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Polar bear with carrot

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Roy Buchanan



Sit back, loosen your tie and turn this one up. If you need to grab the refreshment of your choice , press the pause button, we'll wait. Roy Buchanan was the tone master, the most knob twistiest, telecastin, f*thermuckin, demon of the fretboard of our time. Jeff Beck couldn't touch his trem, he was so bad, it hurt. His dad was a Pentecostal preacher in Arkansas. He played with first Dale and then Ronnie Hawkins. Found hung in a jail cell in Fairfax County Virginia with strange bruises on his head. Cops said it was a suicide. A quiet titan.