Scotty Moore *Pioneer Rock & Roll Guitarist* 

I realized I was getting old when I was shooting the bull with some guitar pickers in the mid 90's. I mentioned playing something 'like Scotty Moore' and they said. "Who's Scotty Moore?" sigh.

Scotty made his mark in the music world that will never be erased.RIP SCOTTY.

Scotty created Elvis's sound that lasted through out Elvis preforming life

Brilliant Documentary!! Thanks! The World of Music, even today still, owes a lot to Men called Sam, Scotty and of course Elvis.

i always loved scotty's playing, all three of them changed music forever,

Scotty Moore was my guitar hero back in the '50s in Miami when I was a teenager. I LOVED all those old rockabilly songs. Elvis, Gene Vincent , Carl Perkins , all those guys

I played some shows with Pete Pritchard who played Bass with Scotty. He had some wonderful stories about him. A true legend! R.I.P Mr Moore.

The beginning of rock and roll . Appreciate much , your work . 👍

Robin Trower also admired Scotty Moores great guitar playing .

I grew up hearing Elvis because of my older brother and sister. Watched him on Ed Sullivan when they wouldn't show him below the waist! 🤣 Scotty was always there being the man on that gorgeous L-5. Thanks for this RD! Your videos always make my day!

One of the OG guitar gods along with Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins!! Cheers Doc!!

In 2013 mybwife and i visited Graceland. My biggest thrill was seeing Scotty Moore being interviewed by George Klien.

There was a radio interview with Scotty decades ago,he saided that hound dog was ancient psychedelic,his words for sixty rock guitarist borrowed from his playing! Listen to Scotty leads on heart break hotel jazzy! To me Scotty took from big band era with those Gibson guitars revise playing them! Plus Scotty had a custom kick ass amplifier built-in Cairo Illinois that gave him studio sound on stage! Pioneer of rock guitar,Doc!

FASCINATING

Good one Doc,,Loved It .Take care and we'll leave the bell on.

Nice little film on the guitar legend. Scotty' playing has some Travis and Atkins influence.

Scotty Moore's solo on That's All Right Mama was one of the first guitar solos I learned. That was about 1978 when I was 16 and I had listened to tons of hard rock music from the 60's and 70's My gut told me to learn it and play it.

Really cool

For those complaining about guitar prices today, $600 in 1955 is equivilant to over $7,000. It was the equivelant of over $3,000 in 1978 when my dad, bless his heart, bought me a white telecaster like the one Keith Richards had on my Stones poster.

I grew up primarily a metal guitar player, then graduated to other genres. Not so much Elvis. But as a guitar player, I appreciate the fact that this guy is phenomenal and deserves all the credit he gets.

Take any Elvis recording and put any other guitarist in Scotty's place.....I feel Elvis and Scotty worked off each other....there was no one like Scotty on any continent....Way ahead of his time

That was one of my favorite docs yet. Great details about his Gibson and relationship with the Col. Well done as usual sir. Keep it up!! Thank you

Rivers Docs another great video...

River Docs, I have always been a huge Scotty Moore fan. Grew up on Elvis and love the guitar runs and licks in the music. Thank you for this. It made my day. Cheers.

I had no idea Scotty Moore was Keith Richard's inspiration. Great video!

scotty moore had a unique sound. he was there for early days of elvis.

It would have been nice if Scotty and the boys were more relevant in that fantasy piece by Luhrmann🙄

I was a huge Elvis fan starting in the 50s as a child. I remember grabbing a broom and imitating EP by strumming the broom bristles and wiggling my legs. My mom (who adored Elvis) and my grandmother would just laugh so much at my EP impressions. When the Beatles showed up in the 1964/65 years I hated them. Two reasons: 1- They had (at the time) replaced Elvis musically (until he began his comeback) And 2: I was in the 8th grade and really into girls and I hated the fact that girls were into the mop tops instead of Elvis and more importantly (in my young mind) me! Over the years I’ve come to appreciate The Beatles (especially their early music) and still enjoy Elvis as well! Their can be no doubt that Scotty Moore, Bill Black, James Burton and Elvis were historically important to Rock N Roll! I’ve always felt that the Eastern European ilegal immigrant going by the phony name of Colonel Tom Parker was a real villain that cheated Elvis and anyone else he could cheat!

