Maybe it's just me....this song, which I've known all my life, is supposed to be rather calm and soothing. I got nothing of that here. All high-pitched twangy bridge pick-up...sounds like a squeal from a cat getting it's tail stepped on! The guy is obviously a good guitarist but this is horrible!
Danny Gatton was a really nice guy, modest and not full of s**t like many so-called "stars" but to call him the "Master of the Telecaster" is a bit like calling Kermit the next Pavarotti!! He was a good guitarist but, let's be honest, he wasn't in the same league as, probably, 20-30 guitarists that we could all name!
Danny Gatton was a fixture on the music scene in Washington, DC for a very long time. I saw him many times and he always sounds awesome. I was a young guitar student, and he always had time to talk about guitar and music when I saw him in Georgetown, DC. There would be very few people who saw him that would say otherwise. His fans miss him to this day greatly.
@ThiagoFSCosta Ye man,i apologize to,i was being sarcastic,which is the lowest form of whit.Too many people complaining about this rendition,which is an interpretation of how he feels.He could play it note for note if he wanted to,as you know .So no problem to you brother.
Man, there are to many dumb fucks that have computers in this world. You might call me one but at least I know enough not to call a true master of his instrument like Danny Gatton Bad or that someone could do it better. You need to look at his body of work and know that he is revered as one of the greatest of all time. Not taking anything away for your heros but come on. Push back from your computers and actually learn something before showing the world how incredibly stupid you are.
I will say, Great promo but I gotta give a thumbs down on this. There are so many better out there, its just wrong in so many ways to call him a master of the telecaster
@rickbangkok Ey man if you in BANGKOK, i,ll get a flight,if you got a business,you give me a job doing anything.And i,ll be your main man,for any work you need doing.I,ll be your gopher,i,ll work hard,and for no pay whatsoever.I,ll be your body guard,your handyman,anything you need collecting.Anything you need doing,you shout me.And i,m completely trustworthy too.Anyway brother good luck to you.
@sopitabo Danny is no longer among the living. Sad to lose such an awesome talent, but he's gone. We are fortunate that his music is still available to us though.
@havanakim Like you could play better. This rendition may not be to your liking, but do not display such arrogance. Wash your mouth out with soap. Even Steve Vai hails this man as one of the greatest guitarists to walk the Earth.
you can do so much with this progression and tempo, he does a good job keeping it simple yet being very tastey. remember this is Sleep Walk. nothing negative about his presentation. totally awesome!!!
Why are people talking about a Bigsby? Danny Gatton don't need no stinkin' Bigsby. If he wants to do both sides of a bend around A he freakin' jammed a G up a whole step and wrangled that puppy around however he saw fit. Because he was Danny freakin' Gatton. The only bender used in this vid is Danny freakin' Gatton. If you wimps want to go whinge about wanting Bigsbys hightail it over to a Brian Setzer video.
If I close my eyes and just listen, I hear Danny paying very obvious homage to another tele player. This sounds exactly like Roy Buchanan opening his big bag o' tricks. Either one of them could've made the damn guitar play this while singing the anthem and spitting quarters. If he missed a note he MEANT to miss it.
It may sound different to some but he plays over the same changes anyone who plays this would [ here in the key of C. He uses lots of chord inversions and nice licks and double stops and the melody ....it all keeps pushing through into the turn arounds with lots of dynamics .... everything follows the changes .It really wakes up this sort of sleepy tune..............
A bit of a squealing mess. There's no point playing lots of notes if you can't make them count. I wouldn't normally be so harsh, mate, but don't post yourself as "master of the Telecaster" unless you can tear strips off Amos Garrett.
one thing for sure by looking at that dirtytelecster neck he better start to wash his hands after eating some of the buffalo chicken wings from the bar!
@glennrunnerroad Haha, they're dirty because he used to smoke alot. He kinda gave that up towards his death. Anyway, he said in an interview that he hated the feel and sound of new strings and that they're too twangy and bright. So he decided to find a way to deaden them a little and applied some of the ash from the cigs he used to smoke from the ashtray and wipe them over the strings. He found that it worked. Hence why the neck's like that.
Amazing ! ... so much going on and he never looses the song. This song can be done GENERIC by a million bands. It's the success of those types of musicians that probably contributed to his depression. It's sad to watch DG videos knowing what he was going through.
"Master of the Telecaster"????? I don't think so! This is probably the worst version of "Sleepwalk" I have ever heard. You want to hear the best version?????? Listen to the Shadows - they have never been surpassed for this type of music and, let's face it, they were the first to record this and theirs is still the best version!!! All the rest are pale imitations!!
