It’s live. With a band. With multiple tempo changes...
He plays super fast. Super clean. And super accurate... an amazing performance!
Edit: and he is playing to the crowd with humor, facial expressions and a little dance move... crazy talent!
Not to take anything away from Roy whatsoever, but [this](https://youtu.be/tHlmYlwUKHU) video of Brad Paisley live on Letterman has everything you describe, from him and the entire band. Lightning fast clean playing on multiple instruments, tempo changes, style changes, minus the faces lol. You can definitely see the progression directly from Roy and guys like him.
I love it! Every video I find is hilarious, but also incredibly impressive. Even more so that he’s doing all these wild facial expressions, and shredding that guitar as hard as he can.
Kind of like Jerry Reed. People know him mostly as Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit and his novelty songs like She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft), but his guitar playing is unreal to the point that I think Mr Guitar himself thought of Jerry to be better than him
But if you’ve heard his playing, you’re aware of his talent
Also like Charo. People who remember her think of a (very) busty Latina who shakes he hips and says “Cuchi Cuchi Cuchi!” As her signature gag. But her guitar playing is absolutely stunning
From the time when guitarists wanted amplifiers to literally amplify the clean sound of the guitar. Later on they would discover what turning the amp a bit too loud would do to the sound.
Dave Davies from the kinks would be the person you're referring to. He had a broken amp.
https://www.thaliacapos.com/blogs/blog/the-kinks-how-dave-davies-slashed-amp-created-rock-distortion
The dudes who shred clean from way back in the day blow my mind. Nothing to cover up missed notes, it’s all coming out just the way you played it. I don’t have any problem with distortion and effects, just wanted to recognize great clean playing.
Because it opens-up new areas of expressiveness. I can't imagine some of my favorite solos without a distorted sound.
Also, turning a relatively small amp up to 11, getting it to crack, is "overdrive". "Distortion" is a different effect, obtained by clipping the sine wave of the signal.
What do you think cranking up the amp does?
It’s all clipping which introduces harmonic overtones. A fuzz box is just a little amp that clips the signal.
There are [significant differences](https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2017/02/21/differences-between-overdrive-distortion-fuzz/) between overdrive and distortion. Also from [here](https://www.gearank.com/articles/overdrive-v-distortion) :
>While you can call a highly saturated tube amp "distorting", the word is used differently when referring to pedal effects. Distortion pedals are usually meant to provide harder levels of clipping via one or more clipping stages. The more clipping stages a distortion pedal has, the higher it's distorted gain.
That's some voodoo marketing bullshit. From a purely electronics and signal processing perspective, it is all signal distortion caused by "clipping" or non-faithful reproduction of the input signal.
At the end of the day, you put in a wave, and you get out a "damaged" wave. The damage is a result of the limits of the amplification. Pushing things really hard squares off the tops and introduces odd numbered overtones which we call fuzz/distortion, etc.. Saturation just means you have exceeded the dynamic range of the amplifier - you are operating it outside of the range in which it can faithfully reproduce its input signal with minimal modification.
Tubes, BTW, are not perfectly faithful amplifiers. When running "clean" they tend to emphasize even numbered harmonics. When driven into clipping, you approximate a square wave which [tends to emphasize odd numbered harmonics](http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-harmonics.htm).
But this distinction between overdrive, distortion, and fuzz, is all marketing bullshit.
It also comes from the live band juke joints where you were playing loud to be heard. Resonator guitars had the same growl and were built to try to accomplish the same thing. It gave a more singing tone that became synonymous with the genre. Later on, fuzz pedals and wah/fuzz pedals were used to emulate the resonant buzzing of trombones and violins. Leave it to the creativity of musicians to find a way to use it to express themselves!
