The best part of roy Clark was how he could entertain the audience with dances , goofy looks and big smiles while playing so fast and very accurately. Me and my grandmother watched his shows until she passed away a few years ago and it was a awesome way to spend my day after work.
He also put in Tiny Tim and Jean-Jaques Perrey among other older artists (JJP i believe actually personally wrote songs for the show for a couple episodes)
I thought it was one of those things akin to where people clap after a band member finishes a solo in a jazz tune. If that’s the case, the clap timing was pretty good. Perhaps, they waited a bit after the shredding to see if he was done or not and happened to start clapping during the repetitive triads.
@ Mark Nardone makes a good point. Clark also starts imitating a banjo or ukulele here (apt for a ragtime tune), so the audience could be clapping for that as well.
Agreed!!! Huge huge guitar talent. I don't even like the crap he plays however I can appreciate his prowess with his instrument. Bloody amazing. And yes, sadly I had heard that he had passed. RIP Roy.
1k people are afraid to look dumb by asking wtf this comment means ...what the holy Samuel langhorn hell does plankton have to do with country guitar ?
@@Swybryd-Nation bro it's from the Emmy winning critically acclaimed film festival of legendary legitimacy how could you not have possibly have not known?
The country musicians of the 1950s were stunningly proficient on their instruments, especially guitarists and steel players. Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jimmy Day ( steel) early rockabilly guys (the Burnette - Gene Vincent's Blue Caps) and many of Nashville's studio players could also do some mind blowing stuff. But they were largely forgotten by the mid 1960s. By then young people were more impressed by Clapton, Beck and Page. It took until the 1980s and the rockabilly revival for popular music listeners to dig out these recordings and start appreciating those guys again. Thankfully there's lots of film and TV kinescope-video recordings like this one to show us how remarkable the musicians of the 20th century actually were. So thank you for posting this bit with the great Roy Clark!
You know what made the big difference? Their stage presence, long hair and hippie clothing of the 'guitar gods'. That whole package won them as much popularity as their music in the 1960s.
well said, there's more emotion in this youtube clip than the entirety of the first led zeppelin album if were being honest. The deeper you go the more you realize how what you thought was hard is easy and what you thought was easy is superhuman impossible. But if you want to impress a girl just play 3 chords
@@silva777It was marketing. Labels put millions into virtual unknowns in those days...guys who never even played a show and who had zero fans could get multimillion dollar record deals as late as the 2000s. Labels were highly influential over the music press. Guaranteed the press kits for guys like Clapton made reference to his "guitar God" acclaim among listeners....they may have even been the ones who started & perpetuated such myths.
Roy was indeed a wizard on guitar, banjo, mandolin & fiddle (also played piano & drums). Clark was the Top of the Top!! BTW, mentioning 50's legends / rockabilly guitarists, we can't leave out Eddie Cochran. Eddie had it all: great guitarist, songwriter, session player, producer AND good looks. For a guy who was killed when he was only 21 yrs old when he died (car crash in England w/Gene Vincent as a passenger), Eddie put out some memorable songs. His songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else" left a ever-lasting legacy on R&R.
No only was he an amazing player, you can tell he was having a good time...that's when music was fun, everyone takes themself way too seriously now, which is ironic considering music has lost much of its cultural relevence
He was a Showman!! A true entertainer, highest output for his audience, because he loved them and they loved him. A charisma matched by few (in any) in the instrumental world.
He probably WAS having as much fun. When you practice hard and have something to show for it, it's a pleasure to put it on display. He also composed all the variations of this song.
Imagine how many amazing musicians were to be found in every home because you had to make your own music if you wanted to listen to any music, not so long ago.
@@davecarsley8773 back in 58 I used to go to my Buddy's house inBlackheath London.He was always in his bedroom practising guitar ( no internet no videos only records to listen and practise to .He was 15 then and destined to be admired and play all over the world .This Roy Clark speed playing reminds me of him .He is now 75 .His name. Albert Lee.
@@strategygaming5830 exactly I hate it when people say talent instead of skill and experience. It undermines the practice, dedication, and choices that brought them their standing as a Guitar musician
What? "Ever"?..there are 10 year olds that could use this song to warm up. Lmfao. This lick for a guy like SRV would like us playing abc's. Clark couldn't even touch a teenager like Max Ostro. You sir are out of touch and probably 70 years old.
@@eabnamoliben1598 Yup. But let's face it, there are many great guitarists out there. The OP said "one of the best", not "the" best. Stevie Ray V, Alex Lifeson (so under-rated), Joe Bonamassa, Eddie V., The Nuge, etc..... Lots and lots more and much depends on your taste. Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell were so fast and crazy good.
Bud Roy Clark is one of the greatest guitarists of all-time... Being able to tap and use all these fancy techniques doesnt make you good.. Look at Guthrie Govan for example. The guy struggles mightily in jazz quartets. It is just as much about feel, soul and groove as it is about technical skill. Roy was elite in all areas of music back then, even classical. He did it all.
@@tyson9419 Jimmy Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen were asked what it was like to be the greatest guitarist of all time and they both said; "Go ask Roy Clark"!!!
On a guitar with no reverb, no sustain, no edge or distortion. THAT'S talent developed to the extreme. Ladies and Gentlemen...the incomparable Roy Clark.
I think everyone can probably recognise this as brilliant, but not many just how brilliant it actually is. The accuracy required with that clean tone at that speed is off the scale. And tap-dancing! Impossible
Supposedly, when asked in interviews "What's it like to be 'The World's Greatest Guitarist'?", both Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen answered: "You need to ask Roy Clark that question."
I saw a video of a flamenco piece he did. He started at the level of an amazing creshendo, so I was thinking he's boxed himself in, nowhere to go ftom there. Then, he went beyond.
@@patrickdoring7149 yea I seen it while I was lookin him up on TH-cam, another good performance, but that one on the dark stage with the spotlight was the one I saw first and it blew me away lol
Saw Roy in concert years ago. He was the opening act. He came out and said, "Well, they put the worst acts on first, so here I am," then proceeded to blow the roof off the place with his guitar picking and grinning.
Russell Garr I saw him during this time frame, before Hee-Haw. I was 12 and knew he was a dandy even then. First time I fell in love with music and musicians. Yesterday might be over now but I feel it still.
