Saw him in a small bar/club in Durango Colorado in 1971 or 1972. I had no idea who he was. I was sitting in front watching him, and playing along on my "Air Guitar". I was so into his performance. He asked me to get on stage with him, and I did! He stood behind me, and wrapped his guitar around in front of me, and played while I watched first hand. Pretending it was me doing all of those things. Amazing experience. So fun.
I used to be a shoe shine contractor in a major truck stop. About 30 years ago he and his band spent a few hours there while their tour bus was being repaired. I shined 2 pairs of his boots and had such a pleasant conversation with him. He was a super nice guy. He tipped well then joined me in the restaurant during my break and bought me dinner. He played different instruments (a bada** fiddle player!) and almost every genre of music. I asked him what music style he liked best and he said "whatever I'm playing at the moment".
I was stationed near New Orleans in the early 2000’s. Gatemouth used to drop in at M&M Bar-b-Q on Highway 11 in Slidell LA on Sunday afternoons. One day me and my buddy were the only ones in there as Gatemouth just jammed away on the little stage. Then jumped into his old black ‘65 Cadillac and head down to his little old house on the lake. Very good times.
He also did a show with Roy on Austin Coity Limits . I heard him twice in the seventies . Once in his hometown of Orange and the other in near by Beaumont , Texas . He was born in Louisana and his family moved to Texas , when he was young . Later in life he had a place in New Orleans , but huricane Katrina destroyed it along with his instruments and awards . He then moved back to Orange Texas , which is where he died . I worked as a repairman at a music store in Beaumont and got free tickets to his show at a tiny club in Beaumont . When I went to the club to get my tickets I got to talk to him for awhile . He also played the hell out of the fiddle at his concerts .
It was eerie. Katrina chased him out of his home in Slidell, LA in the middle of the night all the way back to where he was raised across the border in Orange, TX where he died. Thinking about it always reminds me of my favorite song of his, The Drifter.
Yeah he could work a fiddle over really good. We dont see talent like that anymore. Not in mainstream anyway. There is alot of super talented young people performing out there today, but sadly most of them will never be known outside their hometowns.
Out of all of the channels I’m subscribed to, yours has quickly become my absolute favorite. It’s apparent that you have a great appreciation for a lot of different styles of music and guitar players varied techniques. And I love how you break down the playing. You know your stuff and seeing what a fan you are makes your videos all the more interesting and sincere. Cheers!
this is a great demonstration of what Rickenbacker were about .. a jazz style guitar with great tone , add a truly legendary player like gatemouth and you have this !!!
I was blessed to have known Gate and hang out with him at his place in Slidell,LA.. I moved back to Slidell in 2003 on old hwy 11 close to rats nest rd. Gate live on that same rd. 1 day i was driving down hwy 11 my car died (72 midget) bad electrical lol and a guy came over to help me . He asked if I did handy work said he needed help .I needed $$$ so great! I show up the next day and he shows me the house,s we would be working on.2 shacks over the water right on hwy11 .When I walked up I saw a 72 black Cadillac with gates insignia on the side window and I was like ???!!! Then the asks me if I have ever heard of Gatemouth Brown !!!! Yes why !!!!! ??? Well this is his house 🏠 😳 !!! Sure enough Gate answers the door !!!! He was real nice thanked me for coming to help . I'll never forget the first night he played a song for me on his radio he had done called darling of the dance hall ,to this day I haven't heard it since .Amazing song !!! Anyways so fast fwd 1 month and Gate is going to Japan for 2 weeks to play so he gives me his phone number and ask me to please keep an eye on it for him cause the guy that introduced me to Gate was steeling from him so he was worried while he was gone . 2 weeks later I get a call from Gate HEY MAN GET DOWN HERE HE BROKE IN MY PLACE !!! SO we got in the Cadillac and went looking for him. That night Gate took me to dinner when we came back to his place the light was on and that guy was in gates house!!!!! 79 yrs. Old he jumped out of his car 🚗 and grabbed the end of a garden hose that had been cut off and started beating this guy with it 🙄 🤣!!! Gate had a 457 he carried as an honorary sherifF of the Slidell sheriff s depth. And told that guy next time he would shoot his ass dead!!!! LMAO IT WAS CRAZY !!! He was full of life and fight till the end . July 13 of 2005 I got out jail on some bullshit weed charge that Gate was very upset about cause he did not drink ever just had 2 pipes 1 for tabbaco 1 for weed :).So August 29th 2005 Katrina hit and leveled everything !!!! 1 week later I went back to see the damage .You couldn't get down hwy11 without a license with ur address cause debris was everywhere!!! I was slowly driving trying to figure out where Gates house used to be .Then there it was Gates 72 Cadillac stuck half way in the ground with the trunk sticking above ground !!!!! Nothing left of either house but I found stuck in the mud 4 BRAND NEW GATE MOUTH CD'S STILL WEAPPED IN CELIFANE !!!!!!!
