These guys had more talent in their pinky finger that the bums they call musicians in todays music. True artists and masters of their instruments. And the audience back then was more sophisticated listeners than today's crowd that has no attention span and can't sit still and listen to art. A sad day we live in.
There are some excellent musicians out there but you won't find them on most of what passes for radio today.Try Billy Strings,Molly Tuttle,A.J.Lee,Sierra Hull to name but a few.
Wonderful. Amazing what TV was like back when I was a teenager. I went through Led Zep, Beatles and Stones, Jimi and all the rest. But I really got into these unlikely characters. Shredders, pickers laced with pure melodic playing. And silly jokes. Great time to be young. Chet's Don Maclean interpretation was spot on. Giants of their time indeed.
I've been playing guitar for 30 years and I still feel like these gents are wizards, so smooth and fast with the cleans. Anything they play is a treat.
He was a good ol boy that loved what he did. My family use to sit around pickin music and everyone was cracking jokes and smilin and laughing the whole time. Jerry would have fit right in.
My dad and his family used to watch Hee Haw back when I was a kid and I thought it was just some country bumpkins etc. Little did i know in hindsight or retrospect that I was being exposed to some of the most talented musicians on the planet. Even a lot of heavy metal guitarists claim chet as a guitar influence. I personally think Roy is a genius all around. Wish i had 10% of his talent and I'd still be a premiere talent
I agree with you he haw along with Lawrence Welk we remain stay at our house. I put up with hehaa because of the girls! Now that I am in my 50s I wish I could go back and watch them all again.
I was working in a home couple years ago and noticed the older man was listening to really good music every day.as we started talking,his wife mentioned that they were in roy clarks band on Hee Haw.looked on youtube and there they were.the man was playing a tobacco finish Howard Roberts Custom guitar which he had just sold when i met him.
Chet Atkins was probably one of the very first artist I ever saw that did not learn so much what the instrument could do, but instead made the instrument do what HE wanted it to do. This is why it looks so effortless for him and still sounds so amazing. He pretty much ignored traditional limits on what guitar means and made it into art.
I always had the feeling that the boys were having as much fun playing as we had listening to them. Just one of the many reasons I loved their performances.
When living in Nashville, I got to meet Chet at the HOF groundbreaking ceremony. Nice gentlemen who asked me more about my music when the ceremony was about him and others. Class Act. I have a signed placard I cherish. RIP 🙏💟🌈
I had occasion to meet Roy Clark one night in Vegas (quite by accident, actually). I excused myself, and explained I just wanted to thank him for the years of entertainment (as a musician, I know sometimes, you just don't want to spend the time, but do anyhow). He actually took a few minutes to talk with me and showed interest in my musical journey. He was very much what you see on the screen and on stage.
All this time... few views, only one like? Well, I just doubled it. LOL... came here looking for some Roy Clark memories and discovered this. Kinda makes me feel old, I can remember seeing these amazing pickers in concerts back in the late 60's-70's. Three of the absolute best gone to pick in the Lord's house now. RIP for all three. Thanks for the memories
For me, Chet’s reputation as a virtuoso guitarist was always solid. Roy and Jerry were such consummate entertainers, the comedy occasionally overshadowed the brilliant musicianship. I mean, how can a guy this funny be this great a guitar player, too? Well, many years later, there is no more overshadowing! The best pickers to walk the earth.
@@stewartfenton7660 people who are already naturally humorous do seem to get even more comical on coke or speed, dunno how that works but just look at the cast of Saturday Night Live from the 70s-90s
@@zelmoziggy I agree, just remember him sometimes more of the goofy acting parts he did in lieu of the genius musician he was. I think he wrote and composed the Smokey and the Bandit scores as well.
The fact that this is a piano piece, and he keeps it on piano form while playing it on a guitar... it's just masterful, and most people probably don't realize the talent that takes. Beautiful job!