@425721 it is possibly a b bender, but more likely its an american deluxe model. it looks like the '52 telecaster but that guitar is worth too much to be playing on stage.
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@sopitabo No I agree with the rest.....this dude didnt interpret shit......he butchered the fucking shit out of it..this is absolutly terrible! If I per say was at this particular show I would very rudely remove the telecaster from his hands and shoved it directly up his asshole with every bit of hatred every single note gave me....It was indeed a pile of garbage..
I'm sure I've commented before - but after wading through piles of alleged 'great' players of one sort and another on youtube I just have to blow the cobwebs from my mind with the one and only Mr Gatton. I think the guy who said that if you don't appreciate the brilliance of his playing you are not a guitar player is probably onto something - I think maybe you need to make your fingers bleed for a couple of years before you are given the privilege of hearing the master.
LOL. Danny Gatton would bury almost any guitar player out there alive today. He cut so many heads that people just stopped challenging - pros included. Certainly any fool who posted idiotic nonsense like "horrible" is no guitar player (um, let me say REAL guitar player) . Must really suck for you to post on his video since you don't have one with a couple hundred thousand hits. sit down..
Bill Kirchen, another Telemaster told a story of when he was picking up his guitar from a then unknown Danny Gatton as a guitar mechanic and decided he was going to show the nice fellow some licks in gratitude. Instead, when he came by to get his guitar, Gatton showed him what it now sounded like and Kirchen decided there was nothing he could show this guy.
I got to see him play a few times and there is nothing anyone could show Gatton that he couldn't do better, faster, with more feeling, frontwards and backwards, jazzified and beer-bottled.
I had a chance to see Danny Gatton once, maybe 1991. I had no idea what I was walking into, I thought I was just going out to hear some music. it was unimaginably great playing, great tone, great soul. I agree with these guys, it was a perfect combination of player, tele and amp, no effects needed.
I have watched his instructional videos, he shows how he does all this with is hands... He is the only player I have ever and I mean ever, drop the e and pop it back up in the middle of a song and always be perfect. Line 6 my @S$. This is how its done by a real guitarist. Even the mistakes sound good. The line 6 crowd forgot the part about wood shedding...lol. Danny built the shed. line 6... my God what a idiot.
I've decided to take as much time as I need and learn how to replicate this note for note. After I'm done I'll post my homage. Don't stay up late waiting kids because it's going to take a while.
A nice strat or tele through a a fender tube amp with reverb like a super reverb is this amazing tone. If you have such amazing tone like this you don't need many pedals cause you get a million diff tones from your fingers and knobs on the guitar because the sound is so responsive and crisp.
I play guitar a little bit and I just watched all the versions of "Sleepwalk" and without a doubt this is by far the best. Even Satriani is a boy compared to this man. The sustain, tone, and vibrato Gatton gets from the guitar is astounding.
Let's get one thing clear, Danny was the best, end of story... This aint no, who would win in a fight, Spiderman or Batman, this is a fact. If you can't comprehend that, maybe you should switch to saxophone.
He didn't use any pedals at all. I was there, I video taped the show. Danny was a friend of mine. This was shot in 1989. The Line 6 didn't exist yet. Where do you get this BS info from. The magic is all in his fingers and soul.
@robertkittila I wished I could have seen this giant of the Tele play. I only recently discovered this man. There will never be another. It makes me sad to know how it ended. I suffer from Depression as well. Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!
Re effects, for a while he had a big control box of switches mounted on the metal plate at the butt of the guitar that would switch external things like echo's and reverbs on and off. He dumped the effects but kept the big metal mounting plate.
@MrJayscotch34 hey Mr. Jay Cock can you please stop suckin your dick so loudly...Im tryin to listen to a Musical Genius at work...and do and AMAZING COVER of an AMAZING SONG!!!! La Ringrazio Faggot Volto!!!!!
DG was a guitar savant, there's nothing he couldn't play from classical to jazz, blues to country to straight up rock n' roll. The most amazing and creative guitarist this side of Django.
I was in Johnny Maestro's (singer of Crests and Brooklyn Bridge) home studio once hanging and doing an interview and he asked if I'd want to "maybe interview johnny too"...and there is Johnny Farina sitting in the corner playing this song (that HE & his brother wrote!) Too cool.
i had the privilege to meet danny at his home in accokeek many years ago. he loved old cars as much as guitars. i also has the great privilege to hold danny's custom danny gatton telecaster serial number 0. i still get chills thinking about that evening. what a great and humble man. if you did not know him as a musician you would have thought he was an auto mechanic. i wander back in my mind a lot remembering that gracious wonderful gentleman. truly an honor was bestowed upon me.