I started going to Gate's shows beginning in 1990 when I moved to Dallas at the age of 22. I rarely missed a performance throughout the nineties & early 2000s when he came to town which was usually about twice a year. They were always at intimate club venues. We usually chatted it up between sets. He was always magical. He did one gig at Poor David's Pub where he played solo acoustic. It was amazing. The Dallas Morning News called it one of the years ten best live performances.
Love Gatemouth! Several points you touched on. 1) Watching his hands he's clearly in the Texas folk-blues tradition best embodied in Lightnin' Sam Hopkins. It's just that he's doing it all halfway up the neck, at ferocious speed, and he can do it because of that capo! 2) Albert Collins learned a lot from Gate -- including the capo. Matter of fact that whole tradition of single string lightning-fast soloing has always been an earmark of Texas blues, as witness Freddie King, Johnny Winter, Bugs Henderson, and SRV. And there's a new kid on the block: Gary Clark Jr. RUclips vids are showing up of what this guy can do live, and he plays with so much feeling he's SCARY!
Saw Clarence at the King Edward Hotel blues bar (Locally known as “The King Eddy”) in Calgary, Alberta. He was a master of Texas blues, but also played a variety of R&B, Cajun (“Louisiana Zydeco” is a favorite), jazz, and country. In a side note, The King Eddy was closed and abandoned after 2004. In 2013 the century old hotel was taken apart brick-by-brick, restored, and became a permanent feature of Canada’s National Music Centre. It remains a venue for live music today. Another great analysis, Fil. I start every morning with at least one of your shows. Thanks for reviving this memory of Gatemouth.
I'm just now discovering this man, such fun to listen to! I'm noticing I wind up listening to his songs more than once. BTW those go-go dancers with those boots were seen all the time on TV at the time.
Yeah, I found out about Gatemouth when while in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when I picked up a cassette tape at the Navy Exchange back in the Eighties. It was the one where Roy and Gate played a lot of jazz standards. I was like a blind squirrel finding a nut.
I had the pleasure of meeting him after a show. The guy who talked to him after me was really pressing him on which of his albums he should get. Gate told him, “Whichever album you see, that’s the one to get.” Great answer on his part. I’ve never been disappointed with any of his albums.
First thing that struck me was that he was playing a Rickenbacker. Very unusual for the Blues. The Rick has a great clean sound for what he’s playing. The Beatles really put Rickenbacker on the map for guitarists.
I played a bit with a guy in Saint Louis named Bennie Smith. When I played a barre chord he said, 'oh you play them cowboy chords.' He always used his thumb for the E string. Now I do mostly, but not always. :)
Cool, never heard a Rickenbacker played with this style before, and a triple-pickup to boot; that looks like one of the short-scale ones, the pickups really lend to that sound, what a sweet tone he got, I hear some jazz influence.
His tour bus broke down in Atlanta that night after the show and he and his band hung out for a few hours while it was being worked on at the Petro Truck Stop where I was working. I ran the shoe shine stand and had a great conversation with him while I shined a couple of pairs of his boots Afterwards he joined me in the restaurant and bought me dinner. He was a super nice guy, showing me pictures of his daughter, whom he was really attached to.
I really appreciate when you go back to the start of the electric guitar days. A lot of people don't realize how good the early performers were. They laid the foundation for what we hear today.
I didn't know this before, but he was a multi-instrumentalist, not just harmonica as with the Canned Heat Montreux concert in 1973, but drums, violin, etc. Super talented. Thanks!
