@@vincentl.9469 True, but have you seen the live videos from 1984? He was playing the most amazing stuff on old doo wop and rockabilly classics, etc. Danny and the fat boys with Dave Elliott and Billy Hancock. That's when i realized that Danny really is the king of the guitar.
Tony, wow what a valuable detailed lesson -thanks for sharing. I'm going to try and learn these. Funny, I just started putting on my strings the way Joe Walsh shows in his setup video, where you make a little hook by folding the end of your sting under and over where its coming up from the nut - even with a double moving bridge on the charvel its been staying in tune. One question that crossed my mind is : Are there any phones today that still have dial tone? and using cigarrette ashes? definitely a tip from another time period and from playing in a lot of night clubs. Awesome, thanks.
@@GregoryPearsonMusic haha. What Danny is talking about is or are the tuner machine heads that are on older fenders. They have a hole down the middle and you can stick your string in there, and it won't be sticking out to poke you in the finger. I have a buddy that does a Jimi Hendrix tribute and he puts those tuners on all of his strats no matter what they came with that way if his kids touch the guitar they won't get that immediate infection when you poke yourself with the end of the string. One other thing I'll mention is in all these videos I see helping people to stay in tune no one ever mentions tightening the screws on the back of the neck. If the screws are loose or it has a screw down Ferruell on the top, as soon as you bend a string the tuner is going to move and it's going out of tune.
Danny Gatton---man, that cat had an almost mystical connection with a telecaster. A true inspiration. Whatever he was wrestling with personally must have been truly difficult. I wish he had worked it out and was still with us today.
Danny is the consummate teacher. "Go slow", "don't be discouraged" encouraging stuff you want your teachers to say. I envy the students who got to sit down with the man, his guitar knowledge was unsurpassed.
RIP Danny. A better reason to check your friends are 'really' ok I could not think of. Take care everybody, and mostly, treat yourself kindly and be humble, the rest will follow. Sydney, Oz.
unless you're a bad guitarist, keep your gear and keep playing. Also, Danny Gatton died about 20 years ago. RIP. So, it's not as if he's going to show up at your gig and want to sit in.
I bought a blonde telecaster when l was 17. I’ve played it all my life and l’m 72 with that same guitar at my bedside as l type after finding this clip. I’d seen short clips of him before but watching this l finally understand that lve just witnessed the absolute master of the telecaster. Such a nice, modest and self deprecating man who was born to play it. True genius and the best tele player that ever lived. I’d sell my soul to be able to play half as well as he does here. Leaving in the minor blips just makes me like him even more. Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive and l sense a parallel soul. Thanks for posting this, l play with out a pic but now lm going going to try my hardest to emulate Danny’s left hand. It’s either that or give up!
I’m a blues player. Louisiana bred. My practice?’ Danny Gatton & Stevie Ray Vaughn Not my style AT ALL... Practice HARDER than you “play”💡 I’ll take down ANYONE!
When you watch Danny Gatton today, you can still marvel at his command and technique. Excepted for Josh Smith, I don't know anybody that can even approach the way he did it. Such a loss to not have him around. Not necessarily for his incredible playing, but just him, as a human being. He was very humble and accessible. Depression is a terrible predicament. I want him back. Now!
Josh smith is a fantastic modern player and he gives me hope but i dont know if hes quite at this level yet, theres just something about the old guys that no new young guy has. I also love kirk fletchers playing, having said that they all beat the shit out of me on guitar so there ya go
How shame is that no one really give Danny the credits he deserves when he was alive. I think that's what humans truly are. We only appreciate thing when we lost it.
There are too many to have a one “best”. Alan Holdsworth, for just one other example, and there are too many to even attempt a list. Danny Gatton is definitely one of the best.
His quiet manner is so soothing and in such contrast to his savage chops. He talks like the lab coat guys in the 8mm science movies we used to watch in school. I don't even particularly like Americana-style music, but I can listen to Danny all day long. If only he'd have been happier and stayed with us...
Once read an article that Danny was at a guitar workshop and showing some good guitarists some of his trademark licks and riffs. And he couldn,t understand how none of them could grasp or follow what he was doing. He didn,t realise what was easy for Danny was impossible for normal guitarists
In 1991, at the age of 19, I was temporarily living in Dahlgren, Virginia for about 5 months and decided to pick up a guitar. I played that thing for hours a day every day (I had a lot of free time on my hands). Years later I heard about Danny Gatton and read his story and was shocked to hear of his suicide. Recently I started reading a bit about him and learned where his farm was - it was less than a 15 minute drive away from where I was. I would have loved to have met him.
@@pabloperez4063 ...Of all the most ridiculous misapprehensions of reality that I have ever heard of, that is one of the worst. Danny Gatton thinking he isn't good enough?! It'd be funny if it wasn't so damn tragic.