I think he went straight in to the amp. I don't remember ever seeing a effect unit in the chain. No delay unit needed. Maybe some reverb on used in the Fender amp. Kind of refreshing in todays maze of effects.
@robertkittila He used a twin reverb. That was it. Plus the controls on his guitar. When he played a Les Paul he installed a Magic Dingus Box on it, a primitive effect box of his invention. When critics started to call him "Danny Gadget" and Buchanan sent him a Telecaster, he decided he'd show his critics. Just a Fender Twin Reverb. Yeah, Danny made em eat crow..."Danny had God's hands...sometimes I heard God come out of his amplifier..."
its funny how today guitar players my age (im 22) need a multitude of effects in order to do this whereas he needed only a tele, a delay unit and a good amp to do this. one can only hope to be as good as this (me being one of them, working on it day and night)
I used to be (still am) a huge Roy Buchanan fan until I discovered Danny Gatton. How could one possibly top Buchanan on the Telecaster? I'm still amazed.
Aint no doubt Danny could make that Tele freggin talk not to mention the multitude stuff he was putting into his creations. What a waste cuz he was one of a kind.
Amazing guitar playing. To achieve those numerous tones requires true mastery of the instrument. R.I.P Danny. You were truly one of the greatest but never recognized outside of musician circles.
@erneywine do you not get the fact fact that danny gatton was simply put GENIUS!!! im pretty sure he knew exactly how that tele sounded mate ;) LOVE YOU DG!!!
Maybe it's just me....this song, which I've known all my life, is supposed to be rather calm and soothing. I got nothing of that here. All high-pitched twangy bridge pick-up...sounds like a squeal from a cat getting it's tail stepped on! The guy is obviously a good guitarist but this is horrible!
DickLodge68 2 days ago
um, hi, my name is Danny Gatton, and i am 10,0000000000000000 light years away from any man ever picked up a guitar. nice to meet you. WTF????
TheInboil 3 days ago
very nice indeed
MrFreesak 6 days ago
i have never heard a better interpretation. this man is a god. period.
tonictaster 6 days ago
What planet are you on, Danny is a truly fantastic tone guitarist, really up there with the best.
frogslips 6 days ago
Danny Gatton was a really nice guy, modest and not full of s**t like many so-called "stars" but to call him the "Master of the Telecaster" is a bit like calling Kermit the next Pavarotti!! He was a good guitarist but, let's be honest, he wasn't in the same league as, probably, 20-30 guitarists that we could all name!
ScrumptiousStrat 1 week ago
Danny Gatton was a fixture on the music scene in Washington, DC for a very long time. I saw him many times and he always sounds awesome. I was a young guitar student, and he always had time to talk about guitar and music when I saw him in Georgetown, DC. There would be very few people who saw him that would say otherwise. His fans miss him to this day greatly.
rickbangkok 1 week ago
Whoa! Your bass player sucks....but that is some fine geetar pickin'!
DickLodge68 1 week ago
Superbe arrangement avec les basses, une maitrise certaine de sa télécaster. Belle performance. Spécial, spécial.
kalou5164 2 weeks ago
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ThiagoFSCosta 2 weeks ago
For those guys that say Danny Gatton doesn't play well, just look the other videos...Shame on you!
ThiagoFSCosta 2 weeks ago
@ThiagoFSCosta Ye ,maybe if i dig the motherfucker up.ha,ha,ha ! get the fuck outta here.
sopitabo 2 weeks ago
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ThiagoFSCosta 2 weeks ago
No need to be rude, man! At first glance I thought you were saying that Danny did not play well. So, sorry about my comments.
ThiagoFSCosta 2 weeks ago
@ThiagoFSCosta Ye man,i apologize to,i was being sarcastic,which is the lowest form of whit.Too many people complaining about this rendition,which is an interpretation of how he feels.He could play it note for note if he wanted to,as you know .So no problem to you brother.
sopitabo 2 weeks ago
Danny Gatton!!!
kortes1975 3 weeks ago
Man, there are to many dumb fucks that have computers in this world. You might call me one but at least I know enough not to call a true master of his instrument like Danny Gatton Bad or that someone could do it better. You need to look at his body of work and know that he is revered as one of the greatest of all time. Not taking anything away for your heros but come on. Push back from your computers and actually learn something before showing the world how incredibly stupid you are.