What a fantastic surprise!! You knocked it out of the park!!; there's another video of him from the 80s "pressure cooker" , then he just erupts into the fiddle!! Massive talent and greatly missed!! btw, Gate's playing makes me wanna put on a fringe skirt and shake what my momma gave me!!
Playing with his fingers! It’s so interesting seeing how he holds the low strings as you say with his thumb. ! And the use of the capo! So cool. Another one I have never heard of ! Thanks Fil!
Gatemouth played American music , Texas style !! What a great icon , blended a style of Blues with Jazz with his own original style . A fantastic fiddle player also, one of my Blues heroes !
I love blues, country and jazz music very much, as well as so many other styles of music. I like Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, because he can do all those three styles very well, and seemingly so effortlessly. He also plays the fiddle and is a great singer. May he rest in peace. Cheers Fil!
Thx for the breakdown. The!!!Beat actually comes first on the TV timeline. Hee Haw was a country music version of Rowan and Martin's 'Laugh-In' which eventuated a few years later.
Met Gatemouth in the early 70’s in Colorado. He was a friend of a family member. His playing was every bit as impressive in person. Wish you could have been there, he would have liked you, very much.
thanx, FIL .really enjoyed this analysis .saw him in Boston once, and many times on TV. but this, I never saw. too cool for school. he played fiddle well, also .he and Roy had a ball together.
Glad to see you do a video on this great, but under appreciated artist. One thing, though, should you do another... you’re the only person I’ve ever refer to him as Clarence. In most circles, he was Gatemouth, or Gate.
Great job in promoting the best in Americana, or roots, music! Most of us know that it traces back to the British isles, but still, I'm surprised and grateful that an English bloke is a fan of some of the best of this musical tradition. You have a new fan.
Watching Hee Haw and Gatemouth showed up !! I remember everything about that day !! Man that was awesome asking my Dad who he was and said Gatemouth Brown !!
Tone REALLY is in the hands, regardless of the guitar manufacturer, amp settings etc. huh? Thanks for helping keep all of these artists out there for everyone to enjoy man! 🙂🤙🏻🎸
Thanks Fil, you have the highest % of likes to dislikes I've seen. Understandable with your personality and content of your vids. Keep em coming, I've always been a Clearance fan.
Gatemouths playing looks effortless and so laid back. Doesn't seem fair that he can play so well and not make the "strained pained" face! Rock On Fil! 🤘
Haven’t heard of him Fil! Man the guy can play. Really interesting right hand...unique! Love they way puts a swing groove on the blues and his sound is brilliant!! Quality plus! Thanks Fil great analysis!😀😀👌👌
Everyone wanted to play like T-Bone Walker, Gatemouth was a very good guitar player and played what he called American music Texas style. He also played fiddle.
I saw Gatemouth Brown in Greenville, NC in 1982. It was a small venue and I'll never forget it. Dixie Dregs played the same place. If you never heard of Dixie Dregs, you don't know guitar.
Thank you Fil for bring out Gatemouth. You are in my territory. I have an extremely large music library. And on section I pay a lot of attention to is the blues, all genres, all players. Clarence Gatemouth Brown is one. I hope you explore further....get lost in the blues. Maybe checking out Little Charlie and the Nightcats. Charlie kills everytime. He's retired now, there are lots of videos of him. The lead singer/harpist is Rick Estrin. Probably the best blues harp in the world. And his lyrics are great.
This is so great to see... Clarence got much more "strange" later, and he played fiddle supremely well, too (don't actually know if he was already doing that in the mid 60s)... I know Zappa was huge admirer, too. I was lucky enough to see him live a couple times in the 90s. Always loved Gatemouth!
Hey @Wings of Pegasus I really enjoy your video commentaries highlighting various musicians .. I always wonder about the Controversy which brands of guitars and types models ect are good or bad or different or why so .. I do know a Gibson may have a lot different sound than a Fender for example .. I am in the middle of this video where you point out Rickenbacker ect.. So yes I always wonder how much the actual instrument plays into each type of sound and style .. ??