Three of the world’s most gifted, skillful musicians we’ve ever been graced with. Not enough adjectives in the English language to describe their talents. RIP boys 🎸🙏
Thank you for putting this out there Gene. These are some of the true guitar wizards that has inspired all of us guitar players around this rock we call earth.
From the heyday of guitar pickers. Great show, great guitarists. Admire Roy Clark, adore Chet Atkins simply Love Jerry Reed. When Jerry sings the sunshines through his voice. He was one of my favourite all time pickers. God bless them all for the music and making the world a better place.
Looks like Atkins had specialty fitted Roy Butts filtertrons on that Gibson es335ish he was playing. It doesn't make sense that Gibson put PAFs or similar pickups on everything else then, but I guess they had such a blues and rock following they could care less about clean. Only Roy Clark could get a decent clean tone out of PAFs. By the time these shows were aired in possibly the 70's, Gibson was raking in so much money from their les paul guitars (thanks to Jimmy Page), they could care less about their heritage of beautifully crafted hand carved hollowbodied guitars and clean tones. Perhaps few people had, like Atkins, noted the importance of choice of pickups on tone. IMO, Atkin's best unmuddied cleans (late 50's and early 60's) came out of a hollowbody Gretsch with filtertron pickups thru a (now) vintage Standel 25L15 tube amp. He never picked hard enough to break a fingernail
Don't know enough to comment on pickups, but my ex btlrother- in-law was the best R& B guitar player I ever saw. Never famous. He'd bought a Les Paul Custom which had unsatisfactory pickups. The local big music stores back then would, if you were a known player, let you take an instrument home for a try out. He borrowed one which had pickups he liked, swapped them out and returned the loaner on Monday. Not exactly honest, but they never noticed.
@@whimpypatrol5503 are you talking about the Gretsch with the filtertrons that Chet was playing or the Gibson Byrdland with the humbuckers that Roy was playing? Because Chet never played a Gibson in this video. Just curious….
Chet always had peaceful look on his face when he played. He never had a contorted look like some guitar players when they played something complicated.
Every few years I revist this genre and I just don't know why I let those years go by. Absolutely brilliant. I particularly love Roy, but that's a great bias decision to have to make.
Don't forget Buck Owens! He could rip up a Telecaster as well as anyone! I got to meet Roy in '78. He was wonderful. I was just a dumb 19 yr. old and he was so warm and kind. He advised me to not rely on tuners as he said they had ruined his ability to tune by ear! Blessings L
I use to watch this show all the time when I was young. What great players these guys are. I dont know haw many are still alive but I was blessed to see them.
Any time I’ve seen Chet play with others, he was always gracious to them.
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I love me some Chester!! One of the greatest guitar pickers of all time! Hee Haw we all grew up watching. Especially in the great Central San Joaquín Valley of California!
Jerry Reed was what we call a country hippi back then. Look at way he dresses. Don't let him fool you. He was cool. These guys were the cream of the crop guitar players. Roy was a genius in his own right and could play anything. Hell all of them were genius and could play anything.
Not only is Chet one of my favorite guitarist, but he's done so many duets with my other favorite guitarist...Jerry Reed, Doc Watson, Roy Clark, Mark Knopfler, Les Paul...I'm sure I'm missing a few. This is so bitter sweet. This used to be reality, this was the world we lived in, now look at it. Aww fiddle sticks.
Wow that last song of this clip that Jerry did ..was cut short😢...but in just half a minuite it got to me....Well these are among the greatest in country picking style...under cover of jokes and what have you...great musicians!!!
Roy Clark best guitarist banjo player in the world look and see video playing hard classical Spanish music Jerry Reed favorite all around musician actor and person
@@thjjojodesign Joe I think you speak of Maluguana Roy's Spanish tune. Roy's great but that song is all flash and speed and no intricate picking. I'm nobody and played it at 12 years of age. Not knockin' Roy, I love his contribution to Americana but Jerry had no peers until Tommy Emanuel who co-incidentally was also inspired by the great Chet. Tommy has raised the bar for all us would-be pickers.
