Danny Gatton - Crosscut Saw (excellent audio)

More than just a telemaster, Gatton burns on his ES-350. Recorded at the Gentry in the early 80's.

Later in the set Evan Johns told the audience that the guitar Danny was playing was his first electric guitar, an ES-350. Not sure if it's the same as the one in the photo. I remember it having a bigsby vibrato.

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[Gminor7]

Gatton's is the blues solo I've been wanting to hear my entire life - chromaticism galore. Howard Roberts, Hank Garland, Lenny Breau, Johnny Smith, Les Paul, Wes . . . He soaked it all up and painted the most technicolor 3D blues I'ver ever heard.

[banditvibe]

@Gminor7 yes, this might be the coolest, most bad-ass live-performance solo in the "unlimited" category I've ever heard;) He was on fire that night. He throws everything at this solo and it all just fits together really well.

[joshua9312]

Do you have a mp3 for this?

[banditvibe]

@joshua9312 I have AIFF source audio I digitized from my original audio tape using a Yamaha Audiogram3 usb interface and Cubase. The video has an embedded 192k ACC audio track ripped via iMovie.

[banditvibe]

I want to give some props to Evan Johns here. He's got own very cool raw style -- he's not just throwing together a bunch of Albert King licks. Listen to Eric Clapton play crosscut saw and what you get is essentially an amped up version of Albert King playing Crosscut Saw. It's probably out of respect -- paying homage and all that -- but still. Evan Johns shows you can play really stripped down blues without aping another player. The guy is cool.

[bls315]

Dannys first guitar was a martin acoustic

[banditvibe]

@bls315 I know, I know, I know -- I meant "first electric guitar" -- sorry. I can't change that in the video now. See my other video "Danny Gatton plays his first electric guitar" from the same show.

[flatpicker36]

i think most of dannys licks are in the key of awesome.

[grahamzhiser]

damn my face definitely got melted

[Dazzypig]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Hell yeah, I've hard a lot of players and every time I go back to Danny it's like, 'wow, there just isn't anyone who can really "play with a guitar" like he did it'. Awesome.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@Dazzypig: Are you kidding? I wouldn't even get up on the same stage as that guy! He was known as "The Humbler" for good reason...

[Dazzypig]

@GeorgiaBoy1961 Would you want to go after him? haha

[1zenrn]

Evan is a legendary great!, Never got enough credit...

[Barnekkid]

EXCELLENT! I have EJs autograph around here somewhere.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

@banditvibe: Thanks for posting this, it is a wonderful treat to hear some new DG after all this time. You are right about Evan Johns; his guitar playing is nothing to dismiss and it took some brass to solo before Danny.

[GeorgiaBoy1961]

Only Danny Gatton could blow a jazz-like improvization on "Crosscut Saw," and then turn the tune inside out and work all of his favorite licks and moves. No matter what he played, it came out sounding like Danny.... amazing.