Posted: 25 Jul 2022 8:35 am
Hi Miles,
Here’s a teaser for you:
“In 1978 a monster guitar player from Washington, D.C., came to Nashville to cut an instrumental called “Rock Candy.” I hadn’t heard of Danny Gatton before then, and while setting up I asked him about the song we were going to do. He said, “Aw, it’s just a little throwaway blues thing I wrote. You won’t have any problem with it.”
The tempo was such that one more notch on the metronome would have put me out of business. During the first pass, I kept thinking Danny would stop everything, say it was all a joke, and slow it down to the real tempo. But he didn’t. I recently received a CD of the album, Redneck Jazz, and out of curiosity, clocked the tempo on a metronome. It turned out to be 152 beats per minute. At four notes per tick, it’s probably the fastest I’ve ever played on a recording.”
Here’s a teaser for you:
“In 1978 a monster guitar player from Washington, D.C., came to Nashville to cut an instrumental called “Rock Candy.” I hadn’t heard of Danny Gatton before then, and while setting up I asked him about the song we were going to do. He said, “Aw, it’s just a little throwaway blues thing I wrote. You won’t have any problem with it.”
The tempo was such that one more notch on the metronome would have put me out of business. During the first pass, I kept thinking Danny would stop everything, say it was all a joke, and slow it down to the real tempo. But he didn’t. I recently received a CD of the album, Redneck Jazz, and out of curiosity, clocked the tempo on a metronome. It turned out to be 152 beats per minute. At four notes per tick, it’s probably the fastest I’ve ever played on a recording.”