If anyone thinks Country musicians are just average, listen to these great musicians, plus Glen Campbell, Randy Scruggs and many others. You might have to think again.
TN, We still must thank them for being tone deaf & hitting the dislike button so many times on about every vid you see that YT has removed that stupid little button . Now we all can just enjoy great playing & they can all crawl back under the rocks they came from.
Mother Maybelle told Fred Rose, "If Chester can't come to Nashville with us, we aren't coming." Chester "Chet" Atkins came to Nashville and Nashville has never been the same.
It's easy to see how Tommy Emmanuel got inspired by these guys! I love how Tommy turned out to be a much different player though. He's very accurate and gentle but his playing is very powerful and dirtier. Love them all!
Who's the best? Asking that is like asking where the water's the wettest. Any one of these magnificent guitarists could take the stage anywhere in the world and bring the audience to their feet.
Roy Clark is the most talented string player, guitarist of all time in my opinion. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed are obviously awesome top notch players..these 3 are the best! RIP you guys! You must be having one helluva jam session up there!
don't forget Glen Campbell... Eddie Van Halen once asked Alice Cooper if he could get Glen to give him a lesson... (Alice and Glen were very close friends) when they were golfing together
Yes by "Jimmy", they would & are Definitely, The Three Greatest Pickers ever too My way of Thinking. I can Recall My Dad, Purposely Shushing 🤫🤫 Other's & Myself, Politely too be Quieter. When the Awesome Chet Atkins was Performing & Playing His Guitar. I was Young I'll Admit it, & I should have paid much Closer Attention than I did about such things. IF I recall Correctly? We saw Mr Atkins on The Grand OLE Opry, most Often. And then of Course Roy Clark & Jerry Reed most Often on Her Haw . Like I said I was Young, so the importance of it all didn't work on Me then. Now Looking Back over that Sixty Year's Span. No One in the Entire Music Industry, can not Help but Admit, that Those There's influence did not Help them too Play Thier Instruments and Master Them. Truly they are The Greatest One's Ever, & May They All RIP With Our Lord at His Side. Thank You for the Memories You reawoke of Them. Wyoming, Robert, 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦👍🤔👀🤔👍😎😎🙏🙏🙏🙏
Jerry borrowed Neil Diamond's 💎 silk shirt and super bell flare pants ! His playing was some of the best he ever performed. Chet's Vincent was inspired.
Very nice compilation. .. we would have added Glen (Campbell).Right smack in the middle of our favorite guitar players including Duane Allman, Hendrix, Beck, Tommy Emmanuel, Derek Trucks and a couple others sits Chet Atkins. Never hit a bad note. Roy is amazing and definitely underrated and Jerry is on our video "Most Underrated Guitarists-12 of the Best." Seen of lot of Chet and Jerry together. A lot of Roy and Glen. Gonna have to search for Chet with Roy and Glen. Surely they've played together at some point. Off to look.
And, Chet’s dear friends who were pioneering KY Thumb Pickers, the father, Mose Rager, Merle Travis, and O’Dell Martin (my daddy and hero) who had one of his many instrumentals recorded by Chet on his Me & My Guitar album in 1977 called David’s Dance. Roy was a better entertainer, than player, and a distant second to Chet and Jerry. Tone, technique, touch, and mastery. The sounds of my childhood. Proud that my dad is in the National Thumb Pickers HOF with them all.
These guys had more talent in their pinky finger that the bums they call musicians in todays music. True artists and masters of their instruments. And the audience back then was more sophisticated listeners than today's crowd that has no attention span and can't sit still and listen to art. A sad day we live in.
There are some excellent musicians out there but you won't find them on most of what passes for radio today.Try Billy Strings,Molly Tuttle,A.J.Lee,Sierra Hull to name but a few.
You are correct.
@@randyelliott9152 Thanks Randy.