Ive heard a few other great people in their respective fields express this, and I think theyre earnest. They obsess over a sort of efficiency of technique bc of some self-perceived laziness but their obsession causes them to work incredibly hard in a different way.
thanks for posting this (I bought this very tape (autographed by DG) as VHS back in 87 (as well as his "unfinished business" album..) I still use the heavy teardrop jazz picks !.. " it was in tune when I bought it" ! (top shelf gold) All the Arlen Roth Hotlicks videos are excellent as well (in fact Arlen Roth (in my opinion.. is an unreal crazy good tele player) VHS tapes now all obsoleted by technology (so this is good to see on here (I'd love to find the Emily Remler one I used to own) Danny made the Hotlicks one some years after this one.. so for "any" guitarist.. check out Arlens resources..(maybe they are all re-formatted and available .. ?) but yeah .. he made many many Telecaster Videos.. and all great .. and I credit him(AR).. for his contribution to guitar culture.. again.. thanks for posting..
There's a RU-vid video that's very easy to find where Danny had a 12 y/o (or maybe 13 y/o) Joe Bonamassa jam with him onstage at one of Danny's live shows, and it's one of my all-time favorites. In one of them, an interviewer asked what he thought of Joe B's playing, and he replied with something along the lines of "I thought for a while that they were gonna hire him and replace me!" Man, what a *great* compliment from a really nice guitar legend! And yes, Gatton was old enough at the time to where other guitar players were calling him a "legend."
He plays with the bottle of beer and gets beer on the neck and so he grabs a towel and drys off the neck over the frets all the while playing thru the towel like its not there......incredible...............
He was actually putting the strings wrong on his guitar. More string you put around the tuning post more tuning problems you will have. For Ex Eric Johnson puts only one loop around the posts.
"Oh' hi, can you point me to the Telecasters?" " Uh' yes, they're back in appliances...I believe next to the GE Ovens." ...does anyone else get the pure utility vibe from early Tele's?
And yet, also visually balanced and elegant. The interplay of the curve of the upper bout against the curve of the pick guard's top edge--poetry. The lozenge-shaped control plate with the oversized steel knobs is a marvel of industrial design. The headstock that nods towards a violin scroll, but is sleek and modern at the same time...Leo never did better than this design. The one aspect of it that seems a bit crude is the bridge, but I can't imagine changing a thing about the overall package and expecting to love it more than what Leo came up with. The 1970s deluxe feels like something a second-rate designer at Norlin-era Gibson would have turned in. Everything that was in perfect balance and proportion on the original Telecaster has been mucked with, from the headstock down to the control knobs. Other than the body shape, it's like Fender looked at each component and said "how can we make it uglier?"
@Jim Dixon: I really dig this comment. Very insightful. A reminder that whether we are talking about sculpture, painting, architecture, or industrial design, there are high points, periods when it all comes together perfectly-but the restless, inevitable human inclination to keep tinkering with stuff invariably takes us away from those moments of perception. A good definition of any kind of classic would be: something up to which everything was leading and after which everything in was a decline...
5:52 - Banjo Rolls 7:50 - Danny Gatton's Special Picking Technique 11:08 - Merle Travis Style Picking 18:58 - Banjo Licks For The Guitar 23:55 - Freestyle Country Funk And Blues Licks 32:05 - Piano & Boogie-Woogie Style Picking (not the full video yet, this is just for my benefit navigating it)
Merl Travis sounds like Doc Watson 😮😅😂 👍✌️😎I play rock metal blues and now thanks to my brother Dany G I play rockabilly like my daddy did😢😢🎸💥⚡🙄👍✌️😎✝️☮️♾️
Oh yeah thankyou Tony F .😎for pinning this !!! Only heardy my dad play a few times but he must have taught Dan because they played alike 😮 they both are with Bill Haley now I suppose🎸✝️🎸☮️🎸♾️🎸💥🎸💥🎸⚡🎸🔥🙄😳🙏👍✌️😎
You’ll become great if you REALIZE THIS. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast, fast is deadly. It’s true for a lot of things especially music. I have to remember everyone I play. We are our own worst enemy when learning anything. Don’t stop. Repeat slowly. Repeat it again. Then another time. Then one time faster. And repeat slowly again. Don’t fook yourself up.
I had the pleasure of watching Danny perform, and met him backstage after the show. Forever an inspiration and a beautiful human being. See you on the other side.❤
The only thing missing from this instructional video is STAR-WIPE. We need more Star-Wipe!!!! Danny was an absolute freak, I'm so glad he took the time to show us how to do it wrong as well as right.
Thanks so much for this. I’m at a place where I need to do different things. This is perfect. I play my drums also. Sometimes I wish I was only interested in one instrument. But love is hard. Started as a drummer as long as I can remember so. Again thank you and God bless
Este tutorial de D.Gatton es oro puro. Fue capaz de transmitir su tecnica y sabiduria para que lo viera el mundo sin restricciones. Semejante talento no tiene parangon. QEPD Danny.
I want to find the two dumba**es that thumbs downed this video. So many of today's greats from Joe Bonamassa to Josh Smith state that they learned so many things from this video. Thanks for posting!
i wonder did danny gatton ever reach out to our maker, and say i cant take life any more, and i am asking you to help me, from my understanding, i did not make me, i do not have a right to take me, there is this lie that you will be out of your miseries and in a better place, well think about the worst headache, tooth ache, being stung by hornets, in a house fire, that never ends ! that is why i rather pray today for tomorrow, and rather choose to ask help from our maker
Jesus, who ever edited this should be kicked in the shin. Danny playing killer stuff and the editor decides to throw in every cliche video swipe he had at his disposal. It's a guitar instructional video! not Scarface
