He is playing horribly out of tune. Is that the "haunting tortured part"? I hate people who can't stand that others have different opinions. If you like this renditions despite being horribly out of tune, then fine! Enjoy! But, don't demand that everyone else must enjoy it as well.
@@probusexcogitatoris736 actually yes, that is the haunting tortured part. and he is doing it deliberately. it's not out of tune. it's wailing, screeching. think janis Joplin. etta James. we live in a world of autotune today. you don't have to enjoy it. but know that to do this live requires knowing the piece thoroughly so you can know where to take liberties.
I wonder about all the people who leave negative comments...How well do you play???Danny was a treasure. We all benefited from seeing and listening to his incredible performances.
Not this argument again! Are you this fucking stupid? "If you can't play better, then shut the fuck up". Do you really mean, that just because you aren't a chef yourself you have no saying in whether the food you are eating at a restaurant is good or not? How would you react if the waitress would respond with "well, can you make better food" when you complained about your chicken being raw. This is such a stupid argument.
Danny was a total genius...maybe not the best version of Sleepwalk, but a great example of his incredible technique and individual approach to the guitar...thanks for posting
Wow! - tele's are great guitars (I got one) but I have NEVER heard one played with so many different 'voices' this is superb stuff... really using the instrument to it's full potential - great!
I have been attempting to play guitar for 36 years and I cannot believe all the negative comments. If you do not have anything nice to say dont say anything.All you naysayers lets see what you can do on this venue. I thought it is a brilliant version myself.
First he has stolen the title Master of the Telecaster from Albert Collins, If you have been playing for 36 years you would know that, He is not good and that is putting it kindly and he is a thief for using another musicians tag.
"stolen the title". your for sure know shit about that. he did not claimed the "title", it was given to him, by criticasnaming him a "master of the telecaster" among others. collins is still "The" master.
stratocaster1greg man hell no u completely butchered a great song. With your horrendous playing, how do "attempt" to play guitar for36 years u weirdo thats unheard of either u know how by puttin in the time & work it only took me a full 2 years to completely know wat im doing or u dont just stick to your own shit & stop butchering world class songs
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.
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.
Robert - What was it like to hang around with Danny? He seems like he was a modest guy, who didn't come across like so many "rock star" guitarists who we could do without. I love that he restored classic cars, and played club dates where he could go back and forth with the audiences. There's not much more to be said about his music. He simply was the greatest guitar player who lit up the frets in the 1970s-1980s and early 90s. I was shocked when I found out that he had taken his own life. I haven't found any books or magazine articles that attempt to explain the circumstances. I saw one TV interview with him about a year before he died, and the only thing he had to say when asked why he didn't get the recognition he deserved from the general public, while professional guitar players (myself included) were awed by his versatility and technical skills. He said something like, "I dont know. Maybe bad management." What an understatement! I really hope you could reveal a bit more about Danny than his modesty would allow. Thanks from me, and, I'm certain, from all of us "Nit-Pickers" in Danny's fan club.
Robert , you are right. I saw Danny many times. We were from the same area. Him and my old boyfriend would play together. No pedals ! Just pure talent. When we would visit him at the farm he was always working on his old cars. I found it boring but enjoyed Danny's personality. He could be funny.
@@danharris3925 , In the 70s, Danny was simply Danny. He loved his farm and family. He was a friend to me. I use to go see him with his band Danny and the Fat Boys. My favorite keyboard player Dick Heintze was in the band. Now Dave Elliott is the only one left. When I heard that Danny was going out to LA, I told folks that it would kill him. He was a country boy . He needed the simple life. The one he made with the farm, his wife ( beehive hair in the early 70s ) and daughter. He should have just stayed in DC. He could play whenever he wanted. Fame is a bitch.
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.
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 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 !!
Danny and Django are the best 2 guitarists I've ever heard. Both can play any musical idea that comes into their head. instantly and flawlessly and both of them got bored with the guitar. it was no longer a challenge to them. Unlike most guitarists I think they found playing the guitar easy
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.
Saw him twice in one day at NAMM Anehiem show about 17 years ago. Awesome, he played a lot of stuff from the Elmira Street album. Best guitarist I've ever seen live.
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 don't think Leo Fender had any idea what a box of tricks he was creating with the Telecaster. Danny conjured up so much from this guitar- truly mind-blowing- unbelievably innovative and talented.