How the BLANK could Roy Clark EVER be an opening act for ANYONE??? He WAS the concert!!! RIP my friend I and everyone else in this world will miss you... THE GREATEST...
My Dad was a big Chet fan and had a Chet Atkins Gretsch Tennessean. Watching him play, I see the Chet influence in his playing. Absolutely marvellous clip, thank you!
@Midnight Toker absolutely every chance. Literally you can go back to the old school greek philosphers from 2000 years ago and even they complained about how "my generation is so much better than this lame upcoming generation"
@@TotinosOtherBoy I've read somewhere that around when paper was widely used. Old guys were like "Smh, this generation really has gone downhill. We wrote and read in slates using chalk. And now they use paper, kids nowadays with their dustless pens."
I remember watching Hee Haw as a kid and thinking he was just a funny guy, then he started pickin' on a flat top Martin and was BLOWN AWAY! Roy Clark and Randy Rhoads were honestly why I started playing.
I just love Roy Clark, besides his absolutely astonishing guitar playing abilities, he is one of the funniest people ever. So modest about his playing and all of the pained expressions while pretending he can just barely pull it off; I can’t help but smile when watching him. 😃😍
0:30, this man is sweeping. I honestly don't understand why this guy isn't talked about the way everyone does Hendrix, Les Paul or someone like that. Extremely ahead of his time, super versatile, freakishly technical especially for the era..... The man was a master.
@@RetroPlus : he played during the same era as Elvis, the Beatles, Hendrix, Glen Campbell, and lots of others. Millions of music fans young and old still listen to him. Just because you aren’t familiar with him doesn’t mean lots of more tuned in people aren’t.
Been heavy into guitar for 20 years,today is the first time I’ve ever heard of this guy. I’m pissed that people knew about this dude and never told me.
Watch "Hee Haw" reruns on "The Circle" tv network. I don't know where you live but you can see it for free over the air in most larger cities. I think it's also on sattelite tv. He was one of the stars of that show.
Bone Jenga well someone has to make those coffees and gamers can make up to 6 figures. I’m sure if there were still a plethora of farming jobs, for decent pay, many young people would love to work hard in the outdoors. How about we just stop shitting on our fellow workers.
@Bone Jenga God, you're really pathetic, aren't you? Treating others like garbage to further prove how masculine and manly you are is the saddest thing ever.
Roy was sweep picking in this. I never noticed before but it's in there. He can make most "guitar heroes" blush. Roy isnt using any overdrive or tone effects whatsoever. That nothing but the tone in his hands. He sounds awesome, puts on a show and looks like he's having the most fun in the room. What an underrated pioneer of shred.
That's not what's happening here at all though. He's doing all kinds of creative stuff with dead notes, slides, and even percussive elements you couldn't do nearly the same way on an acoustic
@boulderguy888 why? Sure I didn't mean it could be done on an acoustic. I just feel that early electrics were approached more like acoustics than they are today. Or than electric guitars are today.
@@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams Well at that time they were referred to mostly as twangers/electric twangers in the south. And played in that same picked blues fashion. My guess, and this is just a guess, but my guess would be that guitars started to be played more in the modern fashion when pre-amps, leads and sustains were invented. Also as much as I hate to invoke his name because he's a sick individual, Phil Spector had a huge impact on how modern music would sound for decades.
Yeah, and that is why Hendrix is considered the milestone in electric guitar. Hendrix made the whole signal chain as his instrument with all the distortion, fuzz, delay and sweep filters he had. Prior to that, as we can see from this video, there were some insanely good players. So he broke (afaik, unless there isn't an underground here I don't know of) this convention and paved the path of electric guitar sound we know of today.
I have always thought Roy Clark to be among the premier guitarists who has ever lived. I remember sitting around the TV with mom and dad watching Hee Haw and being amazed by the talent.
He's the greatest of all-time. He could do it all without any pedals whatsoever. Clean, quick, articulate and expressive playing. Nobody is even close.
Not only was he a true guitar god, he was a god on anything with strings, AND, he had a comedic presentation like no other. Rest in peace Roy, you are a hero to many.
He is AMAZING! He is funny, giving so much attention to his audience on and off camera. Amazing talented guitarist, singer, and actor. He could play anything with strings. I wouldn't be surprised if he could make rubberbands sing. He is the grand daddy of the guitar, banjo, and fiddle! He lived a good long life, and his talent will live on through film and music recordings, but he will surly be missed by many. RIP. Mr. Roy Clark. God Bless you for bringing your talent to many. Your music will be a joy for people to listen to for generations to come.
@@k0vae Ouch cmon bro that hurts :D Ofc I know what a stank face is, but considering this guy put _tap dancing_ in his song and the audience laughed at it, and considering all of the over-the-top tricks he's pulling off on his instrument... I'd say it's pretty safe to say that he's doing those faces on purpose.
I was never big on country music, but I grew up during that time when "Hee Haw", "The Glen Campbell Show", "Bonanza", and other western-themed TV shows dominated the air waves. That being said, Roy Clark was the most technically skilled guitarist I'd ever seen. He could play anything from country to classical and all you could do was sit and listen in amazement. Thank you, TH-cam, for providing us the opportunity to witness true genius and the result of hard work in action.
I remember seeing Roy Clark on TV in the 60s and early 70s. He was always displaying his wicked chops and smiling while doing it. He was always such a wonderful presence. Thank you so much for the memories, Mr. Clark. R.I.P.
@@wjtr._03 lol, that's the last thing he would have. He could play several instruments and was the cohost on the comedy show HeeHaw which lasted several years, probably before your time
This dude is absolutely amazing but, those faces he keeps making are killing me. They perfectly fit with whatever note or riff he’s playing in the moment and I am here for it.
Except, Eddie didn't invent tapping. He did popularize it to a newer generation, though. Roy Smeck was earlier (1930s or 1940s;) dunno if he invented it, though. th-cam.com/video/DR3tGulLv88/w-d-xo.html
@@101Volts Right - I was joking about Roy Clark grinning because he did sweeping and tapping way befoe Yngwie or Eddie, and played about as fast as Shawn Lane, but on acoustic instruments. The guy was truly one of a kind. I also heard that Chet Atkins was the first to use tapping.. we may never know. :)
I love hardcore and punk, smooth jazz, native Indian flute music and thrash and on and on.... Roy is definitely one of the best of all time on the guitar and as a musician.
