Roy Buchanan

[mikey4444]

Who remembers Roy Buchanan ?

Another hero from my youth that died far too young...only 51 !

By his own hand, if Wiki is to be trusted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcjPZgK9GM

[Captain2]

Funny you posted that Mikey. I was only thinking about him whilst looking at your 10YA thread. Yes he was one of my 'heroes'. This is his best I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=patqcHNXT6M

[mikey4444]

Thanks Captain....very memory stirring !

[tonyav]

I don't remember him, but he certainly could play though.

[mikey4444]

Thats the thing about Buchanan....not may people could remember him but he was a very well sort-after session musician. And gone from us much too soon.

Do you know that Hendricks was only 28 went left us ?

And Tim Hardin was only 41 ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uVcr7LIusc

[eanceoil]

I've never heard of him, maybe I should, captain's link has me singing in a patsy cline accent Sweet Dreams, I feel I should be down the grand ould opry this minute

Mikey, you say he certainly could play, would that be as good as or better that Hendrix.. I agree with you though, great music thread

[eanceoil]

I apologise Mikey, it was Tonyav I meant to address there, so Hendrix was not in the 27 club

[tonyav]

Hi eanceoil, I can only ever really think of Hendrix playing Hey Joe. Although it's good to hear a different version when it's done well.

[VHG]

Wow a name from the past.

I remember having an album or two of his many years ago (early 70s). I wonder what happened to them.

I seem to remember he was a lot like Eric Clapton when he began to release his solo albums, lots of slow bluesy ballads.

As you get older (I am now 66) you find the people you liked in the 1960s and 70s are all dead or dying off (sorry to get morbid).

Saw "Great Guitar riffs" on BBC4 last night and they had the Jimi Hendrix Experience in it and I found it sad to think all three of them are dead.

Is that the only group where all the members are dead?

[eanceoil]

It sure is Tonyav, it's a great rendition of Hey Joe

[mikey4444]

VHG...it is getting very late for me ( and if that is not a sign of increasing age, I don't know what is ! )

It was always said that the good die young and maybe that isn't so far from the truth.

One last post of the evening ::::: ( and its not Summertime ! )
( for a change ! )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5If816MhoU

[The Builder]

I like your style, Mikey. :o) Rossini one minute, then the great Roy Buchanan. I remember buying the album "Loading Zone" in the 70s.

This one's for Mr Lie-In-King as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skj60MoIlk8

[mikey4444]

Thanks Builder !

[andy-hughes]

I saw Roy Buchanan live in the early 80's in London, and went back stage to interview him, but he was too drunk to make any sense!

I interviewed him by phone a couple of weeks after, sober, and he was charming, and another guitar magazine contacted me and bought my interview, so it was a profitable conversation.

I was a massive fan, his music sends me straight back to 1977/78, one of the most intense and happy times of my life, when his first two albums were a permanent soundtrack.

I remember commiserating with Teddy Slatus (Filthy Teddy) about his sad and sudden loss, a great musician, and a flawed troubled man.

[mikey4444]

AH...I had forgotten your past as music journalist !

[andy-hughes]

mikey - //AH...I had forgotten your past as music journalist ! //

Indeed - it's my present too I am delighted to say!

[-Talbot-]

Not setting out to upset anyone but this type of music bores me to death.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Not setting out to upset anyone but this type of music bores me to death. //

No problem here - we all like different things, thank heavens.