Charlie Christian was one of TBone's friends and also invented licks and ways of playing against chords that everyone plays in our times as well.@@stevenkimsey7039
LOL , all these years I thought it was Greg speaking. 😄 Filmore East 1971 , best live show of all time for my dime. Ladies and gentlemen The Allman Bros!
"When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar I had to have one" -by B.B. King "All the things people see me do on stage I got from T-Bone Walker". - Chuck Berry "When T-Bone Walker came, I was into that. That was the sound I was looking for" - Albert King nothing more to say
Chuck Berry said Walker was huge influence.I'm sure Bo Diddly, Elvis, and Buddy Holly would second the notion that Walker was their dude.Again,we need show respect to the master's.Give it up to T-Bone Walker.
Chuck very often talked about his influences when interviewed. Aside from T-Bone Walker, Carl Hogan and Charlie Christian being his main guitar influences, he also often mentions Louis Jordan for his lyrics, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for the feeling in their vocals and their diction, and Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and all those big band guys for what he called their "tremendous beats". He also said Muddy Waters and Elmore James were some of his favorites as well. Direct quote: "That was the basis of my music, if you can call it my music, but there's nothing new under the sun." - Chuck Berry
I had the pleasure of seeing and hanging out with T-Bone late one rainy Sunday night in L.A. many years ago. He was the guest that night on the, "Johnny Otis Show." It was a dreary night with only a few people there. He put on a show as if there were a thousand people there. It was special indeed!
Unbelievable! You are sure? You are not dreaming or telling tales..? You must be old now.. If it is true then it is just fantastic!! What would I give for an evening like that!!!!!
I don't know what I want to comment on most - T-Bones truly great playing That mind blowing ES-5 The great back up band The really impressive camera work The beautiful lush black and white footage The sea of "whites only" faces in the audience or possibly the "sit on the couch and noodle" angle of guitar that T-Bone has perfected here. I love the whole thing.
Great comments Can I just say though that Norman Grannz was well-known for cancelling performances if they meant playing for segregated audiences what a champion of jazz music and racially integrated music Norman was
I played with tbone I was 18 a bass player I was playing with had a bro.that managed tbone band .they were in need of a lead git so my bassman got me the gig I played t.b.git.he showed me changes for songs stormy was a blast I will always remember that
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I thought "everybody copied Chuck Barry, then I found out about T Bone Walker" it would be interesting to know from who he took inspiration. What a legend this man is!
I'd heard about T-Bone Walker some years ago but never tried looking into his music. A couple of days ago I felt the urge to give *Classics In Jazz 1954* (his famous record) a shot. I instantly fell in love with him. I don't think I've ever heard anybody play like this apart from the guys who are inspired by T-Bone himself. This is the first time I've seen his performance. Let me tell you that holding a guitar the way T-Bone does is so uncomfortable but he'd obviously mastered it. Then he plays in a unique fashion, too. He's definitely one of the biggest revelations to me if not the biggest. 25th Aug '23
I couldn't help but notice that live, it seems BB's seemingly nervous facial twitches and blink/squinting eyes, are/were oddly extremely similar to Tbone's . I could see that being a viable tool on stage , a means of avoiding the blank stare, and showing that you're into 'it'.
I had the honor to sit-in with T-Bone when I was 15 years old in 1967. It was at a club in San Francisco in the Hunters Point District, Club Long Island. I learned a lot that night. "Talk to me, talk to me!" is what he told me when I took a solo. He told me that you always had to "say something" when you took a solo. To this day that stayed with me. What an experience.
I'm 30 and i like it too. T-Bone is the baddest dude that ever lived, playing such a big guitar in such a strange position with Dizzy Gillespie behind proves it. The guy was an influence on Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and BB King.
This video makes me love T-bone even more. The sparkle in his eyes when he is playing projects the joy in his heart and the love of his craft!!!! Top 10 guitarists of all time!!!
