To be honest, though, I found Roy's solo albums a bit tedious after a time. Of course I've never heard the Snakestretchers album, and I've heard that it's a real classic.
To me, and this is my personal opinion of course, Roy was better left with a time limitation on his talents.
Although the rock and rockabilly sides he cut were as a sideman, he could so much in a twenty second break, which I feel he lost focus of in his solo songs.
Don't even get me started on the singers on his albums!!
I've heard this great little compilation which gathers a heap of his sides for various Washington bands and he cooks, although the sound at time is pretty ordinary, but... there's stuff there that's unbelievable.
Not too mention the Bob Luman material.
I can see his talent, just that for me, he seems to be dragging out songs for the solos.

[This message was edited by Jason Odd on 23 February 2001 at 03:34 PM.]

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Jason, Your comment about what Roy should have or would have done makes me uncomfortable. He was a real person with alot of music in him. He used to play these long wild solo introductions to standards. Sometimes they would last 10 minutes. Beautiful long arching improvized compositions. Sometimes real pretty and sometimes pure hot dog. Onetime he found himself in some spanish cadenza thing and worked his way out of it with what sounded like a
bagpipe solo. Just a man standing on stage with a tele plugged straight into a twin. The music just poured out of him. This was all before he got known and felt like he had to please anybody.

It is a real shame he left us when he did.

I feal that he always worked well under pressure, and that pressure was the constraint of a little two and a half minute rock number.
I've interviewed Bill Mack who played bass for Gene Vincent and Dale Hawkins. While he was with Hawkins, Roy was the guitarist and while full of praise for Roy's talent he did also related one of Roy's claims, that he was a werewolf..one of his fave stories in his younger days it seems.

Some interesting times

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The British Walkers 45 I Found You/Diddley Daddy (Try 502)1964 with Roy, Bobby 'the Kid' Howard on vocals,who had worked with Link Ray's Raymen for all you trivia buffs.
I think there's a Bobby Gregg side with Roy called 'Potatoe Peeler' or something like that, haven't heard that sucker for a long time, but it's a nasty little guitar number.

I used to have a great list of Buchanan related sides, but lost it when my PC was hit by a virus in late '99, and as fate would have it, I also lost the collectors email. Oh well.

1) did he ever play the steel, nd
2) why did Roy turn his amp around facing the back?

P.S. Looking forward to the Murph CD....

[This message was edited by Steve Feldman on 26 February 2001 at 06:38 AM.]

I saw him once opening for John Mayall in NYC, and was totally Blown away. I have pretty much everything of his that is available and love it all. Danny RIP.

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[This message was edited by Smiley Roberts on 26 February 2001 at 11:23 PM.]

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After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was gonna put us in a cell.

He said: "Kid, I'm gonna put you in a cell. I want your wallet and your belt."
I said, "Obie, I can understand your wantin' my wallet, so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you want my belt for?" and he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangin's." I said, "Obie, did you think I was gonna hang myself for litterin'?"

Obie said he was makin' sure, and, friends, Obie was, 'cause he took out the toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars, roll the toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie was makin' sure.

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