Influence Buddy Guy

buddy guy @ liri blues festival, italy, in 1989

guy s guitar techniques contributed rock , roll. guitar playing loud , aggressive, uses pioneering distortion , feedback techniques, employs long solos, has shifts in volume , texture, , driven emotion , impulse. these characteristics eagerly learned , applied new wave of 1960s british artists , later became basic attributes of blues-rock music , offspring, hard rock , heavy metal music. jeff beck realized in 1960s didn t know strat sound that—until heard buddy s tracks on blues big bill s copa cabana album (a reissue of album 1963 folk festival of blues) , total manic abandon in buddy s solos. broke boundaries. thought, more it! also, solos weren t restricted three-minute pop format; long , developed.

clapton has stated got idea blues-rock power trio while watching guy s trio perform in england in 1965. clapton later formed rock band cream, first rock supergroup become superstars , first top group exploit power-trio format, in process laying foundation blues-rock , hard rock of 1960s , 1970s.

clapton said buddy guy me elvis others. in 1985 article in musician magazine, quoted saying buddy guy far , without doubt best guitar player alive...if see him in person, way plays beyond anyone. total freedom of spirit, guess. changed course of rock , roll blues. in inducting guy rock , roll hall of fame, clapton said, no matter how great song, or performance, ear find him out. stood out in mix, virtue of originality , vitality of playing.

guy performing in 1999

recalls guy, eric clapton , best of friends , tune strange brew , sitting , having drink 1 day , said man, strange brew ... cracked me note. , said should...cause s licks ... clapton completed sessions derek & dominos in october 1970, co-produced (with ahmet ertegün , tom dowd) album buddy guy & junior wells play blues, guy s longtime harp , vocal companion, junior wells. record, released in 1972, regarded critics among finest electric blues recordings of modern era.

in recognition of guy s influence on career of jimi hendrix, hendrix family invited him headline all-star casts @ several tribute concerts organized, calling on legend celebrate legend. hendrix himself once said heaven lying @ buddy guy’s feet while listening him play guitar. songs such red house , voodoo chile , voodoo child (slight return) came partly sonic world guy helped create. according fender players club, ten years before jimi hendrix electrify rock world high-voltage voodoo blues, buddy guy shocking juke joint patrons in baton rouge own brand of high-octane blues. ironically, when buddy’s playing technique , flamboyant showmanship later revealed crossover audiences in late sixties, erroneously assumed imitating hendrix. (in 1993, guy covered red house on stone free: tribute jimi hendrix.)

guy performing @ bonnaroo music festival in 2006



in urbana, illinois, 1983

stevie ray vaughan once declared buddy guy plays place ve never heard play. vaughan continued:

buddy can go 1 end of spectrum another. can play quieter ve ever heard, or wilder , louder ve ever heard. play pretty loud lot of times, buddy s tones incredible. pulls such emotion out of little volume. buddy has cool feel does. , when sings, s compounded. girls fall on , sweat , die! every once in while chance play buddy, , gets me every time, because try go mars on guitars ll start singing, sing couple of lines, , stick mike in front of me! gonna do? person gonna do?!

geez, can t forget buddy guy. transcended blues , started becoming theater. high art, kind of drama theater when played, know. playing behind head long before hendrix. once saw him throw guitar in air , catch in same chord.

beck recalled night , vaughan performed guy @ buddy guy s legends club in chicago: incredible stuff ever heard in life. 3 of jammed , thrilling. close can come heart of blues.

according jimmy page, buddy guy absolute monster. there number of albums got tuned in days. there 1 in particular called, think, american folk festival of blues, featured buddy guy. astounded everybody.

singer-songwriter , guitarist john mayer, has performed guy on numerous occasions (including clapton s crossroads guitar festival , on pbs television program soundstage) , collaborated him on guy s 2005 album bring em in, has stated on several occasions guy 1 of top influences.

former rolling stones bassist bill wyman said,

guitar legends not come better buddy guy. feted peers , loved fans ability make guitar both talk , cry blues. such buddy s mastery of guitar there virtually no guitarist cannot imitate.

guy opened rolling stones on numerous tours, beginning in 1970s. slash said buddy guy perfect combination of r&b , hardcore rock , roll. zz top s billy gibbons said, ain t no trickster. may appear surprised own instant ability but, clearly, knows s up.

he judge 6th , 8th annual independent music awards support independent artists.

he appeared king of swing , performed in episode of popular children s show jack s big music show.

he mentioned name in song saint chicago chicago musician little lord robert.

guy has influenced styles of subsequent artists such reggie sears , jesse marchant of jbm.

on february 21, 2012, guy performed in concert @ white house president barack obama , first lady michelle obama. during finale of concert, persuaded president sing few bars of sweet home chicago .