6gpower 3 weeks ago
I will say, Great promo but I gotta give a thumbs down on this. There are so many better out there, its just wrong in so many ways to call him a master of the telecaster
oldschool70s 3 weeks ago
Listen to Les Paul do it at 90 years old. Great
fiddlerpin 1 month ago
Miss him always........
rickbangkok 1 month ago
@rickbangkok Ey man if you in BANGKOK, i,ll get a flight,if you got a business,you give me a job doing anything.And i,ll be your main man,for any work you need doing.I,ll be your gopher,i,ll work hard,and for no pay whatsoever.I,ll be your body guard,your handyman,anything you need collecting.Anything you need doing,you shout me.And i,m completely trustworthy too.Anyway brother good luck to you.
sopitabo 2 weeks ago
@sopitabo Danny is no longer among the living. Sad to lose such an awesome talent, but he's gone. We are fortunate that his music is still available to us though.
SB211RUGERP89 1 week ago
shit
havanakim 1 month ago
@havanakim Like you could play better. This rendition may not be to your liking, but do not display such arrogance. Wash your mouth out with soap. Even Steve Vai hails this man as one of the greatest guitarists to walk the Earth.
joshua9312 3 weeks ago
Sounds pretty good. Have you listened to Brian Setzer play it.
gmick49 1 month ago
i always thought that the master of the telecaster was alber collins
fiftieslover 1 month ago 2
@fiftieslover You are correct. Albert Collins has always been the master of the telecaster.
BrianMHK 1 month ago
@fiftieslover It's Albert Collins.
Jplent1 1 month ago
@fiftieslover Albert Collins was known as the "Iceman".
joshua9312 3 weeks ago
you can do so much with this progression and tempo, he does a good job keeping it simple yet being very tastey. remember this is Sleep Walk. nothing negative about his presentation. totally awesome!!!
damanfrom808 1 month ago
master of big mac
KORINALOVER 1 month ago
master of the cheeseburger
cjellwood 1 month ago
Why are people talking about a Bigsby? Danny Gatton don't need no stinkin' Bigsby. If he wants to do both sides of a bend around A he freakin' jammed a G up a whole step and wrangled that puppy around however he saw fit. Because he was Danny freakin' Gatton. The only bender used in this vid is Danny freakin' Gatton. If you wimps want to go whinge about wanting Bigsbys hightail it over to a Brian Setzer video.
zzmook 1 month ago
If I close my eyes and just listen, I hear Danny paying very obvious homage to another tele player. This sounds exactly like Roy Buchanan opening his big bag o' tricks. Either one of them could've made the damn guitar play this while singing the anthem and spitting quarters. If he missed a note he MEANT to miss it.
spacemonkey1463 2 months ago 2
It may sound different to some but he plays over the same changes anyone who plays this would [ here in the key of C. He uses lots of chord inversions and nice licks and double stops and the melody ....it all keeps pushing through into the turn arounds with lots of dynamics .... everything follows the changes .It really wakes up this sort of sleepy tune..............
bLAStSuCaRTa 2 months ago
love it, that guy was using the dark side of the force
farneyblakeley 2 months ago 2
What a fabulous musician. Imaginative and soulful. Thanks for posting this.
twongler 2 months ago 2
"The Humbler" was a humble guy, and he scared the shit out of most other cats who call themselves "guitar players." RIP DG
DogCatchersBand 2 months ago
I Want a Bigsby for my Tele But I can't afford it :(
CocacolaCowboy1919 2 months ago
@CocacolaCowboy1919
They are cool looking....til you break a string...then you curse the bigsby....
bLAStSuCaRTa 2 months ago
RIP Danny
RythmandStrings 2 months ago 2
absolutely awesome, sad loss to the guitar hall of fame
brendanwalllis 2 months ago
Im from the same town as Danny Gatton. (Charles County MD.) He killed himself. He truly was the master of telecaster.
jackiediamonds 2 months ago
He played it in a different way. Thats a beauty of music, and I guess the term "master" is used in different opinions.
Intelpentium54321 2 months ago
do you know, i was always curious if one could possibly bleed from the ears.....
The Yak on the Yamaha
otheflimflam 2 months ago
A bit of a squealing mess. There's no point playing lots of notes if you can't make them count. I wouldn't normally be so harsh, mate, but don't post yourself as "master of the Telecaster" unless you can tear strips off Amos Garrett.
