Roy Buchanan
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- 00:10 Green Onions
04:43 Short Fuse
07:59 Intro
09:22 When a Guitar Plays the Blues
16:34 Further on Down the Road
Roy Buchanan in concert with Albert Collins and Lonnie Mack in December 1985.
"Roy Buchanan has long been considered one of the finest, yet criminally overlooked guitarists of the blues rock genre whose lyrical leads and use of harmonics would later influence such guitar greats as Jeff Beck, his one-time student Robbie Robertson, and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons." - Greg Prato
I was fortunate to have played drums with Roy on his last California tour in 1988 just 4 months before he died and the set of music we played was exactly the same as this one. With Carey Ziegler on the Bass and vocals . His dedicated fans loved him and there were lines down the block for tickets 4 hours before a 10:00 showtime....all shows were sold out ....packed houses at every new venue. Every night was simply a fun musical jam filled with Roy's great guitar playing and Carey's kick-ass bass playing just like this gig you are seeing here. Roy had everything to live for, a brand new guitar custom made for him and devoted fans in every town he played in....plus 6 fully grown children who all loved him. I sincerely believe he did not take his own life. Roy was one of the best musicians and artists I have ever played with....truly a gifted player totally committed to bringing the finest live performance to his audiences...and of course a magnificent, world-class legendary Guitarist.
You played drums for Roy? For that sir you receive the highest of high fives.
Scott Moyer I don't buy the suicide story either...no matter what problems he may have felt with.
amx360 let's not forget to high five the fine Fairfax police officers that beat Roy to death...
how about a follow up on the "notso" fairfax coppers involved!!!
Did you play with Roy at Keystone Berkeley during your tour? I was with Mark Castro band then. We opened for Roy one night. It was about a week or so before they closed that venue down.
Every time this video gets a new comment, I get a notification and I'll usually end up watching the whole thing one more time because this man is amazing. I don't believe anyone with this much talent would just hang himself in a jail cell out of the blue. I hope someday the people who are responsible are brought to justice. What a loss.
I'm leaving a comment so you'll listen again. Enjoy!
Listen again with me. Ain't none better than Roy!
Do you own an AMX? Great car, but come and watch the video again.
@@likwidflame I did but I sold it. Oh, what an amazing guitar player!
Roy was playing in his own leaque, like Jeff Beck today, a one off, and his death was a shame, like so often.
What a shame that Roy Buchanan could not achieve the commercial success and public recognition he deserved, as so many other lesser guitarists did. He deserves to be a household name like Beck, Hendrix, Page, and Clapton. All I we can do is play his stuff and introduce his work to others that don't know. Viva Roy!
agree 10900% JM
I was in Georgetown where Roy was playing . The Stones were in town and came to club to see Roy. A table was cleared for Mick. Jagger acknowledged us and said hello mates. There was a break Roy sat at our front row seats. Roy had a cocktail with us. Jagger bought our table a nice bottle of champagne. Mick Jagger started talking to Roy. He offered him a job with the Stones. Keith Richard's eyes rolled around in his sockets. Roy declined.
God...I LOVE watching and listening to Roy Buchanan. This man was maybe the greatest guitarist in so many genres ......it's hard to compare anyone to him. He seems like he's toying with us almost. He plays through his Soul. This is magic . True Wizardry
Roy lived near me. Use to go to backyards BBQs he would show up with small amp and play for us. When we went to Georgetown clubs he played, we always had front row seats, on his breaks he we would have a cocktail with us.
Unfortunately he died mysteriously at the Fairfax County Jail.
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I finally got you the real thing. Alex
Hearing roy must be how the world felt when they heard paganini on violin back then
He played like no other...
