I had seen him in concert but several years later I was walking through a hotel parking lot and saw his tour bus. He happened to be looking out of the window so I waved and he waved back, then held up his index finger as to say `wait a minute’. He came outside to say hello and visit. He was real personable and had charisma. That was a really cool experience that I won’t forget.
Lightfoot was a cad and a drinker. He made no secret of it. Listening to this once again I am reminded of Michael Caine's early movie "Alfie". Songs like this wouldn't get written today.
It is so cool to see and hear pre-“Outlaw” Waylon, although he was an “outlaw” from the get-go, in certain respects😂! Always did have that gorgeous voice, from the very beginning 😁🎸, and a Hell of a guitar-picker, too! Believe Gordon Lightfoot wrote “For Lovin’ Me” - love Gord’, too!❤ I live in Mesa, Arizona, and yesterday I visited Waylon 😁🤠🎸 - he’s buried only a mile from my home 😮! Lotta folks don’t know that’s where he was layed to rest. Beautiful flush granite marker (black, of course!), etched with a photo of him smiling and laughing 😄 - lovely spot on the hilltop that gives Mesa its name 🙂.
What I get from loving that voice is many hours of pure pleasure. After 21 years today without Waylon he is still my favorite singer. Nobody better has come along yet. Part of my every day!!
Well today, all you need is a guitar tuner, a microphone tuner, computer software to put your voice in tune because you couldn't carry a tune in a bucket if your life depended on it, a light show, pro-techniques, someone on the inside that will introduce you to Simon Cowell, because without his say so, you won't make it across the street by yourself, and then someone to write the songs for you...... So see, it ain't so hard to make it in country music today. I mean who needs talent anyway?
Back then a lot of country lovers thought Waylon was a worthless hack, talentless and a rock n' roll infiltrator who wanted to be Buddy Holly. He got beat up on pretty bad. Ironically, Johnny Cash had a lot to do with Jennings career and his being accepted as a star. He had a rep as a drug monster and freak. But, he showed them and eventually became a legend, one of the few in country music who is also respected by non-country fans as well.
Have you ever heard of Sturgill Simpson??. He's a newer country artist but he sounds like a mixture between Waylon and Chris Kristofferson. He's actually really good for newer country.
These old shows did not actually show the genuine guitar work of the musicians. But Waylon was a helluva guitar player. But more importantly- a beautiful spirit who truly loved so much music and so many people. He refused to be tied. And thank gawd for that. Thank somebody. Because he is a great spirit in the universe. Right now. This day still. He was bad-ass before it was hip. ......but aint he so lovely? Yeaaaa... bless. Peace. Right on.
Kinda the ultimate tele tone here. Can;t get past that even though it's a versatile instrument, it excels at this style like no other guitar. Especially with this person playing it.
I remember him saying in an interview that in these younger days he was trying to learn and improve on the guitar, then the outlaw thing took off and he focused on singing and producing. But even later in his career he still had some interesting and unique licks he would bust out.
He is the best music performer, recording artist of all-time...he bumped Elvis who was my former #1 and that is saying pretty much as one can say about an entertainer
man I always loved Waylon ever since my father introduced me to him on an album he had back in the early sixties. my God this was 1967 did Waylon ever change from 67 to 77 I saw him in Santa Barbara at the county Bowl with the Hell's Angels and all the drugs. he was a fuel genius on coke and pure talent
RIP Gordon Lightfoot..!!! So many artists of different genres covered Lightfoots music..Lightfoot recently passed away here In Canada..!! Two great artists..!!
That song is so mean! Gordon Lightfoot was quite talented in putting those words of a player on paper! 😄😄 Good cover from the legendary Waylon Jennings!
This is great. Imagine those that complained about some of the content of the 90s rap era and then hear Waylon talking about running thru 100 girls and he gonna run thru 1000 more, telling em they shoulda known better. Talk about conviction in his game😂What a playa
Waylon with a lean and clean telecaster, you knew it was his playing in seconds. He was one of the few guys that had a sound all their own. I'd say perhaps the other two players you could spot in seconds were Don Rich, also on a tele, and Luther perkins on as Esquire within the country field.
I think his oldest daughter had a long talk with him about how painful it was for her and her mother. It was written during his first marriage. The fact that he had problems with fidelity didn't help.
