Roy Buchanan and Danny Gatton the best of telecaster 💪💪💪

The whole band is fantastic.

The beer bottle boogie!!!!! He kills it!!!!!

I don't know if I'm more impressed by the beer trick ... or the fact that he managed to play an extended solo upside-down directly after with a freaking towel wrapped around the fretboard...  (!)

As much as a beast Danny is .....Holloman is just as killer on the sax.

Genius like that is so rare and ahead of it's time that is usually ends the way Danny did. RIP Bro.

Breathtaking! Danny Gatton was amazing in every way.

The first time i watched Austin City Limits was by accident. I was going thru channels and saw this guy playing his huitar with a towel over the neck and i thought WTF. So, being hard headed rock guy, i watched with a smirk on my face(visions of Page, Gilmour, Beck an other guitar heroes danced in my head) and as i saw Danny Gatton, honestly, i couldnt believe how he sounded! The way he muted strings and then made slide guitar sounds(which i didnt know you could do) I was mesmerized. His right hand barely moved but his fingers sure did and his left hand slid up and down the neck of that beautiful telecaster. Needless to say and gratefully, Danny Gatton opened my eyes to a whole new world of music and of playing. Truly a master and genius and I have the utmost respect for an artist that stays on the path his passion takes him, forgetting about big music, trends or even genres. He did HIS thing. And when you have people like the guitar heroes who are more recongized have the adoration they have for Danny Gatton- well, you have a guitar player's guitar player. Truly one of the masters of guitar sound!

Danny was an amazing guitarist. Even when he was clowning around (which he had a habit of doing :-) you could tell he truly loved playing. A tragic loss for his family and the music community

Danny Gatton is out of this world.
RIP❤

The essence of Rock n Roll

I adored Danny and miss him dearly.  He was one of the very best.  But would someone please tell me how one guy could shred so hot on both sax and piano? Bill Holloman was incredible!

The sax solo was enough for my thumbs up. If I could give another I would. Hey...what's up YouTube. People have two thumbs? Why not a second option for both thumbs up. You know, like Siskel and Ebert. This was worthy!

A family friend and the guitarist in my mom’s band (the Swing Riders)  in the Maryland/DC area in the late 70s gave me vhs copies of ACL performances to expose me to great players when I started playing guitar around age 12. One tape had this particular legendary set and I was so blown away at the time. I thought bill holloman reminded me of John Candy from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles lol. Danny was at the height of his powers and tone and was just a one-man wrecking crew. Add in his band, and nobody could stop him. I still grin every time he says, “that’s as high as it goes”. R.I.P. Danny. Best fusion of styles and best telecaster player ever.

Just discovered Danny Gatton a few days back. I`m 74 and missed him completely the time he was alive. It`s wonderful to "discover" a new artist, especially one with this man's unreal talent. Gone way to soon.

There are no words to describe Gatton.  Vai said it best.  "Danny Gatton is the closest you can get to being the greatest guitar player that ever lived."

- "You play sax like that? surely you can t play piano"
- "Hold my sax"

Saw that same group same year at the Montreal Jazz Festival in an outdoor concert in the streets (I was so close I could almost smell his beer) and taped the whole show on a Panasonic walkman...so the cassette is somewhere in my house. In late December 94 I was visiting my brother in L.A. and they were showing people who died that year on TV and I saw Danny Gatton scrolling among them and could'nt believe it!

I saw Danny and the boys at the Bottle & Cork do this but he used Miller bottle upside down, soaking the neck. He asked for a bar towel and played staccato riffs while wiping it down. I was about 3 feet from him and the notes rang out clear as a bell. I don't know how... He explained it once but I couldn't do it. I doubt anyone can. The slide yes, but playing through a bar rag cleanly? Not a chance. Damn how I miss him! On this day of Thanksgiving, I'm truly thankful to have seen and heard this incredible muscian! And a really nice guy!

I'm guessing It's been said many times, but, Danny plays better with that towel over the neck, than any youtube guitarist plays without the towel, on their best day.