Danny suffered from depression for years. Had he gotten the help that he needed he would be alive today. He also struggled with the record companies, trying to get the deal and recognition he deserved.
Vai wasn't bad at all, even if a bit 1-dimensional. However, his statement is dead center bullseye, regardless of his guitar skills or his ability to speak (musically) to a wide audience. Vai's pretty well unknown outside his flavor of guitar, but Gatton was admired by almost anyone who could play the electric with any skill. It's no joke that he was known as "the Humbler" by almost anyone who saw him play.
@@justinbaskin5283 Danny Gatton & I share the same hometown and I shamefully never got to see him play live when I lived back there and he was still alive. I had the opportunities but I was too interested in what played at 9:30 Club rather than Club Soda or the Birchmere in those days. I like electric guitar music and honestly Vai isn't my favorite kind of playing, but I respect his abilities and as you can see, Vai understood just how good Danny Gatton was.
Always have to have a good rhythm section to back up front guy and all these guys are as good as Danny himself Which makes him sound even better.nobody is over playing anybody,all backing each other up,like bluegrass music does
Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark and his own special style mixed together......saw him at a Rock-a-billy reunion at theWax museum in Washington DC back in the day..... Incredible doesn't even describe the experience!!!
You will not get an argument from me! I ran across Albert Lee / Danny Gatton show at Ventura County Fairground Rod and Custom Show in So CA. The whole place was mesmerized by these rockabilly masters; seriously! You think this video is fabulous; you ought to see these guys in person!
21:50 the beer, the spill, the towel Unbelievable!! It's the greatest guitar moment I've ever seen. I've lived in Nashville my whole life. I've been to #Robertswesternworld so many times I've seen the Don Kelly band and all the boys that have come through. Guntrie Trapp Ford Thurston Daniel Donato Brent Mason Jonny Hiland JD Simo and a few of the others. #Nashvillelovesyou #615boys
Best I can tell, the greatest guitarist ever, has surrounded himself with band members who play roughly six instruments each and play them masterfully. What's not to appreciate.
@@bassmansrv9970 SRV and Danny Gatton are as different as Picasso and Manet. WTF are you talking about here? There's no competition between Vaughn and Gatton now, nor when both guys were alive.
23:35 Talk about your clean playing! I come back to this video time and time again just to watch Danny turn a towel into a wah-wah, simply amazing. I bow down to thee, a massive massive loss of talent. RIP Great Master of the Telecaster.
I saw Danny at the Bottle And Cork in Dewey Beach, De. on a rainy night one summer. The crowd was not very big but he was amazing, as always. I played with some guys who knew him in the 90's. I've seen and worked with guys with chops similar to his but Danny was incredible. No one plays like that.
Yup, Bill Holloman - one great musician and stage performer. From CT, I believe - at least played in CT band Eight to the Bar back in the 80's. Used to see him at a club in Stowe VT - walked the bar with his sax. He has a major portfolio of playing with a LOT of big name stars, inc. Danny
Danny is awesome,a true rockabilly, country,jazz,blues tele king.Rest in peace Danny,thank you for the amazing music and chops... i just wanna let people know about another underated guitar tele MASTER/VIRTUOSO,SCOTTY ANDERSON...SCOTTY is truly from another planet....
Agreed Devon I’ve seen Scotty live in Cincinnati and I believe he’s the best guitarist alive today and equal to Danny or better in some areas no doubt both incredible players along with Rory Gallagher Alvin lee Gary Moore tommy bolin jr brown
It's funny, as I was reading comments this is the part of the video that was playing when I got to yours. When the song started I just had a feeling that this would be my favorite of the video. So reading your comment made me double down on my suspicion. I used to watch this when it first came out on PBS but it's been so long I really don't remember anything other than the beer spillage followed by the towel.
I remember when this first aired back in the mid-late 90’s. If Austin City Limits ever wanted to do a “Best Of” type thing, all they’d need do is re-broadcast this show. Rest In Peace, Danny Gatton. You were a helluva guitar picker. ❤️🎸
Danny "The Humbler" Gatton: Played guitar better with a towel over the neck while playing the damned thing back-handed, than most guitar "legends" could ever hope to achieve.
