Roy Buchanan's Sound | Fazio Electric Record Collection 

Neglected to say I first heard Roy in 1969 at the Crossroads in Bladensburg MD with a borrowed draft card to get in. Crazy days.

You guys in the Maryland area were lucky because you got to see Roy when he was young and at his best, before the booze hollowed him out. He didn't make it up to New England very often during his peak years, and a co-worker of mine who saw him twice said the first time was fantastic and the second time was awful. I bought all of his records and never found one that really impressed me, certainly not if you compare them to Danny Gatton's phenomenal "88 Elmira St" (Cruisin Deuces and Unfinished Business also have their moments). I saw Roy just once, playing with a local pickup band a few months before he died, and it was a sad affair. For that matter, I had tickets to see Danny play on the Cruising Deuces tour but he canceled the tour because he didn't want to be away from his family, and a few months later he was gone. Depression is a terrible thing.

You are so right on so many things. Depression is a terrible thing. Danny had it too. The first time I saw Danny was about 1970 when he played banjo and guitar with Liz Meyer and friends. I disagree about Roy's body of work on records. There are many examples in the earlier records where he was on fire. His tone and his ability to bend strings into amazing semi tones was other worldly. You could hear Roy's tortured soul cry out and wail on so many things. I don't mean the volume swells he did with his finger. I just mean playing Hell out of Nancy so it sounded like he was crying from his soul. Sounds overly poetic I know, but that's the way it struck me. If ever anyone met the devil down at the crossroads to trade his soul for his prowess, it was Roy. RIP good sir.

@@robertbarnes9745 , Like I said I bought all the records and I've watched many of the Buchanan videos you can find online. People say that the really great players sound as if they're channeling something powerful from outside of themselves or elsewhere in the universe, but generally it seemed to me as if Roy was just super-imposing himself on the band in the background, not really listening or finding the pocket. Groundbreaking technique for sure, but not very musical to my ear. Danny, on the other hand, Danny *listened*.

@@robertbarnes9745 , I also bought Arlen Roth's "Guitarist" record around the time I was buying Roy's records ---- Arlen obviously learned from Roy but in my opinion was more musical. There's some great playing on that record. Duke Levine is another one I like, "Nobody's Home" is a great record.

I believe that was the name of an early 70's PBS Documentary about him. He is mention on the back of Blow by Blow on the track Cause We've Ended as Lovers - (dedicated to Roy Buchanan). High praise any player coming from the Great JB.

He died around 1988-89

100% agreed

A couple years ago, I painstakingly built a replica (as nearly exact as I possibly could) of a 1953 black guard Telecaster. Why a tele? Why a '53? Two words. Roy and Danny. Nuff said.

His version of Hey Joe from that set is legendary.

The PBS documentary was "The best unknown guitarist in the world". A few years later they did one about Danny Gatton where they used basically the same title. For my money, Danny played rings around Roy. Roy was a guitarist with groundbreaking technique, but Danny was a musician. Compare any of the half-dozen records that Roy put out (I bought them all in a futile effort to find "the one") with Danny's "88 Elmira Street" (or the best parts of "Cruisin' Deuces" and "Unfinished Business" and Roy comes across poorly. I'm told that if you caught him in his younger days before the booze took him over that he was, or could be phenomenal; a co-worker told me that he saw Roy play twice and the first time was incredible but the second time was awful. I only got to see Roy play once ( he didn't make it up to New England very often), just a couple of months before he died, and he was like a hollowed out shell. Much to my regret I never got to see Danny play either; I had tickets to see him on the Cruisin' Deuces tour but he canceled the tour because he didn't like to be away from his family, and then a few months months later he was dead. At least Danny is pretty well represented on record, but Roy isn't. There are tons of good live videos of Danny's playing on RU-vid, but I have yet to see one by Roy that really knocks me out.

Also, I say it every time we see inside your home Colleen, it looks fantastically warm and interesting. You have an eye for all that is beautiful in our world, and your voice is so soothing. Maybe you can also branch into ASMR

You need to listen to some seventies Link Wray.

​@@guitarzan2626, Shoot Out the Lights by Richard Thompson is heavily inspired by Rumble, but with psychotic lyrics and a pair of jagged, dissonant solos. Somewhere on RU-vid there's also a sonic collage titled Shoot Out the Rumble where somebody with great mixing skills expertly blended both songs together!

I believe the Stones wanted him to join after Brian Jones was fired, but he turned them down so he could keep doing his own thing.

In my opinion you didn't miss much; I had of all of Roy's records at one time or another in a futile search for "The One". Record producers didn't seem to know what to do with Roy in the studio, and apparently neither did Roy himself. Danny Gatton's "88 Elmira St" is a far better representation ( Cruising Deuces and Unfinished Business also have their moments).

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