This is great, Fil. What struck me watching his right hand was that he seemed to finger the strings like an electric bass player. Maybe that's just an optical illusion on my part, but great analysis and video to listen to and watch!
Right On! CGB doesn't get the recognition he deserves except with maybe the more hardcore Blues/R&B fans (like me). One of the better aspects of the Internet is getting exposure for some of the guys that have been pushed to the back. CGB was being played on Rock stations along with BB King, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, etc. but, as always, tastes change and someone gets shuffled to the back. I would love to watch one on Mark May or Tinsley Ellis, two smoking guitarists who got the chops but not the props.
Saw Gate perform 6 times in the 80's & 90's, he never failed to amaze me. In fact, his famous guitar was a Gibson Firebird non -reverse, with a custom tooled leather pick guard (!!) with a rose and His nickname, GATEMOUTH, on it. His slogan was "I play American music - Texas style" , he preferred not to be called a blues man. I've heard him play Country, Cajun, Pop, Soul and best of all Swing! His fiddle playing was as good as his guitar (he did pizzicato plucking guitar style - the famous guit-fiddle!). He also played viola, piano and until his lungs aged, great harmonica. An American music treasure.
Clarence was a lot like Clark - they could play anything with a string on it. I saw Clarence once - in one tune,he jumped from a guitar, to a mandolin, to a fiddle, and then did a great harmonica solo. He could also jump from Blues to country to Jazz like flipping the light off and on.
Wings of Pegasus I found a musician on the Internet! He is a nobody, but the smoothest guitarist I’ve ever heard. This video only has 203 views. 20 or more of them are from me. I contacted the girl that left him a post, and she said he is an artist she knows that lives on Miami Beach. All the photography and art in this video is work he did of his deceased wife Dorian. If you ever want to do a show of nobodies out there, I recommend this guy! Your videos are awesome BTW. ruclips.net/video/a_cnjkb6Uig/видео.html
They say his big break came, jumping on stage, impromptu, in relief for T-Bone Walker, (sorry, started writing this before the video ended). That takes some Texas sized jam, y'all! Seen him many times, last one, spotting him offstage, talking to a guy at the counter of Louisiana Music, in the French Quarter, New Orleans. A unique, multi-instrumentalist; fiddle, drums and other instruments.
Love Ole Gatemouth, He was probably the Only blues man too jam on a Rick and man he makes it wail !!!!! Clarence was the man on the scene for "Jump Vlues" in the late 50's and 60's carrying the mantel for Big Joe Turner.... and then on into country blues , jazz and fusion
This is a cool performance by Clarence, and the band. He seen to be getting into that piece! it wouldn't be the mid 1960s without "Go-Go Dancers" another enjoyable analysis Fil.
Oh, C'mon Fil! Go-Go girls! I remember that in the 60s the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Strip in Hollywood had the best music and the best Go-Go dancers, different time, fun time.
As good as he was he was always broke. I worked at a radio station in New Orleans and one of the DJ’s was complaining to us about Gatemouth calling him up late at night wanting to borrow money. My dad also vaguely knew him. My dad owned a laundromat in Slidell, Louisiana and employed a black lady to do wash and fold amongst other little Knick knack things and Gatemouth was always hanging around the laundromat trying to get next to her.
I've had a picture of Gatemouth Brown hanging on my wall in a frame since the 1980s that I cut out of a guitar magazine. He's smoking a cigar, and he's holding that Gibson Firebird that he played for years with the leather pickguard that has his name burned into the leather. It's such a cool picture. I'm sure you could find it on Google. He deserved a lot more fame than he gained because he was a really good blues player who influenced so many people.✌😊✌
Great video! I have never heard of him. That was a really cool sound! Would it be possible to give a little run down on different guitars and what makes them different? Les Paul, Strat, Tele, Krammer, Ibanez....the common ones. This may be too big of a subject. That was a really cool fun song!
Man,congratulations for your channel! You really explain things in a great way and full of details! May i sugest 2 guitarrists: Pedro Jóia or the great Carlos Paredes. Even if you don't react,you can always appreciate the great music from both. Cheers from Portugal
Saw him in a small bar/club in Durango Colorado in 1971 or 1972. I had no idea who he was. I was sitting in front watching him, and playing along on my "Air Guitar". I was so into his performance. He asked me to get on stage with him, and I did! He stood behind me, and wrapped his guitar around in front of me, and played while I watched first hand. Pretending it was me doing all of those things. Amazing experience. So fun.
