This is when I think Danny was at his best, just hanging out informally and playing off the top of his head. Amazing! His improvizations sound better than most composed songs!
You can sitt for hours listening to guitar shredders playing hi-gain solos at a billion notes per second - and then switch to some Danny Gatton video and he blows them all away just by the sheer COOLNESS of his playing!
Great to hear Danny being so simplistic about something he made so intricate and complicated that it transcends mere mortal achievement. Th Evil Knievel of the tele-titans!!
Not only is this the greasiest dude alive, not only can he rip the Tele apart, That's not enough. No! His watch has to do the perfect star sparkle on top of it all.
what most dont realize when they see three guys playing the country thing is that danny only dabeled in country, he spent more time on other styles than the other two,but yet he is the majic man here.the other two are great players but he is majic
Albert Lee is fast, Vince Gill is fast but thay have to tip their hats to Danny Gatton the Fastest. I think all guitars that run scales should listen to the scales of Danny, and rethink how the scales of Danny will fit any kind of music. Keep Danny alive, keep the videos coming and watch him close.
Just the best. Long live the king,(Danny Gatton). My hero from the early 80s.
@4engle One of the other things you might think about doing is going to Amazon and buying the DVD. He died in the early 90's and all proceeds go to help his family. It's about $10-15.
"Most people who are not musicians, even some musicians, will not understand that this type of feel and tone is almost purely based on his hands, not his amp or guitar, he had paws of a bear." Yes, the tone is in your hands as much as anything, in the way you shape your nails, your attack, your tone settings, where you pick and how, and so on. DG could play any guitar and it would still sound like him. "Paws of a bear"? Danny's hands were quite small, but that did not hold him back.
@Chickenpainter111: Check out Scotty Anderson sometime. Scotty plays faster and cleaner than probably any Tele player who ever lived. Scotty and DG were good buddies, BTW. Tough to pick one all-time monster Tele guy in this country and country-jazz style... Jimmy Bryant is certainly in the mix, Danny, Scotty, guys like Albert Lee, and also someone like Leon Rhodes of the Texas Troubadours, Ernest Tubb's guitar player. DG was definitely unique, though... I miss his playing a great deal.
Virtuoso but total rubbish in linking one lick to the other - there is a very short but noticable pause and this just kills the piece. But who the heck cares, he's a virtuoso, right?
To the person looking for footage of Danny and Roy playing together,they played with Vince Gill. Its on youtube somewhere.3 chicken pickers garaunteed to send all the rest of us running back to hide under the chicken shed.
Danny and Roy was a weird thnging cause they used to be roomates in Nashville i beleive.I grew up in Leesburg,Va.and Roy walked in the music store.I thought he was some rube.Id heard Live Stock and knew who he was just didnt know what he looked like.Roy ended up trying to hang himself in the Leesburg jail and later finished the job in Fairfax county.Danny i got to know pretty well.Amazing how much they really played alike.Economy of movement.I saw Roy at the Bottom Line.2 great losses for sure.
I've had the pleasure of live performances of Danny and Roy. Not an easy biz and that most likely did its toll on each. Chet Atkins made his fortune as a producer not as a picker. What does that tell you about the biz?
What's really cool about this video is that he hasn't played a note yet, but has given more useful information than most other guitar instruction videos.
It´s a typical case that he did not tour withfamous artists - the sad truth is, they don´t want brilliant instrumentalists as they could steal the show from them...
Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan the two best tele men in the business. I know they where friends but cant seem to find any footage of them playing together. Can anyone help?
what was really great about danny gatton,was the eccentricities in his playing that just made him so unique,one of kind man I wish he was still alive and as famous as he deserved rto be,RIP DG
Most people who are not musicians, even some musicians, will not understand that this type of feel and tone is almost purely based on his hands, not his amp or guitar, he had paws of a bear.
About Danny's Picks - The "teardrop" jazz pick Danny used (Fender) is hard to find nowadays, except in the flimsy thin version. However, a Danny devotee from DC turned me on to Clayton picks, easily obtained from the net (Musician's Friend) . The "Clayton Raven" is about 80 guage and has a somewhat rough surface, so do you don't need to scratch it up on your volume pot to prevent slippage.
@whitehawkeFLA Hey there.I know your post was a while ago but I was just wondering wether you've tried using the red Jim Dunlop Jazz 3 picks?My friend introduced them to me around ten years ago.I would presume that they're similar to the teardrops.I haven't looked back since.
@fenderstratplayer14 It's something Danny designed for The Magic Dingus Box, something like a pedal that he designed with his father to control all of his effects. It's just a box with lots of knobs and switches that control his leslie, echo box, and eq that he used to use in the Redneck Jazz Explosion. You can find pics of it on his website. The part behind the bridge was used to hold the box in place on the guitar, as he did with his pinstriped les paul.