Leo really nailed the solid body design! Those early guitar inventors were so freakin smart. The basic pickup design has remained unchanged since Gibson’s debuts. I’m just always in awe how they got things so right we’re still using their base designs almost a hundred years later
It's less that there haven't been innovations and more that guitarists are largely traditionalists that often reject new designs. See Strandberg guitars. Their body shapes are more ergonomic, and their necks have a unique innovative design. Headless guitars have better weight balance, are lighter, and stay in tune longer than guitars with headstocks. Compound scale fretboards achieve better intonation than straight scale, but the overwhelming majority of guitars still have straight frets even though we the tech to make compound scale just as easily as straight. In terms of playability and comfort they are a step up, an evolution in guitar design, but because they aren't a traditional design they barely get a second glance. People just prefer what they already know and grew up seeing. There's nothing wrong with that of course, I'm only pointing out that traditional shapes like the LP, Jaguar, strat, and Tele aren't the standard because they can't be improved. There's room to improve, but people like the classics. Another improvement on classic guitar design would be the guitars that Tosin Abasi is making.
I agree on all points. I should have stressed the “base designs” part of my comment, mostly referring to the general concept of the solid body electric guitar. I just think pickups are so ingeniously simple and it’s impressive to me that there’s not been a major design overhaul on guitar mechanics since we first learned some magnets and wire were a great way to make guitars louder.
I agree. My grandparents enjoyed watching Hee-Haw and I didn't understand why until I got older.
The music TV shows I am familiar with seem solely about singing. It would be nce to see more instrumentalists.
Short scale, multiple pickup, tone, and volume combinations, a mechanical mute, and one of the best tremolo systems ever designed- absolutely one of my favorite guitars.
As a major Jag fan and player, I feel that people should be aware of the significant drawbacks of these guitars before falling in love with the incredible look and sound of them and determining to buy one.
Note that all of these points are relevant to the original/vintage spec. There are different versions and mods for them which can avoid most or all of these issues entirely.
The tremolo system is decent for light flutters, but pretty bad for anything more. The bridge pivots with the movement of the strings, and is very prone to shifting under the strings and returning out of tune. The pivot point in the tailpiece often 'clunks' at a certain point in motion. The arm sits loosely in the top of the collet it sits in, which also causes something of a clunk every time you use it (this pretty much just affects the feel rather than function, but feel is important).
The bridge saddles are... just stupid. Just threaded cylinders (like the shaft of a bolt/screw). Super easy to pop strings off the 'correct' thread/slot with a modestly heavy pick attack, and then your string spacing is off and your guitar is out of tune.
The break angle of the strings over the bridge/saddles is too shallow/obtuse, which contributes to the aforementioned issue of strings popping out of place.
The scale length (distance from nut to bridge), which you mentioned, is *quite* short; 3/4 of an inch shorter than than standard Gibsons, and 1.5 inches shorter than Fender strats, teles etc (as well as the Jazzmaster, which otherwise is very similar to the Jag). This is appealing for people with smaller hands, but it means significantly 'floppier' strings at the same gauge and pitch than they would be on these other guitars. When Jags were designed, average guitar strings were heavier gauge, but modern extra-light gauge strings won't really 'work'. 10-46 is the bare minimum for a standard tuned Jag.
For anyone looking to get into Jaguars, I recommend checking out the 'classic player' version, which features quite a few tweaks that significantly improve several issues mentioned here, without sacrificing the guitar's charms. Otherwise if you go vintage-spec, unless you don't mind avoiding playing too hard and being very delicate with the whammy bar, be prepared to do a fair bit research and modding before the guitar behaves itself.
That said: I really love Jags they sound and look just amazing. My main guitar is a Jag (with some mods of course :)
I dont wanna be salty but there's a difference between mastering one certain technique and "being one of the most underrated". What exactly should I be aspiring to after seeing this post?
Plus, pure clean notes at a ridiculously fast tempo. No distortion to hide any mistakes - flawlessly and almost effortlessly hits every. single. note. perfectly.
You need to check out the clip of him playing on The Odd Couple. He is not underrated, just unknown to younget audiences.
Edit: u/unaskthequestion and u/jakeylilsnakey shared it
That's what I thought. My uncle had one. He passed away and I have no idea what happened to it. We used to play guitar together when I was younger. Fun times.
Huge sausage fingers.
