spiral light Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I finally got around to digging out some Roy B. bootlegs that someone lent me. Man, what a tragic loss it was the day he he died (in more ways than one!). A true tortured genius. www.windhamhill.com - Shameless Advertising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger85 Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 He and Danny Gatton were masters of the Tele! And both gone way before their time. Sad! ...touched down in the land of the Delta Blues.....in the middle of the pouring rain.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Back about 74 or 75, there was a tv show called Rock Concert. They recorded bans live on stage and put them on TV. I saw some great acts. One episode had the Allman Brothers(post Duane ansd Berry, unfortunately), Wet Willie, and Roy Buchannan. Roy was wearing this really hokey-looking (these days, anyway) plaid sports jacket and bell bottomed slacks.. he kinda looked like a bearded insurance salesman. But he did "Hey Joe" better than I ever heard it done, even by Hendrix. It started out kinda dullish sounding (he didn't have much of a singing voice), but as he got into his solo break, things got hot in big hurry. After a couple of minutes the band fell out, and Roy was playing all by himself, and literally ripping notes, licks and riffs out of his Tele, 100 to the bar. I was distracted by his picking hand at one point; somehow, I noticed he was playing with his pick and a finger, then it was his pick and two fingers, then three, then the pick disappeared and his fingers were a blur. Then, the pick came back out of nowhere, and he worked back down to just it. All this while he was doing Hendrixy stuff, jazzy stuff, dirty raunchy blues, you name it, and it was all coming out of his guitar so fast I was nearly hypnotized by it. he must have done six or seven minutes by himself, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. Finally the band came back in and they finished the tune. I was simply flabbergasted. It is one of two or three times in my entire life that I was just laid out flat by the sheer force of a musical genius rendering inspired music out of his instrument. I would give a lot for a copy of that performance, just to see if it's as good as I remember. I'd bet good money it is. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiral light Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by picker: Back about 74 or 75, there was a tv show called Rock Concert. They recorded bans live on stage and put them on TV. I saw some great acts. One episode had the Allman Brothers(post Duane ansd Berry, unfortunately), Wet Willie, and Roy Buchannan. Roy was wearing this really hokey-looking (these days, anyway) plaid sports jacket and bell bottomed slacks.. he kinda looked like a bearded insurance salesman. But he did "Hey Joe" better than I ever heard it done, even by Hendrix. It started out kinda dullish sounding (he didn't have much of a singing voice), but as he got into his solo break, things got hot in big hurry. After a couple of minutes the band fell out, and Roy was playing all by himself, and literally ripping notes, licks and riffs out of his Tele, 100 to the bar. I was distracted by his picking hand at one point; somehow, I noticed he was playing with his pick and a finger, then it was his pick and two fingers, then three, then the pick disappeared and his fingers were a blur. Then, the pick came back out of nowhere, and he worked back down to just it. All this while he was doing Hendrixy stuff, jazzy stuff, dirty raunchy blues, you name it, and it was all coming out of his guitar so fast I was nearly hypnotized by it. he must have done six or seven minutes by himself, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. Finally the band came back in and they finished the tune. I was simply flabbergasted. It is one of two or three times in my entire life that I was just laid out flat by the sheer force of a musical genius rendering inspired music out of his instrument. I would give a lot for a copy of that performance, just to see if it's as good as I remember. I'd bet good money it is.Hmmm, I have an mp3 of Roy doing Hey Joe, sounds similar to the description you gave of it (I have no idea from whence or where it originated). Let me know if you'd be interested in it. www.windhamhill.com - Shameless Advertising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soonersrock Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Was that Don Kirshner's Rock Concert? I remember that one along with the Midnight Special on Saturday nights...that had just live performances on video... very cool...sure wish that stuff would leak out to usenet or somethin' Remember Seeing Johnny Winter/Rick Deringer on their and it was classic along with many others from the 70's!!!!! Precurser to MTV for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 spiral light- I'd sure be interested in that mp3! Sounds like some REAL rock and guitar mastermind action! Pleeeeeaase? Can I have it? 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...