We used to see Danny Gatton play in local bars. I’m pretty sure none of us punks really appreciated his musical style BUT we would just watch in awe as he played circles around everyone else. Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. September 4, 1945 - October 4, 1994
Luv it! The first time i heard Danny I ran out and bought some Joe Barden pickups (In a new custom shop Tele) been using them only for almost 35 years now.Thanks DANNY GATTON and JOE BARDEN and LEO FENDER......sirs.
Bill Bartlett (Ram Jam, Lemon Pipers) in an interview regarding his "Black Betty" Les Paul referred to Danny as "King of them all: Danny Gatton whose talents were/are beyond description.
I remember this when it was live being astounded by Danny's incredible guitar playing and I've been to a lot of concerts seen people 15 feet from the stage
I first became aware of Danny gatton when he was featured in Guitar Player magazine. They had a sound page with some of his music on and I was totally blown away (I'm probably just making this up, but I want to say that the recording was made specifically for that issue of Guitar Player). I put it on a cassette tape and listened to it compulsively. There was only one other sound page that I got hooked on which was Scarified by Racer X/Paul Gilbert. Honorable mention goes to Pepper Shake by Greg Howe. I must have collected at least a dozen or two of those sound pages before they were discontinued, but these three are the only ones I remember. Anyway, I'd really love to hear the Danny Gatton sound page again. If anyone has a lead which could point me in the right direction I'd be forever grateful!
Absolutely mind blowing....this has to the best I've seen so far of Danny. His whole band is just off the charts...man.......the kids of today have no idea how much they suck LOL
I always thought you were a hard core rock guy. Funny to randomly be watching this and seeing a comment from you. Your right Gatton was one of the absolute best. And the band was hot
Fuck these guys are clean. I'm not even 30 yet, but I'll go ahead and say it for the old heads in the comment section. Computers have completely ruined all of us musician's. There's just not a need for any of us to be this good anymore. Make a mistake and protools has your back.
Next thing you know, Danny will be doing the dishes, or putting a new alternator in his car, at the same time hi's blowing the roof off playing his guitar !!
Danny Gatton: "Drinks on stage and plays beer bottle slide with half empty bottle". Me: "Omg, look how his beer is spilling all over that beautiful Telecaster". Danny Gatton: "Proceeds to shred with a towel whilst simultaneously cleaning his Telecaster with said towel." Me: " :O "
Danny suffered from depression for years. Had he gotten the help that he needed he would be alive today. He also struggled with the record companies, trying to get the deal and recognition he deserved.
"Danny Gatton comes closer than anyone else to being the best guitar player that ever lived." -Steve Vai.
@@neilarmschlong6315 maybe bring your hate elsewhere?
@@neilarmschlong6315 apology accepted, my fellow wank.
Vai wasn't bad at all, even if a bit 1-dimensional. However, his statement is dead center bullseye, regardless of his guitar skills or his ability to speak (musically) to a wide audience. Vai's pretty well unknown outside his flavor of guitar, but Gatton was admired by almost anyone who could play the electric with any skill. It's no joke that he was known as "the Humbler" by almost anyone who saw him play.
@@seanoneil277 I agree! thank you for the respectful comment; hard to come across these days
@@justinbaskin5283 Danny Gatton & I share the same hometown and I shamefully never got to see him play live when I lived back there and he was still alive. I had the opportunities but I was too interested in what played at 9:30 Club rather than Club Soda or the Birchmere in those days.
I like electric guitar music and honestly Vai isn't my favorite kind of playing, but I respect his abilities and as you can see, Vai understood just how good Danny Gatton was.
ok, i was mental prepared for the beer bottle playing, but NOT the towel playing. MIND BLOWN
I was about to say the sax player is a beast, then I started watching the bass player... These guys are just incredible !
Great band.
What happened beginning at 1:58 -3:32? The sax player rattled Danny. He just TOOK OFF!