Great video!!! I didn't know Waylon had the Telecaster way back then, cool!! I tell people I know the story of Waylon playing Bass in Buddy Holly's band for the WDP Tour 1959, and the role FATE played in his life that February night oh so long ago, the day the music died.
Actually that’s impossible because there are only 86400 seconds in a day so therefore you could only had watched this 696 whole times and part of the rest which is .77419354838709677 of the 124 seconds of the video so therefore it is impossible for you to watch this 1 million times a day but if you did want to live up with your word you could watch it 1436 days and .7816091954023 of a 24 hour period and then you could say you watched the video a million times
I've never seen Waylon so young, and honestly expected his voice to be different. Higher, immature. Almost like the beard, hat and long hair were synonymous with his trademark vocal. This doesn't even look like the same man, but his voice has never changed. Amazing.
@@kadeberrier3799 Well yes, obviously. I knew of him from my father who was around the same age as Waylon and a fan. My dad told me how he was the DJ on Buddy Holly's tour that also would have ended his life if he had been on the plane as he was supposed to be with Holly and Valens etc. That was 1959. So I was well aware of him being around a long time before the music we tend to associate him with. My point, and what I wrote is, I had never actually SEEN footage of him so young, or heard his singing from this era of his career. I wasn't saying I was oblivious to its existence.
That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me Everything we had is gone, if you can't see That's what you get for lovin' me Don't you shed a tear for me I ain't the love you thought I'd be I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue I'll have a thousand before I'm through That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me Everything we had is gone, if you can't see That's what you get for lovin' me There you go, you're cryin' again You should have known how things would end But someday when your poor heart is on the mend I just might pass this way again That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me Everything we had is gone, if you can't see That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get for lovin' me That's what you get..
Having just listened to Kenny V with Otis Gibbs, I came to hear Waylon play guitar before his outlaw days. The difference is he was very good on guitar before he simply employed guitarists to do it on stage. Legend either way. 🙏
Waylon version got airplay on the 1960 East & West coast go-go-boot nightclubs with his Electronic pickin, which might easily follow a Monkees 'clarksville' song, whereas Gordon's version was Bible Belt South & Midwest contained.
I am not gay or anything, but I did not realize this guy had movie star good looks back in the day. Learning about how he was playing in those honky tonks, he must done alright
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I met Waylon backstage after one of his shows in the mid 80’s, and am here to testify... that man had charisma to spare!
I saw Waylon many times in concert, but never met him.
Wish I wuda had that chance to see him!
That's cool 🤘🏼🤘🏻
I met Sierra Hull in Portland Maine
She was amazing
I had seen him in concert but several years later I was walking through a hotel parking lot and saw his tour bus. He happened to be looking out of the window so I waved and he waved back, then held up his index finger as to say `wait a minute’. He came outside to say hello and visit. He was real personable and had charisma. That was a really cool experience that I won’t forget.
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A man, a voice and a guitar. This is really a performance that just doesn't exist anymore. You either had or you didn't. Waylon Jennings has it
The Clint Eastwood of country music!
close to!
I’m old enough to know that we kids didn’t know what we had for music 🎼 back then. The best and never to be replaced
RIP Gordon Lightfoot. Great tune and an amazing cover!
Lightfoot was a cad and a drinker. He made no secret of it. Listening to this once again I am reminded of Michael Caine's early movie "Alfie". Songs like this wouldn't get written today.
Waylon Jennings guitar riffs are so unique and so underrated
Great Lightfoot classic performed by another legend 🤠
Great cover of Gordon Lightfoot's masterpiece of song writing. We miss you both Gordon and Waylon.
I don’t know how many times I have watched this clip. Amazing singer. Amazing picker. Amazingly cool.
He makes it look so easy pickin that guitar and singing. He sure was a bad ass
Todd Johnson wow I hope you are kidding
He can barely play if u ask me i been sucking for twenty years so i know all about it lol this is gordon lighfoots song, always will be
@@imannonymous7707 Nobody did ask you.
As a guitar player, I understand what you’re saying and you’re absolutely right.
@@imannonymous7707 Your opinion sucks, too.
He was an honest singer. No gimmicks, just a good voice. And, of course, GORGEOUS.
Exactly. He was the full package, without really having to show off. He just was and that was enough. Rare talent
@@bsnf-5I agree he was the full package
Gorgeous man, wonderful song (written by Gordon Lightfoot), awesome lead guitar! And backing vocals, love them!
the man with the most captivating presence to ever hit the stage. the mold broke with him
Serial?