Do you play
You know if these guys had pro tools they'd be dropping sick beats at 2:00 a.m. in Ibiza🤣
Who else can't get enough of that Jerry Reed?
Son
Can never get enough
Jerry was one of the few people who could make Chet laugh out loud.
Jerry could make the pope laugh
The Best country Guitarist ever no one has even come close, well except one Tommy from Australia God bless American music ......
Next time you see Tommy ask him about Chet
Glenn Campbell...
Jim Stafford... Billy Strings...
Yer did OK. I finks, but that Ozzie - well I'll be. I say chaps do speak proper won'tcha! BjG in UK.
Technique is Jerry ≫≫≫Chet
All we need is Glen and the you would have four of the best to ever pick in Country,
I've always asked if each of them made the following statement "really, I get to play with..., he's the greatest".
Wonderful. Amazing what TV was like back when I was a teenager. I went through Led Zep, Beatles and Stones, Jimi and all the rest. But I really got into these unlikely characters. Shredders, pickers laced with pure melodic playing. And silly jokes. Great time to be young. Chet's Don Maclean interpretation was spot on. Giants of their time indeed.
All three of these men were guitar greats. I am glad I was able to grow up through the years that I did. They were pretty darn good.
Agree with that ... Ya!
I've been playing guitar for 30 years and I still feel like these gents are wizards, so smooth and fast with the cleans. Anything they play is a treat.
Jerry Reed just makes me smile. A talented songwriter, guitar virtuoso and great character actor. Boy could he shred...
I think he was likely the most talented of all these guys. His silliness may have hurt a bit but he was so entertaining. Likable.
@@annunacky4463 Jerry might have been silly, but Roy was plumb whacky!
And always seemed to have the most fun doing it. Watch this, and tell me he's not ecstatic
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"You think your nervous... I could thread a sewing machine while its running!" He was such a ham.
He was a good ol boy that loved what he did. My family use to sit around pickin music and everyone was cracking jokes and smilin and laughing the whole time. Jerry would have fit right in.
My dad and his family used to watch Hee Haw back when I was a kid and I thought it was just some country bumpkins etc. Little did i know in hindsight or retrospect that I was being exposed to some of the most talented musicians on the planet. Even a lot of heavy metal guitarists claim chet as a guitar influence. I personally think Roy is a genius all around. Wish i had 10% of his talent and I'd still be a premiere talent
ditto!
I agree with you he haw along with Lawrence Welk we remain stay at our house. I put up with hehaa because of the girls! Now that I am in my 50s I wish I could go back and watch them all again.
I was working in a home couple years ago and noticed the older man was listening to really good music every day.as we started talking,his wife mentioned that they were in roy clarks band on Hee Haw.looked on youtube and there they were.the man was playing a tobacco finish Howard Roberts Custom guitar which he had just sold when i met him.
Well, they are country bumpkins that happen to be some of the most talented musicians on the planet.
Chet Atkins was probably one of the very first artist I ever saw that did not learn so much what the instrument could do, but instead made the instrument do what HE wanted it to do. This is why it looks so effortless for him and still sounds so amazing. He pretty much ignored traditional limits on what guitar means and made it into art.
I always had the feeling that the boys were having as much fun playing as we had listening to them. Just one of the many reasons I loved their performances.
When living in Nashville, I got to meet Chet at the HOF groundbreaking ceremony. Nice gentlemen who asked me more about my music when the ceremony was about him and others. Class Act. I have a signed placard I cherish. RIP 🙏💟🌈
Roy = the jester with a pinch of talent
Chet = the OG. Very, very good.
Jerry = The GOAT, peerless.
Gorgeous. No need to even sing. I grew up on all this. Miss it dearly.
I had occasion to meet Roy Clark one night in Vegas (quite by accident, actually). I excused myself, and explained I just wanted to thank him for the years of entertainment (as a musician, I know sometimes, you just don't want to spend the time, but do anyhow). He actually took a few minutes to talk with me and showed interest in my musical journey.
