Most genuine talented passionately mad guitarists like Roy and Rory Gallagher never got the fame they deserve as they avoided fake publicity and pr marketing back then .. no support from music Mafia system . But they got so much love from real music lovers .. and I feel due to internet now people are exploring their music and are mesmerized if such talent could really exist !
Rory was much, much more enjoyable to listen to. Roy was such an "artist" that he tried to pass garbage off as "art." The dude COULD PLAY!!! But this stuff at the end of his life was just noise.
Bravo. You nailed it ! I found Roy Buchanan about a year ago. Heard of him from time to time. ...never listened to him. Now. I'm 64 ....to me he has no equal on guitar. A natural Wizard. His effortless guitar mastery is spell binding . He's the greatest guitarist I've ever heard..... I love Page Beck Zappa Dickey Betts...Albert Collins...Buddy Guy....Clapton .Mick Taylor and of course Jimmy Hendrix...but next to Roy Buchanan...they look weak. He's just totally unbelievable.
the beauty about roy was he made all that noise without distortion, all in the hands, some delay and reverb and that was it, the rest was a cranked up fender tube amp with a tele, and a ton of technique. and his leads were so well orchestrated, melodic, flowing, building crescendos, one of the greats.
"without distortion?" You don't play guitar do you? You can't hear him step on his pedals and increase his gain by 300%? I'm a big Roy fan, but by this time in his career he didn't give a shit. And his playing was garbage. There's nothing pleasing about his tone, his not choices, his dynamics...nothing. He didn't capture the attention of the world because he didn't play music that SOUNDED good.
@@jakemitchell1671 played guitar for years, you're playing semantics with "distortion", he's playing electirc guitar so anything can be described as distortion, technically roy's gain increase isn't considered distortion in today's terms. and fender tube amps add a "brightness" and "attack" with gain. not sure what pedals he was using, you may know more about his equipment than me, but it sounds like you're angry about roy catering younger rock audiences and getting away from his rockabilly sound. it gained him national attention and padded his bank account; it also showed his ability to adapt as a musician... good for him.
@@tomitstube I'm not comparing him to the hard rock or metal type of distortion. I was simply making the point that his tone at this time (and other times, too) was heavily distorted, both by cranking those Fenders up and using pedals. I don't know what he was using, but I can hear the gain increase at times. I guess I'm comparing these sounds to those he got when he would play jazz or more contemporary styles. Check out his live version of "Misty" with Mundell Lowe. It's on YT. That is what I call "no distortion." With respect.
Roy did not use any pedals until the 80's, when he came out with When a Guitar Plays the Blues. I'm under the impression that he added a Chorus and a Delay. His early sounds were him, his Tele, and his Fender tube amp. I've read where turned his amp around so his settings couldn't be copied yet others said he just had everything up all the way, which doesn't seem so secret. He also may have slit the cones on his speaker(s), which produces a distortion effect.
Ok, wow!!! I'm 50yrs old and up until today, I considered myself to be an avid and rather knowledgeable fan of Blues music. How could I have missed Roy Buchanan all these years???
Wow really .. plenty of beautifully emotion roy to catch up on ..... you will love him more as time goes by ... been a fan since mid 70s and im still brought to tears sometimes ... such a loss ... RIP ROY ...
I wish my grocery store had live music. "I need 5 lbs of ground beef, some chips, couple 2 liters of Coke, Handle of Evan Williams and one hour of Roy Buchanan."
Best guitarist 🎸 I've ever heard. He's not just Super talented. Lightening fast picking...volume and tone control manipulation is beyond belief.....he does it all bending strings to almost impossible levels...his magic is he makes it look so natural..like breathing. He can do it all without whammy bar distortion foot pedals ...etc....just a 53' Fender Telecaster and he lets his soul cry out through his hands. A tormented man in life....he gave us magic on tap. He loved Jimmy Hendrix ..who didn't ....but he was miles ahead of him as well. Rest in Heaven Roy. Your music is finally reaching EVERYONE. LIKE FINDING THAT PROVERBIAL POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF A 🌈. I LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC EVERY SINGLE DAY NOW. LEADER OF THE PACK
@@mikebaird8648 great pbs doco that ... love when he jams on deck wiyh his family .. first time they had seen him in 18yrs? Think ... he left home for the road st , unbelievably .. 13 ... playing with robbie robertson in late 50s .... the rest is history to us fans ....
Saw Buchanan live at UMass-Amherst student center, Spring 1986. Johnny Winter came on after him. It was basically in a school cafeteria, not even an elevated stage. They stood just a few feet away from the audience and played. Needless to say, it was a guitar lover's dream.
God I miss this guy!!!! Saw him many times . His passing broke my heart. He was playing like this in the late 50's .guitar swells and all.played with more feeling than anyone.
@ Robert Denison I can understand. Roy Buchanan is the lost chord that I have been searching for since I was a teenager. He gives clarity to all the music that I have ever liked...☮️
timkjazz, Roy is known and has been for some time now...he is in this time of instant news as good as unknown though. Why he isn't better known is a mystery to me...maybe that's being corrected with each post of his great work...which this, at the Foodliner, is one of his best. I think that this trio is probably his best group and the way he always should've performed. RIP Roy.
No, Definitely a great guitarist, but known to those follow him, Melody Maker called him the guitarist's guitarists, back in 1974, cheers from Ireland.