Or Hendrix in the 60's, or EVH in the late 70's-early 80's
Saw Roy in the mid 80’s. He opened for Johnny Winter. I was in the front row in a club in upstate NY. I’ll never forget it - to this day it’s still the most powerful concert I’ve ever seen.
im fookin jekloius EriC :P
Wow! My two favorites on the same bill. Only saw RB once, saw JW 10 times
I heard Sweet Dreams by Roy around 1972 ,same year as I bought a telecaster.What a phenomenal player who in my opinion will never be bettered.R.I.P. Roy.
What a coincidence, same here, sat in a taxi in Manchester, 72 ish, agree, a fantastic guitarist.
One Of The Greatest Guitar Players Of All Time.
Rock In Peace Roy!!!!
Roy was usually credited as a 'blues guitarist,' or maybe a 'blues-rock' guy, but he could play anything, including jazz.
I would call him the "Blues Abuser" but i mean that in a good way..
Another jaw dropping performance from Roy! Best unknown rock blues guitarist ever to exist! He has to be top of anyone's best list He is!
Who plays, knows that Roy was unquestionably the greatest Blues guitarist of all time. What a great loss for the world blues culture, who knows what could have played again
Roy found more notes per bar than humanly possible!
I saw him twice (the second being around the time of this video). The first was at the suggestion of my guitar tutor - I had never heard of him before.
I have NEVER seen anyone as good, and I have seen some of the 'greats'
What raw talent. The audience was gobsmacked by this stunning man
Saw Roy many times in Boston back in the day in small clubs. What a laid back, humble, low key, cool dude this man was. One of the all time greats.
How many guys can make a guitar scream and howl with just an overloaded clean tone? No-one, Roy was it.
he made his guitar talk
What can you say about the Greatest Guitar Player that has ever lived. What Roy lacks in vocals, he more than makes up in making that guitar send chills down your spine.
I first saw (heard of) Roy Buchanan when I was in college, home for a Christmas break with my parents in NJ. I walked across the den where the telly was on PBS as my mum watched PBS a lot. I forget what struck me first, but being a guitar player/future guitarist, I sat down on the couch in a daze. When he started “the Messiah will come again“, my mum , who is a classically trained, virtuoso pianist but also a lover of blues , Stopped and said “now that’s how you play the blues!“ I agreed. I have everything I could get my hands on over the years and have read quite a bit about Roy. Before his tragic death, I remember an Advert for one of his Tours in Rollingstone magazine (I think) that named all of the rock stars, like John Lennon, Keef, et al, who thought of him as the greatest guitarist they’d ever heard. They may just have that right in common. It was an extension of him - just like Hendrix! It is so fun hearing this video (pardon the non sequitur) To hear Roy mastering the effects like delay/echo that he had never understood that Hendrix was using from the beginning. No fuzz. No UniVibe. No delay. If it wasn’t on the amp, he didn’t use it and couldn’t figure out how Jimi was getting them. Just listening to one song with him using the echo is mind blowing! But listening to him play on Austin City Limits from Austin Texas with nothing but a fender reverb deluxe, I believe, is just as or more than astonishing! I still miss him so much… Thank you Roy and thank you Jeff Beck for scooping up a lot of Roys spirit and making it your own. Someday I hope to meet Roy’s soul in heaven...
That was a very interesting set of stories on Roy....the etheral wailing he gets in When a Guitar Plays the Blues is an astounding swell of music....I liked what your classically trained mother said about Roy on his PBS show?
Yes, he certainly could make a guitar "talk in tongues". Legendary.....
the greatest guitarplayer in rock and roll history the MAN who said NO to the rolling stones best of the best masterclass rip roy miss you
I just watched Austin City Limits 1976. When he is playing a solo and gets a drink and is playing with only his top hand is astounding. I first saw 40 years ago and had to watch again. It all started with me listening to Green Onions album I hadn't heard in a while. He is a treat and one of greatest to hold a guitar in my humble opinion.
