow? That's what comes to mind when they said "opened it up"? I'm just guessing though...

I have to agree with that timeframe.

You are an entertaining guy, Kenny.

Kenny knows amp setups from 50 years ago. Damn

Only yesterday (09/30/2023) I found,on U-Tube,of course,Kenny playing with Hal Ketcham at Austen City Limits . I think '88. Also Trisha was on that same show.He looked like a kid , But could he play!!

Kenny when are you coming out to California with Marty to play ?

Love the old wives tale about Dick Dale playing at the ballroom in Balboa and there were so many sweaty kids dancing to his band, the hardwood floors jumping -- that the stand alone Fender reverb tank would have random 'shaken' sounds. So Dale hooked up a rope to the rafters and tied it around the tank so it kind of - hung at a place where he could stand and control it while he played -- he could also 'whack' it at certain times for that effect.

I believe it's a twin pre amp section into McIntosh power amps.

Speaking of Strats... It turns out that A LOT of that early Sun Rockabilly was recorded on Stratocasters and Teles... The "image" one gets of big Archtop electrics is just the romanticized mental picture. Yeah, Scotty Moore played a couple different Gibsons... But the meat and potatoes at Sun were made on Fenders and other "catalog" guitars.

Great video and Kenny's always insightful. But he left out the importance of Gretsch Guitars in Nashville in the 50's and early 60's because of Chet Atkins.

Music? I'll teach it a lesson! 😂😂🤣🤣

i never thought the grateful dead was that good, i must be missing something