5 Responses to “Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture Vol. 93”

1. Sans Direction on April 30th, 2010 9:07 pm

   Good one.

   My understanding is that Danny was a Les Paul player with his effects box before he met Roy. Both have very high-treble tones — the “icepick”, as Tele fans call it — and it gives clearer chimey harmonics and such. I think that Gatton is the follower and Buchanan is the leader.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcjPZgK9GM

   That being said, I don’t think there was an electric guitar style between the invention of the electric guitar and Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles that Danny wasn’t a master of. I say it like that because, in my listening of Danny, I think that’s the last point he kept track of popular music.

   I know much more about Danny. I cried the day he died. I don’t know nearly as much about Roy, but I think I must give it to Roy Buchanan here.
   .-= Sans Direction´s last blog ..Cool Guitar Animation =-.

2. Sans Direction on April 30th, 2010 9:09 pm

   Some comments in response
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50Vi2VQgLA
   .-= Sans Direction´s last blog ..Cool Guitar Animation =-.

3. Pat Darnell and Friends on May 1st, 2010 10:04 am

   Born September 23, 1939, Ozark, Arkansas, … Roy Buchanan drew upon many fundamentally different influences while learning to play his instrument (although he later claimed his aptitude was derived from being “half-wolf”). He initially showed talent on the steel guitar before switching to the standard instrument in the early 50s, and started his professional career at age 15, in Johnny Otis’s rhythm and blues revue. (why ikki peed ya) Died Aug 14 1988

   This morning I’m using Mr Sans Direction’s youTube example.
   “Hey Joe,” that’s one of Pribek’s stable gig presentations, btw. But in this youTube sent in by Mr Direction, is some bent-staccato, pianissimo, understatement. Like my Dad used to say; “sounds like a bunch of different guitars over there coming from just one … doesn’t it?”

   With Roy it’s not just a bunch of endless scales … like someone practicing their scales for the crowd. Roy has musicality that makes people want to listen. He puts a full orchestra out there like Miles would with his horn. Roy engages the audience and lets them fill in some of the notes… and then surprises them with flourish…. all of that is how I hear it in this ‘Hey Joe’ youTube. All of that to a lyric about killing one’s old lady for laying with another man… eh?

   Ron Roskowske says it: “… Yes, back then people were listening.”

   I would say Roy had influences, that could have been the same influences that make BB King so stark raving cool. And Danny Gatton was influenced by Roy.

   Danny Gatton — 1945 – 1994) He was also called “the world’s greatest unknown guitarist”. His most common nickname was “The Humbler”, owing to his ability to “humble” or out-play anyone willing to go up against him in “head cutting” jam sessions. A photo published in the October 2007 issue of Guitar Player magazine shows Gatton playing in front of a neon sign that says “Victims Wanted”. (wkpda)

   “Depression” — a nomenclature for shutdown of human emotion, mind, and body — has a great deal to do with the ‘sounds’ of this weeks two Tele Masters .. no? Out there are untold millions of understated maestros with a depression state of mind. It ought to be a pedal on the rack stable for Tele, along with gain, reverb, and bilderberg …. although it is said Buchanan didn’t have any pedals. [used his volume control for wah wah, etc]

   Some folks work their lives to leave a legacy, to have a bronze plaque placed on a cornerstone of a building … representing an institution: and some other wise –

   [Gatton] usually played a 1953 Fender Telecaster (Fender now manufactures a replica of his heavily customized instrument), with Joe Barden pickups and Fender Super 250L’s, or Nickel Plated Steel (.010 to .046 with a .015 for the G) strings

   They build a guitar in his name and — when he died:
   ‘ ..Tramps club in New York organized a three-night Tribute to Danny Gatton featuring dozens of Gatton’s musical admirers, the highlight of which was a twenty-minute guitar lover’s dream of seeing Les Paul, James Burton and Albert Lee all performing onstage together. Those shows (with all musicians performing for free) raised $25,000 for Gatton’s widow and daughter.”

   I would say this weekend’s Cage Match is more about de-Evolving Conversation in which this beautiful music by two imperfect maestros got swallowed up and thrown out along with the bathwater in turn of the century blahs. I say that with deference, and cordiality, because it is what it is … regardless my pining and whimpering.

   We acknowledge the mastery, indulge in the body’s of work, discuss the sudden loss of personality to Depression, and host this music in our century, as neither was able to bring it into the calamitous 2000′s on his own.

   I would rather have Buchanan and Gatton back to back with their “markedly” distinct quality and character — battling in the melee of confused and struggling opponents any day of the week.
   .-= Pat Darnell and Friends´s last blog ..Uno de Mayo =-.

4. Sans Direction on May 1st, 2010 2:32 pm

   I just bought Roy Buchanan, the one with “Lonesome Fugitive” and “The Messiah Will Come Again”. I am sure it will dominate my listening over the next few weeks.
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5. Stratoblogster on May 4th, 2010 1:08 am

   I’m with the group here. Gatton is so amazing on a cerebral level, but Roy’s stuff was so deep emotionally I have to give it to Roy.
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