The only other guitar player I would compare Danny to would be Lenny Breau; most of the harmonics (artificial wow!) and chord changes are way beyond the range and skill set of blues or rock player. Danny was proficient on the pedal steel, and you can see the result in his mastery of the entire neck, and strings all the way to the bridge, the kind of thing steel players have to know.
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.
@ImChrisYall You're correct - 1994. What JamesCornford said to Chelliegirl, though, was that there is a word (of rumor?) that it was a stroke that ultimately led to the 1994 suicide. What James said was that there was a stroke which caused him to loose ability in playing. We don't know if that's the case, but James was just offering a possible explanation. Also, I think it is the case that someone told James that fact 'recently', not that Danny had a stroke 'recently' is what James meant.
Continued: The peeps back at the campground @ a mile away said they could hear them just like they were inside the actual Fest grounds. Awesome performance,and some of this is on youtube. You're a stand up guy,deadzeppelin. Cheers.
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.
The player is Danny Gatton. One of the greatest guitar players in the world. Educate yourselves ladies and stop making mean remarks if you cannot understand what he is doing.
Right on,deadzeppelin! Being like Chick Corea was our thing at the time('73-'77). In 1969,I attended the Dallas International Pop Festival,which really wasn't in Dallas at all,but Louisville! The entire Fest I was in the first row ,centered,of peeps,and resting on a bale of hay,along with other bales of hay forming a semicircle directly surrounding both sides of the stage. Just some grass and a few photogs b/w me anf the front edge of the stage. Led Zeppellin came on and killed for 3 hrs. +.
Yep, RJE is my fav too. I only have a few (3, my dad has 2 or 3 too), but I love that stuff. Song of India is my personal best. It's a shame he died when I was 4.
+Ian Bearcroft I know it's strange that people bother, what's not to like if you are into guitar? Plus Danny Gatton was a humble guy an da genius at once, not many of them!
I think you have your "Alberts" confused. Albert King played a Flying V and in similar open tunings but turned "upside-down" as for a lefty. I've never seen a pic of AC using one and nothing on the web indicates otherwise. It seems I've seen early pix of him with an SG but by the late 1950s he began using Fender Telecasters. The Flying V wasn't introduced until 1958. He later chose a maple-cap 1966 Custom Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucker in the neck position as his weapon of choice.
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.
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 really can't believe the obtuse people commenting about the way Gatton plays this standard. He's making it his own, that's what great musicians do! God forbid if he improvises and doesn't play it note for note! If you want to hear it note for note, play the Santo and Johnny version. Or better yet, let's watch the"Bob the out-of-work amateur guitar hack butchers Sleepwalk in his bedroom" video....
@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..."
Danny didn't kill himself because of a domestic disturbance or because no one gave him the recognition and credit he was due. "The best guitarist you never heard" had issues. He was one of the kindest, most generous and sweetest people on earth and to say such stupid shit about him makes it clear you didn't know him and neither, it seems, did "Country Guitar Magazine". RIP Daniel.
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
@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.
Les paul said danny was the best all round all styles player he ever heard.... if that aint qualified enough praise for this genius i dont know who else to ask..... as for the haters lets see thier vids or they can all go have a warm glass of stfu..
The DC area was the proving ground for many of the best guitarists to ever play-Bobby Radcliff-"the Chainsaw," and Rusty Bogart. Rusty is the mellowest jazz player of all time. Both of them were around in Gatton's heyday and Danny was always generous and self-effacing and kind to any musician. His best trick didn't involve guitars, but an electrical device he made and installed at the back of his amp. Guess what its purpose was, you guitar genius wannabees?
Never ceases to amaze how much Danny gets his Telecaster to sound like a steel guitar on this. Genius isnt strong enough a word.
People leaving negative comments haven't got a clue and that's a good thing. Gatton nailed this haunting tortured piece. Pure genius:)
And doing it live!!
He is playing horribly out of tune. Is that the "haunting tortured part"? I hate people who can't stand that others have different opinions. If you like this renditions despite being horribly out of tune, then fine! Enjoy! But, don't demand that everyone else must enjoy it as well.
@@probusexcogitatoris736 no problem...i hate you either!
