Nice one, subby. Some of the best footage available of one of the best players ever.

nice, and he is so young-looking here

That was coooooool.

Huh- so good it left me speechless LOL

One of the few true masters left ... nice one subby.

*wipes a blues tear*

i love buddy guy.

love this song for how down and dirty it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRpS2vq1lM&feature=PlayList&p=FD33DBA1632FCDB6 &p laynext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2 (new window)

I got something on my shoulder just waiting for you baby...

his solos scare and fascinate me. awesome tone.

I'm not your buddy, guy.

CarnySaur: I'm not your buddy, guy.

Dammit, if only I'd thought of that 7 min earlier and not just right now.

Nice song and some great shots of Chicago. Looked like lots of Black P Stones in the area.

So on Fark blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion. I am not saying Buddy is without emotion or technical skill, infact I love his playing, I just wish that emotion in guitar playing could be recognized when it is in some other form.

Stunning. One of the greats, for sure.

If you want down and dirty Chicago blues, this is as down & dirty as it gets:


/hot like the music.

One of the greatest blues albums ever, IMO. Hounddog Taylor had an extra finger on his fretting hand, and one night after a gig, he got liquored up & sliced it off with a straight-razor in the alley behind the bar.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: So on Fark blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion. I am not saying Buddy is without emotion or technical skill, infact I love his playing, I just wish that emotion in guitar playing could be recognized when it is in some other form.

wtf is wrong with you?

Buddy was here at Summerfest on Tuesday on farking tore it up!


And Hounddog Taylor is fine, fine fine.

qsblues: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: So on Fark blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion. I am not saying Buddy is without emotion or technical skill, infact I love his playing, I just wish that emotion in guitar playing could be recognized when it is in some other form.

wtf is wrong with you?

wtf is wrong with you? I though I made a clear point, is there a specific place where I lost you? I will try to explain it to you using small words and more pictures if you would like.

when i saw the sad tag, i thought crap! first koko now buddy

R.I.P
FUNNY GUY

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: wtf is wrong with you? I though I made a clear point, is there a specific place where I lost you?

need moar comma:

"So on Fark, blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion."

Took me a while to figure out what you were trying to say as well.

Love Mr. Buddy. Seen him many times - always a good show.

On a semi-related note, I got to see Junior Wells play this one time in NYC. Before he went on, I was in line for the bathroom and Junior was passing by. The guy in line in front of me pulls a joint out of his pocket, shows it to Junior and asks, "hey, wanna go somewhere and smoke this?" Junior looks at him, takes the joint, puts it in his shirt pocket, says, "yea man, thanks," and walks away! The guy just sood there, dumbfounded. I guess he should have been more clear about smoking it WITH him.

End of story.

Saw Buddy Guy last week in Atlanta. AWESOME show.

mediaho: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: wtf is wrong with you? I though I made a clear point, is there a specific place where I lost you?

need moar comma:

"So on Fark, blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion."

Took me a while to figure out what you were trying to say as well.

Ok I will restate. On fark the only "good" guitar playing, or emotional guitar playing is Blues playing. If someone post a guitarist based video that is not playing blues music he is considered a wanker, guitar masturbator, robotic and without emotion. I am of the opinion that guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

Unless you are Eddie Van Halen, in which case you are a soulless hack who ushered in an era of masturbatory noodling.

As long as we agree that BH31N0US: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

Unless you are Eddie Van Halen, in which case you are a soulless hack who ushered in an era of masturbatory noodling.

I will agree with you. Not all fast playing has soul and emotion, but neither does all blues playing.
/vinnie moore
//joe satriani

///

I was kidding. I like EVH. Little Dreamer was one of the songs that inspired me to pick up the guitar many moons ago. That and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime:

"So on Fark blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion."

How 'bout: Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Leo Kottke, Wes Montgomery, Brent Mason, Danny Gatton, Ry Cooder, Tom Verlaine...

Just a few off the top of my head who aren't blues guitarists, and even the most tone-deaf musically ignorant moron can't honestly say any of those guys are emotionless guitar wankers.

But I don't think I'd worry about it much. Just listen to what you like. That's what I do.