I used to be a shoe shine contractor in a major truck stop. About 30 years ago he and his band spent a few hours there while their tour bus was being repaired. I shined 2 pairs of his boots and had such a pleasant conversation with him. He was a super nice guy. He tipped well then joined me in the restaurant during my break and bought me dinner. He played different instruments (a bada** fiddle player!) and almost every genre of music. I asked him what music style he liked best and he said "whatever I'm playing at the moment".
I was stationed near New Orleans in the early 2000’s. Gatemouth used to drop in at M&M Bar-b-Q on Highway 11 in Slidell LA on Sunday afternoons. One day me and my buddy were the only ones in there as Gatemouth just jammed away on the little stage. Then jumped into his old black ‘65 Cadillac and head down to his little old house on the lake. Very good times.
He also did a show with Roy on Austin Coity Limits . I heard him twice in the seventies . Once in his hometown of Orange and the other in near by Beaumont , Texas . He was born in Louisana and his family moved to Texas , when he was young . Later in life he had a place in New Orleans , but huricane Katrina destroyed it along with his instruments and awards . He then moved back to Orange Texas , which is where he died . I worked as a repairman at a music store in Beaumont and got free tickets to his show at a tiny club in Beaumont . When I went to the club to get my tickets I got to talk to him for awhile . He also played the hell out of the fiddle at his concerts .
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A good video of him playing both guitar and fiddle is here - 2004 with Santana ruclips.net/video/vseuUyU06dM/видео.html
It was eerie. Katrina chased him out of his home in Slidell, LA in the middle of the night all the way back to where he was raised across the border in Orange, TX where he died. Thinking about it always reminds me of my favorite song of his, The Drifter.
Yeah he could work a fiddle over really good. We dont see talent like that anymore. Not in mainstream anyway. There is alot of super talented young people performing out there today, but sadly most of them will never be known outside their hometowns.
Out of all of the channels I’m subscribed to, yours has quickly become my absolute favorite. It’s apparent that you have a great appreciation for a lot of different styles of music and guitar players varied techniques. And I love how you break down the playing. You know your stuff and seeing what a fan you are makes your videos all the more interesting and sincere. Cheers!
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Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix's bass player) is in the studio band.
this is a great demonstration of what Rickenbacker were about .. a jazz style guitar with great tone , add a truly legendary player like gatemouth and you have this !!!
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I was blessed to have known Gate and hang out with him at his place in Slidell,LA.. I moved back to Slidell in 2003 on old hwy 11 close to rats nest rd. Gate live on that same rd. 1 day i was driving down hwy 11 my car died (72 midget) bad electrical lol and a guy came over to help me . He asked if I did handy work said he needed help .I needed $$$ so great! I show up the next day and he shows me the house,s we would be working on.2 shacks over the water right on hwy11 .When I walked up I saw a 72 black Cadillac with gates insignia on the side window and I was like ???!!! Then the asks me if I have ever heard of Gatemouth Brown !!!! Yes why !!!!! ??? Well this is his house 🏠 😳 !!! Sure enough Gate answers the door !!!! He was real nice thanked me for coming to help . I'll never forget the first night he played a song for me on his radio he had done called darling of the dance hall ,to this day I haven't heard it since .Amazing song !!! Anyways so fast fwd 1 month and Gate is going to Japan for 2 weeks to play so he gives me his phone number and ask me to please keep an eye on it for him cause the guy that introduced me to Gate was steeling from him so he was worried while he was gone . 2 weeks later I get a call from Gate HEY MAN GET DOWN HERE HE BROKE IN MY PLACE !!! SO we got in the Cadillac and went looking for him. That night Gate took me to dinner when we came back to his place the light was on and that guy was in gates house!!!!! 79 yrs. Old he jumped out of his car 🚗 and grabbed the end of a garden hose that had been cut off and started beating this guy with it 🙄 🤣!!! Gate had a 457 he carried as an honorary sherifF of the Slidell sheriff s depth. And told that guy next time he would shoot his ass dead!!!! LMAO IT WAS CRAZY !!! He was full of life and fight till the end . July 13 of 2005 I got out jail on some bullshit weed charge that Gate was very upset about cause he did not drink ever just had 2 pipes 1 for tabbaco 1 for weed :).So August 29th 2005 Katrina hit and leveled everything !!!! 1 week later I went back to see the damage .You couldn't get down hwy11 without a license with ur address cause debris was everywhere!!! I was slowly driving trying to figure out where Gates house used to be .Then there it was Gates 72 Cadillac stuck half way in the ground with the trunk sticking above ground !!!!! Nothing left of either house but I found stuck in the mud 4 BRAND NEW GATE MOUTH CD'S STILL WEAPPED IN CELIFANE !!!!!!!
