See the look on Robert Gordon's face?
Kinda says it all!
Here'a couple of 3 reviews found on line mashed together:
This is a legendary performance; the bootleg recording was a prized possession among guitar players for many years. And now I'm thankful it has been made available on CD and I was able to obtain a copy of it. This is just incredibly fun to listen to!
As some other reviewers have pointed out, the quality of the recording is very good but might not quite be up to modern standards. But it is plenty good enough, and we're lucky to have a recording at all. How did it come about? That's part of the legend: When Gatton showed up a few hours before the show that night for a sound check, the technicians working at the club couldn't believe what they were hearing and quickly scrambled to record everything as best they could. And it's a good thing they did!!
The title gives only a clue to the talent Danny Gatton posesses. Here we here the late legendary guitarist absolutely blister a set of rockabilly standards and lesser knowns. Gatton was unknown to many in the crowd. He remains such to far too many people today. But for those in attendance in this small venue, a legendary performance unfolded. Nearly everyone came to hear Robert Gordon belt out his usual fare and were treated to Gatton's simple undescribable fret work. On track after track Gatton pushes himself and the band over the top. The set is cut short as the fire department puts a halt to the fireworks due to overcrowdedness in the tiny bar which was home to the white hot performance. This albumn was bootlegged for years but is now thankfully available to the masses. This is even more appreciated since Danny is gone from us and there ain't no more like him that's for sure.
If you are interested in rockabilly guitar playing, this is an important album to own. Gatton runs through his bag of rockabilly tricks with humbling speed and accuracy.
As far as being enjoyable listening, it is fair. Vocals, drums and bass are adequate, but fairly uninspired. Gatton's playing is marvelous but sometimes so over the top it detracts from the song - like he is on 11 all the time.
The quality of the recording is good, although it lacks some of the high frequency content of a modern recording. It is 48 minutes long with 15 songs. It is a mono recording bootlegged off a mixing board during a 1981 club show on the band's fourth gig together.
Since this album is mostly rockabilly, you won't hear the full range of Gatton's musical abilities (but you still get a lot in 48 minutes!). You get an appreciation of his technical proficiency. The soloing, while technically astounding, sometimes comes off as gimmickry as Danny wedges so much material into 3 chord rock(-abilly) songs. Of course gimmickry is permissible, encouraged, and perhaps even a hallmark of rockabilly, so if his soloing comes off as gimmickry maybe that is a neutral or positive comment. More specifically, some of the soloing is sped up and fancied up riffs from Rockabilly standards such as "Hello Mary-Lou" or "Rock-Around-the-Clock" - songs which he ain't playin' when he borrows the riffs. Some of his later recordings, like Redneck Jazz, feature more complex arrangements as Danny is not limited, as he was on this gig, to mostly 3 or 4 chord standards.
Another CD from my collection ripped to my hard drive a couple of years ago. Enjoy!
1. Ubangi Stomp
2. The Way I Walk
3. Good Rockin' Tonight
4. There Stands The Glass
5. Drivin' Wheel
6. Fire
7. Loverboy
8. You Got A Heart Like A Rock
9. Cruisin'
10. Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache
11. Love My Baby
12. Twenty Flight Rock
13. Black Slacks
14. Red Hot
15. Fingers On Fire
38MB, WMA, 42 Minutes
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PXMGVJK2
Go here for more D.G.
http://incaroads-wvkayaker.blogspot.com/2007/08/danny-gatton-featured-on-these-vinyl.html
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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What This Is All About
I've been collecting live music from various sources since the mid to late 70's. Radio shows, TV broadcasts, radio show pre-FM CD's and vinyl LP's and some trades. Most of the shows posted here, I recorded and ripped myself. I always had top of the line stereo equipment and cassette and open reel recorders for those on air broadcasts.
I've downloaded plenty of bootlegged concerts from various blogs. As a rule I will only post stuff from my collection and not what is already available out there.
I also post out of print CDs and LPs from my collection.
I will repost from my readers anything someone sends me as long as it is either out of print or something that's not from someone else's blog. If you want to share a link for a cool item on your blog, or someone else's, please feel free to post it in the comments........
Enjoy and please leave a comment and pass this blog along.
Can you believe that so many out there are starving for the old WHFS? Amazing!
If you leave a comment, how about using a nickname instead of Anonymous. At least make up something please. Thanks!
I have reconsidered my position...and will re-upload dead links, so long as you go to that particular post and make the request from the comments page...
I've downloaded plenty of bootlegged concerts from various blogs. As a rule I will only post stuff from my collection and not what is already available out there.
I also post out of print CDs and LPs from my collection.
I will repost from my readers anything someone sends me as long as it is either out of print or something that's not from someone else's blog. If you want to share a link for a cool item on your blog, or someone else's, please feel free to post it in the comments........
Enjoy and please leave a comment and pass this blog along.
Can you believe that so many out there are starving for the old WHFS? Amazing!
If you leave a comment, how about using a nickname instead of Anonymous. At least make up something please. Thanks!