When electric guitar was in its childhood, along comes Roy Clark who’s able to push any electric made to the very edge of its performance envelope. One of the 1st electric guitar heroes!
Effortless sweep picking decades before anyone else was doing it in the mainstream. Full chordings with the thumb like Hendrix would popularize, a downpicking technique that would make Hetfield blush, at a speed and clarity most people couldn't get out of 20 years of playing and thousands of dollars of equipment. Dude is easily one of the greatest musicians ever.
Roy was truly a master of guitar ! And banjo , mandolin, acoustic guitar to name a few others . I remember his TV shows and could hardly wait to watch he play . This was before he was on hee haw .
This guy had such a successful career as a singer that a lot of folks have no idea what an amazing instrumentalist he was. Not only guitar, but fiddle, banjo, mandolin.
hands down greatest guitarist ever because he not only was an amazing guitarist who could play anything but he had the gift of being truly entertaining with his stage presence and charisma and the fact that you can hear and feel every ounce of his soul when he was playing..he had some serious mojo and you cant even really compare roy clark with any modern day virtuoso because of that mojo..he was an amazing human being that gave his entire soul to playing music for the people of the world and making people smile..his milestones and accolades and shear number of performances absolutely puts him number 1 in my book..if there were to be a number one of course..we all know that is subjective...no doubt one of the greatest human beings to ever live.
As a huge Iron Maiden fan, I have to say he is beyond metal: no distortion, no mistakes. I bet that if somebody could re-amp this performance, even Mr Malmsteen would recognize that.
This is a shredder before there were shredders. He's doing sweeps in the fifties. Crazy.
nameless76 mozwhaz Fender Jaguars were invented in ‘62, so this is not the fifties.
Check out some Django Reinhardt!
@@BenjaminLongman That guy was insane, shredding with 3 fingers.. In-fucking-sane
Imagine putting a distortion / fuzz on his playing
nameless76 mozwhaz Chet Atkins
His facial expressions are the perfect show of whatever sound he’s making on the guitar
Call being a genius man
Well he has to focus somehow.
@@Cricketmane it’s all in the muscle memory
@@brodiewaldrop5364 Not what I meant. But, yeah.
@@Cricketmane I know I wasn’t mentioning anything about what you meant
The best part of roy Clark was how he could entertain the audience with dances , goofy looks and big smiles while playing so fast and very accurately. Me and my grandmother watched his shows until she passed away a few years ago and it was a awesome way to spend my day after work.
I used to watch this show with my grandpa till he passed in '77 ....
@@colinstanhouse6663 it's some of the best memories a person can ask for
@@platinumgnome3887
I couldnt have said it better myself!
God bless !
Man....
A lot of those faces are from concentration
Do y'all realize how lucky we are to have TH-cam to keep all this great music available?
truly a very very special thing.
It's the reason I bought a PC back in 1990......that and crazy good porn.
@@Averageskill Uh
@@Averageskill average coomer shitpost
@@AverageskillExcept You tube started 15 years later
Roy Clark:I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet
*but your kids are gonna love it*
Nice. Top 10 quality comment right there.
I know what that’s from
Noice
Truly underrated comment
Marvin Berry
Grandkids more like 😂
This song: *exists*
Stephen Hillenburg: Oh yeah, this one is the one.
Underrated comment lmfao
Just a genius
He also put in Tiny Tim and Jean-Jaques Perrey among other older artists (JJP i believe actually personally wrote songs for the show for a couple episodes)
@@TheRyanH. Also had Pantera make a custom track for an episode. Dude's musical tastes had no limit.
Jeremy Richardson Prehinbernation
My dad was born in 1912. Ragtime music was still very popular through the Roaring 20s. 12th Street Rag was his favorite song. Good stuff.
I can't believe that people who were born before the 1960s exist; even my dad was born in 1964. I always see him as a really old guy.
@@HoldshortN9LOL your dad’s only 59-60. That is not really old. These days you see people working well into their 70s and some even longer than that
Wake up lots of people before the 60s exist....@@HoldshortN9
he was born when the ship sank 😨
You must be in your mid 80s..
Roy Clark: *Insane shredding*
Audience:
Roy Clark: *plays triads high up the neck*
Audience: *Cheers and claps*
They were probably in awe during it and couldn’t clap
I thought it was one of those things akin to where people clap after a band member finishes a solo in a jazz tune. If that’s the case, the clap timing was pretty good. Perhaps, they waited a bit after the shredding to see if he was done or not and happened to start clapping during the repetitive triads.
@ Mark Nardone makes a good point. Clark also starts imitating a banjo or ukulele here (apt for a ragtime tune), so the audience could be clapping for that as well.
They probably clapped when they were told to.
lol
This man was so underrated by people who were into rock bands. He had talent.
Still has talent
@@ielzinnit he's dead
Agreed!!! Huge huge guitar talent. I don't even like the crap he plays however I can appreciate his prowess with his instrument. Bloody amazing. And yes, sadly I had heard that he had passed. RIP Roy.
Notice he didn't have all the processing and distortion pedals to hide behind imprecise playing. I never sound as good clean as when I use processors.
@@donitsi6095 so?
Imagine this mans potential if he was around 40 years later with distortion pedals and the inventiveness of tapping
there were distortion pedals at this time, but I hear you. Roy was far ahead of his time.
1:25 dude is tapping right there
Yurr Whatchamacallit kinda sorta
He's a big reason why we have what we have today, so don't feel too disappointed about it.
Ya no
Because of his humor and comedic talent, his superhuman guitar playing was severely overlooked 😊
Well put! Folks did not understand that the comedic value and musicianship were two separate avenues. Not only a brilliant musician but humble too.
Same as tenacious D. Everyone knows they’re good, like people knew Roy Clark was, but they underestimate their skill because they’re goofy.
@@humantacos9800 fat, comedic, and over the top-in a good way. Yeah and not so good looking. Kind of like our single uncles growing up. LOL.
