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Topic: Danny G. |
Miles Lang
From:
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Posted 5 Sep 2016 6:47 am |
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| Jeff Harbour wrote: |
| ... I would love to hear what he was able to do on an "actual" steel guitar! |
Jeff, from Danny's Cruisin' Dueces album, I believe he plays some steel on his instrumental adaptation of the 1959 Thomas Wayne recording, "Tragedy".
Listen for his nod to Emmons' "Night Life" intro at about 2:42:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkWFk0-R5v0
Keep on pickin'
Glenn |
Danny used that "Night Life" lick a lot over the years.
I posted above that it was a National D8 that Danny used on "Tragedy", but upon reflection, it may have been a D6. Danny commented in an interview that it didn't have enough strings.
BTW, yesterday (9/4) would have been Danny's 71st birthday |
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David Cubbedge
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Toledo,Ohio, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2016 8:17 am
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I love "Unfinished Business", especially "Melancholy Serenade". Danny and Roy - two excellent Tele masters with similar but different approaches. Danny had the tech down, Roy was the master of heart and soul.
My brother had the fine opportunity to see Danny playing at that bar near Baltimore where he did a weekly gig and talked with him afterwards. Danny had just signed the record deal and was lamenting to my brother about his reservations - all he really wanted to do was pick and build hot rods.....
I have to give that CD another listen, this time to hear the PSG..
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2016 9:18 am
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| Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if Danny ever had any formal music training? |
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 8 Sep 2016 3:56 pm
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| He had a few private lessons as a kid, but no formal music education. He had great ears, though! |
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Pat Moore
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Virginia USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2016 5:33 pm Unfinshed Business
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There's a book out about Danny titled "Unfinished Business" by Ralph Heibutzki. A lot of Danny's early years are in it, as well as his adult life. Very interesting if you're a Gatton fan!
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Dyke Corson
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Fairmount, IL USA
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Posted 8 Sep 2016 5:51 pm
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| During one of the very first Nashville NAMM shows I was watching Brent and Randy Mason and Paul Franklin play in one of the banquet rooms at the convention center. It was a lightly attended show. A guy with curly hair drinking a Heineken was standing next to me and struck up a conversation about Brent and Paul and how good they sounded. We talked for quite a while, told him I played guitar and a little steel and worked at a music store back in Illinois. Real nice guy. When the show was over Brent came up to this guy and that's when I found out it was Danny Gatton. He invited me to go "hit the bars" on Broadway with him and Brent. I was about 6 months sober and declined! I still have Brent's NAMM badge he dropped on the way to the bars. The next night Danny and his band played in a vacant lot on Broadway for a NAMM event. Not long after that he was gone. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 9 Sep 2016 7:36 am Re: Unfinshed Business
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There's a book out about Danny titled "Unfinished Business" by Ralph Heibutzki. A lot of Danny's early years are in it, as well as his adult life. Very interesting if you're a Gatton fan!
Pat |
Ralph's book is very good, but there are some inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Although it is not to be taken as the irrefutable source, there is a tone of good information in it. Hopefully DannyGatton.com (run by Steve Gorospe) will be back online soon. The Telemaster Archives (my site)is still up but it hasn't been updated in years. Both were used as sources for Ralph's book.
There is a documentary movie about Danny in production now. https://www.thehumblermovie.com/ |
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b0b
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Damir Besic
From:
Nashville,TN.
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Posted 6 Oct 2016 12:24 pm
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| I have removed the original picture as the owner of it complained. |
owner complained about the picture? I'd hate to be him, his life obviously sucks... 
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2016 3:43 pm
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Is the movie available?
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 15 Oct 2016 5:59 pm
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| Not yet. Hopefully the movie will be released in 2017 |
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Jack Hanson
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