I started going to Gate's shows beginning in 1990 when I moved to Dallas at the age of 22. I rarely missed a performance throughout the nineties & early 2000s when he came to town which was usually about twice a year. They were always at intimate club venues. We usually chatted it up between sets. He was always magical. He did one gig at Poor David's Pub where he played solo acoustic. It was amazing. The Dallas Morning News called it one of the years ten best live performances.
Love Gatemouth! Several points you touched on. 1) Watching his hands he's clearly in the Texas folk-blues tradition best embodied in Lightnin' Sam Hopkins. It's just that he's doing it all halfway up the neck, at ferocious speed, and he can do it because of that capo! 2) Albert Collins learned a lot from Gate -- including the capo. Matter of fact that whole tradition of single string lightning-fast soloing has always been an earmark of Texas blues, as witness Freddie King, Johnny Winter, Bugs Henderson, and SRV. And there's a new kid on the block: Gary Clark Jr. RUclips vids are showing up of what this guy can do live, and he plays with so much feeling he's SCARY!
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Had the privilege of seeing him live not long before he passed. Such a fun show
Saw Clarence at the King Edward Hotel blues bar (Locally known as “The King Eddy”) in Calgary, Alberta. He was a master of Texas blues, but also played a variety of R&B, Cajun (“Louisiana Zydeco” is a favorite), jazz, and country. In a side note, The King Eddy was closed and abandoned after 2004. In 2013 the century old hotel was taken apart brick-by-brick, restored, and became a permanent feature of Canada’s National Music Centre. It remains a venue for live music today. Another great analysis, Fil. I start every morning with at least one of your shows. Thanks for reviving this memory of Gatemouth.
What a nice fat tone on a Rick. Clarence is so musical and jazzy, just great. Thanks!
I'm just now discovering this man, such fun to listen to! I'm noticing I wind up listening to his songs more than once.
BTW those go-go dancers with those boots were seen all the time on TV at the time.
Yeah, I found out about Gatemouth when while in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when I picked up a cassette tape at the Navy Exchange back in the Eighties.
It was the one where Roy and Gate played a lot of jazz standards.
I was like a blind squirrel finding a nut.
Can't stop my toe from tapping....you know it's good music when it moves you without your knowing it.
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I had the pleasure of meeting him after a show. The guy who talked to him after me was really pressing him on which of his albums he should get. Gate told him, “Whichever album you see, that’s the one to get.” Great answer on his part. I’ve never been disappointed with any of his albums.
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First thing that struck me was that he was playing a Rickenbacker. Very unusual for the Blues. The Rick has a great clean sound for what he’s playing. The Beatles really put Rickenbacker on the map for guitarists.
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Thanks for highlighting Clarence. He was amazing! Few know that he was also a world class fiddler!!
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I played a bit with a guy in Saint Louis named Bennie Smith. When I played a barre chord he said, 'oh you play them cowboy chords.' He always used his thumb for the E string. Now I do mostly, but not always. :)
Cool, never heard a Rickenbacker played with this style before, and a triple-pickup to boot; that looks like one of the short-scale ones, the pickups really lend to that sound, what a sweet tone he got, I hear some jazz influence.
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Definitely got some jazz influences check out the a train with Roy Clark !
@@GP2141BC Exactly, I sent Fil a link to that one previously ;)
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Love the explanation points all over the stage set-up😂 there’s a video out there of him and Roy Clark doing Take The A Train... pretty awesome!!