R.I.P. Danny....you were the best. This is the most educational and helpful vid I have seen regarding tuning and stringing. Mike...the amp don't matter. Danny would get his sound no matter what he played thru.
I ordered this video from an ad in the back of Guitar Player Mag in 1989. It took about 2 months to get it! in the meantime I got to see him in a small pub in Fells Point, Baltimore, he signed my "Unfinished Buissness" LP, he was such a sweetheart! what a great soul! RIP Danny! We miss you!
@ChyronIsChillin Well there was also Ted Greene who recently passed away. Buster B Jones... Just to name a few. Why the fuck they're all dead now is beyond me...
@outtacastatv All righty. If you believe what you've heard, then you're certainly allowed to believe that. I disagree, however, with the person or source you got that from.
@ChyronIsChillin mate you would be surprised he called him a real nast cunt, a dirty motherfucker. they aint no liars either look he might play well but that dont excuse his ways
@outtacastatv Well, if he gave them reason to believe that, then I'm sorry to hear that. However, he killed himself, so there's no use talking about him like that now. I'm just here to appreciate his guitar playing, because he was extremely talented.
@outtacastatv Being that Joe Bonamassa is my favorite guitar player and a hell of a guy and he had a good opinion of Danny, I'm gonna believe Joe. Like I implied, it's wasted energy to be mad or upset with a dead guy.
@ChyronIsChillin Really? What about Hitler and Bin Laden? Not that I'm comparing Gatton to them, my point is just that regardless of someone is alive or dead, there's nothing wrong with trying to understand the truth of a person's life.
@Sco22 This is a Danny Gatton video on YouTube, if you haven't noticed. I'm not here to talk about those things. I simply said there's no use talking about him like that now. I stand by my words. I don't spend my time saying shit about Hitler or Bin Laden either. They're gone. I'm busy trying to better my life and do productive things. Please don't respond to this though, or if you do I definitely won't be back. My first comment was harmless and then that troll started up. No more of this please
@ChyronIsChillin Yeah I DID notice that, believe it or not. That's why I clicked it! Gatton is a master, and I wanted to benefit from his video. I also noticed that people exchange ideas here on YouTube in conversations. I saw an interesting conversation and I jumped in. I personally don't care much about Gatton's character. But as a working musician, every bit of info can be useful. I don't believe that ignorance is bliss. If a conversation is too much for you to handle, I'll leave it alone.
@ChyronIsChillin Danny was an amazing session cat and all around amazing artist... He was the humbler for a simple reason... very few of his piers could touch him... Joe B is an amazing guitarist... He is no Danny Gatton... I am not saying that to be argumentative or a dick... the truth is that Joe realizes Danny will be the yardstick by which many guitarist will be measured for many years... get a a copy of 88 Elmira St.... it will open your eyes,,
Thank you for posting this. I remember when this video was first made available. It appeared in a small add in the back of Guitar Player magazine along with two other instructional videos by DC blues guitarists Jimmy Thackery and Tom Principato. I talked to Jimmy about these videos once and he said that he never made anything from it. It's too bad that they are no longer available. Who ever owns the rights sure turn them over to the Gatton family and re-release them on DVD.
That strip on DGs guitar is his "magic dingus box," a jury-rigged device he designed to allow him to control his effects, such as the rotorary speaker for his leslie, etc., his vibrato/tremolo, and so on. Don't worry - Danny didn't need it to play out-of-this-world! Just hand him any old Tele, and that was all he needed.
@GeorgiaBoy1961 actually, he only had the dingus box on his les paul. I don't know why he had the strip on the tele, but he stopped doing the dingus/leslie stuff in his tele days.
What is that long flat metal piece on the guitar that looks like a fat racing stripe running from the bottom strap hook to the bridge? And why is it not on the Danny Gatton Signature Telecaster?
Danny used to mount certain effects controls on this piece of metal. He took them off as he was accused of using effects to achieve his playing and did it without to shut up his critics.
"I just don't know why some of the most talented people in their field end up killing themselves."
I have asked myself the same thing, why do so many great musicians have self-destructive habits or kill themselves outright? How could Danny not know how much we loved his music, and him, too?
The jazz world is full of promising talents who died young, due to heroin, or by their own hand. Such a shame. DG, we sure do miss you!
It takes a different kind of mind to construct the genius that Gatton did so easily, and the same goes for many of the talents we know of that have lived destructively or ended their lives by their own hand.