@@jimdonahue5187ciao Jim! 🙋♀️😍😘💘🍀
It is so cool to see and hear pre-“Outlaw” Waylon, although he was an “outlaw” from the get-go, in certain respects😂! Always did have that gorgeous voice, from the very beginning 😁🎸, and a Hell of a guitar-picker, too!
Believe Gordon Lightfoot wrote “For Lovin’ Me” - love Gord’, too!❤
I live in Mesa, Arizona, and yesterday I visited Waylon 😁🤠🎸 - he’s buried only a mile from my home 😮! Lotta folks don’t know that’s where he was layed to rest.
Beautiful flush granite marker (black, of course!), etched with a photo of him smiling and laughing 😄 - lovely spot on the hilltop that gives Mesa its name 🙂.
Nah, he was an outlaw/rebel his whole career even from the start
What I get from loving that voice is many hours of pure pleasure. After 21 years today without Waylon he is still my favorite singer. Nobody better has come along yet. Part of my every day!!
That was back when you had to have talent to make it in "country" music.
Rex Oates m
Lawdy he had talent
Well today, all you need is a guitar tuner, a microphone tuner, computer software to put your voice in tune because you couldn't carry a tune in a bucket if your life depended on it, a light show, pro-techniques, someone on the inside that will introduce you to Simon Cowell, because without his say so, you won't make it across the street by yourself, and then someone to write the songs for you...... So see, it ain't so hard to make it in country music today. I mean who needs talent anyway?
Back then a lot of country lovers thought Waylon was a worthless hack, talentless and a rock n' roll infiltrator who wanted to be Buddy Holly. He got beat up on pretty bad. Ironically, Johnny Cash had a lot to do with Jennings career and his being accepted as a star. He had a rep as a drug monster and freak. But, he showed them and eventually became a legend, one of the few in country music who is also respected by non-country fans as well.
Now it’s just edit, record, and a bunch of blobs crap
I can't get enough of Waylon and his band's performance.
The best
Awesome! Best version of this Lightfoot Classic. Hands down
Waylon is 30 years old here amazing guy!
Their will never be another Waylon Jennings
Absolutely there's only one Waylon ,Willie ,Merle and George
or cash
Fred White
Tommy Moon, there's Jackson, Strait and Williams !
Have you ever heard of Sturgill Simpson??. He's a newer country artist but he sounds like a mixture between Waylon and Chris Kristofferson. He's actually really good for newer country.
Boy, we sure were a thinner lot back in those days. I miss old country!
He was really good looking and talented! Don't you think?
He was so good looking as a young man!!
strawberryseason he wasnt good looking he was beautiful and sexy
I think he got better looking as he aged! Of course, I always liked long haired men!!
These old shows did not actually show the genuine guitar work of the musicians. But Waylon was a helluva guitar player. But more importantly- a beautiful spirit who truly loved so much music and so many people. He refused to be tied. And thank gawd for that. Thank somebody. Because he is a great spirit in the universe. Right now. This day still. He was bad-ass before it was hip. ......but aint he so lovely? Yeaaaa... bless. Peace. Right on.
Kinda the ultimate tele tone here. Can;t get past that even though it's a versatile instrument, it excels at this style like no other guitar. Especially with this person playing it.
I adore Gordon Lightfoot, but Waylon Jennings offers the definitive version of this tune. Deep masculine voice, pitiless, moving on without regret…
Amazing stuff, voice, guitar, looks, everything 😄
Waylon Jennings was a great country music singer. I would like to watch more dazzling videos of him like this.
I didn't realize how handsome he was back in the day. I only grew up with him looking long haired and scruffy. Don't matter, love him no matter what!
Yeah - he's only about 30 years old there! I loved the beard and long hair, though! Love him no matter what the look!
Loved his voice and bushy face when older.
Can we just take the time to acknowledge how fast that drummer is with his right hand on the hi-hat?!
Waylon Was Great Singer Love His Music
The crazy thing is that waylon never considered himself a guitar player I've enjoyed his playing many nights I'm doing a marathon of waylon
utube rabbit hole takes so much time
I remember him saying in an interview that in these younger days he was trying to learn and improve on the guitar, then the outlaw thing took off and he focused on singing and producing. But even later in his career he still had some interesting and unique licks he would bust out.