He was very much what you see on the screen and on stage.
All this time... few views, only one like? Well, I just doubled it. LOL... came here looking for some Roy Clark memories and discovered this. Kinda makes me feel old, I can remember seeing these amazing pickers in concerts back in the late 60's-70's. Three of the absolute best gone to pick in the Lord's house now. RIP for all three. Thanks for the memories
Great guitar playing the best
Steve howe is a revivalist! You ought to watch his montreux concert on youtube. He is very obviously a chef admirer
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Wholeheartedly agree!!!!
For me, Chet’s reputation as a virtuoso guitarist was always solid. Roy and Jerry were such consummate entertainers, the comedy occasionally overshadowed the brilliant musicianship. I mean, how can a guy this funny be this great a guitar player, too? Well, many years later, there is no more overshadowing! The best pickers to walk the earth.
One reason why jerry and roy were so comical was their cocaine use. Yes it is true.
@@crazycat1345 well I don't want it to be.
@@stewartfenton7660 people who are already naturally humorous do seem to get even more comical on coke or speed, dunno how that works but just look at the cast of Saturday Night Live from the 70s-90s
@@jasondorsey7110 John Belushi, RIP.
Would have been class to see those three playing together, Jerry would have been a class touch if he made that duet between Chet and Roy a trio.
Three of the baddest guitarist and don't let Jerry Reed fool you he was a master.
I don’t think he ever tried to fool anybody that he wasn’t a good guitar player.
@@zelmoziggy I agree, just remember him sometimes more of the goofy acting parts he did in lieu of the genius musician he was. I think he wrote and composed the Smokey and the Bandit scores as well.
The Me and Chet and Me and Jerry records are great.
Roy Clark is probably the most talented person ever. Badass Boxer, Banjo Player, Fiddle Player, guitar player, and could sing with perfect control
We could go on all day, but it would be a shame to not mention his talent as a comedian and performer
@@NerdFromDenmark Well, I always thought that Roy was funnier than Buck. There's only one Roy Clark! Karl
But Jerry was the pretty boy. Can't deny that either!
Minus 6, he was on Hee Haw,
Don't forget trumpet. Roy also played trumpet.
Jerry, chet, roy, truly masters of their craft it doesn't get any better.
Absolutely right!!!
All so wonderful. Chet on Vincent is haunting.
I wrote an Essay on Roy Clark in English class about 1977. Jimmy Page and Roy Clark were the influence that got me to picking up a guitar
Chet Atkins playing Starry Night, probably one of the best performances of that ever.
the harmonics he uses for one of the versus are incredible - the whole song is as you say.
Have to have a good ear to depict Van Gogh musically
Vincent is the song by the great Don McLean
@@harmonicajohn1059 I see or hear what you did there 😊
This video reminded me how supremely talented these musicians where
Love how Chet respects the nature of "The Entertainer" and doesn't try to light it on fire even though he could.
He always maintained the integrity of the song.
It’s the definition of class
Richard Smith does the entertainer with real class as well
The fact that this is a piano piece, and he keeps it on piano form while playing it on a guitar... it's just masterful, and most people probably don't realize the talent that takes.
Beautiful job!
Three of the world’s most gifted, skillful musicians we’ve ever been graced with. Not enough adjectives in the English language to describe their talents. RIP boys 🎸🙏
Nope they never made them words
Thank you for putting this out there Gene. These are some of the true guitar wizards that has inspired all of us guitar players around this rock we call earth.
I had the pleasure of meeting Roy Clark at the old Rayman auditorium. He was a very nice person and easy to talk to.
I too, took for granted Roy's talent as a kid, watching Hee Haw.
Sounds beautiful to hear Chet play a classical guitar
Great banjo ride by Fred Newell. Used to visit with him when we worked the same rodeos and fairs back in the seventies. One fine musician he is.