I've never known a single person that underestimated Roy Clark's playing@@humantacos9800
Overlooked by whom? Idiots that don't know shite? Surprised you didn't say "underrated 😂
Ahhh my favorite genre: Spongecore 🤘
This. Was... perfect 👏
U verbalize what we all thought.
You have my respect and laughter!
Seldom does a comment make me audibly laugh out of nowhere. Bravo 😂
🤣🤣🤣 Nailed it 💪🏽
Pure clean shred. What a phenomenal guitar player !
Yeah man, this was humbling. He is pretending to have difficulty.
Gotta raise that action up or have tight strings to really get down like this and I'm starting to think my economy picking is bullshit.
Fuck him !! He's bullshit, he doesn't "look" for the notes like Jimi Hendrix !!
-Ritchie Blackmore
John god dam!
Him vs Les Paul (The guitarist not the guitar)
He's entertaining public while plankton is trying to steal the formula.
1k people are afraid to look dumb by asking wtf this comment means ...what the holy Samuel langhorn hell does plankton have to do with country guitar ?
@@Swybryd-Nation bro it's from the Emmy winning critically acclaimed film festival of legendary legitimacy how could you not have possibly have not known?
@@Swybryd-Nation Country... that's cute🤣
@@Swybryd-Nation lost ;D
@ (☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ Believe it or not, there are some people over 70 watching this. Can't say I know if Marshall's over 70, though.
The country musicians of the 1950s were stunningly proficient on their instruments, especially guitarists and steel players. Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Jimmy Day ( steel) early rockabilly guys (the Burnette - Gene Vincent's Blue Caps) and many of Nashville's studio players could also do some mind blowing stuff. But they were largely forgotten by the mid 1960s. By then young people were more impressed by Clapton, Beck and Page. It took until the 1980s and the rockabilly revival for popular music listeners to dig out these recordings and start appreciating those guys again. Thankfully there's lots of film and TV kinescope-video recordings like this one to show us how remarkable the musicians of the 20th century actually were. So thank you for posting this bit with the great Roy Clark!
You know what made the big difference? Their stage presence, long hair and hippie clothing of the 'guitar gods'. That whole package won them as much popularity as their music in the 1960s.
Jethro Burns!
well said, there's more emotion in this youtube clip than the entirety of the first led zeppelin album if were being honest. The deeper you go the more you realize how what you thought was hard is easy and what you thought was easy is superhuman impossible. But if you want to impress a girl just play 3 chords
@@silva777It was marketing. Labels put millions into virtual unknowns in those days...guys who never even played a show and who had zero fans could get multimillion dollar record deals as late as the 2000s.
Labels were highly influential over the music press. Guaranteed the press kits for guys like Clapton made reference to his "guitar God" acclaim among listeners....they may have even been the ones who started & perpetuated such myths.
Roy was indeed a wizard on guitar, banjo, mandolin & fiddle (also played piano & drums). Clark was the Top of the Top!! BTW, mentioning 50's legends / rockabilly guitarists, we can't leave out Eddie Cochran. Eddie had it all: great guitarist, songwriter, session player, producer AND good looks. For a guy who was killed when he was only 21 yrs old when he died (car crash in England w/Gene Vincent as a passenger), Eddie put out some memorable songs. His songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else" left a ever-lasting legacy on R&R.
Did he pick every single note? No hammer-ons? No pull-offs? Guitarists will appreciate how absolutely epic (and exhausting) that is.
My hands won’t work after that
No only was he an amazing player, you can tell he was having a good time...that's when music was fun, everyone takes themself way too seriously now, which is ironic considering music has lost much of its cultural relevence
@@jasondorsey7110
There were always people that took music too seriously and there will always be people who know how to have fun.
That’s how I play… on guitar hero 😅
Flat picking at its best.
Producer: "How fast can you play?"
Roy: "Yes..."
Fast enough that the frame rate at the end of the song doesn’t pick up the motion.
The original downpicker
I'm the thousand like
@@GamerDuCaos 👍
If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly
Aside from being an unbelievable guitarist, Roy always looked like he was having as much fun as his audiences. An incredibly talented musician!
He was a Showman!! A true entertainer, highest output for his audience, because he loved them and they loved him. A charisma matched by few (in any) in the instrumental world.
ok paul
The playing reminded me of Les Paul (except for the dancing).
BizarreBirch8 G2 Never disrespect Paul Simmons, that’s Mr Simmons to you
He probably WAS having as much fun. When you practice hard and have something to show for it, it's a pleasure to put it on display. He also composed all the variations of this song.
TH-cam was made for preserving greatness and humor, free speech, and love.
This is fucking gold, and Roy Clark is what they call “OG”
Imagine being this good at guitar in an era where rock guitar was still a novelty and you couldn't search up guitar heroes on the internet.
Don't have to imagine it. I lived it. People learning guitar have no idea how lucky they are to have the internet.
Those guys were doing this stuff behind closed doors at late night jam sessions to amuse each other.
Imagine how many amazing musicians were to be found in every home because you had to make your own music if you wanted to listen to any music, not so long ago.
@@davecarsley8773 back in 58 I used to go to my Buddy's house inBlackheath London.He was always in his bedroom practising guitar ( no internet no videos only records to listen and practise to .He was 15 then and destined to be admired and play all over the world .This Roy Clark speed playing reminds me of him .He is now 75 .His name.
Albert Lee.
At agec15 Albert could play Jerry Lee lewisstuff on the piano before he could play guitar.So if it's in you ,then you are born lucky.
0.75x
Emmet Em spomgbob
That’s what I was thinking too lol
Anjay bg Em sampe sini 😂🙏
It now sounds like spongebob
@@rzzr4k707 Indonesia bukan?
no fx, no delay, no distortion, no sustainer, no tricks...pure talent...
pure skill you mean. He wasn't born this way he worked until there wasn't a string he couldn't play.
@@strategygaming5830 exactly I hate it when people say talent instead of skill and experience. It undermines the practice, dedication, and choices that brought them their standing as a Guitar musician
@@Overrated7901 I absolutely agree. While roy has the talent which led him to guitar his skill is what people are impressed by.
Facts man Roy was talented as hell with that skill and just pure class on the guitar
Those things you mentioned don’t add to skill or talent.
Roy was hands down one of the best guitarists ever.
What? "Ever"?..there are 10 year olds that could use this song to warm up. Lmfao. This lick for a guy like SRV would like us playing abc's.