And frankly, when you are the owner of that kind of mind, just imagine how alone you must feel. I'm speaking of things beyond simply the music -- these people are WAY more than just their music.
"...Here to teach you how to play guitar in probably some ways that you've never heard anybody play it before..." If you go to guitar center on any given sunday, you'll hear several 40 year old men playing this SAME EXACT WAY.
Listen, I'm sure Gatton was great, back in the day. But times have changed. Be glad he somewhat of an impact on modern music. But to say he was unique or that he pushed the envelope on guitar is ignorant. There have been numerous guitarists that have trademarked the sound Gatton claims "you've never heard before." Don't assume guitar is an original instrument. It doesn't work that way. A single player doesn't progress the instrument, it takes a collective effort from an entire generation.
Same idioms as in his other instructional video (now no longer on youtube.) Not saying that's bad; I play the same idioms over and over and it's totally lame. Maybe it's rare to find someone like Joe Satriani who actually plays a variety of stuff.
"I'm a little curious how you managed to come up with such an incorrect interpretation of my comment"
Too much red wine before an excursion on YouTube... :-) My apologies - I have withdawn my comments. Never mind Satriani, did you know that Vai is/was a huge Danny Gatton fan?
Quote from Vai on the back cover of Gatton biography: When someone uses the phrase the best guitar player in the world I usually go ..... it's impossible to be considered the best .... But I feel okay in saying that Danny Gatton comes closer than anyone else to being the best guitar player that ever lived.
awesome player, i find players that use a pick and fingers insync, the pick 'dominates' in sound, so i prefer something like clawhammering (banjo style) so the tone in every string i play is more balanced and controlled
This guy is the most common sensed thing I ever saw. Every thing he does is so common sensed and a practical nuts and bolts application. All you have to do is practice and develop the skills. Not too hard. It does kinda take that you made every uneconomical mistake you can make to apprectiate this absolutely useful form that rings of Albert Lee and Jimmy Page. All three of these guitar players use a pick and two or three fingers to pick. Danny Gatton /Master.
Thanks a lot, 4engle. I've been looking for this video for years. As others said, it's the best out of three he made (I own the other two). I just can't stop watching it!
My guitar player took lessons from him in the early 80's and your right he was a superb teacher as well as an extraordinary player. Don' t you think the first run by Danny on this sounds like Howe and "The Clap"
Danny picked the guitar all day, then went in the garage and blew his brains away... doo-da...
"Welcome to America".
FUNKIFRIED 1 week ago
This is when I think Danny was at his best, just hanging out informally and playing off the top of his head. Amazing! His improvizations sound better than most composed songs!
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 weeks ago
You can sitt for hours listening to guitar shredders playing hi-gain solos at a billion notes per second - and then switch to some Danny Gatton video and he blows them all away just by the sheer COOLNESS of his playing!
toomanygittars 1 month ago 5
@toomanygittars Well said, I've been saying the same for ever...it's quality and feeling rather than quantity and speed!!
BlueTitan7 1 week ago
Great to hear Danny being so simplistic about something he made so intricate and complicated that it transcends mere mortal achievement. Th Evil Knievel of the tele-titans!!
kmower47 2 months ago
what a bunch of useless info
JackSquat1960 2 months ago
@JackSquat1960 it's supposed to drive your imagination
BIGBODYCONNECTION 2 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
Not only is this the greasiest dude alive, not only can he rip the Tele apart, That's not enough. No! His watch has to do the perfect star sparkle on top of it all.
skrimpshidy 2 months ago
@skrimpshidy "Greasiest dude alive"?-I wish that were true.
Gregorypeckory 2 months ago
what most dont realize when they see three guys playing the country thing is that danny only dabeled in country, he spent more time on other styles than the other two,but yet he is the majic man here.the other two are great players but he is majic
shad8166 3 months ago
what's a telephone?
mjdoherty4 4 months ago
Albert Lee is fast, Vince Gill is fast but thay have to tip their hats to Danny Gatton the Fastest. I think all guitars that run scales should listen to the scales of Danny, and rethink how the scales of Danny will fit any kind of music. Keep Danny alive, keep the videos coming and watch him close.
Just the best. Long live the king,(Danny Gatton). My hero from the early 80s.
ramjet174 4 months ago
At Last!!!!!!
randyreal574 4 months ago
@4engle One of the other things you might think about doing is going to Amazon and buying the DVD. He died in the early 90's and all proceeds go to help his family. It's about $10-15.
bashfulbrother 4 months ago
@bashfulbrother , Hi, I checked amazon and don't see it. I still believe this is out of print, and unavailable. If
not, please send me a link. There are other ones there, but not this one.
