Roy Buchanan - The Last Session 1988 | Part 02
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2021
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This is the last known video of Roy Buchanan. Roy showing off his new guitar known as the Blues Master by The Fritz Brothers. This video was made about 5 months before Roy's death.
It's a crying damn shame this man is no longer with us to amaze us with his music. Such a tremendous loss. His is almost the only one i listen to anymore. Just the best, he plays so good and so effortlessly. I don't believe that there is any genre of music he can't just play but play better than anyone. Saddens me that I didn't learn about him until after his passing. Never had the opportunity to witness his greatness live in person.
I met Roy when I was 15 years old in 1974. He was with Bob Johnston at Sky Blue recording studios at 128 4th Street in Sonoma California. Roy had been recording at the Record Plant in Sausalito California
- June 1974. The Record Plant charged $500 an hour- Sky Blue charged $500 for a week and you could put your 2-in tape on a Ampex machine. He hardly spoke a word to me. He said thank you with his eyes and a nod of his head. I set mics for Dual Soliloquy. I sat in the chair 3 ft away from him well Chris Hackney and Bob Johnston looked through the window of the control room into the studio. He had been doing some work on a Telecaster and a Les Paul but when he pulled out an acoustic he really blew our minds. I've never seen anybody approach a guitar like him. I recognize him now but I didn't know who he was at the time. We heard him play a Telecaster through a Leslie and it sounded very much like a saxophone. Roy was definitely somebody.
The best guitar player ever ! The one that makes me cry...
Amazing guitar! Thanks a lot Roy for your music and playing. Tele-hero.
RIP 🙏 Mr. Roy !! Your playing was unequaled, one of the nicest people I've ever had the privilege to see a couple of times and meet ! Thank you 😊
I have been mezmorized by you since I was 12.. now about to turn 53.. no one could can or will ever touch you❤… only you would say no to The Rolling Stones .. integrity goes along way… You were and always will be the best player to 12:04 ever walk the planet… How on Gods Green earth do you pull those sounds out of that Goddamn guitar… Only God knows… I wish you were here so I could show you off to all my friends… Of course be Schooled by one of the best❤🎸
Live Stock which was recorded on my birthday made me cry as I heard it the first in my local record store(remember them kids?)…. Those bends and violining licks gave me goosebumps….still do…..
@@djavidianmx1832 my fave would be Roy‘s Bluz…..mind you, I love the whole record…..
RIP Roy Buchanan, not enough people realise how important a musician this man was. Thanks for so many masterful songs and lessons in what blues guitar should sound like. Unequalled.🙏
Tragic he left so early in life.
Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton jammin’ in the afterlife
RIP Roy ... we will never let your music die ... our job is to let the younger generation know of your mndblowing greatness ... you said there were no number 1 s ... but you were a number 1 ... that wont be forgotten ...
You had Roy and everyone else who wished they could play like Roy..we all sure miss your genius Roy...🎸🎸🎸
Kenny Brown my guitar teacher in the 80s introduced me to Roy. We followed Roy up and down the east coast to several of his shows. Roy noticed us and invited us back stage. I was about 19 yrs old at the time and had a early introduction into drugs so it wasn't a surprise Roys question was if we had blow. Not long after our last show we heard of his passing. I still have Roys obituary today in a frame above my guitar and amp equipment. RIP Roy !
Rest in Heaven Big Roy. You will never be equalled on this earth. Your music came from a Holy Place unknown to the rest of us. You truly will always be the leader of the pack ......and you indeed knew it too.
Just stop with the exaggeration Danny Gatton was a much better player. You cheesedicks get so carried away with stupidity!
Got to see Roy play live at Hammerjack's in Baltimore only a week or so before he died. Very sad.
Happy birthday roy 23/9/22.🎸🎸
Roy has been My Inspiration , and guitar hero sense 1969...! He is the reason I play telecasters right now.....! I was blessed and fortunate enough to get to go see Roy, at a theater in Decatur Illinois, back in the Late 70’s
The audience was nothing but shoulder to shoulder guitar players.....! I still have the ticket stub for that Roy Concert...! it is stapled to a promo picture of Stevie Ray Vaughan , that is also signed by Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan at One of the Stevie Ray Jeff Beck concert tours that passed through Birmingham Alabama...! I had after show guest passes and was able to sit down and talk about guitars with Stevie Ray and Jeff Beck.....!
( The Jeff Galey Channel )
The Master!
17:20 ! 5 fret bend from way down there and the pitch control omg.... he was great.
Gotta love Roy's sense of humor. Taken way too soon. Thanks for the music Roy. A true talent.
Guitar is important. Nancy very important. But fact is it's in the hands man.
Thnx for posting. Roy is one of my favorite guitarist's. Great info in the vids. RIP brother.
He was such a Master
He really was awesome R.I.P roy.🎸🎸
What a virtuoso player! One of the greats. Had doesn't get enough credit for his ability. 🎸
Live stock = why Roy B. was & still one of the best that ever lived.