Always have to have a good rhythm section to back up front guy and all these guys are as good as Danny himself
Which makes him sound even better.nobody is over playing anybody,all backing each other up,like bluegrass music does
Great producer too. Terry Lickona.
@jaimiedirks1215Who’s that guy??
Was not expecting a magic show. The whole band blew me away. And who knew you could play a towel like that?
That lick from 21:00 - 21:50 = pure bliss.
So glad my friend Francis dragged me to go see Danny Gatton live somewhere in DC off of Wisconsin Avenue.
Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark and his own special style mixed together......saw him at a Rock-a-billy reunion at theWax museum in Washington DC back in the day..... Incredible doesn't even describe the experience!!!
A little Roy Buchanan mixed in there somewhere as well.
John candy was incredible on sax
Everyone in this band is jaw - dropping amazing
Absolutely.
Holy shit! The sax player! WTF is that guy smoking? I want some! Danny G Fn rocks!
Danny could play anything he heard or wanted to play.unbelievable how good he is with all types of music
He was truly epic. You are missed my friend 😢
He was known in the Wash DC area as the Humbler when folks were trying to outplay him on the stage, Simply put he was one of a kind.
absolutely!
Hell yeah. Gatton was an otherworldly player, yet so humble. Taken away from us far too soon.
Wonderful performer. His was a terrible loss. RIP Danny. Thanks for the great music and I hope the demons have been silenced at last.
I saw him live.. he looked bored and turned his back to the crowd full of adoring worshippers...jerk
I have watched this a thousand times and say this is the Greatest musicianship I have ever seen in my 55years tromping this Earth.
You will not get an argument from me! I ran across Albert Lee / Danny Gatton show at Ventura County Fairground Rod and Custom Show in So CA. The whole place was mesmerized by these rockabilly masters; seriously! You think this video is fabulous; you ought to see these guys in person!
I really miss this Guy. Rest In Peace Guitar 🎸 Brother
Good grief! How did I miss this guy...?
Look up Lenny Breau too, if you missed him. So many monsters, so little fame.
This was one big 'get off my lawn' to so many musicians. Outstanding musicianship by everyone
21:50 the beer, the spill, the towel Unbelievable!! It's the greatest guitar moment I've ever seen. I've lived in Nashville my whole life. I've been to #Robertswesternworld so many times I've seen the Don Kelly band and all the boys that have come through. Guntrie Trapp Ford Thurston Daniel Donato Brent Mason Jonny Hiland JD Simo and a few of the others. #Nashvillelovesyou #615boys
Roy Buchanon is also the worlds greatest unknown grist. Unfortualtely we will never see either of them again
You had Danny...and everyone else who wished they could play like Danny...and that's a fact...🎸🎸🎸
You had Danny..then everyone else who wished they could play like Danny...🎸🎸🎸
Best I can tell, the greatest guitarist ever, has surrounded himself with band members who play roughly six instruments each and play them masterfully. What's not to appreciate.
G.O.A.T. Period, end of story, don’t even argue it….
Here's a guy who doesn't even need to say 'Hold my beer...' before he blows you away with his guitar.
Try watching SRV on ACL this is nothing, just a shitty imitator of Roy Buchanan in my opinion
@@bassmansrv9970 SRV and Danny Gatton are as different as Picasso and Manet. WTF are you talking about here? There's no competition between Vaughn and Gatton now, nor when both guys were alive.
I'm guessing the 11 downvoters were upset that it ended too soon.
A lot of Tele wizards around. Something about that guitar that brings out the greatness in players. Albert Lee, Roy, Danny...
I think it's just the brutal simplicity of it to be honest. Nothing to hide behind so the player has to make it good by themselves.
I just got one not long ago. It's absolutely fun to play!
Albert Collins
Amazed that DG and SRV never played together.
That would have been something to see!
Requirement for being in this band is to be the best in the world at your instrument.
That sax player is off the hook.
Absolutely. Great musician. All around! Fantastic!
Just seeing this band for the first time! Are you kidding me?!! Holy @#**!!
