Danny Gatton - Mr. Sandman

MandyMarie · June 30th, 2003, 08:50 PM

Whew.....I just heard the 1989 bootleg of Gatton doing "Mr. Sandman" and I don't think I've ever been more knocked out in my life!

I do my best to hybrid pick but my thumpickin' pals tell me all the time that there's just some things you can do with a thumpick that you can't accomplish with pick and fingers, no matter how hard you try. I've always felt that Gatton could do ANYTHING a thumbpicker could...but now there's just no question in my mind!

Sorry, I know that's nothin' new to you guys, but I just heard that track for the very first time and I'm still tryin' to catch my breath! :D

Brad Miller · June 30th, 2003, 09:47 PM

I agree Mandy. The first time I heard that I went nuts. It takes someone like Gatton to totally rejuvinate a tune you've only heard a thousand times. Then when someone like that does it in their own special way it is like hearing it for the first time. I hear something new every time I listen to his version. It is absolutely groovy!

tellypicker · July 1st, 2003, 12:20 AM

RelicStrat · July 1st, 2003, 12:55 AM

Yes, please, enlightened minds want to know!

thanks

fatkidkevin · July 1st, 2003, 01:01 AM

Think I thieved it off Napster years ago. Don't think I've seen it anywhere else...

Kevin

MandyMarie · July 1st, 2003, 04:38 AM

It's an unofficial recording from 1989 - it's for sale on Ebay from time to time, a friend of mine just made me a copy and I'm just knocked out....unbelievable! I've been a Gatton fan since I was 14 (unfortunately the same year in which he passed) and I'm always just in awe of the guy...but that Mr. Sandman probably takes the cake! Whew....haha! :D

trag-o-caster · July 1st, 2003, 05:40 AM

... our own Mr. Jim Campilongo's version??? WONDERFUL! It's on his second album, I believe. Jim has a way of keeping the wild technique stuff in check while concentrating on melody and soul, although it's very apparent that the wild technique stuff is in there too. Jim's playing hit me like a hammer the same way that Danny Gatton's and Roy Buchanan's did when I first heard them many years ago. He just never really comes out guns blazing like Danny and Roy B. would do.

I mean that as a compliment Jim, if you're reading this.

I play "Mr. Sandman" at all of my gigs, but I only play the intro, verse melody, and back to the intro again and out. It's less than a minute long, and it's really just a teaser for the crowd while I think of what I'm going to play next. I have my own little way of doing the intro so that the notes sustain over each other like the old vocal hit does. I wish that I could tab it out for everyone. It's real ackward, but sounds nice. It goes over well with the crowd, and sometimes I even get requests to do it (which blows me away for something that's basically a joke that lasts less than a minute). My version is a far cry from what Jim's (and I'm sure Danny's, though I've never heard it) is. Ya really gotta hear Jim do it!

Nice to be back with y'all after a little time off.

trag-o-caster · July 1st, 2003, 06:03 AM

Whew! I just posted my version of the intro to "Mr. Sandman" over at the "Sugar-Free Tab" section for whoever may be interested. I'd really like to know how Jim Campilongo does it. I haven't heard it in a while, but I don't think he does it like this. Anybody know???

weelie · July 1st, 2003, 06:25 AM

You opened a pandora's box there, now everybody will want a copy of that CD... ME CERTAINLY INCLUDED! :D

If anybody has it to send, i'll gladly pay a blank and a p&p to Europe...

porklash · July 1st, 2003, 06:45 AM

Well I got that Sandman song with Danny from Kazaa the other day. Haven´t had the time to lissen to it.
That´s the way I do it download a lot and lissen later.
But with all this, I gotta give a listen right now!

pEr

weelie · July 1st, 2003, 07:26 AM

Never tried Kazaa (or anything similar since napster years ago)... but might now, as the home PC is a mess anyway (blue screens).

telemug · July 1st, 2003, 10:53 AM

-I agree with you trag-o-caster I just got jim s loose I love roy danny hellecasters etc but I love the way jim has a sense of control over the harmony some intresting voicings maybe to some he sounds less flashy but in a good way.Joe goldmark the steel player is really good I'm getting more into doing steel stuff on my tele actually when I get some dough (I'm a musician) could take a while jim got some intresting looking stuff lessons on steel for tele.Oh ya Chet atkins version is very killer I think jim may have copped some ideas from him ,Jim?