Makes me cry, when you said "such a loss". In one of Roy's songs he talks of a stranger entering a town; he Roy Buchanan is that stranger, is that messiah, offering the listeners the history of the world thru his instrument and his life experience. Roy was on a tour with the Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell and The Eleventh House in the '76 or '77. They came thru my home town. I got to see Roy play with the Eleventh House at the Flynn Theatre. in Burlington VT..
I remember that tour because Larry Coryell was our next door neighbor at that time here in Connecticut.Larry was a sweet,fun loving cat who just liked playing music all day.
Roy was just incredible ! The TRUE master of the Telecaster !!!
I was in Vietnam getting ready to make an amphibious landing for 9th marines,and they had this tiny kind of store, CIGS. For .90 cents carten , Got a Roy Buccanan tape, put it in this sailors tape deck and listened on headphones. Totally blew my mind. Left it with him, we couldn't carry tape decks, wish I had it now.
Amazing Marine
I adore Roy's work, have done for decades. I'm only sorry folks find the need to compare musicians, in this case Rory Gallagher. Both were fine artists and humble gentlemen. RIP Roy.
yer totaly right theyu were great not to many even heard of rory gallager, or roy i got turned on to both in71-72
I love them both!
No two guitarists can be compared. They are all totally unique doing that they do in their own special way.
I saw them both in the same club in Ottawa, Canada. Not the same show though. Oddly enough Rory was playing the white telecaster quite a bit then. Both great, both different, both humble souls.
I tell people my favorite guitarist is the one I am listening to. Roy, Rory, Gary Moore are among the many forgotten or underappreciated guitarists throught the years.
Back in the days, seen Roy quite a few times at the Bayou in DC ..life changing especially musically
I just heard so many of rock and metals tricks I'm astounded. For modern guitarists to not admit that they stole directly from this guy is crimminal. He's fast and fearless. I've been cruising this guy on CZcams for hours now, and for sure I knew his name, but I never listened before. This guy should have been Steve Vai's opponent in the Cross Roads movie !
Vai had a worthy opponent - Ry Cooder
@@jimdonovan8213 Vai and Zappa would bow down before Roy Buchanan. Roy was the best that ever did it He doesn't need an Ibenez..a whammy bar ...distortion .foot pedals a waa waa box ..Roy Buchanan was making MAGIC before they were born.
Who knew a Telecaster could scream so loud. Roy makes that thing wail!!!!.
JImmy Hendrix is the only one I ever heard give him credit. Jimmy Idolized his work and talent. Paraphrased but something like this. So fast so clean, I could slow down one riff and it make a whole song.
@@brucebradley5877 First of all it's Jimi Hendrix, NOT Jimmy. I never heard Hendrix give this guy any credit. Roy's first album came out in 1970. Jimi Hendrix died in 1970. Why are you making stuff up? Lol.
My hero Roy, you blow the rest of us away
BRAVO !!! LEADER OF THE PACK ...ROY BUCHANAN
That has to be the best version of further on down the road EVER!
Roy was the best Guitarist I've ever heard in my life !
Looking at the comments It would appear that you haven't heard this since a year ago, I hope you enjoy It as much as me listening for the first time. 😃
What an incredible array of talent on one stage for one night. Thirty five years later it remains unsurpassed. Rave on Roy, Lonnie, and Albert
Has Roy ever looked as happy as when he is listening to Albert Collins? What a pair.
Yeah I saw that too!
I first saw Roy at the old Lone Star Cafe in 1979. I was on a date with a really cool older woman she was 30 I was 19. needless to say it was an awesome night. Nothing like a hot divorcee and a great musician to blow my 19 year old mind!
The guy that you couldn't put in a box, unless it was a box that said, "The Greatest." If there's anyone that hasn't seen it; Lookup the documentary from 1971 - 'Introducing Roy Buchanan.'
it was drugs and booz that some one grate from us so sad
Dude or Dudette, Thank you so much for telling me about the documentary. I have been a Roy Boy fan since the early mid '70's and lucky enough to see him several times in person....My favorite was At Liberty Lunch in Austin ,Tx, a no roof venue and an almost full moon that night...It was fricking awesome.