4engle 4 months ago
@4engle I'm sorry but I thought you could still buy it. I will look into it. thanks.
bashfulbrother 4 months ago
@4engle thank you for telling me
telemaster1953 5 months ago
somebody put this on dvd its amazing
telemaster1953 5 months ago
so humble...
jplent 5 months ago
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bluegrassaro 5 months ago
"Most people who are not musicians, even some musicians, will not understand that this type of feel and tone is almost purely based on his hands, not his amp or guitar, he had paws of a bear." Yes, the tone is in your hands as much as anything, in the way you shape your nails, your attack, your tone settings, where you pick and how, and so on. DG could play any guitar and it would still sound like him. "Paws of a bear"? Danny's hands were quite small, but that did not hold him back.
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
nice
donottawaguitar 6 months ago
DO NOT PASS PITCH.
skepticalsight 6 months ago
One of the reasons he was called the "greatest guitarist you never heard of". Amazing!
hannah1219 7 months ago
CLEAN ,FAST, PERFECTION!!!!
gsquared38 7 months ago
give that guy a razorback and WATCH IT GO!!!
oakleywellington 7 months ago
1:07 I don't think I've heard anyone pick a scale that fast and cleanly.
Chickenpainter111 8 months ago
@Chickenpainter111: Check out Scotty Anderson sometime. Scotty plays faster and cleaner than probably any Tele player who ever lived. Scotty and DG were good buddies, BTW. Tough to pick one all-time monster Tele guy in this country and country-jazz style... Jimmy Bryant is certainly in the mix, Danny, Scotty, guys like Albert Lee, and also someone like Leon Rhodes of the Texas Troubadours, Ernest Tubb's guitar player. DG was definitely unique, though... I miss his playing a great deal.
GeorgiaBoy1961 6 months ago
WoW!! Did you mean this guy!! is dead??already that !!!! Sucks!!!!!! all those bad ass guitar player are Dead!!!!!!!!!!!
frankiev1231 8 months ago
was he already using joe barden pick ups at this point?
henryshomebrew 8 months ago
Virtuoso but total rubbish in linking one lick to the other - there is a very short but noticable pause and this just kills the piece. But who the heck cares, he's a virtuoso, right?
Koureas 8 months ago
Why did he have to put a bullet in his head?
HumblePie76 8 months ago
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he sure is full of himself. what an ego
omfg51 8 months ago
You gotta think he was one of the greatest guitar players to ever live!
bareknuckles2u 9 months ago
i wish i could have met him once.. just to say thanks for the music ....
shred73 9 months ago
in sweeeeeeeedeeeeeeeen its a
(dial tone)
LosLurvos 9 months ago
possibly the greatest guitarist never known!!!
maxmoves64 9 months ago
man why do people build up guitarists who arent even close to half as a beast as this man was...
astralfarts 9 months ago
What a great video. Loved his down to earth way of expressing himself, in music or in theory. RIP
h0b0ch1c 9 months ago
all so interesting
irockyouroll 10 months ago
#63 greatest guitarist of all time
FyreTiger2K 10 months ago
@FyreTiger2K #63 my ass. He was number 1.
dirtynogoodbum 10 months ago
@dirtynogoodbum number 2, jimi hendrix is still better
jelledegitaarman 10 months ago
@jelledegitaarman you know it.
JDALIVETUBE 9 months ago
To the person looking for footage of Danny and Roy playing together,they played with Vince Gill. Its on youtube somewhere.3 chicken pickers garaunteed to send all the rest of us running back to hide under the chicken shed.
redwashre 11 months ago
Danny and Roy was a weird thnging cause they used to be roomates in Nashville i beleive.I grew up in Leesburg,Va.and Roy walked in the music store.I thought he was some rube.Id heard Live Stock and knew who he was just didnt know what he looked like.Roy ended up trying to hang himself in the Leesburg jail and later finished the job in Fairfax county.Danny i got to know pretty well.Amazing how much they really played alike.Economy of movement.I saw Roy at the Bottom Line.2 great losses for sure.
redwashre 11 months ago
I've had the pleasure of live performances of Danny and Roy. Not an easy biz and that most likely did its toll on each. Chet Atkins made his fortune as a producer not as a picker. What does that tell you about the biz?
photopicker 11 months ago
Why do these people kill themselves?? Makes me sick.. how fuckin sad.
DeanLisi 11 months ago
Ha Ha... When He said a telephone dial tone was an "F" I picked up my phone and checked....
Of course he was right. It is!