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You were right Fil. I must have missed this. Gatemouth Brown is awesome and refused to ever refer to himself as a blues man. Such a talent
This guy is really good. I'm 60 and I saw him 20years ago in Atlanta because I heard him play "I got my mojo working” fantastic. RIP.
His tour bus broke down in Atlanta that night after the show and he and his band hung out for a few hours while it was being worked on at the Petro Truck Stop where I was working. I ran the shoe shine stand and had a great conversation with him while I shined a couple of pairs of his boots Afterwards he joined me in the restaurant and bought me dinner. He was a super nice guy, showing me pictures of his daughter, whom he was really attached to.
I really appreciate when you go back to the start of the electric guitar days. A lot of people don't realize how good the early performers were. They laid the foundation for what we hear today.
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I didn't know this before, but he was a multi-instrumentalist, not just harmonica as with the Canned Heat Montreux concert in 1973, but drums, violin, etc. Super talented. Thanks!
What a fantastic surprise!! You knocked it out of the park!!; there's another video of him from the 80s "pressure cooker" , then he just erupts into the fiddle!! Massive talent and greatly missed!! btw, Gate's playing makes me wanna put on a fringe skirt and shake what my momma gave me!!
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Love this! Blues are the best! I recognized The Beat sets!
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I never tire of listening to the blues played so well, I was unfamiliar of this guy and am now going to check out some of his other stuff.
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Playing with his fingers! It’s so interesting seeing how he holds the low strings as you say with his thumb. ! And the use of the capo!
So cool. Another one I have never heard of ! Thanks Fil!
Love him just recently ran across him on RUclips. So happy I did. Thanks for your analysis always learn something.
I've always enjoyed GateMouth Browns picking . Thanks for featuring this cool video.
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Gatemouth one of my favorites. Thanks Fil . Insightful video again .
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This was my dad and someone shared this with me today. I’ve never seen someone analyze his Playing method before. So cool!!!
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Good morning, lovin' it ~ enjoy your rockin' bluesy day! Thnx!
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that's guitar playing there I grew up listening to that a real blessing
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Gatemouth played American music , Texas style !! What a great icon , blended a style of Blues with Jazz with his own original style . A fantastic fiddle player also, one of my Blues heroes !
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I enjoyed your explanation of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown's technique as much as I did listening to his awesome playing. Great video! 👍🏽
Thanks Fil for picking up my suggestion .. your channel led me to glen Campbell, Roy Clark , and finally Gatemouth .
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Thanks Gatemouth had a profound influence on my love for the blues and playing!
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I love blues, country and jazz music very much, as well as so many other styles of music. I like Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, because he can do all those three styles very well, and seemingly so effortlessly. He also plays the fiddle and is a great singer. May he rest in peace. Cheers Fil!
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As always, love your analysis Fil!!!
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Thx for the breakdown. The!!!Beat actually comes first on the TV timeline. Hee Haw was a country music version of Rowan and Martin's 'Laugh-In' which eventuated a few years later.
Did Chuck Berry ever give Gatemouth any credit for inspiring him? Because I can see a little bit of Chuck in him.
Met Gatemouth in the early 70’s in Colorado. He was a friend of a family member. His playing was every bit as impressive in person. Wish you could have been there, he would have liked you, very much.
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Great performance by one of my favorite players.
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Another great vid Phil great job !!
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i love your commentary on all these videos, great job man. . .
It's always great to watch how people play. So many different styles.👍😎🎸🎶
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thanks once again for wonderful tech info this period had some HAPPY music sure was fun
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what girl ? great vintage clip ! thanks Fil, really been enjoying your analysis picks lately !!
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Thank you once again for a great video of a great, fun player!!
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thanx, FIL .really enjoyed this analysis .saw him in Boston once, and many times on TV. but this, I never saw. too cool for school. he played fiddle well, also .he and Roy had a ball together.
it's true what his album cover said. 'Gate swings'.
Glad to see you do a video on this great, but under appreciated artist. One thing, though, should you do another... you’re the only person I’ve ever refer to him as Clarence. In most circles, he was Gatemouth, or Gate.