im about to drive into town and buy this prestige ibanez because....well , what keith said...x

r.i.p. scotty! great doc about a great guitarist. thank you

That first bunch of records compiled into The Sun Sessions has so much Guitar Playing on it it's unreal. And Elvis Playing such solid Rhythm, all those songs are almost one offs', they just chose a Song played it a few times and decided whether to record or not. Most of what Scotty is Playing is Improve. Highly recommend it.

Very Cool, Thankyou. Scotty Moore has been a huge inspiration to my Love of playing Guitar. He will always be a favorite. All the Best. Cheers

Top quality mini documentary. This deserves many more views.

Without those guitar solos on those early Elvis Presley / Sun Records recordings from mister SCOTTY MOORE - How great would those songs have been ?

I still love Scotty Moore's playing.

I got got into a argument over Elvis and Scotty. A guy I know ( who wasn't a guitar player) trying to tell me about the lead guitar that Elvis played on early records. In the end after some comments from another friend and guitar player he understood. But made us admit that the man (Elvis) could dance. Friendship saved and we still enjoy music over a beer to this day.

Alvin Lee in Tennessee featured Scotty and other Elvis alums. Awesome "album".

“A mind blowing, history making sound.” - Jeff Beck

Sister Rosetta Tharpe smoked all of those dudes, including Scotty Moore.

Thank you for this excellent channel.

Lovely documentary as every one you make. I remember communicating with Scotty’s secretary back in the late ‘90’s and buying a record from their business Sweetfish Records called All The King’s Men. Scotty was active again and working with DJ Fontana, Paul Burlison and Reggie Young amongst other greats.

truth spoken

$7200 for that L5 w/ case. He KNEW what he wanted!

Scotty played Merl Travis style.

Only elvis fan answer this who is better scotty moore or james burton

Thank you Mr.Moore, a true hero of Rock N Roll!!

The style is so Unique and it’s sort of a lost art as no one plays like that today

Nice job! Scotty is one of the greats that started it all.

Beautiful little documentary. I had heard that Scotty was given some farmland from his father and that he worked that land for a year. The monies he saved during that year he used to purchase his blonde L5. The L5 not only sounded incredible playing with Elvis but it is still considered the holy grail jazz box that Wes Montgomery also played. I would have loved to hear Scotty play those songs live or be a fly on the wall during those early recording sessions.

Excellent video. Nobody covers more (Moore) in 12 minutes

He wrote more about his studio time in his second autobiography he released around 2011. He talked a lot about the band Mother Earth that he was involved with when.they came to record a couple of albums, they were also a San Francisco band but they don't get mentioned enough in the hippie scene history.

Your title is wrong....Les Paul was the player who put jazz,r&b, and country guitar together first...Scottie, as such, was simply doing his Les Paul impression.....

One of the best of the best. Thanks

RIP Homeboy Scotty

This is a lovely tribute to a great musician. Thanks.

Nice story on scotty Moore he was a pioneer that’s for sure .

Did you forget to mention Merle Travis, or did I miss something? Anybody from Kentucky or Tennessee knows Merle was the king of thumb picking. No, not finger picking. It was called thumb picking.

You going live Friday night?

FANTASTIC job, EXCELLENT post! Please keep up the GREAT Work!

Legend

Thanks so much for this.

Thanks for sharing

Nice one River Docs! Thanks!

Well done video. Enjoyed it very much.

Good video

A lovely tribute, thank you.

Thanks for posting!

Very interesting video!

mighty guud doc….doc….