T-Bone had an amazing mastery of his craft. That guitar truly is just an extension of his soul. So smooth...cuts so deep...the sound both attacks and hugs you at the same time. Just....amazing. Thank you Mr. Walker. 👍
All these modern jazz musicians, mixed with T-Bone's earthy blues playing. Yet, it works because there is so much talent present ! The Blues and Jazz are brothers.
I once saw a Stevie Ray Vaughn interview where he literally confessed his love for T-Bone's playing. He had his guitar plugged & he played some of the sweetest T-Bone licks I ever heard. He said that he can't play T-Bones licks unless he sets guitar out flat like T-Bone. The position of the guitar seems essential here. I thank Stevie Ray for introducing me to T-Bone's music. It's a more sophisticated form of the blues. Like having a side dish of caviar with a slab of BBQ ribs - LOL!
if he indeed said it then there's no reason to use the term "literally"...seems to be a word that people very often use inappropriately these days...not sure how that got started...
This is a great jazz master's line up, Teddy Wilson played with Basie and Billie Holiday. Louie Bellson is a great drummer, notice the double bass drum that Ginger Baker and Keith Moon brought into rock. T-Bone Walker has some great albums, check out T-Bone blues with Barney Kessel on guitar with him, esp 2 Bones and a pick. This is jump blues at its best with a horn section to die for... it just doesn't get any better unless we go back to Goodman and Charlie Christian with those Basie alumni on the horns with Teddy on piano and Gene Krupa on the drum kit...
Agree. 'Modern' blues with all the shredding completely misses the point. It's like playing scales fast with no rhyme or reason. I love jazz and blues with soul but would sooner listen to Eddie Van Halen than Joe Bonamassa.
@@dantimber Bonamassa plays loud, and thats about it.. Robert Cray is the opposite, what touch... We need a new T-Bone ripping off those killer single note lines...
@@alanfranzen1029 I agree. There’s something missing with this crew. They lack authenticity, emotion. Nothing connects for me. Speed and volume are mistaken for talent. I’d suggest jazz/pop crossovers Gary Clark Jr and John Mayer are vastly more talented when playing blues. I’m not familiar with him but guitarist Chris Buck recently blew me away on TH-cam with ‘Dreams to Remember’. Every member of Spyra Gyra is in another class. There are others.
I remember Checking Him Out At Jeffty's Cocktail Lounge on Avalon and El Segundo Back in the Early 1960's. This is where I learned How To Do the Double Shuffle On Drums ... Brings Chills to Me "Harold Ray Brown
B.B. and Buddy directly credit TBone as the reason they picked up guitar. Chuck Berry made a career ripping TBone off. The list of what TBone did and gave to blues is endless.
T-Bone walker was one of the greats. Thanks for posting this. That's an all star line up behind him; some of the greatest names in jazz at that time and all time.
God Alnighty !, I did not know these Blues programs existed I am so very thankful somebody had the brains to record these Master artist of Blues and rhythm and blues jazz
..tears in my eyes....saw him Newcastle City Hall '67/68 ? He MC'd the show Jimmy Reed, Sonny n Brownie, Joe Williams etc. usual suspects...maybe Eddie Taylor with Jimmy....maybe Hooker, Curtis Jones etc......TB was immaculate in Tux......played some lovely piano .........never played guitar all night....This video shows me what I missed...but at least I saw him.....King of the 9th ! ....thanks..
Debatable. But there was a period between 1947 to 1955 or so, where practically every Blues guitarist who played in standard tuning wanted to sound like T-Bone on guitar... Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, B.B. King, Clarence Garlow, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Stick McGee, Goree Carter, Guitar Slim, were all T-Bone guitar-slingers in those days. T-Bone's licks even found their way onto the solos of the likes of Les Paul, Chet Atkins and others of that ilk. The mere fact that he is thee main influence on both Chuck Berry and B.B. King means he may be the most influential electric guitarist in history. If he's not, he's certainly WAY up there, matched or beaten only by people like Chuck, B.B., Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and that might be about it. Remember I'm talking about sheer influentiality, not just technical skill.