He sings this with a stone cold look. He is amazing here in this performance one of my favorites
WAYLON JENNINGS is the ROCK & KING of COUNTRY MUSIC. Never be another.
Amen to that..that was a prayer, right? Lol
He is the best music performer, recording artist of all-time...he bumped Elvis who was my former #1 and that is saying pretty much as one can say about an entertainer
Gotta love that twangy beast of a Tele and all the mojo.
The definitive cover of this terrific Lightfoot tune.
Waylon was cool as hell. His stuff has soul. 😍
man I always loved Waylon ever since my father introduced me to him on an album he had back in the early sixties. my God this was 1967 did Waylon ever change from 67 to 77 I saw him in Santa Barbara at the county Bowl with the Hell's Angels and all the drugs. he was a fuel genius on coke and pure talent
❤❤ Waylon Jennings’s & his fabulous band,pick it “ moon “ ❤❤
It would have been nice to see him keep this slim, clean cut look his whole career
RIP Gordon Lightfoot..!!! So many artists of different genres covered Lightfoots music..Lightfoot recently passed away here In Canada..!! Two great artists..!!
That song is so mean! Gordon Lightfoot was quite talented in putting those words of a player on paper! 😄😄 Good cover from the legendary Waylon Jennings!
Lucky you!
BOY‼️ Waylon sure was good looking and talented 👏🏻😻🥰‼️
Christ this is absolute perfection.
Waylon and the Waylors used to play at JD's in Phoenix Az.back in the day .
My favorite country singer....
I saw him early in his career at Symphony Hall. Yes, I always loved his music.
Much love for his songs, one of my favorite artist. Were are you texting from and how's the weather?
This is great. Imagine those that complained about some of the content of the 90s rap era and then hear Waylon talking about running thru 100 girls and he gonna run thru 1000 more, telling em they shoulda known better. Talk about conviction in his game😂What a playa
R. I. P.
WAYLON 🎸🇨🇱 JENNINGS
Ralph Mooney
Incredible talent. He sang lead and played lead guitar at the same time.👍👍
Men like him don't exist anymore they ran out of stock lol
@@leahflower9924 Agree.👍
Took him a long time to recover after Buddy Holly, but are we ever glad he did and left us with some great music, that never gets old.
Wish Waylon had not let his hair get like it was when he passed. Loved all his music.
I miss Waylon Jennings 🎸👍
Waylon with a lean and clean telecaster, you knew it was his playing in seconds. He was one of the few guys that had a sound all their own. I'd say perhaps the other two players you could spot in seconds were Don Rich, also on a tele, and Luther perkins on as Esquire within the country field.
My favorite singer of all time!!! Long live Waylon!!!
Drop dead handsome. He changed over the years but his voice was the same, unique, I love it.
This amazing song was written by Canadian Gordon lightfoot
Tru north strong n free , thank u autmn fall 1997, yer cool
It’s also a song Gord absolutely despises and is livid when he gets asked to play it lol
Iain Ronald really huh? I personaly think its one of his best songs :/
I think his oldest daughter had a long talk with him about how painful it was for her and her mother. It was written during his first marriage. The fact that he had problems with fidelity didn't help.
festival5920 Yes, he definitely prefers to steer away from the song. So many more works of art, to perform.
Great video!!! I didn't know Waylon had the Telecaster way back then, cool!! I tell people I know the story of Waylon playing Bass in Buddy Holly's band for the WDP Tour 1959, and the role FATE played in his life that February night oh so long ago, the day the music died.
AR John hug fg
Kade Berrier hi
This is The Real Country Music 🎶
That hair!
Hello super fan, were are you texting from and how's the weather
❤❤ Waylon Jennings, gone but not forgotton! we all love & miss you!! ❤❤
Barely looking at his guitar and slayed it.
Pra mim a melhor performance de waylon foi essa!😳✊🙊
I watch it a1,000,000 times a day
Actually that’s impossible because there are only 86400 seconds in a day so therefore you could only had watched this 696 whole times and part of the rest which is .77419354838709677 of the 124 seconds of the video so therefore it is impossible for you to watch this 1 million times a day but if you did want to live up with your word you could watch it 1436 days and .7816091954023 of a 24 hour period and then you could say you watched the video a million times
@@Dandymancan LMAO!!!
It’s just a saying
Lol
I saw him in concert! He didn't look like this video but his voice was vintage!
cool waylon guitar solo yeah!!