Clark couldn't even touch a teenager like Max Ostro. You sir are out of touch and probably 70 years old.
Him and Glen Campbell. Crazy good.
Jerry Reed too.
I beg to differ-Joe satriani
@@eabnamoliben1598 Yup. But let's face it, there are many great guitarists out there. The OP said "one of the best", not "the" best. Stevie Ray V, Alex Lifeson (so under-rated), Joe Bonamassa, Eddie V., The Nuge, etc..... Lots and lots more and much depends on your taste. Roy Clark and Glenn Campbell were so fast and crazy good.
Holy smokes. As a guitarist, I can say he is absolutely off the charts.
And equally as talented on a banjo or fiddle. If it has strings, Roy could play it.
He certainly had the chops.
Bud Roy Clark is one of the greatest guitarists of all-time... Being able to tap and use all these fancy techniques doesnt make you good.. Look at Guthrie Govan for example. The guy struggles mightily in jazz quartets. It is just as much about feel, soul and groove as it is about technical skill. Roy was elite in all areas of music back then, even classical. He did it all.
Wow, clean shredding. No simulations or effects gain, just pure.
Jacob Molyneux right I thought I was the only who noticed how all that extra effects just covers up all the mistakes
Lol ok BOOMER
@Jacob Molyneux but when someone who is really good uses distortion it can be just pure gold
@Jacob Molyneux of course they would've used modern tech. AC/DC just didn't change their sound since decades + they really ain't 'clean'
@@ironbooze2937 Yeah in what world are ACDC considered clean? Fairly dry sure but hardly clean.
This guy will go down in history as absolutely one of the best guitarists and musical entertainers
I think it will be more like one of the top entertainers of any kind.Musical or otherwise.I believe he took that word entertainer,very seriously.
Who?
lol never heard of him.
I hear he greased up his strings with otter oil
@@tyson9419 Jimmy Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen were asked what it was like to be the greatest guitarist of all time and they both said; "Go ask Roy Clark"!!!
This is the most metal shit I've ever seen
@William Lewis r/woosh
@@whiskeychip r/woooooooooosh to you too.
@@davidcollins1410i bet you dont even know what that means
@@whiskeychip yeah, I know what Reddit is, dumb ass
@@davidcollins1410 ok now you
the want to start the fucking fight now
I've never heard anything else of Roy Clark but I'm already convinced that he is the coolest guy ever
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Check out his banjo skills,one of the best ever
He’s a legendary bluegrass and country/western musician. Was a star on an old show called He Haw
*Hee Haw
@@andrewclingenpeel8470 I'm a pickin
1:46 when you start the final lap of your mario kart race
Hahahahaha
BA BADA, BA BADA, BA BA!!!!!!!!
Fast music makes me go faster
@@WILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLU The pitch gets higher too lol
Nice name
On a guitar with no reverb, no sustain, no edge or distortion. THAT'S talent developed to the extreme. Ladies and Gentlemen...the incomparable Roy Clark.
what do you mean by 'edge'? like overdrive?
That’s what I’m saying this guy is way better then all the modern guitarists
it's also lacking in a lot of feeling and starts to sound gimmicky.
@@curtismcallister9569 it fits with the song tho,like it's supposed to be like that
@@zzzzimmers5046 nah man
I think everyone can probably recognise this as brilliant, but not many just how brilliant it actually is. The accuracy required with that clean tone at that speed is off the scale. And tap-dancing! Impossible
I know . This is perhaps the finest guitar performance I’ve ever seen and heard. It’s genius to the 10th degree.
He was a true master.
I play guitar. This man obviously was a guitar god. Extreme finesse. I couldn't play like this, ever.
Not impossible if your Roy Clark!
It's mind boggling
Indeed
:59 This man's hand is faster than the technology of the day can capture!! His hand is literally a BLUR! Loved him😊
Supposedly, when asked in interviews "What's it like to be 'The World's Greatest Guitarist'?", both Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen answered: "You need to ask Roy Clark that question."
And Roy Clark would discuss it with Chet Atkins
Didn't Jimi Hendrix say ask Rory Gallagher?
Eddie said Eric Clapton lol
Jimi also said terry kath, guitarist for Chicago was better than him. Extremely underrated guitarist
Jimi admired Stevie ray
90 percent of people don't realize how amazing this performance is. Look up his rendition of Mallegeuna, truly a masterpiece.
I saw a video of a flamenco piece he did. He started at the level of an amazing creshendo, so I was thinking he's boxed himself in, nowhere to go ftom there. Then, he went beyond.
@@sage9836 Do you have the link? I can't find it.
Yup guitar virtuoso confirmed, even though I've never played guitar...
He also performed Malagueña on an episode of The Odd Couple.
@@patrickdoring7149 yea I seen it while I was lookin him up on TH-cam, another good performance, but that one on the dark stage with the spotlight was the one I saw first and it blew me away lol
Saw Roy in concert years ago. He was the opening act. He came out and said, "Well, they put the worst acts on first, so here I am," then proceeded to blow the roof off the place with his guitar picking and grinning.
Humility...just another of Mr. Clark's countless virtues.
saw him in the 80s , had the worlds fastest banjo player touring with him , played dueling banjos with him and blew him out
Russell Garr I saw him during this time frame, before Hee-Haw. I was 12 and knew he was a dandy even then. First time I fell in love with music and musicians. Yesterday might be over now but I feel it still.
@@floydeemercer2344 -- Awesome!
How the BLANK could Roy Clark EVER be an opening act for ANYONE??? He WAS the concert!!! RIP my friend I and everyone else in this world will miss you... THE GREATEST...
Hands down one of the best exhibitions of guitar playing I have ever seen. He played it with a clean tone and not a single bum note.
He played few bum notes on purpose. Love his expressions too.
I adored him. I can see the blood, sweat and tears it took to learn that. He was a true artist and a happy soul.
So sorry for infringe on your privacy, Beautiful song. Hello
@davidholton9667 my God. You scammers are on here as well😂😂
Amazing guitarist.
When he’s playing he looks like he’s receiving some great head
Couldn’t put it better myself
Hahaha! I thought the same thing! Haha!