+GDTRFBBB And yet you can look at list after list of the "greatest guitarists" and T Bone isn't there! I just saw one that had David effin Bowie but not T Bone. What an overlooked talent.
I found out about T Bone from an article in Guitar Player magazine back in the 70s. Those top 10 lists can't be taken too seriously. But thanks to that article I found some really good music by T Bone.
This legend and Charlie Christian are the originals. The og's of rockabilly, rock and roll, blues rock fusion, and alternative. In some capacity or fashion, each and every player you enjoy listening to after these two legends, were influenced and you can hear it in the music.
Mr. T Bone Walker. Good, original, clean, non distorted, no gimmicks blues guitar only as it was meant to be. Note his guitar of choice: A Gibson ES 5 with three single coiled dog ear pickups. He's was before B.B. King and a major influence. He did more than his part to help tame mankind with is gift and talent and may GOD bless his legacy...
you're both exactly right. original clean blues/jazz guitar in an era when many RnB musicians crossed the imaginary lines between jazz and blues. T bone straddled that line perfectly with taste, those (for me) essential 7 9 chord extensions and enough straight forward down home blues feeling to not alienate less sophisticated audiences.
marktarmannpiano exactly.. those 7/9 chord extensions, on top of using diminished chords and other harmonies for 12 bar blues... for me that little bit of melodic complexity makes him my favorite, over the other guys.
CJ played a Trumpet mouthpiece solo which was something I was'nt expecting,...cool. I hear every guitar player from the 60's when I hear T-bone, Hendrix,Clapton, Green but the way he handles the instrument will always be unique.
+transtremm No it is not genius. I don't know what prompted Clark Terry to play only his mouthpiece but comes across as patronizing and condescending.(imho). Maybe he was trying to imitate a harmonica. His horn would've sounded so much better.
+transtremm I agree that it is pretty sweet. It is apparent he's trying to do a harmonica thing, I think it was pretty inventive, at least out of context.
Playing his mouthpiece was something Clark Terry did on occasion, and always to good effect. He was not the type of person to be patronizing and condescending in intention.
I remember actor Montgomery Clift in movie scene from "From Here to Eternity" playing mouthpiece in barracks beer bar. Probably done in the day more often than people realize.
TBone invented guitar riffs that virtually every blues, rock and jazz player uses whether they know it or not. Luv him!
I think Lonnie Johnson is not given enough credit.
@@peteyhop7589he really is the pioneer
@@peteyhop7589 Lonnie Johnson was 20 years ahead of T-Bone Walker !
Charlie Christian was one of TBone's friends and also invented licks and ways of playing against chords that everyone plays in our times as well.@@stevenkimsey7039
He certainly didn't invent them, but he definitely made many of Lonnie Johnson's riffs his own.
"We're gonna play this old Bobby Bland song...actually, its a T Bone Walker song". Duane Allman
. . . And all the YT musician's knew it!
Absolutely stormy Monday arrangement
LOL , all these years I thought it
was Greg speaking. 😄
Filmore East 1971 , best live
show of all time for my dime.
Ladies and gentlemen The Allman Bros!
One of the most influential guitarists ever! I’m fortunate to have seen him in Boulder, Colorado in 1972. 💙🎸
SAW HIM LIVE PGH 1976ish STANLEY THEATRE DOWNTOWN PGH
blues had a baby?
The man with a million dollar smile, voice and guitar skills.
"When I heard T-Bone Walker play the electric guitar I had to have one" -by B.B. King
"All the things people see me do on stage I got from T-Bone Walker". - Chuck Berry
"When T-Bone Walker came, I was into that. That was the sound I was looking for" - Albert King
nothing more to say
Chuck Berry said Walker was huge influence.I'm sure Bo Diddly, Elvis, and Buddy Holly would second the notion that Walker was their dude.Again,we need show respect to the master's.Give it up to T-Bone Walker.