Good stuff... I just wish somebody had tuned his guitar before they recorded.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: mediaho: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: wtf is wrong with you? I though I made a clear point, is there a specific place where I lost you?

need moar comma:

"So on Fark, blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion."

Took me a while to figure out what you were trying to say as well.

Ok I will restate. On fark the only "good" guitar playing, or emotional guitar playing is Blues playing. If someone post a guitarist based video that is not playing blues music he is considered a wanker, guitar masturbator, robotic and without emotion. I am of the opinion that guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

I don't agree with your characterization of Fark's opinions relating to the blues. Usually when a blues guy comes up people say things like:

1. All twelve bar blues sound the same
2. I am unimpressed by twelve bar blues, call me when he is playing some free jazz or composing classical music
3. Eric Clapton is overrated
4. Pentatonic scales are for ninnies.
5. Come on anyone can play that.

and so on. Just wait, you'll see them in no time. I do agree when a "shredder" is posted people will say that it isn't soulful, that the guy is just playing scales, that it is pure technique and not art, etc.

The trick is to only post clips of Hendrix. No one has anything bad to say about Hendrix.

jhva3 hendrix is no clapton, I will say that. I don't know if that is for sure a bad thing, but it is the truth.

clapton > hendrix

I loves me some Buddy.

12 bar blues gets monotonous, I prefer more complexity in my listening experience. Incidentally, Eric Clapton, while one of the greats, is overrated. The Pentatonic scale is too limiting; I mean what if Beethoven only used the black keys? Anyone can do it.

Eric Clapton has been a huge vortex of suck since his son died.

I saw Buddy Guy open for BB King last Feb.
BB was great but Buddy was better.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: Not all fast playing has soul and emotion, but neither does all blues playing.
/vinnie moore
//joe satriani

///most late era clapton

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: If someone post a guitarist based video that is not playing blues music he is considered a wanker, guitar masturbator, robotic and without emotion. I am of the opinion that guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

H31N0US: Unless you are Eddie Van Halen, in which case you are a soulless hack who ushered in an era of masturbatory noodling.

i cant believe it but i agree with all of this.

i do not however agree with what i guess was a pic of buckethead to illustrate an emotional fast guy. that dude is the epitome of emotionless wanking, sorry. hes got great technique, but theres a 100 dudes that are way more technical AND not awkward and terrible when improvising.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: clapton > hendrix

ok, now the gay buckethead worship is making sense.

H31N0US: 12 bar blues gets monotonous, I prefer more complexity in my listening experience. Incidentally, Eric Clapton, while one of the greats, is overrated. The Pentatonic scale is too limiting; I mean what if Beethoven only used the black keys? Anyone can do it.

anyone can use pentatonic scales like shawn lane or john coltrane? i know that was a troll, but some morons are going to think thats true.

Muta: BB was great but Buddy was better.

bb king has never been good at anything aside from selling nice guitars.

GibbyTheMole: kungfu jesus with a side of lime:

"So on Fark blues guitar is worshiped as being soulful but anything else is horrible and without emotion."

How 'bout: Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Leo Kottke, Wes Montgomery, Brent Mason, Danny Gatton, Ry Cooder, Tom Verlaine...

Just a few off the top of my head who aren't blues guitarists, and even the most tone-deaf musically ignorant moron can't honestly say any of those guys are emotionless guitar wankers.

But I don't think I'd worry about it much. Just listen to what you like. That's what I do.

Bingo. The cream of the crop of guitar slingers will be obvious without question. Often people may not understand why it's greatness, but they'll sort of look off into space and admit they don't know enough or follow guitar deeply enough to appreciate it in all its glory. I say this having seen Leo live, Eric Johnson, and may still get a chance to catch Junior Brown or Stanley Jordan, the guitar is farking nuts when it comes to diversity.

Some of the most beautiful and technical stuff I've ever heard is the great Segovia playing Bach Etudes and recording outside at his home, with birds chirping in the background.

