Scotty Anderson... Burning up a Telecaster

[Bo Borland]

"Jumpin At The Woodside"

This guy really tears this up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9Y8wssqlg

[Steinar Gregertsen]

That's it! I'm gonna sell my Teles and start playing steel guitar instead! Oh, wait......

[Clyde Mattocks]

I'm outa breath watchin' that!

[Jeff Evans]

This guy really tears this up!

And how.

And that was one of their ballad/belly-rubber numbers . . .

Great link, Bo.

[Jack Stoner]

A Singer I work with on a Monday night Show, John "Thomas" Herbert, says he gave Scotty his first band job when he was 16 in his band at a club in the Kentucky side of Cincinatti. He said when he would give him a break on a song he didn't know when to quit. He finally got around that by giving him a couple of instrumentals a night in return for not taking extra long instrumental breaks in songs.

[Don Sulesky]

Very impressive and a super hot picker, but can you remember anything he or the others have played in this clip. I agree with some others on the site that it may be sped up only because of how fast his leg is keeping the beat.

[David Mason]

He's one of those guys like Gatton, he likes his house and his wife and his sanity and you're not gonna drag him off to the big city with a bunch of promises... these guys are hiding here and there. Plus he's a pretty devout Christian and I suspect the bar gigs aren't too appealing.

At one planned "Gatton Tribute" Scotty A. was the only one there amongst some big names who could actually play the right licks note-for-note. He shares with Gatton (and McLaughlin) a super-disciplined left hand approach - you'll never see the Amazing Flapping Fingers, a la Van Halen.

[Don Sulesky]

No disrespect was meant by my comment.
It was only an observation, right or wrong.
As I said he is a super picker.
I also have been to a Danny Gatton concert back in the 80's and loved what he played as well as Roy Buchanan whom I have several of his albums.

[Jay Fagerlie]

Scotty is amazing, that's for sure.
But by his own word, he says everything he plays is improvised and he doesn't remember it as soon as he plays it.
I think he has an very developed right hand, also.
I love when he harmonizes with himself, it almost sounds like a machine.
Even after all these years of listening to him, he still makes me smile and shake my head with some of the runs he plays.
Find a copy of the theme from Perry Mason off of his first album for kicks....make sure you hold on to something...
One of my all time favorite pickers.
Jay

[Mark van Allen]

Scotty is really amazing. There's a video of him at a NAMM show jamming on one of those cheap plastic Yamaha acoustics that's absolutely mind blowing. I've also heard tales of Cincinnati area leaders who wouldn't use him because of all the attention he took away from the vocals...
Those blistering doublestops are really slick- he does that by holding the pick in close to his fingernail and hitting one string with the pick while the top of his fingernail hits the next higher string. I'd never seen anybody do that before.

I'd venture to say the video is not sped up, he keeps time like that. Once I asked him about a diminished pattern I saw him keep using and he said he had no idea what it was, or what he was doing.
He may not be able to articulate it, but he certainly knows what he's doing!

[Dave Mudgett]

Scotty is one of my favorite guitar players, and one of the very few Tele players that I think deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as players like Gatton, Burton, Lee, Buchanan, Mason, and some of the other true greats.

To me, it is emphatically not just about speed - he is very musical. Listen to this and some of the other youtube clips - take the breathtaking flashy speed runs out of any of them and they'd still be great. If anything, I like the cool chord-melody ideas even more. His double-stop ideas are mind-boggling - he goes over some of this in his 20 or so year old hotlicks video. Like Gatton did, he has it all.

I don't remotely think the video is sped up - he really does play that fast sometimes. He doesn't keep the knee going like this all the time - for this to be sped up would require some complex fiddling with the video in some spots and not others, I don't believe it for a second. Talk to some musicians in Cincinatti - this is no put-on.

His picking technique is pretty unusual. He shaves down a standard thumbpick (I'm told Fred Kellys) so he can use it effectively both as a flatpick and a standard thumbpick with index, middle, and ring fingers. When you watch the closeups, his flatpicking is really precise and clean - this is very tough to do while maintaining the ability to go back and forth to standard thumb + 3 fingers at will. Watching a bunch of these clips again forces me to take my file out again and put me in the woodshed for a while. Thanks for the link and reminder.

[Billy Wilson]

Has he got a humbucker at the neck position?

[Jerry Hayes]

Hey Billy, that looks like some sort of mini humbucker on his guitar. It's not a Gibson or Epi though as it doesn't have the adjustment screws coming through the top of it, maybe a Duncan or Fralin?.........JH in Va.

[Billy Wilson]

Johnny Smith pickup? He 's gettin very pretty sound!

[Dave Harmonson]

I agree it doesn't sound sped up at all. That's just flat out amazing playing. Incredibly clean and spot on timing. Jimmy Bryant comes to mind for how he has so much to draw on. I wouldn't want to be the guy playing a solo after his. I think I'd just pass and keep listening. Thanks for the post. I had no knowledge of him.

[Dave McKeough]

A VERY musical player...even at that tempo...God love him

[HowardR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_0F_Ueo ... re=related

[Jeff Evans]

Some stylistic and tempo diversity here that might be pleasing: Scotty Anderson and Bob Saxton - "Welcome To My World" and "I Still Miss Someone".

[Andy Volk]

One of my favorite Anderson clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x54l1zSr ... re=related