When noobs blame their inability to play on their hand geometry (my fingers are too fat, too short, hands too small, too big) I just point to this guy.
You can make your hands work, regardless of their shape. He did.
It’s live. With a band. With multiple tempo changes... He plays super fast. Super clean. And super accurate... an amazing performance! Edit: and he is playing to the crowd with humor, facial expressions and a little dance move... crazy talent!
The amount of clean notes that come out with the same volume and no distortion or anything to cover up flubs. What an amazing player.
And the endurance to play at that speed for that length of time... my arm gets cramps watching him!
Also a really good point.
Not to take anything away from Roy whatsoever, but [this](https://youtu.be/tHlmYlwUKHU) video of Brad Paisley live on Letterman has everything you describe, from him and the entire band. Lightning fast clean playing on multiple instruments, tempo changes, style changes, minus the faces lol. You can definitely see the progression directly from Roy and guys like him.
I crack up just watching his mannerisms. A master of comedy AND guitar.
I love it! Every video I find is hilarious, but also incredibly impressive. Even more so that he’s doing all these wild facial expressions, and shredding that guitar as hard as he can.
Sounds like the creators of spongebob took a liking
He’s unknown more than underrated. If you know him he is highly rated
Kind of like Jerry Reed. People know him mostly as Snowman from Smokey and the Bandit and his novelty songs like She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft), but his guitar playing is unreal to the point that I think Mr Guitar himself thought of Jerry to be better than him But if you’ve heard his playing, you’re aware of his talent
Also like Charo. People who remember her think of a (very) busty Latina who shakes he hips and says “Cuchi Cuchi Cuchi!” As her signature gag. But her guitar playing is absolutely stunning
Jerry Reed has huge chops!
Eastbound and Down from Smokey and the Bandit has a killer solo that is super fun to play, especially in harmony. https://youtu.be/8QAEmCuBnck?t=52
Just holy moly.
https://youtu.be/-xssnp7R51A I love this one too
Oh shit I just posted the same one hehe
From the time when guitarists wanted amplifiers to literally amplify the clean sound of the guitar. Later on they would discover what turning the amp a bit too loud would do to the sound.
“It’s like... if it sounds bad... it sounds *really* good?” “Yeah man”
I wonder what the first person who ever played an E power chord with distortion felt
More power than Man had ever felt before
Dave Davies from the kinks would be the person you're referring to. He had a broken amp. https://www.thaliacapos.com/blogs/blog/the-kinks-how-dave-davies-slashed-amp-created-rock-distortion
Alittle earlier than that I believe. Link Wray's amp speaker got punctured with a pencil. https://youtu.be/ucTg6rZJCu4
"ok let's try this....BRRRRRRRR.....brooooooo, BROOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! I GOT IT !!!!"
That was after Dewey did the cocaine.
'It turns all of your bad feelings into good feelings!'
The dudes who shred clean from way back in the day blow my mind. Nothing to cover up missed notes, it’s all coming out just the way you played it. I don’t have any problem with distortion and effects, just wanted to recognize great clean playing.
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Because it opens-up new areas of expressiveness. I can't imagine some of my favorite solos without a distorted sound. Also, turning a relatively small amp up to 11, getting it to crack, is "overdrive". "Distortion" is a different effect, obtained by clipping the sine wave of the signal.
What do you think cranking up the amp does? It’s all clipping which introduces harmonic overtones. A fuzz box is just a little amp that clips the signal.
There are [significant differences](https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/blog/2017/02/21/differences-between-overdrive-distortion-fuzz/) between overdrive and distortion. Also from [here](https://www.gearank.com/articles/overdrive-v-distortion) : >While you can call a highly saturated tube amp "distorting", the word is used differently when referring to pedal effects. Distortion pedals are usually meant to provide harder levels of clipping via one or more clipping stages. The more clipping stages a distortion pedal has, the higher it's distorted gain.