Caper · July 1st, 2003, 11:27 AM

I just did a search of kazaa and came up empty

MandyMarie · July 1st, 2003, 12:31 PM

Weelie, don't even think about touchin' your wallet and shoot me a private message or an e-mail :D

I figured out Danny's intro...and the rest is just way above my head. I've never heard our own Jim do it, but I've heard other rave reviews (I'm really excited to hear it!) so I HAVE to check that out asap! Danny's is pretty much dead on for Chet's version, but what just absolutely took my breath away is that he's using a flatpick and he's not missing a SINGLE note with his Atkins/Travis pickin'. It's not crazy flash (though I gotta admit I sure love that) it's just jaw dropping talent and dedication...his timing is rock solid and the notes just seem to be attached to his fingertips, absolutely amazing...especially when I know he's doing that with a dang flatpick! :D

Thanks for posting the tab to your version trag-o-caster! I'm excited to go check it out! I've just gotta at least try to learn this thang now haha

weelie · July 1st, 2003, 01:37 PM

And would you have guessed, you have spam... hrhm I mean email from me! :o

MandyMarie · July 1st, 2003, 06:05 PM

What's you guys' favorite Gatton recording? I know we've talked about this before but refresh my memory :D

Tele295, I'll be particularly interested in hearin' yours buddy! I don't think I've ever met someone with better taste in my life! ...heh heh heh...besides my husband. Almost got myself in trouble there!

JoeyV · July 1st, 2003, 06:14 PM

Danny is doing the Chet version or a good stab at it(I got that same bootleg, he even appologizes for the fumbling)..Chets version is just a masterpiece of guitar playing...I just love that.. I got the intro down and then I'

m lost...

Tele295 · July 1st, 2003, 06:42 PM

Are we talking favorite song, CD, or bootleg?

MandyMarie · July 1st, 2003, 08:29 PM

Hummmm...probably song - I know there's different things you like for different reasons, but if you had to pick just one track to listen to over 'n over 'n over...what would it be? :D

tiller · July 1st, 2003, 09:00 PM

FOR ME IT WOULD HAVE TO BE "TRAGEDY" OFF OF CRUISIN DUECES. THAT HAUNTING MELODY, THAT BARITONE OR SIX-STING BASS PART TOWARD THE END WITH THE "WITCHITA LINEMAN" DEEP REVERB,HECK EVERY NOTE AND EVERY SPACE BETWIXT 'EM GIVES ME SHIVERS.

Jim Campilongo · July 1st, 2003, 09:42 PM

It's great to be mentioned in the same thread as Gatton , Buchanan etc. Thanks you guys ! ..... I'm proud of my version of Mr .Sandman ! . Joe Goldmark played the heck out of it , and so did the band. I was inspired to play it by a San Francisco virtuoso , Mr Jim Nichols . An awesome , jaw dropping player . I think he copped his version from Chet's . Thanks again you guys !

ps - I've never heard anyone but Jim Nichols play it ......I think.

telemug · July 1st, 2003, 11:57 PM

yea I think I met jim nichols at the chet atkin appreciation in nashville in 96' does his wife sing ?If its the same guy your right jim great player

The Bone · July 2nd, 2003, 12:12 AM

changes from time to time, but right now I think it is "Sax Fifth Avenue" off of the Redneck Jazz CD. (funny, Tragedy is perhaps my least fav DG song. I guess I'll have to give it a try again) :D

Anonymous · July 2nd, 2003, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MandyMarie

what just absolutely took my breath away is that he's using a flatpick and he's not missing a SINGLE note with his Atkins/Travis pickin'. It's not crazy flash (though I gotta admit I sure love that) it's just jaw dropping talent and dedication...his timing is rock solid and the notes just seem to be attached to his fingertips, absolutely amazing...especially when I know he's doing that with a dang flatpick! :D

You and me both. What always amazed me about Danny's right hand technique was how comprehensive it was. He had transferred all his banjo patterns and rolls to the guitar, but done with a flatpick and the middle and ring fingers. Ditto for all the Atkins/Travis stuff. He also had a bunch of things he'd picked up from Lenny Breau, like "rolling" chords with a combination of alternating normal notes with harmonics 12 frets above. AND... he could also play steel guitar with a flat pick, all those rolls and different string combinations.