1wayne12345 11 months ago
What's really cool about this video is that he hasn't played a note yet, but has given more useful information than most other guitar instruction videos.
musicbykevinahern 11 months ago
It´s a typical case that he did not tour withfamous artists - the sad truth is, they don´t want brilliant instrumentalists as they could steal the show from them...
anonymusum 11 months ago
Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan the two best tele men in the business. I know they where friends but cant seem to find any footage of them playing together. Can anyone help?
jesseomeara 1 year ago
HYBRID PICKING! god i didnt even notice he did it untill I paused the video and spotted it.
tythefrog 1 year ago
did he die ?
lesselp 1 year ago
what was really great about danny gatton,was the eccentricities in his playing that just made him so unique,one of kind man I wish he was still alive and as famous as he deserved rto be,RIP DG
fraterlucifer888 1 year ago
The Telemaster!
jimihendrixfan2008 1 year ago
What amp does he use it is clean or whit overdrive? He has a great tone.
luftnan 1 year ago
To play this is the aim of life.
Nixbringen666 1 year ago
maybe one day i can pick 1/1000 as good as Danny!
scoobers90 1 year ago
young guys watching this today are like "what's a dial tone?"
bigbabyjesus12 1 year ago
@bigbabyjesus12 so tell me, what is a dial tone?..if you know it.
Guitarplayer240 1 year ago
@Guitarplayer240 a dial tone is what happens when you pick up a telephone and dont dial any numbers.
tythefrog 1 year ago 7
@tythefrog HAHAHA
joshua9312 1 year ago
@tythefrog dial tone is also in the key of "A"
PRODIGYat43 2 months ago
Most people who are not musicians, even some musicians, will not understand that this type of feel and tone is almost purely based on his hands, not his amp or guitar, he had paws of a bear.
GorgonTheMagicMan 1 year ago
What amp is he using?
druugwust 1 year ago
Great series! Thanks!
atthespine 1 year ago
Awesome, I never even considered a telephone's dial tone as a way to tune a guitar... And he uses a lot of extra string when stringing his guitar.
AzWicker1 1 year ago
Awesome, I never even considered a telephone's dial tone as a way to tune a guitar...
AzWicker1 1 year ago
@AzWicker1 thats because we have easy access to electric tuners now
thejohnofsteel 1 year ago
Call him the best unknown guitar player in the world if you will.
I call him the best guitar player ever and leave it at that.
Rusfi16 1 year ago
the phone dial tone is classic, in Ecuador our dial tone is A, record yours and run it thru a tuner to check if its really 440 accurate
14luisalonso 1 year ago
does that plate under his bridge do something or is it just for looks?
TheRealErob 1 year ago
groso!!!
diegorolling86 1 year ago
fucker.......wtf?! :(
AndrewArriola 1 year ago
rip a true legend
BeatBay 1 year ago
wow...go Danny go
The551107 1 year ago
About Danny's Picks - The "teardrop" jazz pick Danny used (Fender) is hard to find nowadays, except in the flimsy thin version. However, a Danny devotee from DC turned me on to Clayton picks, easily obtained from the net (Musician's Friend) . The "Clayton Raven" is about 80 guage and has a somewhat rough surface, so do you don't need to scratch it up on your volume pot to prevent slippage.
whitehawkeFLA 1 year ago
@whitehawkeFLA Hey there.I know your post was a while ago but I was just wondering wether you've tried using the red Jim Dunlop Jazz 3 picks?My friend introduced them to me around ten years ago.I would presume that they're similar to the teardrops.I haven't looked back since.
atomcraft 11 months ago
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whitehawkeFLA 1 year ago
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whitehawkeFLA 1 year ago
1:08 FTW
bentnosewp 1 year ago
I loved Danny. I am from Northern Virginia, so I got to see him a few times. He is missed.
GRobb62 1 year ago
daamn
gshredder5150 1 year ago
DO NOT PAST PITCH!!! :P Thanks for posting!
eric1love 1 year ago
Whats the shiny metallic part behind the bridge of that tele.
fenderstratplayer14 1 year ago
@fenderstratplayer14 It's something Danny designed for The Magic Dingus Box, something like a pedal that he designed with his father to control all of his effects. It's just a box with lots of knobs and switches that control his leslie, echo box, and eq that he used to use in the Redneck Jazz Explosion. You can find pics of it on his website. The part behind the bridge was used to hold the box in place on the guitar, as he did with his pinstriped les paul.
GreyStorm100 1 year ago
why leave more string at the tuner when you first put on the strings?
44eelz 1 year ago
R.I.P. Danny....you were the best. This is the most educational and helpful vid I have seen regarding tuning and stringing. Mike...the amp don't matter. Danny would get his sound no matter what he played thru.
