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Topic: Roy Clark has died |
Gary Watkins
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Bristol, VA
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Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 10:00 am |
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Oh no, one of my favorite entertainers. I’m so sorry to hear this news.
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Craig Stock
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Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 10:13 am
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So sad, As a young kid in the Northeast, the only country music we had, was Hee Haw, and we watched it all the time.
R.I.P. Roy and condolences to his family!!
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I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days
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John Brock
From:
Xenia, Ohio
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 10:14 am Roy clark
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Tremendous loss....the reason many folks..especially my own brother began playing at a young age..one of the true greatest artists of our lifetime...RIP
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 11:00 am
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Roy was not only a master technician on several instruments but one of the last in a long line of vaudeville-like performers who could hold a crowd spellbound with just an instrument and their personality. He would pull off the most impossible licks while wearing an expression like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I can't really call him an influence but I always had the utmost respect for his abilities and all that he accomplished as an entertainer and in particular, as an amazing picker. RIP.
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 12:49 pm
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| I only met him one time. We did a show at Himmelreich Grove park (Pennsylvania) in 1965. The park had Sunday country music shows with one or two local bands and one major name band or entertainer. Roy had worked the Jimmy Dean show the night before. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 1:25 pm
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Andy's got it--he excelled as an entertainer as much as he did as a guitarist.
He was 85---complications from pneumonia. I hadn't realized he had been inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
I think he owned a Super Stearman for a while--gotta love a guy who'd do that.
I never much liked his singing, but he lit it up whenever he soloed.
He and Jimmy Dean go back to the early-mid 1950s, at least. Dean's Texas Wildcats was a honking band at that time with Roy and Marvin Carroll on steel. Dean never sounded this good later on.
With Wanda in Phoenix. He played the hot guitar on most of her early rockers.
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Stephen Abruzzo
From:
Philly, PA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 2:30 pm
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Great git player........RIP.
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Don Kuhn
From:
Poetry/Terrell ,Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 2:49 pm
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| Sorry to hear this I can just hear him and Buck singing "Loves Going To Live Here Again on" up in Hillbilly Heaven. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Ted Smith
From:
Idaho - shot of Jeff Peterson, Ted and Smith Curry "Nothing but the taillights tour"
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 5:30 pm
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I just remember how he could crack you up with just his grin, he and Dad never had a straight face when we were doing stuff during the old Melobar days with him. This shot they were "supposed" to be getting a radio ad done in a hotel suite, Dad brought in an amp and they started fooling around and about got us kicked out of the place... We're going to miss you Roy
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Terry Wood
From:
Lebanon, MO
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 8:39 pm
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| Another Great entertainer gone! Prayers for his Family and Friends! |
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Andy Sandoval
From:
Bakersfield, California, USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 9:25 pm
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| I could listen to him play for hours RIP Roy... |
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Godfrey Arthur
From:
3rd Rock
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Posted 15 Nov 2018 11:18 pm
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Godspeed Roy Clark!
Because of you many are still a-pickin' and a-grinnin'...
SALUTE!!!
Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
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Floyd Lowery
From:
Deland, Florida, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2018 7:49 am
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The first time I saw Roy Clark, he came out to front a big name act all alone. No band. I thought man, this guy can't entertain this auditorium full of people by his self. Well, I got fooled. Not only did he entertain them, he had them completely where he wanted them. Including me. I remember him. I don't remember who he was fronting.
I met him when the band I was in fronted his show at the Weirsdale Opry. He was as nice a person as I thought he would be. Same as you see on TV.
Rest in Peace Roy. You have a lot of friends on the other side to catch up with.
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Don R Brown
From:
Rochester, New York, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2018 8:06 am
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Now it appears the hoax story is a hoax and he DID pass away. I think I have a good sense of humor, but I just fail to find ANYTHING funny about spoofing somebody's passing. Very poor taste if you ask me! 
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Jon Zimmerman
From:
California, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2018 10:18 am RIP Roy
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| Roys fingers could tumble like a circus athlete up n down most any stringed instrument. Demonstrated his astounding natural ability with ease, and flash galore, like he was saying "If I can do it like this, so can any player." Cut from the same cloth as a Merle Travis, or Chet Atkins... add in his bubbly, personable, infectious enthusiasm, yet down home enuf for any audience. Always ready for that "special guest appearance". Will be most sorely missed here on earth, but a welcome standout performer on high. |
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Jon Voth
From:
Virginia, USA
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Posted 16 Nov 2018 7:09 pm
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In my college years (both in KS and NM) he would do the state fair circuit. I would play the tuba in the band for the rodeo, and got to stay and watch the show afterwards for free.
He always did a penultimate "Malegueña" and it was among the most inspiring experiences I've had in my life. |
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Clark Doughty
From:
KANSAS
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Posted 17 Nov 2018 3:35 pm Roy Clark
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IN the mid to late sixties I stood right down in front of the stage two nights running at the Alabama State Fair & listened/watched Roy Perform. In his closing number he said what I'm going to play now will scar some of your young guitar players for life and said with that big smile on his face. "some of us have it and some don't" and he lit off on "Malaguena" and brought the hose down...........what memories
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 17 Nov 2018 11:52 pm
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Sad news, he was an incredible entertainer and musician. RIP, Mr. Clark.
Walter Stettner
Vienna, Austria
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Nov 2018 5:53 am
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| Roy had the whole package - terrific musician, fine singer, and great entertainer. A guitarist's guitarist, he was a technician but a lot more than a technician. RIP, Roy. |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 21 Nov 2018 7:42 pm
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Besides being a great entertainer, he was also a pilot, and owned and flew several airplanes, including a couple of Mitsubishi jets.
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 24 Nov 2018 5:47 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFJPGUiR00
Above link to a 32 minute filmed interview with Roy, probably no more than 2 years ago. He is a bit frail and has a raspy voice.
It's quite good.....he covers a lot of topics. Jack Webb, raising the strings on a standard guitar to play Hawaiian, backing Elvis in Washington DC before Elvis went in the army, hosting the Tonight Show, Jimmy Dean, placing his hands in ice water to numb the pain so he could continue to practice, encountering Hank Williams, etc.
Here's a screen grab--I wonder who that is on steel? Quite possibly a Washington DC or Virginia area player.
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