Plus Danny could also flatpick in the traditional sense like nobody's business. I heard some bluegrass work he had done on a friend's album and it was just as scary as everything else he did.

Favorite Gatton tune? I couldn't pick just one. "In My Room" and "Sky King" come to mind, but so do "Rock Candy," the "Linus and Lucy Theme," "Airmail Special" and a few dozen others.

To quote Evan Johns:

"I'd burn up all my cash just to hear Danny Gatton pickin' that redneck jazz." :-) CS

Craig Foley · July 2nd, 2003, 04:35 AM

7 come 11 off Portraits may be the best thing I've ever heard! In the liner notes it says there is video of this performance that has never been released. Please God let me see this someday!!! The tone is KILLER, does anyone know if the reverb is all from the amp or added later? If you have it listen to it again, if not GET IT!!

Jakedog · July 2nd, 2003, 12:27 PM

In My Room, off of 88 Elmira St. An absolutely stunning version of one of my favorite songs ever. Gotta go fire up the CD player now...

Jake

June 30th, 2003, 08:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
MandyMarie Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 28 Posts: 2,537 65 Photos	Danny Gatton - Mr. Sandman Whew.....I just heard the 1989 bootleg of Gatton doing "Mr. Sandman" and I don't think I've ever been more knocked out in my life! I do my best to hybrid pick but my thumpickin' pals tell me all the time that there's just some things you can do with a thumpick that you can't accomplish with pick and fingers, no matter how hard you try. I've always felt that Gatton could do ANYTHING a thumbpicker could...but now there's just no question in my mind! Sorry, I know that's nothin' new to you guys, but I just heard that track for the very first time and I'm still tryin' to catch my breath! :D

June 30th, 2003, 09:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
Brad Miller Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kokomo, Mississippi Age: 35 Posts: 637 8 Photos	Some of his best pickin' I agree Mandy. The first time I heard that I went nuts. It takes someone like Gatton to totally rejuvinate a tune you've only heard a thousand times. Then when someone like that does it in their own special way it is like hearing it for the first time. I hear something new every time I listen to his version. It is absolutely groovy!

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tellypicker Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 340	What recording is it on? __________________ What would Scooby Do?

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RelicStrat Tele-Meister Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Laguna Hills, SoCal Age: 49 Posts: 426	What recording is it on? Yes, please, enlightened minds want to know! thanks

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fatkidkevin TDPRI Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Olympia, WA Posts: 40	Good Luck... Think I thieved it off Napster years ago. Don't think I've seen it anywhere else... Kevin __________________ Are you sure Hank done it this way?

July 1st, 2003, 04:38 AM	#6 (permalink)
MandyMarie Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 28 Posts: 2,537 65 Photos	It's an unofficial recording from 1989 - it's for sale on Ebay from time to time, a friend of mine just made me a copy and I'm just knocked out....unbelievable! I've been a Gatton fan since I was 14 (unfortunately the same year in which he passed) and I'm always just in awe of the guy...but that Mr. Sandman probably takes the cake! Whew....haha! :D