First shredding face
Musicians make the ugliest faces to make the most beautiful sounds -Carlos Santana
Fax
This guy shreds palm muted. What a monster skill.
I believe he has that fender mute engaged through the whole song, i might be wrong tho
He was economy picking the scales.
Guy was pro, he was accurate asf
Sounds like he has the mute on but palm muting and shredding, pretty common in a lot of music back then with any guitar
@@hobokenhi-fi5212 Most rag-time and country-style players back then palm-muted, so they were very familiar with it.
My Dad was a big Chet fan and had a Chet Atkins Gretsch Tennessean. Watching him play, I see the Chet influence in his playing. Absolutely marvellous clip, thank you!
Roy's smile and facial expressions while playing enhance his wizardry on the guitar so much.
That's true guitar face.
He’s not playing live though
There was some old guy somewhere watching this when it happened saying "This is trash compared to what music use to be".
I just know it.
Hahaha every Generation
@Midnight Toker absolutely every chance. Literally you can go back to the old school greek philosphers from 2000 years ago and even they complained about how "my generation is so much better than this lame upcoming generation"
@@TotinosOtherBoy I've read somewhere that around when paper was widely used. Old guys were like "Smh, this generation really has gone downhill. We wrote and read in slates using chalk. And now they use paper, kids nowadays with their dustless pens."
There's also some asshole who gonna say "man, music _these days_ is terrible!"
zzzhuh they are probably dead
Horribly underrated guitarist.
You got that straight -- him and Glen Campbell (RIP).
Kelton King are you picking on him because he is white
Collin Henriksen dude he just said that he didn't got the attention he actually deserved.
How can you misunderstand that?
Him and Chet Atkins together is a crazy combo
I remember watching Hee Haw as a kid and thinking he was just a funny guy, then he started pickin' on a flat top Martin and was BLOWN AWAY! Roy Clark and Randy Rhoads were honestly why I started playing.
I just love Roy Clark, besides his absolutely astonishing guitar playing abilities, he is one of the funniest people ever. So modest about his playing and all of the pained expressions while pretending he can just barely pull it off; I can’t help but smile when watching him.
😃😍
This is thrash metal without distortion. True pick smith
Lmao ignorant af. No
@@LOLAP95 if you take the distortion off of shredding, it sounds like this
Lol. Roy Clark. Father of modern distortion-less Metal. Nice bra! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Except this guy has talent
@@LOLAP95 you realize that your response itself is pretty ignorant, right?
This was just savage. Such and incredibly tight sound and so accurate with the muting and percussive effects! This looks way ahead of its time.
I wonder how much time he spent practicing this.Btw nice hair.
MrKittles1123 still no guitarist reach Paganini, who lived 180 years ago
RIP to one of the best guitarists to ever walk on planet Earth
@Default User he is dead. Just passed on the 15th.
🤠
@@jakeuhhb Maybe dead from this world ... but I believe he lives on in Jesus. And that is what really counts.
La terre est grande et il existe beaucoup de guitaristes infiniment meilleurs....Certains se contentent de peu.
s s No doubt, banjo and. Other stringed intranets included. He was. The best.
one of the greatest guitar players of all time and only old school country music fans would know this
1:42 when you have 100 seconds left on Super Mario Bros.
Facts 🔥😂
Jimmybagodonuts LMFAO SO TRUE!!!!!
Lol. Truth.
Oh God!!! Its so true!!! 😂
Oh Hahahaha
Right.?.!.
His expressions are almost as amazing as his guitar playing.
Damn
Proto guitar face!
0:30, this man is sweeping. I honestly don't understand why this guy isn't talked about the way everyone does Hendrix, Les Paul or someone like that. Extremely ahead of his time, super versatile, freakishly technical especially for the era..... The man was a master.
Well that's called a rake it's not the same. But I do agree with the fact that this guy is extremely talented and underrated
Simple, he had alot less TV and internet exposure than those people
@@RetroPlus : uhhh, you do know he had atop rated TV show where he played every week for 20 years, right?
@@tommyboyindy1157 Hmm strange, maybe the only people who remember him are older then
@@RetroPlus : he played during the same era as Elvis, the Beatles, Hendrix, Glen Campbell, and lots of others. Millions of music fans young and old still listen to him. Just because you aren’t familiar with him doesn’t mean lots of more tuned in people aren’t.
Soundtrack to me doing laundry before the hockey playoffs start.
R.I.P. Roy ❤ 🎸
R.I.P to the legendary Roy Clark. He was one hell of a musician. He was the master of the guitar. He and Jimi must be dueling in heaven right now.
I love Hendrix but Roy is just a Grand Master. To bad he played those silly characters on tv. That's why people overlook him so much.
volz man I totally agree. Guitar lovers can never deny Roy Clark’s brilliance.
Roy is light-years ahead of Jimi.
PHFATT KCOBRA I know, but it would’ve been one hell of a showdown.
More like Roy and Glen Campbell, like old times.
Been heavy into guitar for 20 years,today is the first time I’ve ever heard of this guy. I’m pissed that people knew about this dude and never told me.
I didn't think you were ready
@@Basomic savage
@@Appalachian_trail_mix OOOooooooo my goooooood oooooooohhhh, daaayuuuuuuuuuuummn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!1!1!!!!1!1!!!
Watch "Hee Haw" reruns on "The Circle" tv network. I don't know where you live but you can see it for free over the air in most larger cities. I think it's also on sattelite tv. He was one of the stars of that show.
Same
I was always amazed at how them big farmer's hamhock hands of his could play so delicately at such speed and clarity.
A Guitar God.
@Bone Jenga lol what the hell are you on about
@Bone Jenga ok boomer
Bone Jenga well someone has to make those coffees and gamers can make up to 6 figures. I’m sure if there were still a plethora of farming jobs, for decent pay, many young people would love to work hard in the outdoors. How about we just stop shitting on our fellow workers.
@Bone Jenga God, you're really pathetic, aren't you?
Treating others like garbage to further prove how masculine and manly you are is the saddest thing ever.
Bone Jenga most boomer fucking comment I’ve seen today. Stay off the internet, gramps.
Truly one of the greatest guitarists of all time!!