From the heyday of guitar pickers. Great show, great guitarists. Admire Roy Clark, adore Chet Atkins simply Love Jerry Reed. When Jerry sings the sunshines through his voice. He was one of my favourite all time pickers. God bless them all for the music and making the world a better place.
Chet always gets the best tones. He never pushes the instrument to point where it protests but right to the line.
Chet was the pioneer of so much guitar sound. That guy Ali be ta( sp) learned from him
Looks like Atkins had specialty fitted Roy Butts filtertrons on that Gibson es335ish he was playing. It doesn't make sense that Gibson put PAFs or similar pickups on everything else then, but I guess they had such a blues and rock following they could care less about clean. Only Roy Clark could get a decent clean tone out of PAFs. By the time these shows were aired in possibly the 70's, Gibson was raking in so much money from their les paul guitars (thanks to Jimmy Page), they could care less about their heritage of beautifully crafted hand carved hollowbodied guitars and clean tones. Perhaps few people had, like Atkins, noted the importance of choice of pickups on tone. IMO, Atkin's best unmuddied cleans (late 50's and early 60's) came out of a hollowbody Gretsch with filtertron pickups thru a (now) vintage Standel 25L15 tube amp. He never picked hard enough to break a fingernail
@@whimpypatrol5503 He's playing a Gretsch Super Chet model there...the Filtertrons are on-brand!!!
Don't know enough to comment on pickups, but my ex btlrother- in-law was the best R& B guitar player I ever saw. Never famous. He'd bought a Les Paul Custom which had unsatisfactory pickups. The local big music stores back then would, if you were a known player, let you take an instrument home for a try out. He borrowed one which had pickups he liked, swapped them out and returned the loaner on Monday. Not exactly honest, but they never noticed.
@@whimpypatrol5503 are you talking about the Gretsch with the filtertrons that Chet was playing or the Gibson Byrdland with the humbuckers that Roy was playing? Because Chet never played a Gibson in this video. Just curious….
Chet Atkins. The Master!
These three are among the best ever in any genre but, I’m going to have to add Glen Campbell into this fraternity also!
This show gave comfort for so many for so long.
I love Vincent! The way Chet does it so we’ll!
Chet always had peaceful look on his face when he played. He never had a contorted look like some guitar players when they played something complicated.
Even the great Mark Knoffler of Dire Straits listed Chet Atkins as his one of his biggest infuences
So did George Harrison
Wow, Chet Atkins playing Don Maclean’s Vincent was one of the beautiful things I’ve heard.
Chet was always so smooth and percise in his playing of the guitar!
You can tell Roy just loved sharing the stage with Chet.
Roy usually looked like he was having fun. I think the man enjoyed himself and well deserved.
Another one was Glen Campbell.
Three of the best players ever. Thanks Hee Haw. And thanks Pop Goes the Country!! Both shows were classics!!
Chet played guitar like Fred Astaire danced.
3 of the greatest guitarists ever.
And we haven't even gotten to Glen Campbell ! What an era for guitar playing !
Three of the GREATEST Guitar Players
My father was an amazing guitar player....I grew up on this music....I was told he played with Chet Atkins once. He definitely could have!!!
Every few years I revist this genre and I just don't know why I let those years go by. Absolutely brilliant. I particularly love Roy, but that's a great bias decision to have to make.
Don't forget Buck Owens!
He could rip up a Telecaster as well as anyone!
I got to meet Roy in '78. He was wonderful. I was just a dumb 19 yr. old and he was so warm and kind.
He advised me to not rely on tuners as he said they had ruined his ability to tune by ear!
Blessings
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I use to watch this show all the time when I was young. What great players these guys are. I dont know haw many are still alive but I was blessed to see them.
Atkins playing "Starry, Starry Night", by Don McLean is always a win!
Wow! Jerry's Flares have Flares of their own .....these guys are absolute Legends
And his sideburns have sideburns. Legendary!