spiral light Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by Caevan O'Shite: spiral light- I'd sure be interested in that mp3! Sounds like some REAL rock and guitar mastermind action! Pleeeeeaase? Can I have it?You won't be disapointed! I'll pm you when I get it uploaded. www.windhamhill.com - Shameless Advertising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by spiral light: Originally posted by Caevan O'Shite: [qb]spiral light- I'd sure be interested in that mp3! Sounds like some REAL rock and guitar mastermind action! Pleeeeeaase? Can I have it?No, ME ME ME! IWANIT IWANIT IWANIT! Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiral light Posted July 1, 2004 Author Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by picker: Originally posted by spiral light: Originally posted by Caevan O'Shite: [qb]spiral light- I'd sure be interested in that mp3! Sounds like some REAL rock and guitar mastermind action! Pleeeeeaase? Can I have it?No, ME ME ME! IWANIT IWANIT IWANIT!There's plenty for everyone! I'll pm you when I get it up'ed, probably tomorrow afternoon. www.windhamhill.com - Shameless Advertising! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 You're an mp3 and PM mastermind! >MAGNUM!!!!< 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...
AlChuck Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 There was a 90-minute TV special made about Roy Buchanan that was shown on PBS way back in the seventies... title was something like "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist." I wonder if that's available on DVD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrmac Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I saw RB live sometine in the mid 70's while I was living in Baton Rouge La. He played in a small club down there and he sure got the joint jumping! Even for those days he was an unusual performer. He seemed pretty shy, didn't say a word to the audience, and he was dressed in a flannel shirt and jeans which was certainly not fashionable in those days. He looked like a farmer. But nobody cared what he was wearing when he played that Tele. Mac Bowne G-Clef Acoustics Ltd. Osaka, Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by Caevan O'Shite: You're an mp3 and PM mastermind! >MAGNUM!!!!< And a genius & legend to boot! Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dondottcomm Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 Originally posted by AlChuck: There was a 90-minute TV special made about Roy Buchanan that was shown on PBS way back in the seventies... title was something like "The World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist." I wonder if that's available on DVD...I remember that!He really was a brillant guitarist What? you mean I can take this block of fine swiss and make a song??...COOL! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinC Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I saw Roy in the 70's-great guitarist. What I remember most is that after blowing like crazy on the guitar, when he stepped up to the mike and started to sing, the place went nuts. so cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMOND DUST Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I'm a huge fan of Roy's music, and i'll never forget the morning that I heard he was dead. Sort of like the morning after Stevie died. Have any of you heard his version of "If six were 9"? It's really a trip. You can tell he truly loved Jimi's music. http://b-cordova.dmusic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myles_rose Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 He was one of my favorite guitar players ... EVER. Only one N Buchanan. There was a video done on him shown on PBS at one point YEARS ago that was never released for sale ... "The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World". That pretty much said it all. Myles S. Rose www.guitaramplifierblueprinting.com www.la-economy.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/mylesr www.twitter.com/myles111us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMOND DUST Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 http://files.dmusic.com/music/b/-/b-cordova/roy.jpg http://b-cordova.dmusic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miroslav Posted July 1, 2004 Share Posted July 1, 2004 I'll just chime in... Roy was one of the best blues players I ever heard... ...and I knew this way back when I was too young to even know what a great blues player was! I could just feel it in his playing. He lived and died sad... I would love to hear/see any MP3s DVDs of old performances by Roy!!! miroslav - miroslavmusic.com "Just because it happened to you, it doesn't mean it's important." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele Kinesis Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 Originally posted by tiger85: He and Danny Gatton were masters of the Tele! And both gone way before their time. Sad!Weren't they great friends? I think I heard that Roy taught Danny a lot of stuff as a youngster. Roy had a cutting tone, and he knew how to use it. As for Danny (my hero)...well..personally, I think he was one of those guys that could probably play along with ANYbody, but few could probably keep up with him. Some of the stuff he did was super-human. Roy just plain rocked the blues. Two of my favorites gone too soon. Tele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 Oh, maaaaaaan!! Izzatt goood. Thanks! Just listened to a Roy B. "cover" of "Hey, Joe" for the first time, I'll be letting it loop here now for a while before I've got to get my @$$ in gear and head out to work (noon to nine, tonight). Wow. Might not be for general consumption, but for those of us (we know who we are) who appreciate loads of cold-@$$3d minor-key electric blues, that's a real feast! I laughed out loud when I caught the "Wind Cries Mary" and "Castles Made Of Sand" references there at the end; too cool! I almost missed it. Love the "pinky swells"- the guitar volume-knob manipulation. I love doing that, myself! (Strats 'n' Teles really lend themselves to that.) Now I know that I've really gotta dig into some more of Roy's work, as well as Mssr. Gatton's. (Also recently heard a Nick Drake tune on sat TV Sirius "radio"; had that sort of gravitational pull and inherent classicness and maverick individual uniquness about it that one gets from, say, Van Morrison and Tom Waits... ) 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...