That little look that Danny gives after Holloway's sax solo at 3:30 is priceless lmao, he knows dude absolutely crushed it.
2 of the absolute greatest banging it out together. What a show!
Found DG by way of Robert Gordon who played "Someday, Someway" on an episode of SCTV in the early 1980s. What an amazing guitar player.
What a show and incredibly talented musicians. W O W !
😎 listening to greatness in Texas USA 2023 !! That’s My Kinda Jam ❤️
23:35 Talk about your clean playing! I come back to this video time and time again just to watch Danny turn a towel into a wah-wah, simply amazing. I bow down to thee, a massive massive loss of talent. RIP Great Master of the Telecaster.
I saw Danny at the Bottle And Cork in Dewey Beach, De. on a rainy night one summer. The crowd was not very big but he was amazing, as always. I played with some guys who knew him in the 90's. I've seen and worked with guys with chops similar to his but Danny was incredible. No one plays like that.
Great opportunity to see him in that setting. When Danny was alive, Dewey was still a pretty sleepy little beach town.
It wasn’t just the notes he played, but also the way he made the guitar sound.
The Sax player is amazing.
His name is Bill Holloman. I'm a tenor player and confirm he "kills". HIs solo in the first tune is my favorite sax solo in live rock/blues.
Hell yeah . Was good say the same. Looks like John candy also
Bill Holloman........a MONSTER musician.
Yup, Bill Holloman - one great musician and stage performer. From CT, I believe - at least played in CT band Eight to the Bar back in the 80's. Used to see him at a club in Stowe VT - walked the bar with his sax. He has a major portfolio of playing with a LOT of big name stars, inc. Danny
George Lucas plays a mean Saxamophone
Even the beer is excited. LOL!
So funny this showed up in my feed. He was a big influence to my brother. My brother has been a session guitar player in Nashville for about 10 years.
That's a badass brother you got there
Danny is awesome,a true rockabilly, country,jazz,blues tele king.Rest in peace Danny,thank you for the amazing music and chops... i just wanna let people know about another underated guitar tele MASTER/VIRTUOSO,SCOTTY ANDERSON...SCOTTY is truly from another planet....
Agreed Devon I’ve seen Scotty live in Cincinnati and I believe he’s the best guitarist alive today and equal to Danny or better in some areas no doubt both incredible players along with Rory Gallagher Alvin lee Gary Moore tommy bolin jr brown
We sure miss Danny God have mercy
My, God! And so clean!
What a highly entertaining, skilled, professional, and enjoyable lineup of musicians!!
The song starting around 12:20 is my favorite from this show. I think it's one of the coolest instrumentals I've ever heard.
red label it is pretty catchy i used to walk thru the warehouse where i work and hum in the melody he plays later in the tune
It's funny, as I was reading comments this is the part of the video that was playing when I got to yours. When the song started I just had a feeling that this would be my favorite of the video. So reading your comment made me double down on my suspicion. I used to watch this when it first came out on PBS but it's been so long I really don't remember anything other than the beer spillage followed by the towel.
He was/is a treasure.
I remember when this first aired back in the mid-late 90’s. If Austin City Limits ever wanted to do a “Best Of” type thing, all they’d need do is re-broadcast this show. Rest In Peace, Danny Gatton. You were a helluva guitar picker. ❤️🎸
Just poppin in. 2020 and your still the best ever.
Danny "The Humbler" Gatton: Played guitar better with a towel over the neck while playing the damned thing back-handed, than most guitar "legends" could ever hope to achieve.
Wow i am truly lovin this! Gatton is fantastic! Oh that beer slide! WOW!
Mind Blown. What the hell was that with the towel?!?! Incredible
We used to see Danny Gatton play in local bars. I’m pretty sure none of us punks really appreciated his musical style BUT we would just watch in awe as he played circles around everyone else.
Daniel Wood Gatton Jr.
September 4, 1945 - October 4, 1994
Luv it! The first time i heard Danny I ran out and bought some Joe Barden pickups (In a new custom shop Tele) been using them only for almost 35 years now.Thanks DANNY GATTON and JOE BARDEN and LEO FENDER......sirs.