I like his mannerisms incorporated with his playing, a true showman
Roy was sweep picking in this. I never noticed before but it's in there. He can make most "guitar heroes" blush. Roy isnt using any overdrive or tone effects whatsoever. That nothing but the tone in his hands. He sounds awesome, puts on a show and looks like he's having the most fun in the room. What an underrated pioneer of shred.
I live how in the early days of electric guitar, it was just considered an amplified acoustic and approached pretty much the same way.
That's not what's happening here at all though. He's doing all kinds of creative stuff with dead notes, slides, and even percussive elements you couldn't do nearly the same way on an acoustic
@@6foottallAardvark Fair enough!
@boulderguy888 why? Sure I didn't mean it could be done on an acoustic. I just feel that early electrics were approached more like acoustics than they are today. Or than electric guitars are today.
@@ManicMovesDrowsyDreams Well at that time they were referred to mostly as twangers/electric twangers in the south. And played in that same picked blues fashion. My guess, and this is just a guess, but my guess would be that guitars started to be played more in the modern fashion when pre-amps, leads and sustains were invented.
Also as much as I hate to invoke his name because he's a sick individual, Phil Spector had a huge impact on how modern music would sound for decades.
Yeah, and that is why Hendrix is considered the milestone in electric guitar. Hendrix made the whole signal chain as his instrument with all the distortion, fuzz, delay and sweep filters he had. Prior to that, as we can see from this video, there were some insanely good players. So he broke (afaik, unless there isn't an underground here I don't know of) this convention and paved the path of electric guitar sound we know of today.
I have always thought Roy Clark to be among the premier guitarists who has ever lived. I remember sitting around the TV with mom and dad watching Hee Haw and being amazed by the talent.
This is an example of truly “ Picking and Grinning”. What a talent.
This guy should be treated as one of legendary guitarists.His fast picking technique is just amazing.For that generation too.
He is a guitar legend. No 'should' about it!
He's the greatest of all-time. He could do it all without any pedals whatsoever. Clean, quick, articulate and expressive playing. Nobody is even close.
Not only was he a true guitar god, he was a god on anything with strings, AND, he had a comedic presentation like no other. Rest in peace Roy, you are a hero to many.
He is AMAZING! He is funny, giving so much attention to his audience on and off camera. Amazing talented guitarist, singer, and actor. He could play anything with strings. I wouldn't be surprised if he could make rubberbands sing. He is the grand daddy of the guitar, banjo, and fiddle! He lived a good long life, and his talent will live on through film and music recordings, but he will surly be missed by many. RIP. Mr. Roy Clark. God Bless you for bringing your talent to many. Your music will be a joy for people to listen to for generations to come.
RIP, a terrific guitarist and gentleman. 11/15/2018
Do you know what year this was?
@@brianwalendy3735 i think 1955
@@mmmmm_monke55 thank you! I'm so impressed by his style and skills, even if he does appear to be possessed.
@@brianwalendy3735 hes a damn guitar god for his time to
What a long life
Killer. What a virtuoso.
And it's done with showmanship, with the little dance, and the facial expressions. An absolutely beautiful performance.
@@rezanugraha7144 I dont think the funny faces are on purpose lol
@@k0vae Obviously they are
@@asukalangleysoryu6695 sounds like you dont play guitar
@@k0vae Ouch cmon bro that hurts :D Ofc I know what a stank face is, but considering this guy put _tap dancing_ in his song and the audience laughed at it, and considering all of the over-the-top tricks he's pulling off on his instrument... I'd say it's pretty safe to say that he's doing those faces on purpose.
@@asukalangleysoryu6695 idk even if you watch some of his other performances where the audience is taking him serious he makes the same faces
I was never big on country music, but I grew up during that time when "Hee Haw", "The Glen Campbell Show", "Bonanza", and other western-themed TV shows dominated the air waves. That being said, Roy Clark was the most technically skilled guitarist I'd ever seen. He could play anything from country to classical and all you could do was sit and listen in amazement. Thank you, TH-cam, for providing us the opportunity to witness true genius and the result of hard work in action.
Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed
I would argue that this is more like ragtime.
@@jesustovar2549You DON'T say... Maybe that's why this is called 12th St RAG. 😂😂😂
Don't forget to watch him play in an episode of the classic TV show "The Odd Couple", forever an amazing talent, and humble human being!
Roy could play anything with strings at a virtuoso level, but his guitar playing was beyond insane. Wow.
One of the most talented men who ever played a stringed instrument.
Nah bro just practice and skill
@@Overrated7901 talent comes from practice and skill
you overdid it. He was just good and fun
@@bsnf-5 Good Ole' Roy can never be "OVER-DID!" Nor out done!
@@jamesoloughlin8268 No, talent is what you start with. Beyond that, effective practice builds skill.
*_when spongebob and patrick steal a paper_*
a paper?
Nick P it’s a joke. Based on that one episode when they steal a balloon on free balloon day
@@fawflethetawfle2404 i got the reference but why a paper?
YES I WAS JUST THINKING THIS REMINDS ME OF SPONGEBOB
Wasn’t it a balloon
The man could play more then one instrument incredibly. Huge talent. R. I. P -Roy
I remember seeing Roy Clark on TV in the 60s and early 70s.
He was always displaying his wicked chops and smiling while doing it.
He was always such a wonderful presence.
Thank you so much for the memories, Mr. Clark. R.I.P.
He looks like he's entertaining a king he hates and he just poisoned his drink and is now waiting for the king to take a drink
I KEEP SEEING YOU IN N.HENTAI, hi
@@bigmanz9842 holup
@@stinkynoodles8312 I do
oddly specific
@@bigmanz9842 PAUSE
Those faces!. I swear sometimes it looks like he's having fun, and other times it looks like he's about to have an aneurysm
Matt Rogers it was to help with his stage fright
Matt Rogers as a guitarist it’s a thing we all do
@@wjtr._03 lol, that's the last thing he would have. He could play several instruments and was the cohost on the comedy show HeeHaw which lasted several years, probably before your time
@@mrdougeran1 just cos he was skilled in many instruments and the host of a show doesn't mean he didn't have stage fright.
@@Saiga12308 sorry but I watched HeeHaw for years and know he didn't, he was always very relaxed
This dude is absolutely amazing but, those faces he keeps making are killing me. They perfectly fit with whatever note or riff he’s playing in the moment and I am here for it.