Just ran across this master to bad he’s Gone in a sad manner I pray for the folks he left behind to have a peaceful heart 💜 his music is boss
He's the best in my book
Sonic mayhem! Roy was still exploring new sounds and techniques just a few short years before he passed. No way was he finished. Nice to see that, but sad too, because he still had so much to offer.
I agree 110%$ david
Was going to start my comment with’God’ then saw the last comment and just laughed. Roy was fierceness personified in six strings and a pick. RIP mr. B.
I first saw Roy Buchanan on the Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC TV) stuck in a hotel room in 1973. I was blown away by his Sweet Dreams track played live and bought his album with just his name as the title that weekend. No doubt about it Roy is far and away the greatest guitarist of all time. It was amazing to hear Sweet Dreams on the closing titles to the film The Departed.
The above wasn't posted by Chris but his dad Tony (that's me) on Chris's google account. Damn the technology!
@@christopherpullig900Done the same thing in my time 😂
Magnificent. What can I tell you? Roy Buchanan was unique. He is sorely missed.
OH MY GOD! ROY BUCHANAN- WELCOME TO MY LIFE! I`VE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU FOR A LONG, LONG, TIME!!! HERE YOU ARE! MI CASA SU CASA!!! regards to everyone ,Thomas(Poland-then, Chicago- now)
Police stole the best man to ever play a Tele infamous and legendary!!!!!
Tone from outer space! clean yet distorted.
This guy just impresses me more and more each time I watch/hear him! And it's been years...........
Love the way he said maybe someday I’ll be a good guitar player. The slightest smirk on his face. Too bad gone too young. Wished I’d have seen him live.
After watching Roy play " When my guitar plays the Blues " you can honestly say you've seen the greatest that ever was or will be playing 🎸. Roy Buchanan just blows everyone else AWAY
You've obviously never heard Danny Gatton.
I saw him play live twice in NYC totally blown away
Thanks for posting this. Roy, Danny Gatton, Lenny Breau all left this world much to early. But their spirit lives on through their music. I feel blessed to have heard their music.
Nobody plays blues like this. It’s madness. So many people out there playing the pentatonic scale trying to hit loads of notes, yet here was Roy just enjoying the squeal of a Tele and pinch harmonics. And also lots of notes the few times he chooses to do that. Awesome!
I saw him in a similar concert with Dickey Betts and Lonnie Mack in Chicago billed as "The Great American Guitar Assault!" One of the best concerts I have seen. I dig all 3 of them, but Roy was the boss that night.
What year was this? I knew Dickey and Lonnie since the late 80's, but only got to see and meet Roy once in NYC just months before his death.
@@jimdonovan8213 1986, the Great American Guitar Assault tour. I still have the T-shirt.
@@joebubbit I'm stunned that I missed it, but that time was bad for me to catch anyone. Was on the road.
@@jimdonovan8213 I saw them in Chicago. The Park West.
I was good friends with Allman Bros. Drummer, Frankie Toler. I never got to know Dicky, though we were at many gatherings together. The Toler brothers were the real deal, genuine nice people.
@UCJNbbk8Ld3kAPZQY-mi6wMw i met Warren Haynes onstage in Nashville as we backed up Marshall Tucker guitarist Toy Caldwell's solo try in '88. Afterward, at the bar Warren told me he was working with Dickey, who was a real favorite of mine. Months later they released a record as THE DICKEY BETTS BAND, and hit NYC for a live broadcast gig on WNEW FM, and this began a long relationship as ABB got a deal on Epic after sales on that record and Greg's showed $ promise. ABB were the best musicians I knew and always put me on guest lists and passes. I always think back to that band as the best ever. Warren did a solo record - its one of my favorite records ever. That live broadcast is available here on youtube now. I never saw the Toler Brothers but have several releases by them, but never met them. Dan did a record with Jimmy Hall that's excellent.