They were Elvis' who gave them to Jerry after they had shrunk in the washing machine by a hotel maid who didn't know.
These Artists just leave me overwhelmed! Such talent and skill!
Respect the way Chet and Roy complimented each other!
Any time I’ve seen Chet play with others, he was always gracious to them.
I love me some Chester!! One of the greatest guitar pickers of all time! Hee Haw we all grew up watching. Especially in the great Central San Joaquín Valley of California!
All great players but Jerry Reed stokes the hottest flames of the bunch!
Jerry Reed was what we call a country hippi back then. Look at way he dresses. Don't let him fool you. He was cool. These guys were the cream of the crop guitar players. Roy was a genius in his own right and could play anything. Hell all of them were genius and could play anything.
I was lucky enough to grow up listening to my Dad and the May's. Bros Terry Jerry And Don. Such talent..... Go to sea and wait😆
"The 3 Kings of guitar picking hands down"
Not only is Chet one of my favorite guitarist, but he's done so many duets with my other favorite guitarist...Jerry Reed, Doc Watson, Roy Clark, Mark Knopfler, Les Paul...I'm sure I'm missing a few. This is so bitter sweet. This used to be reality, this was the world we lived in, now look at it. Aww fiddle sticks.
Thank God we have Justin Bieber today😂😂😂😂
Wow that last song of this clip that Jerry did ..was cut short😢...but in just half a minuite it got to me....Well these are among the greatest in country picking style...under cover of jokes and what have you...great musicians!!!
Country guitar royalty.
Love them all but in the end Jerry Reed is my favorite country picker!
Roy Clark best guitarist banjo player in the world look and see video playing hard classical Spanish music Jerry Reed favorite all around musician actor and person
Look up roy Clark odd couple
He sure is 🥰
@@thjjojodesign Joe I think you speak of Maluguana Roy's Spanish tune. Roy's great but that song is all flash and speed and no intricate picking. I'm nobody and played it at 12 years of age. Not knockin' Roy, I love his contribution to Americana but Jerry had no peers until Tommy Emanuel who co-incidentally was also inspired by the great Chet. Tommy has raised the bar for all us would-be pickers.
@@tracy-lynbootle3405 you could play like roy clark at 12, riiiiiight
We have lost so many of our wonderful artists, all the old timers were great!
If anyone thinks Country musicians are just average, listen to these great musicians, plus Glen Campbell, Randy Scruggs and many others. You might have to think again.
The greats of guitar picking. Thank you, Chet and Jerry, but I think Roy is the MAN!
Three Greats
Now they’re picking in Heaven .
These made the guitar ......The Legend ! They gave it the voice of music !
Three of the best pickers of all time, such mastery. And 28 people wouldn't know talent if it bit them in the ass!
TN, We still must thank them for being tone deaf & hitting the dislike button so many times on about every vid you see that YT has removed that stupid little button . Now we all can just enjoy great playing & they can all crawl back under the rocks they came from.
@@paullevine1813 The button wasn't removed, and there's an extension for Chrome and Firefox that will reveal the dislike count.
Go
3 of the biggest most talented losses in music
Roy and Jerry are two of my favorites, thank you
Chet's performance of Vincent was fantastic. I'm hoping that Don McLean approved and was impressed as well. I know that I was.
I saw them playing it together once on a TV show.
Roy Clark was/is a national treasure. That man is quite possibly the most entertaining performer that ever was.
Mother Maybelle told Fred Rose, "If Chester can't come to Nashville with us, we aren't coming." Chester "Chet" Atkins came to Nashville and Nashville has never been the same.
Unknown Hinson was right about todays rock guitarists. Country western takes real skill.
These guys, Chet in particular, inspired all the big British guitarists. Jimmy absolutely loves this guy.
Jerry, loved his fun style and was an amazing picker for sure!
It's easy to see how Tommy Emmanuel got inspired by these guys! I love how Tommy turned out to be a much different player though. He's very accurate and gentle but his playing is very powerful and dirtier. Love them all!
