Hardtail 70's strat here !

@@BenPrevo Certainly He's played many Strats, But Telle'e Are his THING. This Pic, Show's him playing an Esquire. & a Rare one @ That ! a 52' or 53 "White Blond". Very few made. I've NEVER seen him play this before.

I agree!

Danny Gatton??

@@stoofbuis they were roommates

I seen him in auckland new zealand .. months before his untimely death (murder ) ... so sad ... he was my god when i was a teenager ... many a longvhot day drinking cold ales rocking to roy .. rory .. trower ... etc ... roy was my favourite sunny day beer garden music ...

He wasn’t just playing notes. He could touch the soul to the core. Joe Walsh and Gary Moore are the only ones who could come close.

I can believe it!

Not the same number in the room but definitely the same result

The greatest fingers to guitar to amp player in electric guitar history.( No pedals or effects)

AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VERY proud,I would suggest

Rory Gallagher also and he too turned down The Stones.

And Jeff wouldn't go tour with Mick Jagger.

Have you heard Rory Gallagher? Just curious

@@theherbpuffer For me, it is these 3, or maybe 4 if you include Joe himself. Roy, Jimi, and Rory.

Gary Moore is my favourite. But really all names mentioned here are number one in my eyes. Really can’t pick one.

Roy is my favorite ona...

I'm a Hendrix and Gatton man my self.

I've definitely seen him pick a guitar pretty damn fast

The guitar player’s guitar player. My favorite

Best guitar players are best beacuse they can do more with few notes than someone with 10000, that is beauty of blues.

I reckon Roy could shred and probably would have kept up with some of the younguns had he not left us all so soon! My favourite player and outside of guitarists, criminally underrated.

yea Roy and Rory in a class of their own.

They toured together quite a bit.

No one can be better than Roy, only just as good.

A music critic once wrote that Roy Buchanan " used barbed wire as guitar strings and strummed them with an ice pick!" I saw him live and he could make you shiver with one song and make his guitar cry with the next. He is missed.

Yes sir. Roy: he was, is and will be one of the greatest blues guitarists.... "from another league" his art !!!

Thanks God .. and thanks roy ... thanks for many a happy afternoon drinking beers getting stoned in the sun with good company listening to ROY rock in thebackground ... 45yrs of roy ...

And so do we still .... earth lost badly when roy passed ... even angels cried .... i did ...

There has always has been. Just not enough people realize it.

He is definitely great at what he does but too say best in the world that is a very bold statement I do not agree many many incredible players around the world Ray is great no doubt

I agree! Both Hey Joe and Down by the River and now this! Roy takes all three classics and crushes it!

Roy Is in my top 5 but Rory Gallagher takes the cake for me

I like to think of it as interpretation rather than a cover.

you lucky dog.

WaveRyeDer99 Saw Roy in Austin in the mid 80s. My ears rang for 3 days. Incredible guitar player!

best comments ever man!!

Check out the "Train Blues" video..pulls all the stops!

Also so him in at the Stanley in Pittsburgh, I was 16 and 2nd row seats, few knew who he was, a vietnam vet friend of mine turned me on to him and I snatched 3 tickets up at the local head shop (they used to allow those back in the day in Wheeling). He drove me and my buddy to Pittsburgh. LOL. So thankful.

You're dedication to seeing Roy play is admirable. You obviously know good music. Roy was a one of a kind guitar player. My favorite for his unique style, chops and soul, may he RIP.

+316SILENTDEATH so send me one ? haha

I think i have a copy of that vinyl, yours if you want it!

I have one.....yes he is missed.

I have one too, love Roy

RICHARD ROGERS so true. Was fortunate to see him in Davenport, IA at the RKO/Adler in '77

Right. Old school. YES

They scream for mercy!

@@johnlast7528 The speaker baffle is a total Masochist

Tubes rule!

To this day Roy is one of my favorite guitar players and a downright blues legend. Saw him perform many times back in the 70's. Throw in Jimi and Tommy Emmanuel and you've got some "rare guitar genius" to talk about.

guided his hands ?? snap out of it !!!!

BlackLocustMusic - Yeah...."guided his hands...." -- the complete quote would be "as if Jimi himself guided his hands..." which means he didn't -- it just sounded that way. Clarified enough? It's just like when a writer writes something profound and can't explain how they were influenced to write it, and were never able to duplicate it again. Bob Dylan said he couldn't explain how he wrote many of his early songs because whoever influenced his writing in that way doesn't now. Many writers and creative people believe their work is guided by unseen influences. It's not spiritual if that's your objection. But, Roy certainly sounded closer to the real Hendrix that night than anyone ever did. Snap out of it? Try writing & capitalizing in complete sentences and maybe someone will take you seriously. Over-reaction to simple, unoffensive words doesn't show much depth.

Ya know what's more adept and sexxxxier than a voice paired with those hands not auto-tuned???????? Nothing.

John LaStrada Jimi wasn't much of a singer neither .

This really is an outstanding performance.

Johnny Winters Fast Life Rider is another one that surprised me since he's not known to use pedals either. Neither player needed em but it gives them a little more versatility

I was there so glad I got to see him. He was the best,the show was great and he didn't use ten square feet of stage but he was electrifying.

Well stuck me fumped. I thought he was from Virginia.

@@marksatterfield3100 well I didn't say he was born there ..he just lived there with both his mom n dad ..and not sure of the years he lived there either probably late teens early 20s...there's a video of it

was there with ya bro ... auckland townhall .. maybe a sundaynight ... remember it like yesterday ... was in my mid 20s and had beena fan since listening to my older sisters records whenwas about 13 ... now im 60 odd but Roy brings back so many memories ... huge part of the soundtrack to my life ... a true humble troubled man with God given talent .. totally mindblowing ... never get sick of listening to Roy ... heres to Roy at the Auckland Town Hall .... we were lucky to see him...

He played a hardtail strat at this gig, there’s pics of him with it while heaven kneing down amd adjusting the fender fuzz wah you hear

I saw Bugs, Rory, and Roy, all separately but at the same venue ( Texas Opry House, Houston) around the same time. I knew I was lucky then , but had no idea how lucky it would turn out to be

Thanks for the tip. I liked your comment at the top, it took the words right out of my mind.

Listening to the live versions that Joe Walsh played in the last decades, with changes of harmony and long instrumental sections, I totally agree.

Martin VINCENT Did you listen to this?

From the '50's through the 70's LeRoy Buchanan did not use any pedals whatsoever, just a tele through a vibrolux and his fingers, all twenty of them. Pedals came later after he became famous and grew tired of getting mugged after shows as degenerates tried, unsuccessfully, to steal Nancy, but failed. Pedals were a way of getting sounds he couldn't get, tones that weren't there, in newer guitars.