@@probusexcogitatoris736 actually yes, that is the haunting tortured part. and he is doing it deliberately. it's not out of tune. it's wailing, screeching. think janis Joplin. etta James. we live in a world of autotune today. you don't have to enjoy it. but know that to do this live requires knowing the piece thoroughly so you can know where to take liberties.
Best Guitar Player of all times!!
There will never be another player like Danny. The greatest 'unknown guitarist' that ever lived. May you rest in peace.
I wonder about all the people who leave negative comments...How well do you play???Danny was a treasure. We all benefited from seeing and listening to his incredible performances.
Not this argument again! Are you this fucking stupid? "If you can't play better, then shut the fuck up". Do you really mean, that just because you aren't a chef yourself you have no saying in whether the food you are eating at a restaurant is good or not? How would you react if the waitress would respond with "well, can you make better food" when you complained about your chicken being raw. This is such a stupid argument.
total master on the telecaster..really knows how to work the virtues of the guitar to their utmost potential..this is great!!thanks for posting....
Danny was a total genius...maybe not the best version of Sleepwalk, but a great example of his incredible technique and individual approach to the guitar...thanks for posting
Wow! - tele's are great guitars (I got one) but I have NEVER heard one played with so many different 'voices' this is superb stuff... really using the instrument to it's full potential - great!
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I have been attempting to play guitar for 36 years and I cannot believe all the negative comments. If you do not have anything nice to say dont say anything.All you naysayers lets see what you can do on this venue. I thought it is a brilliant version myself.
First he has stolen the title Master of the Telecaster from Albert Collins, If you have been playing for 36 years you would know that, He is not good and that is putting it kindly and he is a thief for using another musicians tag.
"stolen the title". your for sure know shit about that. he did not claimed the "title", it was given to him, by criticasnaming him a "master of the telecaster" among others. collins is still "The" master.
stratocaster1greg man hell no u completely butchered a great song. With your horrendous playing, how do "attempt" to play guitar for36 years u weirdo thats unheard of either u know how by puttin in the time & work it only took me a full 2 years to completely know wat im doing or u dont just stick to your own shit & stop butchering world class songs
Really?... so you would bring a woman home, make a romantic dinner, share an excellent wine with her...candle lights....and then put on this record?
@@vows2sweden define "romantic dinner" are you talking about spaghetti with garlic bread or pizza delivered?
RIP Danny... wish I could've been there for you man. You were a great player, and are not forgotten.
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.
Danny was an encyclopedia of American music - true genius. Man, what a right hand!
Danny Gatton left us way to soon! Truly one of the greatest guitarists of all time and a personal favorite of mine. Thanks for posting this.
Definitely an homage to Roy Buchanan, who also took his life in 1988. Man, what is it with these genius guitar players and doing that?
For my money, the greatest guitarist who ever lived.
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.
Robert - What was it like to hang around with Danny? He seems like he was a modest guy, who didn't come across like so many "rock star" guitarists who we could do without. I love that he restored classic cars, and played club dates where he could go back and forth with the audiences. There's not much more to be said about his music. He simply was the greatest guitar player who lit up the frets in the 1970s-1980s and early 90s. I was shocked when I found out that he had taken his own life. I haven't found any books or magazine articles that attempt to explain the circumstances. I saw one TV interview with him about a year before he died, and the only thing he had to say when asked why he didn't get the recognition he deserved from the general public, while professional guitar players (myself included) were awed by his versatility and technical skills. He said something like, "I dont know. Maybe bad management." What an understatement! I really hope you could reveal a bit more about Danny than his modesty would allow. Thanks from me, and, I'm certain, from all of us "Nit-Pickers" in Danny's fan club.
Robert , you are right.
I saw Danny many times. We were from the same area. Him and my old boyfriend would play together. No pedals ! Just pure talent. When we would visit him at the farm he was always working on his old cars. I found it boring but enjoyed Danny's personality. He could be funny.
@@danharris3925 , In the 70s, Danny was simply Danny. He loved his farm and family. He was a friend to me. I use to go see him with his band Danny and the Fat Boys. My favorite keyboard player Dick Heintze was in the band. Now Dave Elliott is the only one left.
When I heard that Danny was going out to LA, I told folks that it would kill him. He was a country boy . He needed the simple life. The one he made with the farm, his wife ( beehive hair in the early 70s ) and daughter.