I have a Roger Fritz Bluesmaster - Serial number 9 - very nice axe
Thank you Roy Buchanan ! RIP in Tele Heaven .
Mi guitarrista preferido, una lastima que haya muerto cuando tenia tanto que dar...
The original “Nancy” Tele is till the best
You can have all the bells snd whistles
Got to see him live yrs ago at a local college…legend for sure
THE REAL MASTER OF THE CASTERS RIP ROY
Saw him live in Austin and San Antonio many years ago. Never heard another guitar player who was his equal. Not anyone.
Same here.
He loved to play in Austin and San Antonio.
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Ah, the uncomfortable when unscripted 80s. Roy was undoubtably one of the best guitarists to ever hold a tune.
hahahaha
Saw Roy at the El Mocambo in Toronto.
Got there early so front table leaning back with my boots on the stage.
It’s a shame the guitar never got marketed…as he died in 88….I believe while this was being worked on….That tele….was very cool …especially for that time..push pull pots out of phase …that transistor..treble sound like Nancy…his 53 tele
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A 13 Switch guitar. Talk about Super steroid Stratocaster guitar, A Stratocaster has 5 switches this has 13. And a Strat Pressence control as well for making Humbucker Sounds. Eric Ckaopton whos has used Telecasters all his life and changed to Stratocasters in 1973 has a Hybrid between a Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It can make perfect Humbucker sounds like a Les Paul. But the Stratocaster sound is bad. Not at all like a typical Stratocaster. Roy Changed to Stratocasters for 3 years in the late 70 ties early eighties so he surely knows what he is talking about when it comes to Stratocasters. The basic sound in the Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster is the Stratocaster sound. Roy was changing his sound. Both this guitar and Claptons has Humbucking function but the Roy Buchanan Bluesmaster has 13 switches compared to Claptons 5. So still after all these years this is a better guitar because you can hit any combination from the 3 singlecoils with this guitar. The Stratocaster cant. Far from it. When they tried to market this guitar they sent one to George Harrison. Feorge called Roger Fritz and was so happy. He said with this guitar I can get all Stratocaster sounds I want. George Harrisons favourite guitar from 1957 untill his Death was the Fender Stratocaster. He said I can get every Stratocaster sound available and I can also make it sound like a Gibson Les Paul. As I said the Fender Stratocaster was George Harrisons favourite guitar from 1957 untill he died. So he needed a Stratocaster guitar. The guitar George Harrison called " The worst guitar I have ever played" was the Fender Rosewood Telecaster. He used it for 2 weeks the least used Beatle guitar of them all. George gace away the guitar to Delany Bramlet the same year he got it in 1969. George Harrison was never again in his career seen with a Telecaster. Its really uggly what Olivia Harrison and Fender does now selling the guitar George Harrison called "the worst Guitar I have ever played " The Fender Rosewood Telecaster. George would be spinning in his grave. Olivia bought the guitar from Delany Bramlet 2 years after Georges death. And was theone guitar he really did not want to see again. But Olivia has done a lot of things against Georges will. George had promised to pay his older sister a pension of 2000 USD a month for the rest of his life. A month after Georges death Olivia stops the payments to Georges sister. And now 2 years after his death she asks Fender to produce what George Harrison called " The worst guitar he had ever played " The Fender Rosewood Telecaster, just to make money. I mean does she not have enough money allready ? Long before signature guitars was coming into action Fender asked George if he wanted a Fender Stratocaster Signature model. Now the Stratocaster was his favourite guitar and when he was asked about a signature Fender Stratocaster in 1974 he said no. George was very private with his guitars and did not even have a signature model of his favourite guitar. Off course they asked him every year after 1974 but he always turned them down. AWhen George died he owned 100 Fender Stratocasters. Now Fender produces Georges most famous Fender Stratocaster called Rocky and sells it for between 25 000 and 32 000 USD a guitar. Off course Olivia gets a lot of money from that too. But this was at least George Harrisons favourite guitar: The Fender Stratocaster. To sell the guitar he called " The worst guitar I have ever played" The Fender Rosewood Telecaster is just discusting. And as said George never played a Telecaster again in his whole career. That guitar only came to Beatles because Paul McCartney ordered it. Paul wanted a Telecaster sound on Let it be, the only album it was used on. George used it for 2 weeks and hated every second he had to play it. So George gacve away the guitar as quickly as he could. Abbey Road features George on his Fender Stratocaster Rocky, his Gibson Les Pauk Lucy and an Epiphone Casino. As said George tried to buy a Stratocaster in 1957, but there was not one Stratocaster in the whole of Liverpool. So he ended up with a Chech Stratocaster copy called Futurama. In Hamburg he got the chance to buy a Stratocaster and made the deal and told the seller he would pick it up the next day. But the guitarrist in Rory Storm and the Hurricanes got there earlier and bought the guitar. This scarred George for life who had spend hours every day painting pictures of his belowed Stratocaster in school instead of listening to the teacher. In December 1964 he finally gets his Fender Stratocaster. From there on almost everything recorded with the Beatles is on a Stratocaster by George. Off course in his solo career it was almost the only guitar he recorded with. Also the 2 Trawelling Willburys albums are recoreded with a Stratocaster from Georges part despite them posing with Gretsches. The reason George was not seen with a Stratocaster onstage with the Beatles was because Brian Epstein had been bribed by Fender and hated them for it. In the studio however George could use the Stratocaster as much as he wanted, and he certainly did.
