Danny Gatton
"The Humbler"
The Best there ever was!!!
Excerpt from 'Capitol Rock'
by author Mark Opsasnick
Jack Casady, who played with Gatton for many
years in the Offbeats and went on to rock and roll fame with Jefferson
Airplane and Hot Tuna, says, "Danny Gatton was so good that back in those
days every band wanted him in it. He played so good, so many different
styles. One of his claims to fame back in those days was that he was the
only guy that could play Billy Burton's guitar solo in 'Honky Tonk'
note-for-note with a roll and everything, where the rest of us guitar
players could never quite get it right. Danny was such a great guitar player
that if anybody could get him to play, then he was the guy. The first time I
ever saw him play I thought 'God this guy is great'.
Ron MacDonald, another long-time friend who
played with Gatton from the Offbeats through the Take Five Combo and was
also in the Drapes in the mid-eighties adds, "the thing is, working with
Danny from the time I was fourteen, all my life until I started working with
other guys, I thought that's what guitar players are suppose to sound like
and I never realized until probably in my twenties that this guy was the
best I ever heard. His talent was enormous. Danny was unbelievable."
Billy Windsor
Billy
Billy Windsor, Danny Gatton, Ron MacDonald
A truly gifted singer who performed with
Danny Gatton. Billy's recordings can be heard on Danny Gatton's Web Site.
(Danny's web site can be accessed off our Links).
Billy Windsor was by far one of the most
gifted and genuine performers in the music business and like Danny will be
truly missed... but the music will live forever!
Now the second generation of 'The
Offbeats' , aka 'The American Music Company', consisting of Billy
Windsor's son, Steve Windsor (guitar & vocals), along with Steve
Gorospe (guitar) and Original 'Offbeat' member - Steve Gorospe's father
Ernie Gorospe (bass), and original member John Broaddus (sax) are
performing together today.