Hard to believe that Chuck B. would be so generous praying and giving credit to someone else.
@@javiceres Nah, I heard Chuck Berry,say T- Bone Walker, Charlie Christian and Ray Charles as his Heroes.
Coury Landers That’s great to know
Chuck very often talked about his influences when interviewed. Aside from T-Bone Walker, Carl Hogan and Charlie Christian being his main guitar influences, he also often mentions Louis Jordan for his lyrics, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra for the feeling in their vocals and their diction, and Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and all those big band guys for what he called their "tremendous beats". He also said Muddy Waters and Elmore James were some of his favorites as well. Direct quote: "That was the basis of my music, if you can call it my music, but there's nothing new under the sun." - Chuck Berry
I had the pleasure of seeing and hanging out with T-Bone late one rainy Sunday night in L.A. many years ago. He was the guest that night on the, "Johnny Otis Show." It was a dreary night with only a few people there. He put on a show as if there were a thousand people there. It was special indeed!
Wow, I'll bet that night was not only interesting but also unforgettable!
Unbelievable! You are sure? You are not dreaming or telling tales..? You must be old now..
If it is true then it is just fantastic!! What would I give for an evening like that!!!!!
Loved the "Johnny Otis Show" - so cool music and conversations...
Everyone in ytube comments tells these kinda stories and I can't help but call bs
And then you woke up
Man T-Bone was way ahead of his time! That jazz-blues sound is delicious and sounds so damn good!
T-bone, t-crazy
I don't know what I want to comment on most -
T-Bones truly great playing
That mind blowing ES-5
The great back up band
The really impressive camera work
The beautiful lush black and white footage
The sea of "whites only" faces in the audience
or possibly the "sit on the couch and noodle" angle of guitar that T-Bone has perfected here.
I love the whole thing.
Great comments
Can I just say though that Norman Grannz was well-known for cancelling performances if they meant playing for segregated audiences
what a champion of jazz music and racially integrated music Norman was
Thanks Reacher for me explore Blues music again
I know, I thought that was phenomenal, putting the Blues singer in the "Reacher" series.
I played with tbone I was 18 a bass player I was playing with had a bro.that managed tbone band .they were in need of a lead git so my bassman got me the gig I played t.b.git.he showed me changes for songs stormy was a blast I will always remember that
Listening him play the guitar and sing the blues is a priviledge but being able to watch him is pure bliss....
That Gibson ES-5N and T-Bone's playing is absolutely amazing!
EDIT: This whole performance is just beautiful.
Goodness. His timing is utter perfection. The back phrasing, voicing and his raw soul vocal is MASTERFUL!
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He said it, "All Jazz comes from the blues!"
TerryO'Regan Yup, All jazz comes from the blues and with all due respect I would add... And all blues comes from the hurt of the heart.
@@bobdillaber1195 They both come from gospel believe it or not
@@jonnehayesjr.9299 We all stand on the shoulders of those who preceeded us.
@@bobdillaber1195 Well said.
He is without doubt one of the most underrated, unknown, and most important musicians of the modern world *
Unknown?
Hes been called one of the most important musicians of the 20th century
yes
Yes, t bone Walker si unknown and is the father of the electric blues
Super talented and very influential. If you play blues guitar, you play T-Bone Walker.
The charisma and soul in this performance brings me back time and time again
Mr. T Bone Walker, Rocked His Guitar
I'm 17 just enjoying the blues.
😂
😂😂
That’s good. It shows you have that you have good taste in music.
@@LoweringMyProfile I appreciate it.
Live long. I'm 69, been loving it since I was 14.
Of all the influences in my blues guitar "career" over the past 30 years, tbone is always the reference point.