Signed, The Ignoramus of The Ibanez
ianthecook 2 months ago
@ianthecook
Well, you got one thing right. You are an ignoramus!
ke1mc2 2 months ago
one thing for sure by looking at that dirtytelecster neck he better start to wash his hands after eating some of the buffalo chicken wings from the bar!
glennrunnerroad 2 months ago
@glennrunnerroad Haha, they're dirty because he used to smoke alot. He kinda gave that up towards his death. Anyway, he said in an interview that he hated the feel and sound of new strings and that they're too twangy and bright. So he decided to find a way to deaden them a little and applied some of the ash from the cigs he used to smoke from the ashtray and wipe them over the strings. He found that it worked. Hence why the neck's like that.
joshua9312 2 days ago
Oh Yeah!!! That's the way to go.
Dust6chap6 2 months ago
@Dust6chap6 eeks...I hate to say it but it was awful. Better than I could play the song but then i am not a guitarist playing with a band.
glennrunnerroad 2 months ago
AHHH....I WANT MY EARS BACK AND I'M CHARGING INTEREST :...(
xxxEMINENTxxx 2 months ago
not a hint of soul here!
asfcharters1 2 months ago
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MikelTheBoy 3 months ago
ugly sound.gerrit
MikelTheBoy 3 months ago
This fucking sucks. The worst version I ever heard
hdmi003 3 months ago
The Humbler
joeylodes 3 months ago
Amazing ! ... so much going on and he never looses the song. This song can be done GENERIC by a million bands. It's the success of those types of musicians that probably contributed to his depression. It's sad to watch DG videos knowing what he was going through.
mep10 3 months ago
"Master of the Telecaster"????? I don't think so! This is probably the worst version of "Sleepwalk" I have ever heard. You want to hear the best version?????? Listen to the Shadows - they have never been surpassed for this type of music and, let's face it, they were the first to record this and theirs is still the best version!!! All the rest are pale imitations!!
TheArdvaark 3 months ago
@TheArdvaark Ever hear of the Farina bros? Santo and Johnny? They are where this tune came from NOT some limey shadows
johnrobel 3 months ago
@TheArdvaark. master of dissaster that is the right name for this man.gerrit from netherlands.
MikelTheBoy 3 months ago
So highly personalized! A statement that only he could make in that way.
Jplent1 3 months ago
FUCK!!!!!!
AntiSemantic1 3 months ago
HORRIBLE!!
ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!!!
Santo and Johnny should sue.
megbeggarsky 3 months ago
this stuff makes me wish i was alive back in those days
man
XzXDead 3 months ago
There will never be another player like Danny. The greatest 'unknown guitarist' that ever lived. May you rest in peace.
Ssckxg 3 months ago
Is he playing a "B" bender Telecaster?
425721 3 months ago
@425721 it is possibly a b bender, but more likely its an american deluxe model. it looks like the '52 telecaster but that guitar is worth too much to be playing on stage.
cabel000 2 months ago
Sleepwalk . . . the song on which most good guitarists overplay. Chuck Berry said it best: They lose the beauty of the melody . . .
This is the only song of Danny's that I don't really like.
jimmcallister 3 months ago
get yer notebook.....
duva7000 3 months ago
He is good, but I just hate the noodling in the middle...kinda makes it irritating to listen to in some parts.
Intelpentium54321 3 months ago
He is interpreting Sleepwalk,you cryin little bitches,"he missed a note",blah,blah,blah,get the fuck outta here.Supposed to know a good guitarist ?
@ robertkittila,thanks for the upload man.
sopitabo 3 months ago 19
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@sopitabo No I agree with the rest.....this dude didnt interpret shit......he butchered the fucking shit out of it..this is absolutly terrible! If I per say was at this particular show I would very rudely remove the telecaster from his hands and shoved it directly up his asshole with every bit of hatred every single note gave me....It was indeed a pile of garbage..
sikkinixx82 2 months ago
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ThiagoFSCosta 2 weeks ago
46 personnes sourdes......
geordie54 3 months ago
who knew you could shred sleepwalk...??!!.
synesthesia67 3 months ago 9
I'm sure I've commented before - but after wading through piles of alleged 'great' players of one sort and another on youtube I just have to blow the cobwebs from my mind with the one and only Mr Gatton. I think the guy who said that if you don't appreciate the brilliance of his playing you are not a guitar player is probably onto something - I think maybe you need to make your fingers bleed for a couple of years before you are given the privilege of hearing the master.
zthetha 3 months ago
LOL. Danny Gatton would bury almost any guitar player out there alive today. He cut so many heads that people just stopped challenging - pros included. Certainly any fool who posted idiotic nonsense like "horrible" is no guitar player (um, let me say REAL guitar player) . Must really suck for you to post on his video since you don't have one with a couple hundred thousand hits. sit down..