/Wasn't Ry Cooder playing the lead-up solos for Ralphy in THE REAL fictional movie called Crossroads before Vai got the crescendo stuff?
//Maybe a 10th percentile guitarist, but super admirer of those in the top 1 percent
///Can argue any guitarist is better than another because I can constantly shift the criteria, and I'm an argumentative type

mahavishnunj: kungfu jesus with a side of lime: If someone post a guitarist based video that is not playing blues music he is considered a wanker, guitar masturbator, robotic and without emotion. I am of the opinion that guitar playing can have considerable feel and emotion played at any speed or style.

H31N0US: Unless you are Eddie Van Halen, in which case you are a soulless hack who ushered in an era of masturbatory noodling.

i cant believe it but i agree with all of this.

i do not however agree with what i guess was a pic of buckethead to illustrate an emotional fast guy. that dude is the epitome of emotionless wanking, sorry. hes got great technique, but theres a 100 dudes that are way more technical AND not awkward and terrible when improvising.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime: clapton > hendrix

ok, now the gay buckethead worship is making sense.

H31N0US: 12 bar blues gets monotonous, I prefer more complexity in my listening experience. Incidentally, Eric Clapton, while one of the greats, is overrated. The Pentatonic scale is too limiting; I mean what if Beethoven only used the black keys? Anyone can do it.

anyone can use pentatonic scales like shawn lane or john coltrane? i know that was a troll, but some morons are going to think thats true.

Muta: BB was great but Buddy was better.

bb king has never been good at anything aside from selling nice guitars.

I assume you have never heard the album electric tears, colma or populations override then have you. Please listen to those and tell me he has no emotion. Yes there are aspects to his playing that are overly technical and shredding to the max, but he is a complex player with a wide range of styles and skills. There is some amazing music created by buckethead, you just need to listen to it. Also beauty and sadness is not the only emotion to be expressed through guitar playing. Buckethead plays and creates feelings of terror panic, rage, insanity, joy, and sorrow.

Don't argue with the troll. He is a Bumblefoot fanboy who has an unnatural hatred of Buckethead. Apparently believes that there can be only one guitarist with a ridiculous name starting with the letter B. Funny thing is that he was praising the guitar solos on Chinese Democracy until he found out that most of it was Buckethead. He couldn't even tell the difference.

H31N0US: I was kidding. I like EVH. Little Dreamer was one of the songs that inspired me to pick up the guitar many moons ago. That and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

The guitar part in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played by Eric Clapton. It does not surprise me that the only Beatles tune I actually like isn't exactly a Beatles tune.

sp0rk_of_psychosis: and may still get a chance to catch Junior Brown

Definitely go see Junior Brown - he's great live. He's got such a unique style (c'mon, a guit-steel!) and he plays blues, surf and country... But I'm sure you know all this if you've heard of him.

H31N0US: 12 bar blues gets monotonous, I prefer more complexity in my listening experience. Incidentally, Eric Clapton, while one of the greats, is overrated. The Pentatonic scale is too limiting; I mean what if Beethoven only used the black keys? Anyone can do it.

The good stuff runs from Charlie Patton through Muddy Waters.

The revivalists from the 60s on who play the old stuff are good, and I include Clapton in that.

BB King is a hack.

SRV is the last great guitarist, and he took the modern style as far as it can go.

BB King is a hack.

You, sir, have ears of tin.

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BB seems like a pleasant enough person, and I don't dislike him, but he's way too pacific a personality and way too pro forma.

Give Fred a whirl:

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OgreMagi: The guitar part in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played by Eric Clapton.

I know. George Harrison's wife was also played by Eric Clapton.

josch: sp0rk_of_psychosis: and may still get a chance to catch Junior Brown

Definitely go see Junior Brown - he's great live. He's got such a unique style (c'mon, a guit-steel!) and he plays blues, surf and country... But I'm sure you know all this if you've heard of him.

Yah my Pops & Ma got to see him and were totally in awe of his lightning fast motions in order to perform with both. A very fond memory is watching his Austin City Limits performance with my Dad back when I was still a metalhead/Ywngie cultist. It was by far one of the greatest speechless bonding moments in our music relationship.

/never will be as good as him on guitar
//just got a Hagstrom jazz box used and so so so excited I can barely touch it...just staring at it...sort of like at my Pa's Super V (Five)...the guitar and I were brought into this world in the same year no less

Subby is emo for using the Sad tag.