He should have just stayed in DC. He could play whenever he wanted.
Fame is a bitch.
RIP Danny Gatton.
Another great musician lost to us. Your music lives on, and will do work for other guitarists like myself for years to come.
Thats one rockin' kool katt. One of the best versions ive heard yet, truly does make my heart melt
Superbe arrangement avec les basses, une maitrise certaine de sa télécaster. Belle performance. Spécial, spécial.
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.
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 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 !!
I loved Danny. I am from Northern Virginia, so I got to see him a few times. He is missed.
Danny and Django are the best 2 guitarists I've ever heard. Both can play any musical idea that comes into their head. instantly and flawlessly and both of them got bored with the guitar. it was no longer a challenge to them. Unlike most guitarists I think they found playing the guitar easy
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.
I wish he was still here to play for us. Sadly missed. RIP bud.
Danny was a brilliant player with out peer.A great sense of humor and a family man.He never got his due.God Bless him!
Saw him twice in one day at NAMM Anehiem show about 17 years ago. Awesome, he played a lot of stuff from the Elmira Street album. Best guitarist I've ever seen live.
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.
wow never heard of this guy before all i can say is wow
that was awesome - effortless playing and the use of the volume and tone controls - heading to the basement to practice after seeing that one.
I don't think Leo Fender had any idea what a box of tricks he was creating with the Telecaster. Danny conjured up so much from this guitar- truly mind-blowing- unbelievably innovative and talented.
What planet are you on, Danny is a truly fantastic tone guitarist, really up there with the best.
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
DG was great but another Telecaster player of note, Amos Garrett, is right there with him.
The only other guitar player I would compare Danny to would be Lenny Breau; most of the harmonics (artificial wow!) and chord changes are way beyond the range and skill set of blues or rock player. Danny was proficient on the pedal steel, and you can see the result in his mastery of the entire neck, and strings all the way to the bridge, the kind of thing steel players have to know.
Played Banjo too, love and miss Danny Gatton
such a deep musicality. I think his raw chops kind of overshadowed his melodic side. I like the simple melodic stuff. this is great.
He is a true master he makes his guitar sound like a steel or pedal guitar
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.
@ImChrisYall You're correct - 1994. What JamesCornford said to Chelliegirl, though, was that there is a word (of rumor?) that it was a stroke that ultimately led to the 1994 suicide. What James said was that there was a stroke which caused him to loose ability in playing. We don't know if that's the case, but James was just offering a possible explanation. Also, I think it is the case that someone told James that fact 'recently', not that Danny had a stroke 'recently' is what James meant.
wow!!!! thats modern and post modern.....and beyond!!!!! more!!!
Now i see who influenced Bill Frisell... great stuff
Continued: The peeps back at the campground @ a mile away said they could hear them just like they were inside the actual Fest grounds. Awesome performance,and some of this is on youtube. You're a stand up guy,deadzeppelin. Cheers.
Late, great Danny Gatton! Man I miss that cat... thanks for posting this
the greatest loss in guitar history, along with Jimi :((
Magnifico! A good friend that I still miss.
THE TELEMASTER!
the greatest unknown guitarist of all time...
well, to each his/her own. I personally loved it
RIP, Mr. Gatton.
You were a genius and are missed....
I keep looking for the whammy bar! Wow great technique. Thanks.
great playing the blues! I love the tele
Amazing genious. Wish he'd still be with us.
this stuff makes me wish i was alive back in those days
man
He released a fantastic cd with hammond organ player Joey de Francesco; the cd is called 'Relentless' - it is a must to have!
Truly amazing, if a bit on the edge. Sad what happened to him. Thanks for this clip.
Danny was one of the VERY best EVER!
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.
This guy is REALLY good...He needs no one to tell him so...
The player is Danny Gatton. One of the greatest guitar players in the world. Educate yourselves ladies and stop making mean remarks if you cannot understand what he is doing.
feeling is the key-word here, love his playing...
Why is he so underrated as a guitarist right now?
Thanks.....Just Thanks My Friend,
Mike...the Reverend...Rose.
That's a fantastic version of Sleepwalk.
