I'm 64 and I never saw guitar mastery like this......not even close. Roy Buchanan was making it look so easy. On stage he'd be the GOAT today..or had fate landed him in a big band ......he'd of been it. Clapton nor SRV could not play like this in ten lifetimes. This is God given magic. Roy was a Gem. My God ...he can do anything on guitar.
We miss you roy ...Thank God we can still just catch a tune and be happy listening to you when we need happiness .. you are my go to comfit mudic .. my cheer me up when i feel like shit music ... always thank for heving soul and emotion ... your music gives it back to me and recharges my batteries when i need it ... God bless you roy buchanan ... RIP ...
@@johnford9553.. BINARY ... Heaven & Hell screaming through his soul and talking with true emotion true his guitar.. he Channels the Blues ... few words are choosen and his guitar tells the rest of the story .. RIP mr Roy Buchanan ..
There's guitar pickers and there are masters and then there's Roy. He's up there in a that rarified air where only a very few reside. I also liked the fact that he shopped at Good Will. I once owned a coat just like his pants that I bought a a small Good Will shop in Lawton Okla. Every now and then on a Saturday nite when I really wanted to look my best I would put it on. Man, a plaid coat or pants, that really throws the local hipsters.
Speed, pinch harmonics, chicken pickin', soul melting volume swells, picking a note bent at tone and bringing it down like the kids would do with a whammy bar, come on, the man was light years ahead of his time and s.r.v.'s imagine what blues would sound like today if Buchanan, Gallagher, and srv were still alive, which barring their tragic deaths they would be.
quarrydawg Man oh Man you picked a nice threesome there (same three I favor too). Yeah Rory G. was little known in the USA but boy with Roy and Rory you didn't listen to the blues, more like you felt every note was from your soul when they played. These guys and BB King showed me where my heart and soul belonged as far as what I fell in love with as a musical happy place. Roy had his demons, they all did, but for all these sad endings well sad bthough they may be doesn't the sadness make the blues they all left us a small bit better and bluesier.
oh shit!!! god bless you man!! this is unique!! It hasn´t been shown on youtube before!! thank you a lot!! there is not too much material on video about that period of roy´s career! thank you!!!
seen him in NZ .. auckland town hall.. was in my early 20s ... must been about 86/7 ... Roy and SRV best concerts ever been too... and ive seen them all .. worked security for alot as well ...
@@gregoryhenry5259 yeah was abt a yr before he died .. blew ne away cause i realised how lucky i was to see him .. what a waste of great talent .. RIP Roy Buchanan..
if anybody can get more out of a simple telecaster guitar and amp I haven't heard it yet ! Danny Gatton and mr. ROY Buchanan the best of telecaster players so far ! But that is only my old geezer opinion of course !
And anybody born his time and after .... i know by 75 as a 15yr old ... my mate (rip andy ,,aka ,rock ) said .... irish tour .. rory is good ... BUT ...listen to this guy ...and 45odd yrs later here we are ... yes i seen roy and u seen stevie ...but not jimi ... these guys live just stop you in your tracks .. you are in their world for days afterwards..theit universe .. ears ringing and huming ,,, mind open for days ..
Yeah I was slinging music. The Grammys came along and I think the 10 great you name the handful gave all their Grammys to him. He influenced so many gave so much green Malaysia.
I got an old tele...but this fucking cat along with Albert Collins..are the "masters of the telecasters...I met Albert once...the "channel"in Boston Massachusetts ,he said"I tune to minor man.."..then someone came up to him whispered in his ear and he said"gotta go man...gotta take care of business...
thank you so ver much!!! I really appreciate .. as you can see, there is not too much material from roy at his peak, at least in video... everything from roy is welcome, but if you could upload more from his seventies it would mean a lot to me and roy´s fans.. again, thank you very much indeed!!!
Plaid polyester double knit slacks. Very cool in the day_ ugh 70's. One of the greatest if not the greatest guitarists; at least in the sense of tone and outre gimmickry, but a sartorial disaster none the less. Roy was definitely a one off masterpiece. The likes of which left this world too soon, never to be repeated or seen again.
Anyone know what might have happened to that 52 did they bury Roy with it somewhere? Maybe it's time to take a trip down to the graveyard if ya know what I mean!
@3:30 he does with the volume what JHendrix liked and made the whaa pedal to do it. Roy is more remembered for this song, it is like a biography for him... The train always leaves Buchanan behind.
Bending notes for sure but I've read where Roy also customized things like his speakers. They say he would often take a razor blade to his speakers to create distortion. He also created new ways to use the knobs on the telecaster. If interested you can research it on google.
But basically practice, experimentation, talent and skill. One of the best and truly creative musicians of our time and a true gentleman. And remained for the most part untouched by commercialism. A true artist and master of his craft. Peace Roy.
GATTON WAS A GREAT ONE TOO BUT I NEVER REALLY CARED FOR ALL THAT MUCH HE DID - SOME OF HIS BLUEGRASS STUFF WAS OUTSTANDING -- HE JUST OBSESSED WITH BEING THE FASTEST EVER - AND HE MAY HAVE BEEN -- BUT I LIKE ROYS MUSIC BETTER
He was essentially as evolutionary on the telecaster as Hendrix was on the Stratocaster... Mark Raz...dude...this may not be your cup of tea but you are probably making the same comments on Miles Davis clips...and maybe even Duane Allman....you need to go have a nap...
Mr.Raz just may not have an ear for this. Bending notes creates new notes between notes. Some western ears have a problem picking it up. It creates a whole new, to them, harmony. Much eastern music is the same way. There is a huge difference in being out of tune and just creating a new and different note be it major or minor. Being tone deaf is more than just being out of tune some are just deaf to certain tones.. Do-Ra-Me-Fa-So-La-te-Do. then there's Do.1-Ra.1-Me.1-Fa.1-So.1-La.1-Te.1-Do.1 and so on if you have the skill. Producing many different new harmonies. If we have the ear to hear. Thank God for diversity. It makes life and music so much more beautiful and complex. But for the others Mary Had A Little Lamb has a nice standard tone.