Billster Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 The Messiah Will Come Again just knocks me to the floor. I think Buchanan and Gatton had a little bit of a rivalry I read about once. It's too weird that they both committed suicide - almost a parallel lives thing: relatively obscure, masterful and under appreciated, substance abuse. Let's all count our blessings. Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Combs Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 I am a fan of Roy's. Here's where you can get DVD's of Roy http://www.musicstack.com/search/buchanan_roy.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIAMOND DUST Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 Originally posted by Randy Combs: I am a fan of Roy's. Here's where you can get DVD's of Roy http://www.musicstack.com/search/buchanan_roy.html Thanks dude!! I can't belive what they want for "A street called strait". I bought it in mint condition for 1$. http://b-cordova.dmusic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldil Posted July 2, 2004 Share Posted July 2, 2004 I lived in Atlanta for a brief time in the 80's and saw Roy play once. He did a version of "Sleepwalk" that sent shivers down my spine. What a great player he was! What a loss! Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip OKeefe Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Roy was the MAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitarzan Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Originally posted by spiral light: Originally posted by picker: Back about 74 or 75, there was a tv show called Rock Concert. They recorded bans live on stage and put them on TV. I saw some great acts. One episode had the Allman Brothers(post Duane ansd Berry, unfortunately), Wet Willie, and Roy Buchannan. Roy was wearing this really hokey-looking (these days, anyway) plaid sports jacket and bell bottomed slacks.. he kinda looked like a bearded insurance salesman. But he did "Hey Joe" better than I ever heard it done, even by Hendrix. It started out kinda dullish sounding (he didn't have much of a singing voice), but as he got into his solo break, things got hot in big hurry. After a couple of minutes the band fell out, and Roy was playing all by himself, and literally ripping notes, licks and riffs out of his Tele, 100 to the bar. I was distracted by his picking hand at one point; somehow, I noticed he was playing with his pick and a finger, then it was his pick and two fingers, then three, then the pick disappeared and his fingers were a blur. Then, the pick came back out of nowhere, and he worked back down to just it. All this while he was doing Hendrixy stuff, jazzy stuff, dirty raunchy blues, you name it, and it was all coming out of his guitar so fast I was nearly hypnotized by it. he must have done six or seven minutes by himself, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. Finally the band came back in and they finished the tune. I was simply flabbergasted. It is one of two or three times in my entire life that I was just laid out flat by the sheer force of a musical genius rendering inspired music out of his instrument. I would give a lot for a copy of that performance, just to see if it's as good as I remember. I'd bet good money it is.Hmmm, I have an mp3 of Roy doing Hey Joe, sounds similar to the description you gave of it (I have no idea from whence or where it originated). Let me know if you'd be interested in it.man i would like to have that as well. i remember having some Roy B. on tape long ago. it was very impressive to say the least. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picker Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 Hey SL, got your Pm, and listened to your MP3. It's from an albim called "That's What I'm Here For" and I bought it just after I saw Roy do the In Concert appearance. It isn't the same performance, and while Roy is never bad, the studio version isn't a pimple on the butt of the one I saw. I felt like I had been struck by lightning after seeng that. But thanx for sharing the MP#, it's still great. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caevan O’Shite Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 There's a good chance that an A/V recording of that episode of (Don Kirshner's?) Rock Concert is archived, somewhere. Maybe not on a released video or audio recording- yet- but still languishing somewhere... I'd love to see it! 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...
Guitarzan Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 argh, SL i got the PM but the link isn't working. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=193274 rock it, i will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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