Roy Clark with a Jaguar in 1964

[GAD]

 

[GGJaguar]

That guy could play anything with strings. The Jag is custom color (looks like a metallic) with matching headstock.

 

[Walter Broes]

I like his "benny hill" shtick. He seems to have gone from a Gibson endorsement to a Fender endorsement at some point in the early 60's. There are some clips of him playing different very fancy custom Byrdlands, usually with a Charlie Christian pickup in the neck and either a P90 or a humbucker in the bridge.

Great guitar player - he was Wanda Jackson's band leader during the stint she had in Vegas. I've backed Jackson up several times, and at one point asked her about Roy Clark - whether his benny hill stage act was as developed already back then - and she told me she could NOT look at him straight in the face during a show, or she would lose it to the extent she had to get off stage to get back into a straight face.

 

[Uke]

Check Joe out -- another surprise jazz/jag player:

 

[GAD]

Roy Clark was the first guitarist I remember linking. The guy is an absolutely monster player and his comedy skills helped land him on HeeHaw which is where I saw him as a kid. I'm pretty sure Roy Clark's Greatest Hits Volume 1 was the first record I bought which introduced me to Riders in the Sky.

 

[Teleguy61]

Check Joe out -- another surprise jazz/jag player:

Joe was playing that Jag at Synanon House, an addiction-recovery facility, where Joe stayed for a while when getting straight
from heroin.
Fender supplied guitars to the facility for use of the patients, and Joe liked the Jag the best, so that's the one he played.

 

[Canard]

Topic 1 -- Always loved Roy Clark, not always what he played but rather how he played it. Chops to burn.

This album with Gatemouth still gets intense repeated exposures on my turntable from time to time:



Topic 2 -- Fenders and Jazz. Nothing wrong with Fenders and Jazz. Teles. Jag/masters. Even Strats. A guy at Jazz.be introduced me through Youtube to a player in California who played very credible Jazz guitar on a Strat -- lovely tone. Most of the magic is in the head, the ears, and the fingers. The instrument can help but it is not the music.

 

[Uke]

Joe was playing that Jag at Synanon House, an addiction-recovery facility, where Joe stayed for a while when getting straight
from heroin.
Fender supplied guitars to the facility for use of the patients, and Joe liked the Jag the best, so that's the one he played.

Yes. Was Synanon House the same facility Charlie Parker was in a few years earlier (for the same problem)?

 

[Uke]

Topic 1 -- Always loved Roy Clark, not always what he played but rather how he played it. Chops to burn.

This album with Gatemouth still gets intense repeated exposures on my turntable from time to time:



Topic 2 -- Fenders and Jazz. Nothing wrong with Fenders and Jazz. Teles. Jag/masters. Even Strats. A guy at Jazz.be introduced me through Youtube to a player in California who played very credible Jazz guitar on a Strat -- lovely tone. Most of the magic is in the head, the ears, and the fingers. The instrument can help but it is not the music.

I think you could include Jimmy Bryant on his tele into the Jazz category as well.

 

[Uke]

And by the way, Joe and Roy finally got together before they passed:

 

[FNG]

Topic 1 -- Always loved Roy Clark, not always what he played but rather how he played it. Chops to burn.

This album with Gatemouth still gets intense repeated exposures on my turntable from time to time:



Topic 2 -- Fenders and Jazz. Nothing wrong with Fenders and Jazz. Teles. Jag/masters. Even Strats. A guy at Jazz.be introduced me through Youtube to a player in California who played very credible Jazz guitar on a Strat -- lovely tone. Most of the magic is in the head, the ears, and the fingers. The instrument can help but it is not the music.

I had that album in high school! Caledonia!

 

[Teleguy61]

Yes. Was Synanon House the same facility Charlie Parker was in a few years earlier (for the same problem)?

No, Charlie Parker was in Camarillo State Hospital, involuntarily.
He had come to California, run out of dope, and started to act strangely.
From Wikipedia--

"The title "Relaxin' at Camarillo" was a reference to Parker's stay in Camarillo State Hospital in Ventura County, California, a mental health inpatient facility. He had been sent there to recuperate from alcohol and drug addiction after he was briefly jailed for setting fire to his Los Angeles hotel room bed sheets and running naked through the hotel lobby while intoxicated.[1][2] According to musicologist and Parker scholar Henry Martin, Parker wanted to call the tune "Past Due", and was not happy with the title assigned by Dial Records that referenced the difficult episode in his life."

 

[Westerly Wood]

Roy Clark was also hilarious.

 

[walrus]

Two of my favorite jazz guitarists have been known for playing Telecasters - Bill Frisell and Julian Lage!

walrus

 

[bobouz]

One of my all-time favorite albums:

 

[davidbeinct]

The first video in this thread was in my YouTube feed just the other day. Although he was doing it for comedic effect, it was pretty cool seeing Roy Clark doing a pick slide in 1964.

 

[SFIV1967]

Roy Clark also owned and played a 1961 Jazzmaster in Sunburst with S/N 67765 which is said he got her from Leo Fender himself.



The Jaguar is supposed to be a 1963 one, don't know about the metallic color. Here is another one from the same show as in post #1:



Ralf

 

[Uke]

Roy Clark also owned and played a 1961 Jazzmaster in Sunburst with S/N 67765 which is said he got her from Leo Fender himself.



The Jaguar is supposed to be a 1963 one, don't know about the metallic color. Here is another one from the same show as in post #1:



Ralf

Maybe it's just me, but the second video's Jaguar sounds better than the Jazzmaster in the first video. Always fun to have a side by side comparison.

 

[AcornHouse]

Thought you meant this '64.

 

[davidbeinct]

Thought you meant this '64.

Always been one of my dream cars.