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Post subject: Roy Buchanan
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:54 am
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man i was on you tube last night watching some old Gatton and Roy Buchanan stuff and i foud this live version of Roy doing Foxy Lady!! Man it was awesome. He is so underrated. THe guy got some much sound with a tele and an amp. Not that i think every artist should have his own sig. model but i think he should!!! He was just amazing


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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:06 am
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Since he is widely considered to be one of the greatest guitar players of the electric era, I don't know who might be underrating him. :D


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Gravity Jim wrote:
Since he is widely considered to be one of the greatest guitar players of the electric era, I don't know who might be underrating him. :D


When the general public Talks about great guitarists he is not one that many people know or think of. Go ask ask 100 people to list the 5 greatest guitarist ever i you know that he wont be one of them. like Gatton, we musicians strive to be as great as they are, but out side of the musuic community they are aften forgotten, unlike Clapton, Hendrix SRv and others like that!!


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Try to hunt down his earliest albums. Then get the rest.

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I remember Roy Buchanan from the 70`s. If I`m not mistaken he was pretty good with the slide.


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There are many great guitar players that most people haven't heard of. Even here you almost never see the names Steve Howe, Brian May, Leslie West, Al DiMeola, Pat Metheny......the list can go on and on.

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A buddy of mine was one Roy's producers, Tom Zito. He let me play one of Roy's teles that he had given to Tom. Not a bad axe, but I couldn't do it justice. Roy played that pure, simple, unadorned, intense clean style that has been so overshadowed by all the machine gun, zillion-notes-per-nanosecond John Mayer-types. Sometimes a whole style dies with the player. Nobody plays like that anymore.


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JPD wrote:
If I`m not mistaken he was pretty good with the slide.


If I remember correctly he started out playing pedal steel which would explain that.


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I saw Roy twice "live" and regret that I never got to see Danny "live." One of the forum members, Tele295, maintains a great Gatton site. 8)

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BOth those guys are just so mind boggling. Htere is a video on you tube of Vince Gill aldert lee and Danny Gatton doing one way rider, and man gatton smoked lee and gill. Lee's tone with that muscin man was just so 80's sounding and gatton had that great fender tone we all love!!


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Gatton is one of the great mysteries. A true genius with the guitar, and gets almost no cred today, perhaps because of his early demise at his own hands. Curious and appalling that both guys committed suicide.

I think what also holds Gatton back is that he was basically a country picker, and that limited his pop/mass market appeal. Irony was he could play blues and pop better than 99.999% of all the blues and pop superstars. But his basic rhythm conception and sound was pop country, and never the twains shall meet. He wouldn't tour, and that killed his career since in those days touring was critical.

Buchanan's alcoholism and depressive bouts held him back from career success and public acceptance, plus he didn't have much of a singing voice and was no John Mayer pretty boy to say the least.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On5372UztI0

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gatton falls into that genuis/insanity catagory. i think it drove him to his death


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Yeah, most if not all genius or near-genius people I've met had serious emotional problems. Goes with the territory. There's an upside to being an idiot.


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