Roy was the boss (on the guitar) every night, and every time he played it!
Знал давно про эту историю про странную смерть Роя. Он не был меланхоликом и любил жизнь и гитару. Очень темная история и нету желания у следствия поднять архивы и возобновить раследование причин смерти Роя. Очень жаль , что такой человек ушел из жизни. Я не претендую на роль члена жюри , чтобы оценить его роль мастерства игры на гитаре , но для меня он один из гитаристов заслуживающих место на ОЛИМПЕ ... Играя на разбитой и старой аппаратуре он выдавал только своим медиатором на гитаре неповторимый звук. Мир его праху и его помнят, чтят поклонники его творчества......
23 minutes and 42 seconds of electric guitar heaven.......right here on your laptop screen...........
Simply the best blues guitarist
wow im really grateful for how clean and accurate Stevie Ray was...these guys all play like jimmy page...a little on the edge of chaos...Stevie did a lot of these licks but much cleaner without sounding sterile...he swung it and he played it ahead and behind and all over but he never sounded fragmented like Roy ...now all pros HAVE to be accurate or they wont sound like pros...after SRV and EVH the bar was raised....
I agree. SRV and EVH are superior guitarists - but this is an answer to a question that nobody asked.
YES!! this boy could really PLAY!!!!!
Как всегда- безупречно и невыносимо, красиво!
Some people just are incredibly rich in ability and have the capacity to think and perform. It is a skill I do not possess especially when it comes to music. But I can appreciate those who have that ability. A God given gift. So when you run across someone with that depth consider what Duke Ellington said, “If it sounds good, it is good!” And he was one that knew what “good” meant. C. Ahrens
The Always Amazing Mr. Roy Buchanan!!!!!!😎🎸
Now Roy made his Guitar weep, many imitated him but they couldn't put that feeling into it that Roy could and did. One of the Best Guitarists Born. Why did they feel they had to kill the man.
I came late to the music of Roy Buchanan. Though I always read his name in the music magazines, I haven't bought any album of his (they were hard to find in my town in Germany). So, in 1996 I made a trip to San Francisco. I went to a festival and Narada Michael Walden (I loved the Jeff Beck Wired album and the Mahavishnu stuff) was playing. Afterwards I went to Amoeba and other record stores in Haight St. to get me some Narada records. I saw his album LOADING ZONE and took it with me. I really love that album to this day.
I hope he eventually had some fame,financial success and happiness before passing away.
Man he grew as a player and performer in his later years...
I bought my first album in '72 it has been in the past couple days I see how it achieved the sounds. .now if I only had a place to break out the V to emulate in full sound.......I have liked him all this time ,but this makes so much better to see it
Saw Roy Buchanan half dozen times in the 70’s (Cre’me de la Cre’me) Guitar extraordinaire, R.I.P. Roy Buchanan 🎸 ☮️
Awesome treasure!
In Awe of the Man's talent,...I can hear them all.
Fantastic ! Thanks so much for putting this up !
Such a unique way of playing guitar.
So good to see this, thanks.
Cannot stop watching this. Absolute genius of a guitar player. Words do not suffice. Fantastic stuff.
A Sad Lost Miss You Roy !
I didn’t know Macgyver played the drums, sick!
I remember hearing Roy Buchanan's album livestock for the first time in the mid-1970s I've been a fan of Roy Buchanan ever since
I don't know if Jimi Hendrix ever heard Roy play guitar, but I'm thinking he never did. However, their lives did cross paths time wise. All I no is that Jimi would have been impressed with not only Roy's playing, but also by the incredible sounds Roy came up with just by rolling off his tone and volume control knobs. Roy didn't have the myriad electronic devices that are prevalent in today's world.
