Danny Gatton Live!
November 20, 2009 | Posted by Billy Penn Here is a great clip of my all-time favorite guitar player Dany Gatton. The video quality is not the best but the playing is and that’s what counts. He jumps from style to style and even throws on some light, humorous riffing with the band about 2/3 of the way through. I saw him live a few times and he blew me away every single time! I got to meet him a couple times as well and he was such a nice guy. Loved to talk about cars particularly old Fords. I really miss him!!
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Great…another Danny Gatton fan.Danny is/was so talented!And so much of his playing was comical,by the licks he played!I have also done some post on Danny…maybe they will be new one’s for you,like yours was for me…
http://guitaranswers.blogspot.com/search/label/Danny%20Gatton?max-results=10
and… http://guitaranswers.blogspot.com/2008/10/mandanny-gatton.html
Enjoy
Many years ago I played a gig with some friends who had a band in Elkhart, Indiana. I was playing for fun and drinks. I got bombed on the Crown, so, instead of driving the 90 miles home I crashed in a motel. They had about 4 channels on the TV, but PBS was playing Austin City Limits, and I got to see Danny Gatton for the first time in my life. I was mesmerized by this dude, TOTALLY TO THE CENTER OF MY BEING!!!! Since that night, I have bought all his works, and I’ve gotten some copies of some of his live gigs. More than likely, the greatest right hand pick techniques anybody I ever seen. He was playing slide, using a bottle of beer, and getting into it. The bottle foamed up and out the top, and all over the neck of his Tele. He grabbed a small detail towel off the amp, and began to wipe the beer off the neck…….with that towel wrapped around the neck he began playing leads right through the towel. Totally blew my mind. Changed the amount I loved the guitar into an obsession that is logarithmic, the possibilities to play somethings with that amount of dexterity are only possible with practicing a whole damned lot, and playing till you almost drop, or as Danny called it “woodshedding”. I run scales about a half hour every other day. Big string to the skinny string and back. Even if I don’t feel like playing anything else, I do this…..from the F fret all the way up to the neck pocket, then back and again about 4 or 5 times, about a half hour. I don’t stop. I started doing this when I realized how good a guitar picker could get with dexterity and right hand coordination. And then I seen Jeff Beck’s new DVD here recently, a whole other logartihmic/exponent has been added to my being, the use of just fingers to play, no pick, and, [I even put that whammy bar back on my Strat]. HMMMMM! Danny Gatton was probably the best all around guitar player who ever played on this earth……Jeff Beck is right there with him. Good going Becker, and, RIP Danny! RP’Bob’
All Danny Addicts: ***hint*** maybe some of us should call, email, and holler at Austin City LImits TV Station down there in Texas, to put out this show of Danny on DVD. They are starting to release some of their older shows and stuff, but I have wore myself out asking them to buy a copy of Danny’s gig, I guess they don’t want to show the world this fantastic guitar player. Let’s do the http://www.austincitylimits.com on them. RP’Bob’
Austin City Limits have been releasing for sale some of their older shows on DVD. I have about wore myself out asking them for a copy of Danny’s show. Maybe all of the “Danny Addicts” in this world should all email them here in the next few, wake them up to the idea that this dude is probably one of the best guitar pickers that ever walked onto their stage.
http://www.austincitylimits.org is the correct address. Tell them “we want our Danny Gatton!”