ROCKSTARCRANE 1 year ago
imagine watching Roy and Danny guitar duel in some little blues bar in DC? Crazy
Tsully 1 year ago
anyone know what amp he is using?
bluepouches 1 year ago
@bluepouches Looks like a silverface Deluxe to me. I know he liked using blackface Deluxes in concert.
MikeFromRLC 1 year ago
@bluepouches Vibrolux I think....... could be a Deluxe Reverb maybe?
capnovenmitts 1 year ago
That. Was. Nuts.
supahsekzy 1 year ago
I loved Danny the first time I was turned on to him.
Thanks for turning me on to Lenny Breau. Never heard of him.
robo hippy
robohippy 1 year ago
dial tone is Fand A together, a major 3rd used that for years to tune in a pinch :)
joeylodes 1 year ago
I really wish that Danny hadn't died, he would be a GREAT teacher for today's youth.
AutisticPersona 1 year ago
Cool! Thanks 4engle!
DangerousBastard 1 year ago
one of the greats.. RIP Danny ...
mentong09 1 year ago 3
Amazing......a true virtuoso guitarist if ever there was one.
mikebrookfield 1 year ago 22
redneck jazz explosion cd is a neglected classic,read the sleevenotes pretty moving now in retrospect.nice guy and also a great player.
rogerredcat 2 years ago
A little Lenny Breau tossed in there yo.
urheadonastick 2 years ago 2
Lenny was incredible too. Nice to hear his name mentioned. :)
Ripplin 1 year ago
Just bow down and thank god that you got to hear this man!
sivad2 2 years ago 2
Thanks for posting, this is great stuff.
padraig1971 2 years ago
I ordered this video from an ad in the back of Guitar Player Mag in 1989. It took about 2 months to get it! in the meantime I got to see him in a small pub in Fells Point, Baltimore, he signed my "Unfinished Buissness" LP, he was such a sweetheart! what a great soul! RIP Danny! We miss you!
superbeavo 2 years ago
@superbeavo Of course it took a long time to receive the video! Everything was six to eight weeks back then.
chumpthedog 1 year ago
Love the "runway"
superbeavo 2 years ago
No one plays a Tele like Gatton! And no one probably ever will. RIP, you talented son of a gun.
ChyronIsChillin 2 years ago 39
@ChyronIsChillin Well there was also Ted Greene who recently passed away. Buster B Jones... Just to name a few. Why the fuck they're all dead now is beyond me...
GuitarSlinger2112 9 months ago
@GuitarSlinger2112 guitars are lethal
dressedtosmellgood 9 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin dude..... jeff pevar....
omfg51 8 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin Roy Buchanan.
TheSebastianreyes 6 months ago
@TheSebastianreyes To each his own.
:D
ChyronIsChillin 6 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin i heard he was a real cunt
outtacastatv 5 months ago
@outtacastatv All righty. If you believe what you've heard, then you're certainly allowed to believe that. I disagree, however, with the person or source you got that from.
ChyronIsChillin 5 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin mate you would be surprised he called him a real nast cunt, a dirty motherfucker. they aint no liars either look he might play well but that dont excuse his ways
outtacastatv 5 months ago
@outtacastatv Well, if he gave them reason to believe that, then I'm sorry to hear that. However, he killed himself, so there's no use talking about him like that now. I'm just here to appreciate his guitar playing, because he was extremely talented.
ChyronIsChillin 5 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin sorry mate the guy was pure evil his guitar playin is good but do u really wanna listen to a guy that literally caused hell.
outtacastatv 5 months ago
@outtacastatv Being that Joe Bonamassa is my favorite guitar player and a hell of a guy and he had a good opinion of Danny, I'm gonna believe Joe. Like I implied, it's wasted energy to be mad or upset with a dead guy.
ChyronIsChillin 5 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin Really? What about Hitler and Bin Laden? Not that I'm comparing Gatton to them, my point is just that regardless of someone is alive or dead, there's nothing wrong with trying to understand the truth of a person's life.
Sco22 5 months ago
@Sco22 This is a Danny Gatton video on YouTube, if you haven't noticed. I'm not here to talk about those things. I simply said there's no use talking about him like that now. I stand by my words. I don't spend my time saying shit about Hitler or Bin Laden either. They're gone. I'm busy trying to better my life and do productive things. Please don't respond to this though, or if you do I definitely won't be back. My first comment was harmless and then that troll started up. No more of this please
ChyronIsChillin 5 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin Yeah I DID notice that, believe it or not. That's why I clicked it! Gatton is a master, and I wanted to benefit from his video. I also noticed that people exchange ideas here on YouTube in conversations. I saw an interesting conversation and I jumped in. I personally don't care much about Gatton's character. But as a working musician, every bit of info can be useful. I don't believe that ignorance is bliss. If a conversation is too much for you to handle, I'll leave it alone.