Mylycanth 3 months ago 2
This is not good... the tone is terrible, he's missing notes, flubbing notes, hitting bad notes...Master? Really? NO.
deweypug 3 months ago
@deweypug Jimmy Page did the same thing and people call him "genius".
MrBillydoo 3 months ago
By the way....Danny sucks.
SanSooKungFu 3 months ago
Of course, Danny. Who doesn't know the infamous "Danny"?
SanSooKungFu 3 months ago
Danny was one of the VERY best EVER!
stringbender57 3 months ago
Danny was absolutely Fucking Astounding.
islandbay3 3 months ago
@islandbay3 And "WAS" would be the key word. This is horrible.
garcemac 3 months ago
There's something about a telecaster that just can't be classified similar to any other guitar... It's tone is so distinct and soulful
nvs617 4 months ago
the Master of the Telecaster ? ? ? Where ?
Loui1944 4 months ago
feeling is the key-word here, love his playing...
JartBansen 4 months ago
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LabelBob 4 months ago
I came.
Phalanx3800 4 months ago
poop
mrgreensound 4 months ago
Danny was the Best! Truely Missed!!!
mavrick19801 4 months ago
definitely believable that theres no pedals, great Tele players are always masters with the volume knob, Danny Gatton unreal!
CraigRutter 4 months ago
Bill Kirchen, another Telemaster told a story of when he was picking up his guitar from a then unknown Danny Gatton as a guitar mechanic and decided he was going to show the nice fellow some licks in gratitude. Instead, when he came by to get his guitar, Gatton showed him what it now sounded like and Kirchen decided there was nothing he could show this guy.
precaryus 4 months ago
I got to see him play a few times and there is nothing anyone could show Gatton that he couldn't do better, faster, with more feeling, frontwards and backwards, jazzified and beer-bottled.
precaryus 4 months ago
Thats one rockin' kool katt. One of the best versions ive heard yet, truly does make my heart melt
gtrst8727 4 months ago
@gtrst8727 also check out brian setzers version which is only guitar
guitar789 4 months ago
@guitar789 Setzer is definately at the top, but danny is at another level on this one
gtrst8727 4 months ago
I had a chance to see Danny Gatton once, maybe 1991. I had no idea what I was walking into, I thought I was just going out to hear some music. it was unimaginably great playing, great tone, great soul. I agree with these guys, it was a perfect combination of player, tele and amp, no effects needed.
raboussie 4 months ago
This is crazy good yep. However King of The Telecaster am not sure. That crown would lie on Roy Buchanan's head. R.I.P
ThePowderfinger71 4 months ago
I have watched his instructional videos, he shows how he does all this with is hands... He is the only player I have ever and I mean ever, drop the e and pop it back up in the middle of a song and always be perfect. Line 6 my @S$. This is how its done by a real guitarist. Even the mistakes sound good. The line 6 crowd forgot the part about wood shedding...lol. Danny built the shed. line 6... my God what a idiot.
johnrussom 4 months ago
Phenomenal .... speechless.
RoamingTheBiosphere 4 months ago
@IamAshleyWright
Ok, my mistake,I just noticed you prolly posted *before* you knew that fact...
spentonmediocrity 4 months ago
Thanks.....Just Thanks My Friend,
Mike...the Reverend...Rose.
warbirds3339 5 months ago
DAMN.... guess Ill make my guitar into a lamp
NelKazam 5 months ago
I've decided to take as much time as I need and learn how to replicate this note for note. After I'm done I'll post my homage. Don't stay up late waiting kids because it's going to take a while.
BeltwayGreg 5 months ago
@BeltwayGreg Lol, I guess we'll see you in about 30 years. Just kidding
roykyle1964 5 months ago
@BeltwayGreg , good luck, may take a lifetime and then some though.
precaryus 4 months ago
A nice strat or tele through a a fender tube amp with reverb like a super reverb is this amazing tone. If you have such amazing tone like this you don't need many pedals cause you get a million diff tones from your fingers and knobs on the guitar because the sound is so responsive and crisp.
RoxxHunter 5 months ago
I play guitar a little bit and I just watched all the versions of "Sleepwalk" and without a doubt this is by far the best. Even Satriani is a boy compared to this man. The sustain, tone, and vibrato Gatton gets from the guitar is astounding.