I have reconsidered my position...and will re-upload dead links, so long as you go to that particular post and make the request from the comments page...
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- WHFS 102.3 FM WEASEL 5:30-7:00 PM 04-26-1983
- Cruzados: Debut LP and After Dark Vinyl Rip
- CPR Live On E-Town
- Martha And The Muffins: Metro Music and Danseparc ...
- Blotto: "I Wanna Be A Lifeguard" Vinyl LP Rip
- Ian Lloyd: Goose Bumps, Third World Civilization
- WHFS 102.3 FM Weasel 02-18-1983 6:00-9:00 PM
- 3 Mary Chapin Carpenter Austin City Limits Shows
- Rootboy Slim: Paradise Club Boston Dec 31 1980 WBCN
- The Razz, U of MD Nov 03 1978 WWDC-DC101
- Tommy Keene: Ten Years After CD
- Tommy Keene: Places That Are Gone- Vinyl EP
- Tommy Keene: Isolation Party
- Tommy Keene: Run Now EP, Cassette Rip
- Showtunes- The Live Tommy Keene Album
- Tommy Keene: Sleeping on a Roller Coaster- CD EP
- Tommy Keene: Songs from the Film
- David Crosby: The Beacon Theatre, NYC March 24, 19...
- Dwight Yoakum Live From TNN 09-12-1992
- WRNR 103.1 FM: DJ Craig, The Midnight Shift 06-14-...
- WHFS TAPES SHARED BY BOB CD 8
- Ellen Foley: Another Breath Vinyl LP Rip
- WHFS 102.3 FM Damian and David 04-28-1983
- Wall Of Voodoo, The Ugly Americans LP Vinyl Rip
- The Widespread Depression Orchestra
- Asleep At The Wheel- Framed
- Asleep At The Wheel "10"
- Asleep At The Wheel: Keepin' Me Up Nights
- Asleep At The Wheel, Western Standard Time
- Asleep At The Wheel: Greatest Hits- Live & Kickin'
- The Del Lords Frontier Days Vinyl Rip
- 4 More Del Lords Albums
- Danny Gatton & Robert Gordon: Humbler- Live
- Rock 103 Hall's Bar and Grill June 25 1994
- WHFS DJ Weasel's Last Show on 102.3 Bethesda, MD 0...
- The Wanktones: Live at the Fontana Bowlarama
- WHFS TAPES SHARED BY BOB CD 9
- WHFS 102.3 FM Bob "HERE" 07-07-1983
- Jon Astley: Everyone Loves the Pilot and The Compl...
- WRNR 103.1 FM: CRAIG THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT NOV 06 1998
- Robert Palmer: Pressure Drop Vinyl Rip
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- Robert Palmer: Some People Can Do What They Want V...
- WHFS 99.1 RADIO ACTIVITY TOM T 09-27-1988
- WHFS 99.1 BOB AND DAVID BLUE MONDAY 10-03-1988
- Albert Lee: Self Titled Album, Vinyl Rip 1982
- Savoy Brown: Greatest Hits Live In Concert Vinyl LP
- Tift Merritt: Austin City Limits 10-20-2005 Audio Rip
- Paul Barrere, On My Own Two Feet
- Van Morrison - Live in Montreux 1990 bootleg
- Another blogger sharing WHFS music and other cool ...
- Cool Video From CNN About Austin City Limits
- WRNR: Chris Then Craig Dec 5-6 1997
- WRNR: CRAIG, THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT 11-05-1997
- Bruck Cockburn live 1981 - Rumours Of Glory Audio Rip
- WRNR: Craig, "The Midnight Shift" 08-19-1997
- Cool Comment From Dick Lillard, Roots Of Rock n Ro...
- Mike + the Mechanics King Biscuit 1989
- Radney Foster OOP CDs Del Rio, Texas, 1959 and Lab...
- WHFS DJ JOHNNY RIGGS JAN AND FEB 1993
- Kim Richey OOP CD's and Bootleg Megapost
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- WRNR, Craig- The Midnight Shift 06-24-1998
- Another Installment of WHFS Tapes Shared By Bob
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- Floppy Boot Stomp has great boots and boobs!
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The Equipment Used For All Those Rips
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8 comments:
Kayaker, now this is one cool bootleg! Look forward to sampling this one during my lunch hour....thx, VanFan
Hope you like it as much as I do!
Thanks for this post--- I was at this show. Still can't believe Danny Gatton is gone.
Also, you have a great site--- I lived in Silver Spring, MD for a time in the 70's and was a big fan of WHFS (Murph the surf lives) Thanks for all the great music!
Thanks for the kind words JP!
We appreciate it!
Thank you for posting the link to this amazing album. I started playing on a tele because of Danny.
Thank you!
You are welcome, thanks for the feedback
Of course I discover this after the bleedin' CD is out of print oO Setting aside some of me disability to buy one of the used ones I found on Amazon next month but if it's at all possible to get a reup on zippy or something I'd be quite a happy person =)
actually I'm a happy person regardless but this would be kewl :P
here ya go chicken
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/9665736/file.html
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