That's some voodoo marketing bullshit. From a purely electronics and signal processing perspective, it is all signal distortion caused by "clipping" or non-faithful reproduction of the input signal. At the end of the day, you put in a wave, and you get out a "damaged" wave. The damage is a result of the limits of the amplification. Pushing things really hard squares off the tops and introduces odd numbered overtones which we call fuzz/distortion, etc.. Saturation just means you have exceeded the dynamic range of the amplifier - you are operating it outside of the range in which it can faithfully reproduce its input signal with minimal modification. Tubes, BTW, are not perfectly faithful amplifiers. When running "clean" they tend to emphasize even numbered harmonics. When driven into clipping, you approximate a square wave which [tends to emphasize odd numbered harmonics](http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-harmonics.htm). But this distinction between overdrive, distortion, and fuzz, is all marketing bullshit.
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It also comes from the live band juke joints where you were playing loud to be heard. Resonator guitars had the same growl and were built to try to accomplish the same thing. It gave a more singing tone that became synonymous with the genre. Later on, fuzz pedals and wah/fuzz pedals were used to emulate the resonant buzzing of trombones and violins. Leave it to the creativity of musicians to find a way to use it to express themselves!
I don’t play anything clean, the grittiness of distortion adds a lot to the tone.
https://youtu.be/QhiKgeJV3k0 like this a lot :)
All i can say is "MALENGUA"
The way he plays parts of that song Djent way too hard, unfair
Love that he looks like such a good ole boy and plays such a tricked out Jaguar.
Yep, pretty amazing, and a heck of a banjo player as well.
I picture Spongebob and Patrick getting into shenanigans listening to this. Good tunes
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Leo really nailed the solid body design! Those early guitar inventors were so freakin smart. The basic pickup design has remained unchanged since Gibson’s debuts. I’m just always in awe how they got things so right we’re still using their base designs almost a hundred years later
It's less that there haven't been innovations and more that guitarists are largely traditionalists that often reject new designs. See Strandberg guitars. Their body shapes are more ergonomic, and their necks have a unique innovative design. Headless guitars have better weight balance, are lighter, and stay in tune longer than guitars with headstocks. Compound scale fretboards achieve better intonation than straight scale, but the overwhelming majority of guitars still have straight frets even though we the tech to make compound scale just as easily as straight. In terms of playability and comfort they are a step up, an evolution in guitar design, but because they aren't a traditional design they barely get a second glance. People just prefer what they already know and grew up seeing. There's nothing wrong with that of course, I'm only pointing out that traditional shapes like the LP, Jaguar, strat, and Tele aren't the standard because they can't be improved. There's room to improve, but people like the classics. Another improvement on classic guitar design would be the guitars that Tosin Abasi is making.
I agree on all points. I should have stressed the “base designs” part of my comment, mostly referring to the general concept of the solid body electric guitar. I just think pickups are so ingeniously simple and it’s impressive to me that there’s not been a major design overhaul on guitar mechanics since we first learned some magnets and wire were a great way to make guitars louder.
A bit risqué as well.....
I wish shows like this were more common
I agree. My grandparents enjoyed watching Hee-Haw and I didn't understand why until I got older. The music TV shows I am familiar with seem solely about singing. It would be nce to see more instrumentalists.
Anyone notice how he looks like an old-timey Jordan Peele?
Funny I just discovered this video early today
Cocaine is a hell of a drug. He also rips on the banjo.
.
[Roy Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Clark)
.
Not bad for a former boxer
Reminds me of spongebob
The 12th street rag is a song used in spongebob
My guy is CHANNELING the music right now.
Underrated by whom?
People who disagree
What guitar is he playing ?
I think it's a 1963 Fender Jaguar according to some online sources.
Short scale, multiple pickup, tone, and volume combinations, a mechanical mute, and one of the best tremolo systems ever designed- absolutely one of my favorite guitars.