I thought "everybody copied Chuck Barry, then I found out about T Bone Walker" it would be interesting to know from who he took inspiration. What a legend this man is!
I'd heard about T-Bone Walker some years ago but never tried looking into his music. A couple of days ago I felt the urge to give *Classics In Jazz 1954* (his famous record) a shot. I instantly fell in love with him. I don't think I've ever heard anybody play like this apart from the guys who are inspired by T-Bone himself.
This is the first time I've seen his performance. Let me tell you that holding a guitar the way T-Bone does is so uncomfortable but he'd obviously mastered it. Then he plays in a unique fashion, too. He's definitely one of the biggest revelations to me if not the biggest.
25th Aug '23
Imagine. When I woke up today, this is the 1st thing I listened to. What a great combo indeed. The Greatest.
I just love T Bones playing, and singing. He truly was a unique performer. His influence is still heard today.
This video is an absolute treasure! Those reserved Brits just got hit between eyes with raw American Blues by the master T-Bone Walker.
Man, B.B. King sure owes a great debt to T-Bone Walker. (As, to his credit, he has acknowledged many, many times throughout his decades-long career.)
I couldn't help but notice that live,
it seems BB's seemingly nervous
facial twitches and blink/squinting
eyes, are/were oddly extremely
similar to Tbone's . I could see that
being a viable tool on stage , a means
of avoiding the blank stare, and showing
that you're into 'it'.
I like how satchmo blows out his cheeks@@bikersoncall
I had the honor to sit-in with T-Bone when I was 15 years old in 1967. It was at a club in San Francisco in the Hunters Point District, Club Long Island. I learned a lot that night. "Talk to me, talk to me!" is what he told me when I took a solo. He told me that you always had to "say something" when you took a solo. To this day that stayed with me. What an experience.
I'm 30 and i like it too.
T-Bone is the baddest dude that ever lived, playing such a big guitar in such a strange position with Dizzy Gillespie behind proves it. The guy was an influence on Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and BB King.
"Woman, You Must Be Crazy" explains exactly my situation right now. I feel like it's the best blues song ever!
In the true blues community he is not unknown or underrated. He’s a pioneer of mixing blues and jazz. A super star
Now I see why B.B. spoke so highly of T-bone. Amazing.
The most important guitarist of the 20th Century, the creator of the modern guitar solo
along with Lonnie Johnson(b. 1899)
How about Charlie Christian?
Facts
Most of all ... he was the primary guitar influence for Chuck Berry ... and we all know where that went!
Hyperbol. Great, but the most important???
The father of electric blues. Clean, honest, and no distortion. I have been to the mountain top...
Just cant stop smileing wow no wonder Tbone was BB favorit !!!
this is what a real authentic world class musician sounds like, music that heals the soul fam 💯🙏🏼
There is no one like T-Bone Walker. No one...
This video makes me love T-bone even more. The sparkle in his eyes when he is playing projects the joy in his heart and the love of his craft!!!! Top 10 guitarists of all time!!!
Man he's just looks like he's having so much fun with his guitar... I guess that's how you make great music...
Very distinctive style. Been admiring it for decades. What a pioneer! How come there isn't more talk about him?
He's in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Black is why
Brian epstein not his promoter
t bone walker plays my fav guitar solos in this whole wide world
What artistry and showmanship! Half-a-century and LIVELY!
Your favorite guitar player’s favorite guitar player 😉👑👑✌🏽☝🏽♥️
This is talent and technology will never replace it
Truly one of the greatest guitar players in all of music history.
Proud Texas here; We have some of the best musicians ever!
True
T-Bone had an amazing mastery of his craft. That guitar truly is just an extension of his soul. So smooth...cuts so deep...the sound both attacks and hugs you at the same time. Just....amazing. Thank you Mr. Walker. 👍
TH-cam might just be the best thing about the interwebz.