Bill Bartlett (Ram Jam, Lemon Pipers) in an interview regarding his "Black Betty" Les Paul referred to Danny as "King of them all: Danny Gatton whose talents were/are beyond description.
Maryland boy and DG fan since I was a teen. We’re so lucky to be able to watch these amazing performances!
I remember this when it was live being astounded by Danny's incredible guitar playing and I've been to a lot of concerts seen people 15 feet from the stage
I first became aware of Danny gatton when he was featured in Guitar Player magazine. They had a sound page with some of his music on and I was totally blown away (I'm probably just making this up, but I want to say that the recording was made specifically for that issue of Guitar Player). I put it on a cassette tape and listened to it compulsively. There was only one other sound page that I got hooked on which was Scarified by Racer X/Paul Gilbert. Honorable mention goes to Pepper Shake by Greg Howe. I must have collected at least a dozen or two of those sound pages before they were discontinued, but these three are the only ones I remember. Anyway, I'd really love to hear the Danny Gatton sound page again. If anyone has a lead which could point me in the right direction I'd be forever grateful!
School is in session...
Danny is amazing, backed by an equally amazing band!
See now, that's what I'm talkin' about!
I'm gobsmacked❤
The man played guitar WITH A BEER BOTTLE
And a towel!!
25 years gone! Maestro.
Absolutely mind blowing....this has to the best I've seen so far of Danny. His whole band is just off the charts...man.......the kids of today have no idea how much they suck LOL
Soo agreed!!!👍👍👍
I always thought you were a hard core rock guy. Funny to randomly be watching this and seeing a comment from you. Your right Gatton was one of the absolute best. And the band was hot
@@cortmiller I am a multi faceted diamond lol.... My musical interests range from Enya to Abba to Iron Maiden to Hank Williams to....
Beautiful tone! Love it
look, Danny Gatton is what he is, anyone watching this already knows. Who the actual f&*k are these dudes playing with him.
The beer spill on the Telecaster....
Bill Holloman, great sax/trumpet/keys.
Oh Yeah, Baby - You know it, Son!
Great playing all around! Killer line-up!
one of the best !!!!
I find so much inspiration from Danny ,were from the same area .Im a drummer and cant get enough of this
What a great sax player!!!!
Had a great sense of humor
The band of the same haircuts haha, Danny is and always will be the legend himself.
I wonder if he ever did shows in Vegas, like a residency ? This is very like magic . Theatrical and virtuosic. A real show.
John Candy playing the hell out of that sax!
Fuck these guys are clean. I'm not even 30 yet, but I'll go ahead and say it for the old heads in the comment section. Computers have completely ruined all of us musician's. There's just not a need for any of us to be this good anymore. Make a mistake and protools has your back.
It’s amazing how good you had to be to impress people back in the day.
LEGENDS
Next thing you know, Danny will be doing the dishes, or putting a new alternator in his car, at the same time hi's blowing the roof off playing his guitar !!
thats seems to be the way he was ordinary, yet extra ordinary
That sax player is layin it down and making that thing scream!! Holy cow
I can hear Roy Buchanan in there massively!
Fantastic player!
Sensacional. Guitarrista muito virtuoso.
amazing
I can’t believe this was 6 years ago
Danny Gatton - GuitFiddler Extraordinaire
John Candy on bass. Band is awesome!!!
Boy that Danny is one cool cat alright; that goes for his band too!
Not human
Awesome
F*cking legend!!!!!!!
Cool to see him break out a Gibby archtop!
Jumbo Like!
Ele é um monstro na guitarra
Im more of a Stratocaster guy but I just bought a Telecaster and was looking for some inspiration. It would seem I've found that here.
Danny Gatton: "Drinks on stage and plays beer bottle slide with half empty bottle". Me: "Omg, look how his beer is spilling all over that beautiful Telecaster". Danny Gatton: "Proceeds to shred with a towel whilst simultaneously cleaning his Telecaster with said towel." Me: " :O "
freak of this genere
Josh Smith took me here..
Insane players!