Danny Gatton - The Blues

[bluesborn]

Mmmmm..Danny's phrasing is just exquisite.

[monktrane325]

A true artist-not pretentious, just a simple man with an insane talent. Some of the so-called musicians today should take a lesson from this man-humble but a genius with the guitar. Love you bro we will meet again...

[chuckp235]

what a beast

[Mccalpinmusic32]

Thank you for mentioning jim campilango!!

[bLAStSuCaRTa]

well danny and roy have two completely different tones when they play a tele

[SanSooKungFu]

more garbage than the alley behind Dannys house.

[dressedtosmellgood]

@SanSooKungFu he lived on a farm

[rockinredneck57]

Today's Telemaster would have to be Redd Volkaert. Definitely not Vince Gill or Brad Paisley or Keith Urban. Johnny Hiland used to play a Tele but has moved on. But his clips playing one are phenomenal. I'd love to have heard the three of them together. Can't say one is better, but it would be one hell of a show for sure.

[bLAStSuCaRTa]

@rockinredneck57

vince gill has a style modeled after albert lee which is different than the more rootsy style of redd volkaet. Johnny is just young and getting a shit load of attention so he jumps from one sponsor to the next like any 30 year old would. The rest you mention are in fact not worth a mention in the arena of telemaster or d.g.

[rockinredneck57]

@bLAStSuCaRTa According to sources, Johnny is not under contract with EBMM. He plays it because he likes it. Maybe Paul wasn't paying him enough, I don't know why he left there. He was getting great exposure and had his own line of PRS. Most guitar slingers would love an opportunity like that. I'm not a fan of Urban, Brad is OK, but Red has the chops. I love his twangbanger stuff with Bill Kirchen. Just a lot of fun with six strings.

[rockinredneck57]

@rockinredneck57 Of course, that should have been Redd with two dd's! I forgot to mention Marty Stuart as well. Seems he and Hank Jr own country music history these days. Plus Marty owns the original B Bender! Along with Marty, we can't leave out Kenny Vaughn. Fabulous Superlative!

[1isaacmusic]

Stormy Monday is the song title, I think.

[hastyfishbone]

WOW! I just found an old VHS that a friend gave me of this 20+ years ago! What a hoot!

[1isaacmusic]

So less IS more....

[gabrieltyrone]

it's just fingers.. nothing amazing

[srvgravesdime]

Anyone who love Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan should check out Jim Campilongo.... This trio is godly on the teles.

[chrook]

Buchanan got it from Gatton, not the other way around

[lukousmembrane]

@chrook I read somewhere in an interview where Danny said he learned how to approach a Telecaster from Roy....

[1948BigCy]

@chrook I don't think so...Danny at first played a Les Paul...Roy gave him a Tele like his...they were friends...Danny never looked back...

[johngoo343]

After Hours by Roy Buchanan anyone?

[1948BigCy]

@johngoo343 Danny wrote and played a blues called "Notcho Blues", which sounded like Roy's...He plays an incredible opening, then plays on the tonic chord for an extended period...but unlike Roy, he finally goes through the blues progression...it is one of my favorite cuts by Danny....

[TheInboil]

omg this is so buchanan. crazy

[paul2010100]

Danny Gatton is the MAN!! R.I.P.

[TheSully48]

Man id give anything to be even half as good as he was

[steveo27545]

hate to say anyone is the best, but I have never seen another person who could play like Danny.

He used high tech effects like a cord an amp but his tone came from his fingers.

[TheUnnamableExecuter]

I wish I lived next door to Danny just so I could hear him practice. And maybe get a lesson :)

[adamledrew]

mannnnnnnn,,,,he sounds so fuckin good....this guy is untouchable

[guitarplayntaylor91]

What year? Early 80's?

[bellsonrich]

Man i bet Mike Bloomfield and Danny would fucking blues jam tell dawn if they ever had the chance.

[elstroshitnonstop]

@bellsonrich you are right. when i started hearing telemasters like gatton and buchanan i didnt know how to react, because mike had always been the master in my eyes. such geniuses, which of them would have been humbled though? lightning vs thunder

[zthetha]

I have been researching some stuff on youtube and came across such a load of bullshit that \I just had to clear my mind of it by listening to the greatest set of digits ever to grace the guitar. What a talent!