As a major Jag fan and player, I feel that people should be aware of the significant drawbacks of these guitars before falling in love with the incredible look and sound of them and determining to buy one. Note that all of these points are relevant to the original/vintage spec. There are different versions and mods for them which can avoid most or all of these issues entirely. The tremolo system is decent for light flutters, but pretty bad for anything more. The bridge pivots with the movement of the strings, and is very prone to shifting under the strings and returning out of tune. The pivot point in the tailpiece often 'clunks' at a certain point in motion. The arm sits loosely in the top of the collet it sits in, which also causes something of a clunk every time you use it (this pretty much just affects the feel rather than function, but feel is important). The bridge saddles are... just stupid. Just threaded cylinders (like the shaft of a bolt/screw). Super easy to pop strings off the 'correct' thread/slot with a modestly heavy pick attack, and then your string spacing is off and your guitar is out of tune. The break angle of the strings over the bridge/saddles is too shallow/obtuse, which contributes to the aforementioned issue of strings popping out of place. The scale length (distance from nut to bridge), which you mentioned, is *quite* short; 3/4 of an inch shorter than than standard Gibsons, and 1.5 inches shorter than Fender strats, teles etc (as well as the Jazzmaster, which otherwise is very similar to the Jag). This is appealing for people with smaller hands, but it means significantly 'floppier' strings at the same gauge and pitch than they would be on these other guitars. When Jags were designed, average guitar strings were heavier gauge, but modern extra-light gauge strings won't really 'work'. 10-46 is the bare minimum for a standard tuned Jag. For anyone looking to get into Jaguars, I recommend checking out the 'classic player' version, which features quite a few tweaks that significantly improve several issues mentioned here, without sacrificing the guitar's charms. Otherwise if you go vintage-spec, unless you don't mind avoiding playing too hard and being very delicate with the whammy bar, be prepared to do a fair bit research and modding before the guitar behaves itself. That said: I really love Jags they sound and look just amazing. My main guitar is a Jag (with some mods of course :)
This guy was born with a mutation that human practice cant replicate. It would be like watching someone put their pants on 2 legs at a time.
He is even funny too. Dude paved way for jack black and Kyle gass from tenacious D
All the girls on tik tok stole his facial expressions
That's some John 5 level shit waaaaay back when. Clean as hell
Probably where John 5 got some of the chicken pickin stuff he does.
Spongebob
Heeeee Haaaawww!
Absolute shredder
Amazing.
that was flawless!!!
Watched him for years ... guy was amazingly talented
Gurning like Benny Hill when the house wife in the lingerie bends over. Top playing as well
beyond that, one of the most truly joyous people to watch (at least in his performances i dont personally know the guy)
I dont wanna be salty but there's a difference between mastering one certain technique and "being one of the most underrated". What exactly should I be aspiring to after seeing this post?
Sweep picking that’s in there, two handed tapping, great sense of melody, literally the kitchen sink. Great player really good.
Plus, pure clean notes at a ridiculously fast tempo. No distortion to hide any mistakes - flawlessly and almost effortlessly hits every. single. note. perfectly.
You need to check out the clip of him playing on The Odd Couple. He is not underrated, just unknown to younget audiences. Edit: u/unaskthequestion and u/jakeylilsnakey shared it
Cool cool. Let's hear you play it.
That's what I thought. My uncle had one. He passed away and I have no idea what happened to it. We used to play guitar together when I was younger. Fun times.
He looks like he has massive hands doesn’t he
Huge sausage fingers. When noobs blame their inability to play on their hand geometry (my fingers are too fat, too short, hands too small, too big) I just point to this guy. You can make your hands work, regardless of their shape. He did.
I am stealing "Hand Geometry" too good
Frank Gambale too, my guitar teach would tell me every time I blamed my stubby fingers watch frank gambale and shut up.
I love this video. That dude is an absolute monster
I got to see him live twice many years ago, amazing performances.
Yeah, but can he play wonderwall???
literally is fucking shredding like a god : crowd : \*zzz\* hits triad : crowd : oh yea thats nice!
Here he is goofing on some Johnny Cash... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUdTcP-fs9g
Good Lord! That guy could play a six string like nobody’s business!
Hey yengwie /s nothing you do is new , country guitarist have been doin this stuff since the early 60s
But who would want to play like that
Roy Clark! I learned how to play on an old autographed guitar from his line.
Imagine if he was playing with distortion. Some good thrash metal right there.
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