If I had a nickel for every time Roy missed a note, I’d be broke as hell
Hah! Good one.
No. You'll be in debt.
@Colin Slivinski r/imnotgonnasayit
@Colin Slivinski Right, he'd be broke.
You would have a lot of nickels, his synchronization sucks.
An immensely great string player who also played in a fun comedic way. A true entertainer.
Worker1: „Bro we need to set up the stage!“ „
Worker2: „say no more“ *rolls in a barrel
shiftymeister Underrated comment!
Wow
Roy was.a great guitarist, there is a clip floating around with him and Glenn Campbell jamming that is awesome too...!
Eddie: I invented two-handed tapping.
Yngwie: I invented sweep picking.
Shawn Lane: I'm the fastest.
Roy Clark: (grins)
Ikr lol 😂
grins with style*
Except, Eddie didn't invent tapping. He did popularize it to a newer generation, though. Roy Smeck was earlier (1930s or 1940s;) dunno if he invented it, though.
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@@101Volts Right - I was joking about Roy Clark grinning because he did sweeping and tapping way befoe Yngwie or Eddie, and played about as fast as Shawn Lane, but on acoustic instruments. The guy was truly one of a kind.
I also heard that Chet Atkins was the first to use tapping.. we may never know. :)
**does a little dance on the spot**
This guy is freaking insane, he has slightly fat fingers, yet he can still play accurately and quickly. What a skilled musician.
It's not just guitar, this man is a whiz with any stringed instrument. Banjo, fiddle, guitar, you name it, he's played it.
His fingers remind me of Frank Gambale's -a monster Jazz Fusion guitarist.
The exact reason I play bass and not guitar
Was... not is.. he is long dead...
It's because the resolution of this video got stretched out much wider.
1:53 DAMN THAT SOUNDS GOOD
No shit
Never shit
Must shit
Whoah shit
Can't shit
Amazing how the Jaguar still looks futuristic to this day.
ok boomer
@@jumpfart666 It does though.
Wow. Nice quip. I like that. You think it up there?
jumpfart666 oh shut the fuck up with this dead fucking meme
@@jumpfart666 ok z
Roy Clark - otherwise known as White Hendrix. Most underrated musician in music history. Dude was a phenomenon. He could play Bach on a Banjo
And he wasn’t completely out of his mind on drugs
As old as this is, there's nothing old or tired about it as far as pure entertainment goes;. Simply brilliant then, and just as amazing now.
this man is quite possibly the greatest musician to ever live. he can play ANY instrument he picks up and play them as a master
Roy was a Hella good musician. He is absolutely one of the best musicians of all time, regardless of genre.
I love hardcore and punk, smooth jazz, native Indian flute music and thrash and on and on.... Roy is definitely one of the best of all time on the guitar and as a musician.
When electric guitar was in its childhood, along comes Roy Clark who’s able to push any electric made to the very edge of its performance envelope. One of the 1st electric guitar heroes!
I mean lets face it, that was absolutely brilliant.
Effortless sweep picking decades before anyone else was doing it in the mainstream. Full chordings with the thumb like Hendrix would popularize, a downpicking technique that would make Hetfield blush, at a speed and clarity most people couldn't get out of 20 years of playing and thousands of dollars of equipment.
Dude is easily one of the greatest musicians ever.
That was pretty revolutionary guitar playing for his time. He didn't get any credit because he wasn't a rock musician.
where was the sweep picking here?? its not like this guy was playing metal techniques or anything, not everything just builds towards "metal music"
@earthbound914 yeah I didn't see any sweep picking, nor any downpicking that rivals Mr hetfields. Sick playing but buddy sold it the wrong way
ben lee is going to be very upset if he sees this, my guy is literally shredding the guitar at pin point precision
@@earthbound9140:33-0:38
Roy was truly a master of guitar ! And banjo , mandolin, acoustic guitar to name a few others . I remember his TV shows and could hardly wait to watch he play . This was before he was on hee haw .
Eddie Van Halen secretly watched Roy play on his basement TV.
Yeah, I was scrolling the comments to see who else noticed the tapping around 1:30.
and Jimi Page
Yeah pretty sure he did
Eddies dad was Roy speck
Here is some truth. Eddie VanHalen actually sought out Glen Cambpell for guitar lessons.
Roy was such an entertainer and loved playing music for everyone !!!!!! And such a fun personality !!
Would put many of today's metal guitarists to shame...
Not "would", he does. Still does, and he's dead now.
Not at all
this is just metal without distortion
@@beratsamil finally, metol
He definitely would, and there are plenty of no name guys who are exceptional guitarist who would give him a run for the money.
This guy had such a successful career as a singer that a lot of folks have no idea what an amazing instrumentalist he was. Not only guitar, but fiddle, banjo, mandolin.
He simply makes your day even after he ascended to heaven. Thank you Roy for making us laugh 😂!
I appreciate your comment very much. We grew up with some great entertainers.
Genius playing by a very underrated and overlooked talent- he could shred guitar and banjo equally
hands down greatest guitarist ever because he not only was an amazing guitarist who could play anything but he had the gift of being truly entertaining with his stage presence and charisma and the fact that you can hear and feel every ounce of his soul when he was playing..he had some serious mojo and you cant even really compare roy clark with any modern day virtuoso because of that mojo..he was an amazing human being that gave his entire soul to playing music for the people of the world and making people smile..his milestones and accolades and shear number of performances absolutely puts him number 1 in my book..if there were to be a number one of course..we all know that is subjective...no doubt one of the greatest human beings to ever live.
Your book is wrong then, you misspelled sheer as shear. Shear is to CUT, SHEER is the word you're looking for. Back to school !
Roy Clark was a guitar monster. Totally metal.
😎👍🏽
As a huge Iron Maiden fan, I have to say he is beyond metal: no distortion, no mistakes. I bet that if somebody could re-amp this performance, even Mr Malmsteen would recognize that.
@@luisguillermoviruesdelgadi182What? Distortion doesn't make playing sound more clear.
@@predeterminedmeat5024it can absolutely hide a lot of mistakes and sloppy playing
@@m.f.3347 Not really. It just makes them more audible
Not just guitar. He was a virtuoso at nearly every stringed instrument!