[Vermillion2176]

I have every video and record of Danny that I can find. I think that it's an absolute shame that he wasted the rest of his life for whatever reason. Just a total loss to the music world and guitarists in particular.

Big Ron

[zthetha]

This is the second part of my comment - Youtube seems to favour the monosyllabic but try as I might I can't seem to dumb down... so cont::: There is just about every category of music in there - rock, bop, swing, country, folk, pop, experimental - with the possible exception of flamenco - although no doubt he could have if he had wanted to.

[twangbarfly]

@zthetha Danny sticks in some flamenco rasgueados at 6.47 :-) Great right hand Danny had - and he was left-handed!

[McGuitarStar]

@twangbarfly

Funny thing b/c I'm right handed and when I first picked up the guitar I tried playing it left handed and was told I was holding it up side down...It made sense to me to use my strong hand for pressing those big brass strings and if you think about it, you only need a soft touch to play the string but a strong hand to hold them.

[twangbarfly]

@McGuitarStar Yep - in fact you've got to be ambidextrous to play the guitar in a way! Whatever your strong hand is doing, the other hand is going to be doing something just as complex.... but different, especially if you play fingerstyle:-) I don't really notice much difference between my two hands when I type or play the piano even though I'm right handed. I put this down to playing the guitar.

[zthetha]

I have have the feeling with this supreme guitarist that he is reining himself in - partly because he doesn't want to blow the other musicians away and partly because- unlike any other guitarist I can think of - he has so many musical ideas that he doesn't want to blow the audience away with a creative overload. What a loss his untimely death was.

[BluesHeavy]

imagine soloing that long and keeping it interesting without mudding it up with a ton of effects to make the same passage sound different just a guy, a tele,echo pedal and fender amp done. oh and 1 meg tone pot for the wah sound

[airdancr1]

How the hell did he make that noise at 3:52? That's gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever heard!

[surfco]

@airdancr1 That's called feedback.

[jojojosmart1]

@airdancr1 -yea kinda sounds like a wolf. He plucked the string with the skin of his thumb creating a little harmonic , then held the body of the guitar with his pick hand and pushed on the neck bending the neck, releasing string tension.. As he releases the neck, the harmonic grows as the string tightens. I've only heard a similar thing done with a whammy bar- like the screams of Dimebag darrel. I'm sure Danny was the only one to ever originate a bunch of this kind of stuff .

[MrMrshl]

Ego now deflated !

[cirql8]

Man, this is just amazing! I made a play list of all these videos, there's about 8 I found, each one is pure genius. Can't stop listening to them. Thanks for posting, inspired.

[McGuitarStar]

Wow just fricken wow! I would of love to have seen Danny and Roy play together.

[twangbarfly]

Good God! How many guitarists have begun a guitar solo like Danny at 3'41? A fantastic musical mind at work :-) Many thanks for posting this genius playing!

[GitarCarl]

Thanks so much for posting these amazing performances!

[cabenavisson]

buenisimo!!!

[TrafalgarTheMeerkat]

One of the best Danny's videos I've seen on YouTube !

What a sound !!!

Miss him, miss him, miss him...

[taterj68]

wow i dont have words for this great music .wow just unreal .unreal .

gj.

[37terraplane]

Chuck Berry's "Deep Feeling"!

[bevep12]

@37terraplane ... Ahh someone else caught it too ... & Danny's playing it without a slide.

[Musicfiend222]

I love new Danny videos...I never got to see him...so getting to see what I can means the world to me! Danny was the best hands down no questions asked.

[psychobillyRob]

DG WILL FOREVER BE THE BEST!!! no one can EVER touch his ability and raw talent! truly the greatest "unknown" player of all time!!! R.I.P DANNY

[300guitars]

Soooooooooooo great! Thanks for posting! DG was and still is the best!!

[flinx649]

More Danny....thanks for posting!

[crocidile75]

Forget the technical errors mate, this is just brilliant. Thanks very much