Awesome post! Thank You!
what a shame he didn't get the commercial success he so obviously deserved. a tragedy.
but we will always have his music
Joey Lodes
Right on,deadzeppelin! Being like Chick Corea was our thing at the time('73-'77). In 1969,I attended the Dallas International Pop Festival,which really wasn't in Dallas at all,but Louisville! The entire Fest I was in the first row ,centered,of peeps,and resting on a bale of hay,along with other bales of hay forming a semicircle directly surrounding both sides of the stage. Just some grass and a few photogs b/w me anf the front edge of the stage. Led Zeppellin came on and killed for 3 hrs. +.
Yep, RJE is my fav too. I only have a few (3, my dad has 2 or 3 too), but I love that stuff. Song of India is my personal best. It's a shame he died when I was 4.
This is killer. Whats with the hate?
+Ian Bearcroft I know it's strange that people bother, what's not to like if you are into guitar? Plus Danny Gatton was a humble guy an da genius at once, not many of them!
The Amazing Danny Gatton!!!!!!🎸😎
theres always one dude who doesn't appreciate a genius !
I think you have your "Alberts" confused. Albert King played a Flying V and in similar open tunings but turned "upside-down" as for a lefty. I've never seen a pic of AC using one and nothing on the web indicates otherwise. It seems I've seen early pix of him with an SG but by the late 1950s he began using Fender Telecasters. The Flying V wasn't introduced until 1958. He later chose a maple-cap 1966 Custom Telecaster with a Gibson PAF humbucker in the neck position as his weapon of choice.
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.
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 really can't believe the obtuse people commenting about the way Gatton plays this standard. He's making it his own, that's what great musicians do! God forbid if he improvises and doesn't play it note for note! If you want to hear it note for note, play the Santo and Johnny version. Or better yet, let's watch the"Bob the out-of-work amateur guitar hack butchers Sleepwalk in his bedroom" video....
@xTiLkx Any of the songs on 'Relentless'. It's quite a traditional 'twangy' tele tone, but in a good way.
Danny Gatton one of the greatest guitar players and people compare him with Brian Setzer.A real joke.
Greetings from Germany.
Why is it a joke? Setzer is great in his own right but he's a VERY different player.
how about Roy Buchanan?
Normally you don't see this song attempted on a fixed bridge guitar of any kind. Nice reinterpretation of a classic, Gatton is terrific.
BEAUTIFUL.........
I don't know about everyone else, but all my favorite musicians graduated from Berklee.
RIP Danny,
We miss you!
He used about 500 different techniques in 2.5 minutes. Beyond unbelivable.
@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..."
amazing how he gets that volume swell sound just with his fingers...
Danny Gatton, the best unknown guitarist ever
definitely believable that theres no pedals, great Tele players are always masters with the volume knob, Danny Gatton unreal!
Danny didn't kill himself because of a domestic disturbance or because no one gave him the recognition and credit he was due. "The best guitarist you never heard" had issues. He was one of the kindest, most generous and sweetest people on earth and to say such stupid shit about him makes it clear you didn't know him and neither, it seems, did "Country Guitar Magazine". RIP Daniel.
One of the most accurate video names on youtube.
@TheArdvaark. master of dissaster that is the right name for this man.gerrit from netherlands.
Awesome!!! Thanks for posting:)
Grandma Mary
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
at least he isnt stomping on pedals every 2 seconds, correct me if Im wrong but didn't he make his own built in guitar effect. love the tone
had my hands on a tele 51 years ago and still have one
@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.
Les paul said danny was the best all round all styles player he ever heard.... if that aint qualified enough praise for this genius i dont know who else to ask..... as for the haters lets see thier vids or they can all go have a warm glass of stfu..
Genius!!!!!!
@Philzwhodrumz No, I just came across this video after reading a discussion on a video of Satriani's version of it.
Any songs you can advise me on?
wow! we must jam when you are in Oz mate. :)
beautiful rendition
@tbcass Was it Amos Garrett who nicknamed Danny "The Humbler" simply because he was better than everyone?
The DC area was the proving ground for many of the best guitarists to ever play-Bobby Radcliff-"the Chainsaw," and Rusty Bogart. Rusty is the mellowest jazz player of all time. Both of them were around in Gatton's heyday and Danny was always generous and self-effacing and kind to any musician. His best trick didn't involve guitars, but an electrical device he made and installed at the back of his amp. Guess what its purpose was, you guitar genius wannabees?
Great to see a fella enjoying his guitar, and putting himself into his performance... brill!