BeltwayGreg 5 months ago 2
@BeltwayGreg I completely agree with you! Im sorry to all the others...but theirs just no one like DG! R.I.P Danny!
MiGrandeCazzo 5 months ago
Magnifico! A good friend that I still miss.
aucksmix 5 months ago
Danny was amazing. But so is Roy Buchanan. Not better or worse. Chet Atkins & Leo Kottke do a great version on here too.
Bluesman9830 5 months ago
Roy buchanan is master of telecaster
yondami92 5 months ago 2
@yondami92 I agree, but it's a matter of taste :) This guy is outstanding aswell!
AndreasSku93 5 months ago
Let's get one thing clear, Danny was the best, end of story... This aint no, who would win in a fight, Spiderman or Batman, this is a fact. If you can't comprehend that, maybe you should switch to saxophone.
litttleboots 6 months ago 2
wow!!!! thats modern and post modern.....and beyond!!!!! more!!!
dlevita 6 months ago
Danny Gatton is a great guitar player, but this rendition of a great melody just makes me cringe.... Sounds like someone strangling a cat...
eggymoo 7 months ago
@eggymoo Stick to Santos and Johnny...you'll never understand Danny...
1948BigCy 6 months ago
@eggymoo I'd like to strangle your cat just for saying that.
precaryus 4 months ago
@precaryus Be nice to the kitty and the kitty be nice to you!!
thugthumper1 4 months ago
Such a loss. . . we miss you, Danny. . .
Rabidburt 7 months ago
This master? Check out Jim Root, he deserves that
PaulJunior14 7 months ago
@PaulJunior14 That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever read.
jonanrigsbee 6 months ago
@jonanrigsbee And one of the funniest.
ekpil 6 months ago
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@PaulJunior14 Goddamn, you are dumb.
litttleboots 6 months ago
Master of the Telecaster? I was expecting Albert Collins.
christopauls 7 months ago
@christopauls Roy Buchanan, Master of the Telecaster...
lewis9754 7 months ago
@ 1:52 I heard heaven speak to me, god is that you?
jsdhesmith2011 8 months ago
RIP, Mr. Gatton.
You were a genius and are missed....
floobuscanoobus 8 months ago
EXELENTE..GUITARRISTA..
mikechacaltana 8 months ago
He didn't use any pedals at all. I was there, I video taped the show. Danny was a friend of mine. This was shot in 1989. The Line 6 didn't exist yet. Where do you get this BS info from. The magic is all in his fingers and soul.
robertkittila 8 months ago 19
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@robertkittila I guess humour doesn't translate very well on youtube does it?
IamAshleyWright 8 months ago
@robertkittila I wished I could have seen this giant of the Tele play. I only recently discovered this man. There will never be another. It makes me sad to know how it ended. I suffer from Depression as well. Thank you so much for sharing this with us !!
BreathDoctor 4 months ago
How can you people tell he doesn't use pedals and stuff you can't see his feet. I heard he uses the new Line 6 pod hd500 for all his shows.
IamAshleyWright 8 months ago
@IamAshleyWright he is dead and gatton definetely used no pedals
elstroshitnonstop 8 months ago
@IamAshleyWright the one who shot this video says he didn't use a pedal.. he'd know wouldn't he??
shashfrankenstien 8 months ago
@shashfrankenstien I guess humour doesn't translate very well on youtube does it?
IamAshleyWright 8 months ago
@IamAshleyWright
" I heard he uses the new Line 6 pod hd500"
...that's pretty crumby considering the poster of this video was friend of his.Anything for a laugh huh?
spentonmediocrity 4 months ago
Really??? Line 6 has a dealer in Heaven now? I'll bet the shipping costs must be something else...
Seriously--there have been lots of great Tele players, but Danny was indeed The Master. R.I.P., DG.
jfinester 4 months ago
Awesome post! Thank You!
uttz9 9 months ago
if you dis liked this you deserve death danny the fuckin god of suicide and guitar
XGRIMYONEX 9 months ago
Truly amazing, if a bit on the edge. Sad what happened to him. Thanks for this clip.
HugeGene 9 months ago
Danny was awesome, but his moniker was the Telemaster, Albert Collins was known as the Master of the Telecaster.
elgrovez13 9 months ago
Its not that good.
makalavena 9 months ago
Re effects, for a while he had a big control box of switches mounted on the metal plate at the butt of the guitar that would switch external things like echo's and reverbs on and off. He dumped the effects but kept the big metal mounting plate.