Sco22 5 months ago
@ChyronIsChillin Danny was an amazing session cat and all around amazing artist... He was the humbler for a simple reason... very few of his piers could touch him... Joe B is an amazing guitarist... He is no Danny Gatton... I am not saying that to be argumentative or a dick... the truth is that Joe realizes Danny will be the yardstick by which many guitarist will be measured for many years... get a a copy of 88 Elmira St.... it will open your eyes,,
lydian77 4 months ago 5
@lydian77 One of the best analogy of Danny Gatton I ever read....Gatton was in a zone all his own....
MrWeedpatch 2 months ago
what happens if i can hear my dialtone?...MISS U DANNY RIP!
loverools 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I remember when this video was first made available. It appeared in a small add in the back of Guitar Player magazine along with two other instructional videos by DC blues guitarists Jimmy Thackery and Tom Principato. I talked to Jimmy about these videos once and he said that he never made anything from it. It's too bad that they are no longer available. Who ever owns the rights sure turn them over to the Gatton family and re-release them on DVD.
EricCirca6566 2 years ago
what guage strings did he use??
totosmeels 2 years ago
probably 0.11s
thailow117 2 years ago
@thailow117 .10 s
surfco 2 years ago
@surfco aight, thanks
thailow117 2 years ago
It looks like he is at an airport runway.
phriend2spin 2 years ago
That strip on DGs guitar is his "magic dingus box," a jury-rigged device he designed to allow him to control his effects, such as the rotorary speaker for his leslie, etc., his vibrato/tremolo, and so on. Don't worry - Danny didn't need it to play out-of-this-world! Just hand him any old Tele, and that was all he needed.
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 years ago
@GeorgiaBoy1961 actually, he only had the dingus box on his les paul. I don't know why he had the strip on the tele, but he stopped doing the dingus/leslie stuff in his tele days.
earutherford 2 years ago
What is that long flat metal piece on the guitar that looks like a fat racing stripe running from the bottom strap hook to the bridge? And why is it not on the Danny Gatton Signature Telecaster?
chumpthedog 2 years ago
Danny used to mount certain effects controls on this piece of metal. He took them off as he was accused of using effects to achieve his playing and did it without to shut up his critics.
aussieninja10 2 years ago
anyone got the link to download the full clip?
miamigroove 2 years ago
"I just don't know why some of the most talented people in their field end up killing themselves."
I have asked myself the same thing, why do so many great musicians have self-destructive habits or kill themselves outright? How could Danny not know how much we loved his music, and him, too?
The jazz world is full of promising talents who died young, due to heroin, or by their own hand. Such a shame. DG, we sure do miss you!
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 years ago
It takes a different kind of mind to construct the genius that Gatton did so easily, and the same goes for many of the talents we know of that have lived destructively or ended their lives by their own hand.
And frankly, when you are the owner of that kind of mind, just imagine how alone you must feel. I'm speaking of things beyond simply the music -- these people are WAY more than just their music.
yagamei 2 years ago
GATTONMASTER/DON BLEDSOE will be off-line for a while, all you DG fans, and he has asked me to post his contact information and message:
Don Bledsoe
P. O. Box 7284
Prospect Heights, IL 60070
He will return soon, until then please forward inquiries to his USPS address.
GeorgiaBoy1961 2 years ago
that must have been hard to play spinning around
cantstanga 2 years ago 3
He's THAT good.
wungabunga 2 years ago
cant believe hes dead
fenderstratplayer14 2 years ago 2
It`s true ...It`s if the best always go first.
fingerlicks 2 years ago
He was Using Joe Barden Pickups here.
jkmehoff 2 years ago
I disagree with the 9 miles of string around the tuning machine.
bluesfuse 2 years ago
I saw him live a couple times in his prime. (late 80s)
Along with Jeff Beck the scariest guitarist I've ever seen.
chrook 2 years ago
Best electric player there ever was. Wish I had discovered him sooner. We luv u Danny!
jippymartinez 2 years ago
"...Here to teach you how to play guitar in probably some ways that you've never heard anybody play it before..." If you go to guitar center on any given sunday, you'll hear several 40 year old men playing this SAME EXACT WAY.
cerwinthedoc 2 years ago
These videos he put out were to teach people his style.
Yeah, you'll see 12 year old kids playing AC/DC but it takes a while to play like Gatton.
44oz4u 2 years ago 2
Bullshit...
You'll never hear anyone playing like Gatton played...and certainly not at Guitar Center.