Some quotes from George " If I´d had it my way the Stratocaster would have been my fisrt guitar"
" You cant beat the Stratocaster I dont care what anyoneone says"
And funilly before Beatles brooke through " We are stuck with these Gretsches and Rickenbackers if only we,d had Stratocasters we could have been real good"
i plated livestock last week,, it gets better with age.
He told Ronnie Hawkins that he was going turn into a werewolf one night and hell maybe he did.
How many Fritz brothers guitars exist…
Nice guitar. Anyone know if he played this much? I thought he was more at home with the standard butterscotch maple neck Tele, original wiring.
Like - you can overwork things.
Similar to fender american nashville deluxe telecaster
at 32:10 mark. Does anybody else hear the beginning of a 3 Doors Down song.
Good catch!
Seems like i read about some controversy surrounding his death in police custody?
It is generally believed that he was murdered in police custody. All the evidence points to that being the case, he simply wasn't suicidal. That is what I think, but ultimately we will never truly know what happened.
He was on angel dust...he ran into some clown at the local Applebee's who got him f*d up..they both went to Roy's but the wife kicked them out..was arrested later,on a crazy buzz..simple public intox..but he was whacked..hung himself in a fit,alone in his cell...
Conspiracy? No, just a Jekyll and Hyde episode,compounded with biblical guilt...
@@michaelmakes1225 Thanks. What a drag. Here's a great doc about him if u didnt see it already...ua-cam.com/video/nYEcQzcI-FA/v-deo.html
I loved his music,when he was on the club circuit,like this show here, he was comfortable..the biography of him( American Axe by Phil Carson) goes into detail of the destructive lifestyle that he led ,in spurts,back then....pop speed,chase with booze ,play the gig,party till dawn, wake up at suppertime and repeat...it was when I think he played the best,late 60's - 70's,... both ends burning.
@@michaelmakes1225 I heard he was beaten in a beer joint then was arrested
Playin' thru a Marshall?
Listen to hey Joe of Hendrix and then from Roy. Who plays better the guitar?
They have different strengths.
Is he dead?
is this individual famous? is he the same bloke what is on the led zep record?
Roy Buchanan was one of the finest guitar players to ever live!
The Stones begged him to join the band. He taught Robbie Robertson of The Band and Bob Dylan’s band how to play. He was a huge influence on Jeff Beck’s playing.
Jimi Hendrix was afraid to share the stage with him.
Eric Clapton flew across the Atlantic Ocean just to see him play in a bar in Maryland before Roy became famous.
Oh , and then there is a band called Pink Floyd. David Gilmore copied his style almost note for note. Listen to the album You’re Not Alone and tell me it doesn’t sound like Pink Floyd. One of my favorite tricks is to play it for people and ask them what PF album it is. They always think that it’s some obscure record and when I tell them it’s Roy I have to pick up their jaw from the floor.
. He is considered a musicians musician. Read the book American Axe. He is buried just a few hundred feet from my house
ua-cam.com/video/hMm0UJ1gkfg/v-deo.html
@Bingbing611 Merle Haggard plus original guitarist 🎸 on little Walter hey babe if I'm correct
@@Bingbing611 the stones story is absolute bullshit and was made up by roy and is probably the reason why keith, ronnie wood, and clapton pissed in roys beer at a Atlantic recording session. He was not a big influence on jeff beck although jeff did like him, as far as gilmour “copying” him thats a load of bullshit because they sound nothing alike and nothinf david has ever played sounds roy like and according to a interview roy did in the late 80s with steve newton roy played with pink floyd and had nothing but nice things to say about david and called him “a bluesman at heart”
as far as you’re not alone “sounding” like floyd it definitely doesnt, it sounds like roy trying to do something different with mixed results
phil carson’s book american axe is nothing more than roy worship, phil shits all over talented players but props roy up on a pedestal like he’s a god
@@knightfall9394 And after what you have said ..
He did with his instrument something.. Your legends guitarist dreamed of and couldn't do.
alcoholic
Your a BOZO!
DONT THROW ROCKS FROM A GLASS HOUSE CLOWN BOY!
Everyone has their struggles. No need to speak poorly of a dead man that had dependency issues.
And still the best guitarist!
What’s your point?
Yeah he could have been a full on alky and junky and still play better than u could even dream of.
At 32 minutes and 25 seconds I hear Phil keaggy