Big Ron
Vermillion2176 10 months ago
there is gatton, and there is the rest of the planet of guitar players.period.
TheInboil 10 months ago
Wow, he just ruined a great song
MrJayscotch34 11 months ago
@MrJayscotch34 and you just laid bare your complete musical ignorance for all to see...
carcariden 10 months ago
@MrJayscotch34 hey Mr. Jay Cock can you please stop suckin your dick so loudly...Im tryin to listen to a Musical Genius at work...and do and AMAZING COVER of an AMAZING SONG!!!! La Ringrazio Faggot Volto!!!!!
MiGrandeCazzo 10 months ago
DG was a guitar savant, there's nothing he couldn't play from classical to jazz, blues to country to straight up rock n' roll. The most amazing and creative guitarist this side of Django.
heartache2005 11 months ago
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you should check roy buchanan mastering the telecaster on sweet dreams just to mention one.
lordjaimeprimero 11 months ago
you should check roy buchanan mastering the telecaster on sweet dreams just to mention one
lordjaimeprimero 11 months ago
I was in Johnny Maestro's (singer of Crests and Brooklyn Bridge) home studio once hanging and doing an interview and he asked if I'd want to "maybe interview johnny too"...and there is Johnny Farina sitting in the corner playing this song (that HE & his brother wrote!) Too cool.
mc2NY 11 months ago
i had the privilege to meet danny at his home in accokeek many years ago. he loved old cars as much as guitars. i also has the great privilege to hold danny's custom danny gatton telecaster serial number 0. i still get chills thinking about that evening. what a great and humble man. if you did not know him as a musician you would have thought he was an auto mechanic. i wander back in my mind a lot remembering that gracious wonderful gentleman. truly an honor was bestowed upon me.
MrAngrygary 1 year ago
I think he went straight in to the amp. I don't remember ever seeing a effect unit in the chain. No delay unit needed. Maybe some reverb on used in the Fender amp. Kind of refreshing in todays maze of effects.
RK
robertkittila 1 year ago 8
@robertkittila He used a twin reverb. That was it. Plus the controls on his guitar. When he played a Les Paul he installed a Magic Dingus Box on it, a primitive effect box of his invention. When critics started to call him "Danny Gadget" and Buchanan sent him a Telecaster, he decided he'd show his critics. Just a Fender Twin Reverb. Yeah, Danny made em eat crow..."Danny had God's hands...sometimes I heard God come out of his amplifier..."
1948BigCy 1 year ago
its funny how today guitar players my age (im 22) need a multitude of effects in order to do this whereas he needed only a tele, a delay unit and a good amp to do this. one can only hope to be as good as this (me being one of them, working on it day and night)
BluesMan88 1 year ago
I used to be (still am) a huge Roy Buchanan fan until I discovered Danny Gatton. How could one possibly top Buchanan on the Telecaster? I'm still amazed.
zoomerx 1 year ago
Aint no doubt Danny could make that Tele freggin talk not to mention the multitude stuff he was putting into his creations. What a waste cuz he was one of a kind.
goffbum 1 year ago
i didnt even know Lou Ferigno played guitar..
LFMtvChannel7 1 year ago
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And God said "LET THERE BE A GUITAR PLAYER"!!! Danny You where the FUCKING MAN!!!!
Brennan29 1 year ago
How did you get "permission" from Danny when he died in 1994?
chelliegirl 1 year ago
@chelliegirl Perhaps it was just permission to film.
xoran99 11 months ago
His unorthodox style did not resonate with the general public, but musicians were in awe of his talent.
raremountainbear 1 year ago
ALBERT COLLINS aka 'The Master of the Telecaster'---long before Gatton....
pontecanis 1 year ago
not an ordinary guitar player...a great one
Gabrielm79 1 year ago
Amazing guitar playing. To achieve those numerous tones requires true mastery of the instrument. R.I.P Danny. You were truly one of the greatest but never recognized outside of musician circles.
dlagrua 1 year ago
Sweet. Reminds me of Roy Buchanan a bit on this.
LaraSixtyEight 1 year ago
@erneywine do you not get the fact fact that danny gatton was simply put GENIUS!!! im pretty sure he knew exactly how that tele sounded mate ;) LOVE YOU DG!!!
MiGrandeCazzo 1 year ago
I always thought that the Master of the Telecaster was Albert Collins ?
TheNigelc8 1 year ago