I was at this show that night. I still remember it. It went beyond just a great gig. Everyone was moved to a near religious experience. I've seen most of the greats play but never witnessed anything like that. Can't explain it.
I was there as well, it was a performance unparalleled, one of the best guitar virtuosos I have ever seen or heard. He tore the roof off that roadhouse and it was a mystical experience. Blown away to find this video. 12/31/22
I Saul Roy back in the mid-80s somewhere in New York City but I forgot the exact venue. It was a small place and I was very close to the stage. I was able to get his autograph and under his name he wrote “think future”. 😔
Sow Roy about this same time, this video reminds me so much of that show! I was a budding guitarist of about 17, my friends took me and it blew me away! Met him after
Roy could take a cardboard box, line it with dental floss and make the thing scream. Absolutely one of the top five guitarists ever. Like Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton said about Stevie Ray, the music just flows out of him.
Agreed, Roy B. is in that rare group of guitar players that don't play, but channel music from their souls. It's amazing to watch. The guitar ceases to be just an instrument, and becomes part of them. His vibrato is on another planet....unbelievable....
Can someone please post the song list ? This is beyond phenomenal, I have seen Hendrix and thought I knew a lot about playing until I saw this man. UNREAL!!!!!
Great show here, and thanks for posting...I was fortunate enough to be able to see him twice in NYC back in 1982...and hang out with him in his room at the New York Hilton after the first Bottom Line show that year...
He could adapt to any setting, once saw him in Annapolis MD. Played in front of the Bay and did a flock of seagulls like portion. Still blown away by it.
The best unknown guitarist of all time some players have technique and learn to be great others just are and meld with the guitar as one with its spirit Roy stevie Ray and the two jimmies have this
Seen roy and SRV both about a year before they passed .. RIP .... such a loss .... i remember it sorta just bummed me out at the time .. now as much as i love listening yo then both .. im 60 ... roy fan 4ever same as SRV ... but makes me sad still cause of what could of been and what we are now missing from there early loss...
Cranked up tube? He was a solid, solid state man.The ice pick tone. It sounds harsh at home but with a band cracked up with 100 watt amps, it fakes a lot of people out and never gets muddy.
Roy died August 14,1998 and this show is from 1987. I wonder what the exact date was, i.e. how close to his death. R.I.P. Roy, I saw you perform at The Catfish in Baton Rouge in the late 1970s.
Roy's "Tone" came from a Tele, and a vibrolux with everything on 10. The rest was all him. While he loved that old 53, he also said they made better, more reliable Teles later on.
Still sounds like Roy because.....its still Roy, same approach, same style, but Id take Nancy plugged straight in rather than this guitar with the effects anyday!
🤔...... so why is he often described as one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and the least known of all time? Personally, I think it was his “look”..... and perhaps persona. His hat & Vincent Peale facial hair style made him look like a “Beatnik” stuck in the ‘50’s. Although terribly unfair..... one look at Buchanan and us kids of that time period quickly stuck him with the “square” label. Had he grown his hair long and wore headbands, feathers & flowers he would be remembered right along side Hendrix, Page, Clapton....
Exactly .. and SRV about same time ... id seen both in those last yrs ... so sad .. such a loss ... look what we are missing now ... could been another 30yrs of beautiful music out there .... man its sad ....
+Haydon Young It was a converted Chinese grocery store on St Mary's in San Antonio. I bought bananas there. As the hand painted sign said: "2 pounds fo dollar" !!
Alan Jankowski ic.pics.livejournal.com/sartribartfast/36487202/171979/171979_original.gif Roy Buchanan was not a beginner , he's noted as one of the best all time. Too bad Fairfax County police murdered him
sindessa orellia Yeah, I've met him btw...and hung out with him after a 1982 show at the Bottom Line, at his hotel room at The New York Hilton...and familiar with his death...have, and read, this book for instance... www.amazon.com/Roy-Buchanan-American-Phil-Carson/dp/0879306394
Yeah---it looks like one of those Schecter or ESP 'Telecasters' of the mid-80s. See the angular headstock as well as the EMGs. I don't quite hear the same happy jangle as with his other Teles (even the Thinline and the '72 Deluxe w/ HBs, or the P90 LP you occasionally saw him use had that sparkly top-end). The active pickups just sound '2 dimensional' to me. I can't see whether it has the modern 6-saddle bridge or not; his hand's been in the way so far....
The guitar he is playing in this video was made by Gretch for Roy. They made two and he liked them but they never went into production. The guitar has a lot of potential but it was never really worked out. Because of his hands bone structure Roy could get his 'sound' pretty much out of any guitar but didn't want to be limited to his '53 tele permanently. Any great artist will tell you that it's important to experiment and move on so you don't go stale constantly repeating yourself.
@@whitenationalist6474 Seriously, he had a unique bone structure in his hand ? What about the hyperbolic chamber he slept in, or the tail he was born with?
@@manmademoonmusic he was double jointed in both hands .. he could tie his fingers in knots .... hecold place each finger over the knuckle of next finger ... and do it to his whole hand .... he had keep this practice up from childhood ... so go do some research before making stupid replys ... ya might learn .. other guitar players were amazed at his finger dexterity and double jointedness .. so yes special hand abilities ..