All these modern jazz musicians, mixed with T-Bone's earthy blues playing. Yet, it works because there is so much talent present ! The Blues and Jazz are brothers.
Its not the genre thats important, its the talent of the musicians that counts
Greatness, pure and simple. Who cares who came before or after? T-Bone was an end in himself.
Where I'm from Calgary. This man is known and played every weekend. My radio station CKUA Play him all the time.
From right down the road from me in Linden Texas. Most people don’t know what an originator and influence he was on all who came along after him. 🎶
Me too Alton.... not too far anyway....
everything t bone does is in good taste. he's never showing off . this is what makes him so elegant.
This is such a wonderful clip of the mighty T Bone in action! Thank you so much for posting it!
The more I hear T-Bone Walker, the more I like him. Solid and beautiful music.
AND: what a great sound he’s getting out of that guitar . Beautiful tone . .
I once saw a Stevie Ray Vaughn interview where he literally confessed his love for T-Bone's playing. He had his guitar plugged & he played some of the sweetest T-Bone licks I ever heard. He said that he can't play T-Bones licks unless he sets guitar out flat like T-Bone. The position of the guitar seems essential here. I thank Stevie Ray for introducing me to T-Bone's music. It's a more sophisticated form of the blues. Like having a side dish of caviar with a slab of BBQ ribs - LOL!
if he indeed said it then there's no reason to use the term "literally"...seems to be a word that people very often use inappropriately these days...not sure how that got started...
@@EastmanD okay grandma
@@linda-g7x6e4 you're welcome grandson
Æll Yã cãts, Hê is The best, nex tô Robert Johnson, love watch Him play, jùs såyîn !😎🥚😎!
I totally agree with you.
What a fantastic talent a banger of a tune. I can feel that blues sweet sounds.
What a great video of an incredible performance
Playing with mouthpiece and HANDS! WOAH!!
So happy that so many of these great musicians found happiness in the U.K. Away from the racism and bigotry in the U.S., then and now!
Oh please.
Now? Prove it
So great and many more
Black people is the most faithful human being that I know of
very cool. I've been gigging in blues bands for decades. T-Bone has got what it takes!
This is a great jazz master's line up, Teddy Wilson played with Basie and Billie Holiday. Louie Bellson is a great drummer, notice the double bass drum that Ginger Baker and Keith Moon brought into rock. T-Bone Walker has some great albums, check out T-Bone blues with Barney Kessel on guitar with him, esp 2 Bones and a pick. This is jump blues at its best with a horn section to die for... it just doesn't get any better unless we go back to Goodman and Charlie Christian with those Basie alumni on the horns with Teddy on piano and Gene Krupa on the drum kit...
Thank you for sharing some history. Three Cheers for you, sir!
And Dizzy on trumpet
Agree. 'Modern' blues with all the shredding completely misses the point. It's like playing scales fast with no rhyme or reason. I love jazz and blues with soul but would sooner listen to Eddie Van Halen than Joe Bonamassa.
@@dantimber Bonamassa plays loud, and thats about it.. Robert Cray is the opposite, what touch... We need a new T-Bone ripping off those killer single note lines...
@@alanfranzen1029 I agree. There’s something missing with this crew. They lack authenticity, emotion. Nothing connects for me. Speed and volume are mistaken for talent.
I’d suggest jazz/pop crossovers Gary Clark Jr and John Mayer are vastly more talented when playing blues. I’m not familiar with him but guitarist Chris Buck recently blew me away on TH-cam with ‘Dreams to Remember’. Every member of Spyra Gyra is in another class. There are others.
It was Charlie and T Bone that brought the electric guitar into the world! One went down the jazzroad and one sang the blues!
I remember Checking Him Out At Jeffty's Cocktail Lounge on Avalon and El Segundo Back in the Early 1960's. This is where I learned How To Do the Double Shuffle On Drums ... Brings Chills to Me "Harold Ray Brown
Really
T bone Walker is simply the best!
a wonderful preformance.
thanks for posting this film clip.
