DocPate Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Sad news today. A great guitar player has left the stage. Rest in peace. Roy Clark dead: Hee Haw and country music legend was 85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plankton Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 I grew up watching Roy. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Just heard it myself. He was a fine player. RIP. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimatter Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 RIP Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted November 15, 2018 Share Posted November 15, 2018 Roy was outstanding as a musician, comedian, actor and an all around good guy. Rest In Peace Roy you was one fine picker...... dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 -- --________ -- Ask yourself- What Would Ren and Stimpy Do? ~ Caevan James-Michael Miller-O'Shite ~ _ ___ _ Leprechaun, Esquire _ ___ _ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitefang Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Heard the news last night while fixing dinner. Started me thinking how long it's been since first hearing OF him. He used to show up on variety TV shows as a comic act. Mugging for the camera while playing some otherwise fantastic guitar licks. Using different runs for comic effect. When you think about it, that took some level of genius. Usually when musicians try to be funny, they do it by pretending NOT to be able to play that well. I've heard Roy often introduced as, "The CLOWN PRINCE of guitar....!" In the last couple of minutes of this vid, he does his familiat "Tiger Rag" bit.... Whitefang I started out with NOTHING...and I still have most of it left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Rest in Peace Roy Clark...I heard the news last night but I was too sad to write anything. Roy was one of my favorite guitar players when I was 13 years old and he really inspired me to play the guitar with his version of Honky Tonk. When I was 15 a buddy gave me one of his albums with Honky Tonk on it so that I could learn to play it better by copying his licks. Well try as I may, I never could copy his licks, but he sure gave me ideas on how the tune was supposed to be played. I forget the title so I'll paraphrase Roy Clark Stringing the Blues. One of his 1st albums. Every tune on it was great and I truly admired him as a guitar player. Later in life I discovered he was a great player of other stringed instruments and played them all on stage and on Hee Haw! He will be missed but never forgotten by all of his admirers... Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Rest in Peace Roy Clark...I heard the news last night but I was too sad to write anything. The same thing happened to me when I heard that Roy Buchanan hanged himself in jail. That bummed me out big time....... Him and John Lennon, that one bummed me out as well. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 +1 DBM, there have been many that have bummed me out and they will stay in my memory banks as long as possible... Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 I pretty much gave up on caring deeply about my favorite rock and movie stars as if I knew them. I do like some artists, but I do not seem to grieve like I did for the rich and famous like I did before Roy Buchanan's death. That was the last one that I let touch me deeply inside. I do not like sorrow a single bit, so I avoid it like the plague. Fortunately most all of my close knit blood relatives are still living, but if something happens to any of them I am in for a bit of sorrow, that's for sure. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 That version of "Mal Iguana" from A Couple Oddies that antimatter posted is cool! Lotta skill under that, esp the percussive, uh, thrumping, I believe is the technical term, starting @2:15. WFang mentioned his penchant for comedy. Could w/call him the Victor Borge of the geetar ? (BTW, WF, that code is [video:youtube] ) Per DBM & LarZ, yes it's sad when we lose a friend/hero but the point is what they did for us while here---&, by extension, what we might do too, if we step up to the platter. Yeah, I'm talking to you...as well as myself. Cat started as a teen, took some time off to try pro boxing before switching back to music. Joined Grandpa Jones's band in late 1940s. They mighta sounded something like this. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgReVv_B80 Next he joined COUNTRY STYLE, a Washington-regional program.[disclaimer this is from a later era but dig the jazziness !] [video:youtube] Following stint's w/George Hamilton IV & country-rockin' firecracker Wanda Jackson. This might be RC. [video:youtube] This is the oldest verifiable Clark track I could find on YT. 1958 single / you can almost recognise his vox [video:youtube] Here's his 1st Top 10 hit [video:youtube] We now enter what we'll call The Roy Clark You Never Knew Land Not sure who played the slide gtr but his nuanced vox are simply terrific. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXo_P6-g_0 Here's a track you might not associate w/RC but chk it out & prepare to be surprised---the line starting at 1:23 is simply stunning but the track's full of them ! [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80IuhUXDbdQ Here's another track that may surprise. Just a buncha cats passin' the plate. Dig 3:05 ~> when Roy hits some Lowell George playing above the fretboard territory ! [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5d8KtpIoEQ So now maybe something like this is happening. [video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4MUK9hEQ3w d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted November 16, 2018 Share Posted November 16, 2018 Per DBM & LarZ, yes it's sad when we lose a friend/hero but the point is what they did for us while here---&, by extension, what we might do too, if we step up to the platter. Yeah, I'm talking to you...as well as myself. I am definitely happy to have had those media hero's especially the guitar players and other musicians that I admired so deeply back in the day. I learned a lot from them because I copied their feeling as best as I could. Roy Buchanan was the only guy that I ever tried to learn his licks, his style, and his intensity. I never got even near what he did, but he improved what I do by leaps and bounds, and continues to improve what I do to this day. He was my biggest influence on electric guitar leads. Just an amazing player. I believe he was a tortured soul and his playing was his level keeping method until that fateful night in jail when he hung himself. To this day I admire what he did for the most part, and even though my musical journey took me elsewhere, I am grateful that I was privileged enough to see him live on his first national tour. I did see him again later on but that intensity was gone, that evening, probably from being tired of touring, he did not have a bad note that second show, just not as intense in feel. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryz Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Many of my guitar heroes have passed on to the spirit world. They all go back to the same era as Merle Travis, Roy Clark, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Scotty Moore, George Harrison, Glenn Campbell, and on and on and many that are still with us like James Burton and Tommy Emmanuel. I think my biggest influence comes from Scotty Moore...I have stepped up to the platter, but it's starting to spin away from me both physically and mentally. I let go of trying to be in the league of the players named above long ago. But they all inspired me to keep playing as long as I can...Thanks Roy! Take care, Larryz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesape Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Always loved Roy... Never a DUH! moment! Well, almost never. OK, OK! Sometimes never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 For those who think they can never reach the level of their heroes, think again. Where'd'ya think the new heroes come from ? Ya don't need to be equal to them; you only need to be the best you that you can be...that will make you something diff from what they were. [DBM, you best chk yer PMs ! ] d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiC Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 Two days before he died, I was watching a TV program (The Joey & Rory Show), which prompted me to Google him. I then told my wife I did not realize he was still alive. Ironic and sad. "Treat your wife with honor, respect, and understanding as you live together so that you can pray effectively as husband and wife." 1 Peter 3:7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 When we live in hearts & spirits, we are still alive...& that's not religion or philosophy. That's how we live on & evolve life. d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertbluesman Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 [DBM, you best chk yer PMs ! ] Thanks for the nice words amigo. dbm If it sounds good, it is good !! http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=143231&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d halfnote Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 BTW, they're even worshiping at the Roy C Altar over on the KB forum... https://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2958390 d=halfnote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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