July 1st, 2003, 05:40 AM	#7 (permalink)
trag-o-caster Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Flushing, Michigan Posts: 4,579	Didja ever hear..... ... our own Mr. Jim Campilongo's version??? WONDERFUL! It's on his second album, I believe. Jim has a way of keeping the wild technique stuff in check while concentrating on melody and soul, although it's very apparent that the wild technique stuff is in there too. Jim's playing hit me like a hammer the same way that Danny Gatton's and Roy Buchanan's did when I first heard them many years ago. He just never really comes out guns blazing like Danny and Roy B. would do. I mean that as a compliment Jim, if you're reading this. I play "Mr. Sandman" at all of my gigs, but I only play the intro, verse melody, and back to the intro again and out. It's less than a minute long, and it's really just a teaser for the crowd while I think of what I'm going to play next. I have my own little way of doing the intro so that the notes sustain over each other like the old vocal hit does. I wish that I could tab it out for everyone. It's real ackward, but sounds nice. It goes over well with the crowd, and sometimes I even get requests to do it (which blows me away for something that's basically a joke that lasts less than a minute). My version is a far cry from what Jim's (and I'm sure Danny's, though I've never heard it) is. Ya really gotta hear Jim do it! Nice to be back with y'all after a little time off. __________________ Timothy Jon Lamb

July 1st, 2003, 06:03 AM	#8 (permalink)
trag-o-caster Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Flushing, Michigan Posts: 4,579	Mr. Sandman intro tab Whew! I just posted my version of the intro to "Mr. Sandman" over at the "Sugar-Free Tab" section for whoever may be interested. I'd really like to know how Jim Campilongo does it. I haven't heard it in a while, but I don't think he does it like this. Anybody know??? __________________ Timothy Jon Lamb

July 1st, 2003, 06:25 AM	#9 (permalink)
weelie Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland, Yer-up Age: 34 Posts: 1,958 12 Photos	You opened a pandora's box there, now everybody will want a copy of that CD... ME CERTAINLY INCLUDED! :D If anybody has it to send, i'll gladly pay a blank and a p&p to Europe... __________________ <- I don't need smileys, I'm smiling already.

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porklash Tele-Meister Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sollefteå Sweden Posts: 236	Well I got that Sandman song with Danny from Kazaa the other day. Haven´t had the time to lissen to it. That´s the way I do it download a lot and lissen later. But with all this, I gotta give a listen right now! pEr

July 1st, 2003, 07:26 AM	#11 (permalink)
weelie Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland, Yer-up Age: 34 Posts: 1,958 12 Photos	Never tried Kazaa (or anything similar since napster years ago)... but might now, as the home PC is a mess anyway (blue screens). __________________ <- I don't need smileys, I'm smiling already.

July 1st, 2003, 10:53 AM	#12 (permalink)
telemug TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 20	campilongo sandman -I agree with you trag-o-caster I just got jim s loose I love roy danny hellecasters etc but I love the way jim has a sense of control over the harmony some intresting voicings maybe to some he sounds less flashy but in a good way.Joe goldmark the steel player is really good I'm getting more into doing steel stuff on my tele actually when I get some dough (I'm a musician) could take a while jim got some intresting looking stuff lessons on steel for tele.Oh ya Chet atkins version is very killer I think jim may have copped some ideas from him ,Jim?

July 1st, 2003, 11:27 AM	#13 (permalink)
Caper Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2,169 7 Photos	I just did a search of kazaa and came up empty

July 1st, 2003, 12:31 PM	#14 (permalink)
MandyMarie Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 28 Posts: 2,537 65 Photos	Weelie, don't even think about touchin' your wallet and shoot me a private message or an e-mail :D I figured out Danny's intro...and the rest is just way above my head. I've never heard our own Jim do it, but I've heard other rave reviews (I'm really excited to hear it!) so I HAVE to check that out asap! Danny's is pretty much dead on for Chet's version, but what just absolutely took my breath away is that he's using a flatpick and he's not missing a SINGLE note with his Atkins/Travis pickin'. It's not crazy flash (though I gotta admit I sure love that) it's just jaw dropping talent and dedication...his timing is rock solid and the notes just seem to be attached to his fingertips, absolutely amazing...especially when I know he's doing that with a dang flatpick! :D Thanks for posting the tab to your version trag-o-caster! I'm excited to go check it out! I've just gotta at least try to learn this thang now haha

July 1st, 2003, 01:37 PM	#15 (permalink)
weelie Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Helsinki, Finland, Yer-up Age: 34 Posts: 1,958 12 Photos	And would you have guessed, you have spam... hrhm I mean email from me! :o __________________ <- I don't need smileys, I'm smiling already.