Mr.T.Bone Walker, Godfather of the Blues, unforgotten, RIP, Sir..
I saw them in 1966 in Scheveningen, Kurhaus, Holland.
legendarisch
Hein Overbeek: Had to be a beautiful time.
Holy smokes! That was hot! That band is REDICULOUS! And T-bone looks like he's having a blast. Awesome post. Thank you!
This is not just fine music at work here. It’s a spiritual magic that is dancing through the cables and making its way through those amplifiers. 🔥
if you want to know where Chuck, Jimi, Keith, Eric and All that came after learned their chops from. look no further than T-Bone!
GDTRFBBB Stevie ray Vaughn as well!
B.B. and Buddy directly credit TBone as the reason they picked up guitar. Chuck Berry made a career ripping TBone off. The list of what TBone did and gave to blues is endless.
You are totally right
Yep. T-Bone is 'THE GUY".
@@johnnyford9074 Sister Rosetta Tharpe was playing rifts similar to Chuck Berry before he was discovered.
What a national treasure.
This man was a Master who became One with his guitar.
the best in blues to ever done it hands down bo
YES,THAT's the music ,the music of the heart
Thanks buddy
T-Bone, Master of the Electric Blues. He wrote the book on modern electric blues guitar. Great vocalist and showman as well.
Wow ! A blues great with so many jazz greats
T-Bone walker was one of the greats. Thanks for posting this. That's an all star line up behind him; some of the greatest names in jazz at that time and all time.
God Alnighty !, I did not know these Blues programs existed I am so very thankful somebody had the brains to record these Master artist of Blues and rhythm and blues jazz
Clark Terry plays with such a feeling of joy on everything! Killing!
A lot of people don't know just how brilliant he was. He was so in the pocket, it's nuts.
..tears in my eyes....saw him Newcastle City Hall '67/68 ? He MC'd the show Jimmy Reed, Sonny n Brownie, Joe Williams etc. usual suspects...maybe Eddie Taylor with Jimmy....maybe Hooker, Curtis Jones etc......TB was immaculate in Tux......played some lovely piano .........never played guitar all night....This video shows me what I missed...but at least I saw him.....King of the 9th ! ....thanks..
NOBODY gets it across like T-Bone. Thanks for making it available.
"here he is, one of the great blues singers . . . " Oh, and he also plays the guitar.
I thot that was funny too.
Well, he is a better singer
Debatable. But there was a period between 1947 to 1955 or so, where practically every Blues guitarist who played in standard tuning wanted to sound like T-Bone on guitar... Lowell Fulson, Pee Wee Crayton, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, B.B. King, Clarence Garlow, Pete "Guitar" Lewis, Stick McGee, Goree Carter, Guitar Slim, were all T-Bone guitar-slingers in those days. T-Bone's licks even found their way onto the solos of the likes of Les Paul, Chet Atkins and others of that ilk. The mere fact that he is thee main influence on both Chuck Berry and B.B. King means he may be the most influential electric guitarist in history. If he's not, he's certainly WAY up there, matched or beaten only by people like Chuck, B.B., Charlie Christian, Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Wes Montgomery, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and that might be about it. Remember I'm talking about sheer influentiality, not just technical skill.
@@TheHeater90 Lets add Goree Carter, magic decipl of Mr T
gitfiddlejimagain jimmy Nolen too
One of the greats! Certainly a top 10 of all time
+GDTRFBBB And yet you can look at list after list of the "greatest guitarists" and T Bone isn't there! I just saw one that had David effin Bowie but not T Bone. What an overlooked talent.
+Gf Black What list would that be not maybe Rolling Stone surely not Guitar Player
I found out about T Bone from an article in Guitar Player magazine back in the 70s. Those top 10 lists can't be taken too seriously. But thanks to that article I found some really good music by T Bone.