I've never seen Waylon so young, and honestly expected his voice to be different. Higher, immature. Almost like the beard, hat and long hair were synonymous with his trademark vocal.
This doesn't even look like the same man, but his voice has never changed.
Amazing.
You do realize he was singing since the 50s? Professionally in 1965. He had a whole cookie cutter career before the Outlaw bit
@@kadeberrier3799 Well yes, obviously.
I knew of him from my father who was around the same age as Waylon and a fan.
My dad told me how he was the DJ on Buddy Holly's tour that also would have ended his life if he had been on the plane as he was supposed to be with Holly and Valens etc. That was 1959.
So I was well aware of him being around a long time before the music we tend to associate him with.
My point, and what I wrote is, I had never actually SEEN footage of him so young, or heard his singing from this era of his career.
I wasn't saying I was oblivious to its existence.
Soooo good looking. ...
Hello Dawn how are you doing hopefully you are doing good??
Damn I miss his voice.
Yeah much love for him, were are you texting from and how's the weather like over there
Hello Cindy how are you doing hopefully you are doing good??
A good model sound for today's guitar players. He looks like James Bond in those days, very cool style.
He was so handsome
a super reverb with a 15" JBL put in it.
@@leahflower9924 yeah...i hate him 😀
@@georgeworthmore ciao George! 🙋♀️😍😘💘🍀
I love the guitar strap in this video. I only seen this one a few times in videos before he went to the one he used the rest of his career.
I had no idea he was so purty....
Hello Melissa how are you doing hopefully you are doing good??
That's what you get for lovin' me
That's what you get for lovin' me
Everything we had is gone, if you can't see
That's what you get for lovin' me
Don't you shed a tear for me
I ain't the love you thought I'd be
I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue
I'll have a thousand before I'm through
That's what you get for lovin' me
That's what you get for lovin' me
Everything we had is gone, if you can't see
That's what you get for lovin' me
There you go, you're cryin' again
You should have known how things would end
But someday when your poor heart is on the mend
I just might pass this way again
That's what you get for lovin' me
That's what you get for lovin' me
Everything we had is gone, if you can't see
That's what you get for lovin' me
That's what you get for lovin' me
That's what you get..
How did Waylon do it? He just showed up and had his own sound, which was about as cool as a sound could ever get.
Waylon was the one who came up with what is called Chickin Pickin. Hitting the lead string more than once. FANTASTIC!!!
No way. You obviously don't know the history of picking.
goatstaog 2 words chet atkins !
merle travis @@MrFrankeesh
James Burton did.
Cool Tele...great Lightfoot song and that twang is phenomenal.....
What a handsome man he was!!!!
And shaved and with a clean haircut.
I like him more like that . /CD
@@corneliadenninger5395 dude, you're everywhere
Love the guitars.
Even though he was a hellraiser he's always been my perfect man. Trouble and all.
Reminds me of an earlier Chris Stapleton. The Singer, the Songwriter, the Guitarist, All in One.
RIP Gordon Lightfoot. Best cover of one of his songs
Goodness, love that pickin' and the song too!!
love it hasn't changed
Love him, what a voice
Miss you hoss
Having just listened to Kenny V with Otis Gibbs, I came to hear Waylon play guitar before his outlaw days. The difference is he was very good on guitar before he simply employed guitarists to do it on stage. Legend either way. 🙏
True legend my first live!
His Handsome, Brown Eyed Man could sing about a phone book and make it a hit~!!!
Hello Evelyn how are you doing hopefully you are doing good??
AWESOME!
Wow he was handsome back then!
Wasn't he!
Waylon version got airplay on the 1960 East & West coast go-go-boot nightclubs with his Electronic pickin, which might easily follow a Monkees 'clarksville' song, whereas Gordon's version was Bible Belt South & Midwest contained.
I am not gay or anything, but I did not realize this guy had movie star good looks back in the day. Learning about how he was playing in those honky tonks, he must done alright
Shows off his guitar playing too.
very handsome guy with talent.
Hello Lynn how are you doing hopefully you are doing good??
Looking at him here you still see the outlaw in him👍
great song .mental revenge is a great one too.thanks for posting
This is off his Leavin' Town album from 1966 I think it was his second album from RCA
this one is my favorite
Brilliant - and a great version from Elvis too 👍🏼
I'm glad my grandfather showed my father waylon and my father showed me waylon and not this new pop country thats god awful
Awesome!
One of my all time favorites!