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Tele295 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Haunted Amp, CA Posts: 3,403 14 Photos	Are we talking favorite song, CD, or bootleg? __________________ "Turn it up and it doesn't need any reverb." - Danny Gatton www.dannygatton.info Tiger Town Aces - Music That Bites Back In Redd we trust! Free Bill Kirchen! If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

July 1st, 2003, 06:05 PM	#16 (permalink)
MandyMarie Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 28 Posts: 2,537 65 Photos	What's you guys' favorite Gatton recording? I know we've talked about this before but refresh my memory :D Tele295, I'll be particularly interested in hearin' yours buddy! I don't think I've ever met someone with better taste in my life! ...heh heh heh...besides my husband. Almost got myself in trouble there!

July 1st, 2003, 06:14 PM	#17 (permalink)
JoeyV Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Northshore , MA Age: 44 Posts: 1,205 2 Photos	Danny is doing some of the Chet version Danny is doing the Chet version or a good stab at it(I got that same bootleg, he even appologizes for the fumbling)..Chets version is just a masterpiece of guitar playing...I just love that.. I got the intro down and then I' m lost... __________________ "I just love hearing them guitars go zing, zang , zoom"

July 1st, 2003, 08:29 PM	#19 (permalink)
MandyMarie Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Indianapolis, IN Age: 28 Posts: 2,537 65 Photos	Hummmm...probably song - I know there's different things you like for different reasons, but if you had to pick just one track to listen to over 'n over 'n over...what would it be? :D

July 1st, 2003, 09:00 PM	#20 (permalink)
tiller TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 35	FAVORITE GATTON SONG ? FOR ME IT WOULD HAVE TO BE "TRAGEDY" OFF OF CRUISIN DUECES. THAT HAUNTING MELODY, THAT BARITONE OR SIX-STING BASS PART TOWARD THE END WITH THE "WITCHITA LINEMAN" DEEP REVERB,HECK EVERY NOTE AND EVERY SPACE BETWIXT 'EM GIVES ME SHIVERS.

July 1st, 2003, 09:42 PM	#21 (permalink)
Jim Campilongo Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Brooklyn , New York Posts: 266	Mr Sandman It's great to be mentioned in the same thread as Gatton , Buchanan etc. Thanks you guys ! ..... I'm proud of my version of Mr .Sandman ! . Joe Goldmark played the heck out of it , and so did the band. I was inspired to play it by a San Francisco virtuoso , Mr Jim Nichols . An awesome , jaw dropping player . I think he copped his version from Chet's . Thanks again you guys ! ps - I've never heard anyone but Jim Nichols play it ......I think.

July 1st, 2003, 11:57 PM	#22 (permalink)
telemug TDPRI Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Toronto Canada Posts: 20	jim nichols yea I think I met jim nichols at the chet atkin appreciation in nashville in 96' does his wife sing ?If its the same guy your right jim great player

July 2nd, 2003, 12:12 AM	#23 (permalink)
The Bone Tele-Meister Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 244	My favorite Gatton... changes from time to time, but right now I think it is "Sax Fifth Avenue" off of the Redneck Jazz CD. (funny, Tragedy is perhaps my least fav DG song. I guess I'll have to give it a try again) :D

July 2nd, 2003, 04:35 AM	#25 (permalink)
Craig Foley NEW MEMBER! Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 7	My favorite Gatton 7 come 11 off Portraits may be the best thing I've ever heard! In the liner notes it says there is video of this performance that has never been released. Please God let me see this someday!!! The tone is KILLER, does anyone know if the reverb is all from the amp or added later? If you have it listen to it again, if not GET IT!!

July 2nd, 2003, 12:27 PM	#26 (permalink)
Jakedog Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Cleveland,OH But my heart's still in TE Posts: 3,079	Fave Gatton In My Room, off of 88 Elmira St. An absolutely stunning version of one of my favorite songs ever. Gotta go fire up the CD player now... Jake __________________ "On a scale of dead to pretty good, it might have been the perfect day..."