The guy brought most of these techniques to the mainstream. He was the Van Halen of rockabilly.
WarmothGuitarist 2 years ago
Listen, I'm sure Gatton was great, back in the day. But times have changed. Be glad he somewhat of an impact on modern music. But to say he was unique or that he pushed the envelope on guitar is ignorant. There have been numerous guitarists that have trademarked the sound Gatton claims "you've never heard before." Don't assume guitar is an original instrument. It doesn't work that way. A single player doesn't progress the instrument, it takes a collective effort from an entire generation.
cerwinthedoc 2 years ago
if you think he wasnt unique or amazing youre ignornt, gatton was called the humbler by many guitar legends
CBRADIOLOVER 2 years ago
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twangbarfly 2 years ago
Same idioms as in his other instructional video (now no longer on youtube.) Not saying that's bad; I play the same idioms over and over and it's totally lame. Maybe it's rare to find someone like Joe Satriani who actually plays a variety of stuff.
gairabad 2 years ago
What a stupid fuck you are, gairibad.
hotrodius 2 years ago
I can tell you're smart because you managed to spell my username incorrectly even with it right in front of you.
I'll express what ever goddamn opinions I want to, dig?
gairabad 2 years ago
Did Fender ever design a Joe Satriani guitar?
Did Les Paul ever compliment Satriani saying " he's the best guitar player."
Joey knows all the idioms but when he talks only a few will ever listen, the rest of us listen to music. :)))
44oz4u 2 years ago
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twangbarfly 2 years ago
I didn't say I was a master. Quote: "I play the same idioms over and over and it's totally lame." When Gatton does it it isn't lame.
I'm a little curious how you managed to come up with such an incorrect interpretation of my comment.
gairabad 2 years ago
"I'm a little curious how you managed to come up with such an incorrect interpretation of my comment"
Too much red wine before an excursion on YouTube... :-) My apologies - I have withdawn my comments. Never mind Satriani, did you know that Vai is/was a huge Danny Gatton fan?
twangbarfly 2 years ago
Quote from Vai on the back cover of Gatton biography: When someone uses the phrase the best guitar player in the world I usually go ..... it's impossible to be considered the best .... But I feel okay in saying that Danny Gatton comes closer than anyone else to being the best guitar player that ever lived.
twangbarfly 2 years ago
great example of loving human doublethinking
whynottalklikeapirat 2 years ago
No I did not know that.
gairabad 2 years ago
awesome player, i find players that use a pick and fingers insync, the pick 'dominates' in sound, so i prefer something like clawhammering (banjo style) so the tone in every string i play is more balanced and controlled
sfinas91 2 years ago
RIP - Oct 4, 1994
fsxfun 2 years ago 2
holy shit... that's the day and year i was born...
GibsonGuitarsForever 2 years ago
This guy is the most common sensed thing I ever saw. Every thing he does is so common sensed and a practical nuts and bolts application. All you have to do is practice and develop the skills. Not too hard. It does kinda take that you made every uneconomical mistake you can make to apprectiate this absolutely useful form that rings of Albert Lee and Jimmy Page. All three of these guitar players use a pick and two or three fingers to pick. Danny Gatton /Master.
Spitfireseven 2 years ago
that's some white thrash ghetto tuning technique
josipml5 2 years ago
nuts. way nuts
cosmogang 2 years ago
I cant stand country music but that is some very skilled guitar playing
GhostGuitars 2 years ago
that's because you think country music is garth brooks... that's not anywhere near real country music... I felt the same way.
motus 2 years ago 2
Thanks a lot, 4engle. I've been looking for this video for years. As others said, it's the best out of three he made (I own the other two). I just can't stop watching it!
articiocca1 2 years ago
It's really reassuring to see a guitar to and echo pedal to an amp.
No massive rack unit needed just talent.
1pick2sticks 2 years ago 3
That's awesome. Thanks for posting. Is there any way to get a copy of this?
grstixx 2 years ago
Wow, thanks for posting this rare video 4engle!
This appears to be superior to Danny's first Hot Licks video. (I have the DVD of Telemaster, and the sound quality is just awful.)
Danny Gatton had a unique gift of not only being an amazing player, but he was also an awesome teacher. Thanks again.
TheTravelingThumb 2 years ago
My guitar player took lessons from him in the early 80's and your right he was a superb teacher as well as an extraordinary player. Don' t you think the first run by Danny on this sounds like Howe and "The Clap"
rickyon 2 years ago
the best unknown guitar player in the world.
laricxx 2 years ago 29
@laricxx its a toss up between him and greg koch
TheRealErob 1 year ago
Sausage fingers!
Absoloutely 2 years ago