"Short Fuse" was nothing short of phenomenal! Where one might think what he pulled off in the day, on record would be owed a little to post-production, and love performance is slightly off from the studio cut, he showed was all him, in pulling out damn near every trick in his arsenal seamlessly. Not only incredible joy to listen to for the technical playing, but the pure sonic quality was untouchable. Just jaw-dropping. Can only be jealous of those lucky enough to witness in person such absolute mastery...
Time to watch Roy😂. Roy knew not only how to play, but when.
Tem terraqueo que podia morrer🍷☮️
The best. Hands down. Just him, his guitar, and his amp. No fancy gizmos...
thats what made him grate
Well he is actually using an old Boss analog delay here. But I mean that's nothing compared to modern players with literally space ships at their feat.
One of the great ones.
I was watching Remembering Roy Buchanan on here today and they make one comment that really hit home. They said, " Roy was the guitarist that other guitarist came to see". That's a pretty tall statement to me.
it's amazing that, after 25.000 views only a hundred +likes for Roy Buchanan!!!
Sorry, so busy sharing it I forgot to push "like"
So Jeffrrey, you've only watched once?!
I remember reading a description of Rory Gallagher, that also applies to Roy B - 'an uncompromisingly serious muscian .....'
I wish Carey Z. had been on bass when I booked Roy at Finnegan's Rainbow in the late 70's. I will always remember the tears sliding down my cheeks as he played "Messiah". Haunting, melodic and soulful.
Never seen Roy so animated! Very cool.
It is hard to believe how much this man gets out of his instrument.
He never got the recognition he deserved. Richard in Dallas
I first heard about Roy in 1975. I was reading Rolling Stone. There was an article about Roy in which they referred to him as the greatest rock guitarist in the world. I immediately started buying all his albums. I never stopped.
One of a kind!!
HOW I miss those days! I was in many Blues bands. In one of them, my friend , Walter, was the guitarist and he introduced me to Roy Buchanan. We used to go see him all the time . All the shows, that we could get to . And Mayall shows as well. I was a Mayall fan and he was a Roy fan, which I became as well . What a loss to the music world. Sadly, those exciting days are no more; when we could hardly wait for the next new album to come out . . And sadly, I don’t talk to that guy anymore. A great guitar player , but , well, too many issues ~ ~ ~
Now the only problem I've got is how to get Roy's music out of my head so I can sleep. Trouble is, i like it; maybe I'll never sleep again :)
As good as you get stunning
Sorry amx360 but this deserves another listen to best wishes
Love the way this man played.
Other-worldly. Not just a dude with a guitar...
I’m a guitar player and I have so many guitar heroes, but I always come back to Roy ❤
As a long time fan of Roy, you have to respect his style that many have latched on to. Jeff Beck dedicated a song to him, Joe Walsh likely picked up his used of harmonics and many others on his artistic approach to playing. I watched the first PBS special on him with my Dad a life long Tele player and just loved the way he manipulated his guitar! His Tele combined with a cranked Fender Vibroverb gave him all the head room to get those signature sounds! Whether you like him or not is irrelevant, but you have to recognize his contributions to the art form. I have most of his albums (except one?) and they are precious. A sad ending (and controversial) to his life. Overlooked? No! I'm sure there's countless other names of big artists that saw Roy and realized how much you can get out of just a guitar and amp without a massive pedal board of sound options! RIP Roy!
I first started to listen to Roy in the mid 70's, love this video, first saw it years back and because of this video I discovered Lonnie Mack. While searching for Lonnie videos I discovered Danny Gatton. 👍
What’s not to like! The master of the telecaster.
I lived in Maryland in 1970,s I got to hear him play for free at a bar in Hyattsville the crossroads was a local bar he played there many nights he was a very nice guy
Saw him live in Park East Chicago and he was amazing.
Thanks for posting this quality footage of the incomparable Roy Buchanan!
Albert was another bad ass.
If albert collins put that capo any higher up the neck it'd be around his neck.
That’s funny I think I might start raising my guitar higher too 😊