@@richluft194i like to read list to hear diff. Acts i may have missed
I was borned this year, so at least for that I should have a thumb up.
Thank you people, thank you.
"I'm in Love with a woman, but she's not in Love with me"... Mannnnnnn, look here...
mrmiles725 Nothing more true in this world than the blues
mrmiles725 preach!!!
@mmiles725.... "I'm in Love with a woman, but she's not in Love with me" - If that ain't the blues.... I cannot think what else there is. :-)
Ain't that some shit
Worst of feelings...
T bone walker playing blues with Diz, Clark Terry and Teddy Wilson....this is pretty much as good as it gets musically
Virtuosity (incl. improvisation), songwriting and voice; on each of these essential criteria for musicality T-Bone scores just about highest.
T-Bone was the first great showman. Gave the blues a whole new dimension....
Plant and Page in one man.
‘Lord have mercy’. RIP Mr Hopkins. You bring joy to my life every day.
I thought Jimi Hendrix was the most original guitarist of all time until I heard T-Bone Walker and Elmore James.
Robert Johnson
Hendrix is eh' T bone and Elmore had it!
Lightning Hopkins as well...
I can hang with you cause we're on the same page because I feel that exact same way!
Hendrix had great innovation with the guitar, but to me, the soul isn’t quite there like it is with the original guys
T-Bone, brilliant guitar player and blues singer extraordinary. Ain't too much more you can say.
This legend and Charlie Christian are the originals. The og's of rockabilly, rock and roll, blues rock fusion, and alternative. In some capacity or fashion, each and every player you enjoy listening to after these two legends, were influenced and you can hear it in the music.
He's one of the best blues men of all time!
They have a T- Bone Walker Festival here every year in East Texas.
Insane! A trumpet player, playing a mouthpiece. Now I've seen it all.
Mr. T Bone Walker. Good, original, clean, non distorted, no gimmicks blues guitar only as it was meant to be. Note his guitar of choice: A Gibson ES 5 with three single coiled dog ear pickups. He's was before B.B. King and a major influence. He did more than his part to help tame mankind with is gift and talent and may GOD bless his legacy...
1mespud T-bone was actually very jazzy at times for a bluesman. He had a good since of complex harmony again for a mainly blues oriented style.
What a lovely statement..... I agree!
you're both exactly right. original clean blues/jazz guitar in an era when many RnB musicians crossed the imaginary lines between jazz and blues.
T bone straddled that line perfectly with taste, those (for me) essential 7 9 chord extensions and enough straight forward down home blues feeling to not alienate less sophisticated audiences.
marktarmannpiano exactly.. those 7/9 chord extensions, on top of using diminished chords and other harmonies for 12 bar blues... for me that little bit of melodic complexity makes him my favorite, over the other guys.
I’m a bit late but absolutely correct
Blues is the heartbeat of America.
Sounds like a slogan fir a chevy ad
of United States****.
CJ played a Trumpet mouthpiece solo which was something I was'nt expecting,...cool. I hear every guitar player from the 60's when I hear T-bone, Hendrix,Clapton, Green but the way he handles the instrument will always be unique.
Clark Terry with just a mouthpiece??? Now that's musical genius.
+transtremm No it is not genius. I don't know what prompted Clark Terry to play only his mouthpiece but comes across as patronizing and condescending.(imho). Maybe he was trying to imitate a harmonica. His horn would've sounded so much better.
+transtremm I agree that it is pretty sweet. It is apparent he's trying to do a harmonica thing, I think it was pretty inventive, at least out of context.
Playing his mouthpiece was something Clark Terry did on occasion, and always to good effect. He was not the type of person to be patronizing and condescending in intention.
I remember actor Montgomery Clift in movie scene from "From Here to Eternity" playing mouthpiece in barracks beer bar. Probably done in the day more often than people realize.
That's Dizzy, not Clark Terry. Dizzy loved to clown!