Who's the best? Asking that is like asking where the water's the wettest.
Any one of these magnificent guitarists could take the stage anywhere in the world and bring the audience to their feet.
This is a great video. Chet and Jerry are so greatly missed. They were both so good.
Look how relaxed Chet is! Jerry is just a fireball!
They sure are! xx
Roy Clark is the most talented string player, guitarist of all time in my opinion. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed are obviously awesome top notch players..these 3 are the best! RIP you guys! You must be having one helluva jam session up there!
I know a couple of guys who played in Roy Clark’s band. As you might expect, they are both solid musicians and impeccable players.
Through in Carl Perkins and Glem Campbell and the rest is history.
don't forget Glen Campbell... Eddie Van Halen once asked Alice Cooper if he could get Glen to give him a lesson... (Alice and Glen were very close friends) when they were golfing together
Chet was just another level all his own, absolutely no disrespect to any other great player! But they don’t call him Mr. Guitar for nuthin’! 👏🎶🔥
This kind of is still alive and well listen and watch Tommy Emmanuel and Richard Smith on RUclips
Add Glen Campbell and all the bases are covered! No one in country music today has this level of musicianship!
RIP BOYS!!! Ty for your lives!
I just LOVE the look of Divine concentration on Chet’s face!
Yes by "Jimmy", they would & are Definitely, The Three Greatest Pickers ever too My way of Thinking.
I can Recall My Dad, Purposely Shushing 🤫🤫 Other's & Myself, Politely too be Quieter. When the Awesome Chet Atkins was Performing & Playing His Guitar.
I was Young I'll Admit it, & I should have paid much Closer Attention than I did about such things. IF I recall Correctly? We saw Mr Atkins on The Grand OLE Opry, most Often. And then of Course Roy Clark & Jerry Reed most Often on Her Haw .
Like I said I was Young, so the importance of it all didn't work on Me then. Now Looking Back over that Sixty Year's Span. No One in the Entire Music Industry, can not Help but Admit, that Those There's influence did not Help them too Play Thier Instruments and Master Them.
Truly they are The Greatest One's Ever, & May They All RIP With Our Lord at His Side. Thank You for the Memories You reawoke of Them.
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Jerry borrowed Neil Diamond's 💎 silk shirt and super bell flare pants !
His playing was some of the best he ever performed.
Chet's Vincent was inspired.
Chet, Jerry and Roy, thanks for the reminder of amazing talent
Very nice compilation. .. we would have added Glen (Campbell).Right smack in the middle of our favorite guitar players including Duane Allman, Hendrix, Beck, Tommy Emmanuel, Derek Trucks and a couple others sits Chet Atkins. Never hit a bad note. Roy is amazing and definitely underrated and Jerry is on our video "Most Underrated Guitarists-12 of the Best." Seen of lot of Chet and Jerry together. A lot of Roy and Glen. Gonna have to search for Chet with Roy and Glen. Surely they've played together at some point. Off to look.
This is the kind of tv we need again. Real talent...
Telly is dead buddy :)
@@robocop6444 Ya, shameful really.....
They don’t make musicians like this anymore 😢
Miss these guys!
Simply fantastic! So great musicians and guitar players…. Cool stuff!!!! I love it ❤️
And, Chet’s dear friends who were pioneering KY Thumb Pickers, the father, Mose Rager, Merle Travis, and O’Dell Martin (my daddy and hero) who had one of his many instrumentals recorded by Chet on his Me & My Guitar album in 1977 called David’s Dance. Roy was a better entertainer, than player, and a distant second to Chet and Jerry. Tone, technique, touch, and mastery. The sounds of my childhood. Proud that my dad is in the National Thumb Pickers HOF with them all.
Jerry Reed , Roy Clark just fun incredibly talented enteriners.
I think Chet's version of Starry, Starry Night is just the best there is.