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Thank you. I'd almost forgotten what a player ol' Gatemouth was.
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Great job in promoting the best in Americana, or roots, music! Most of us know that it traces back to the British isles, but still, I'm surprised and grateful that an English bloke is a fan of some of the best of this musical tradition. You have a new fan.
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Actually the Brits in the sixties were just modernizing what they'd learned from American records, and they ALL admitted it!
Thanks for doing a gatemouth video I like his stuff....rock on brother
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Watching Hee Haw and Gatemouth showed up !! I remember everything about that day !! Man that was awesome asking my Dad who he was and said Gatemouth Brown !!
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I love his head bobbin' as he plays. Even the guy in the horn section can't be still. Got a bluesy bebop sound I really like.
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Gatemouth could fill the room also with his voice.
Gate has graced my cd collection for many years one of my faves but he hated being called a blues player good one Fil
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This was one of frank zappas favorite guitarist
I remember seeing him in the mid 90’s in a small venue in Philadelphia. It was fantastic.
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You a great job I learned stuff I didn't know about him great job✌
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We were rocking and rolling yeah that was rock and roll
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Tone REALLY is in the hands, regardless of the guitar manufacturer, amp settings etc. huh? Thanks for helping keep all of these artists out there for everyone to enjoy man! 🙂🤙🏻🎸
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Thanks Fil, you have the highest % of likes to dislikes I've seen. Understandable with your personality and content of your vids. Keep em coming, I've always been a Clearance fan.
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Gatemouths playing looks effortless and so laid back. Doesn't seem fair that he can play so well and not make the "strained pained" face! Rock On Fil! 🤘
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Haven’t heard of him Fil! Man the guy can play. Really interesting right hand...unique! Love they way puts a swing groove on the blues and his sound is brilliant!! Quality plus! Thanks Fil great analysis!😀😀👌👌
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Thanks Fil. Another good overview and history lesson. You do your homework.
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Everyone wanted to play like T-Bone Walker, Gatemouth was a very good guitar player and played what he called American music Texas style. He also played fiddle.
Saw him perform with Roy Clark on Austin City Limits around 1980. He was playing a Firebird at the time.
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Have a look at "Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down". Well filmed and lots of technique to react to!
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Outstanding player, no need for distortion when you play like this, thanks fil
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I saw Gatemouth Brown in Greenville, NC in 1982. It was a small venue and I'll never forget it. Dixie Dregs played the same place. If you never heard of Dixie Dregs, you don't know guitar.
Thank you Fil for bring out Gatemouth. You are in my territory. I have an extremely large music library. And on section I pay a lot of attention to is the blues, all genres, all players. Clarence Gatemouth Brown is one. I hope you explore further....get lost in the blues. Maybe checking out Little Charlie and the Nightcats. Charlie kills everytime. He's retired now, there are lots of videos of him. The lead singer/harpist is Rick Estrin. Probably the best blues harp in the world. And his lyrics are great.
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He played guitar, violin, bass, electric fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, and viola. I saw him play live with Canned Heat in Montreal.
This is so great to see... Clarence got much more "strange" later, and he played fiddle supremely well, too (don't actually know if he was already doing that in the mid 60s)... I know Zappa was huge admirer, too. I was lucky enough to see him live a couple times in the 90s. Always loved Gatemouth!
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Zappa knew music!
@@danielschaeffer1294 Frank was also a loyal west coaster!
Hey @Wings of Pegasus I really enjoy your video commentaries highlighting various musicians .. I always wonder about the Controversy which brands of guitars and types models ect are good or bad or different or why so .. I do know a Gibson may have a lot different sound than a Fender for example ..
I am in the middle of this video where you point out Rickenbacker ect.. So yes I always wonder how much the actual instrument plays into each type of sound and style .. ??
This is great, Fil. What struck me watching his right hand was that he seemed to finger the strings like an electric bass player. Maybe that's just an optical illusion on my part, but great analysis and video to listen to and watch!
Looks to me on some of his other vids he uses the thumb , index and middle finger
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Playing the Ric , Clarence owns it , Rock On
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Right On! CGB doesn't get the recognition he deserves except with maybe the more hardcore Blues/R&B fans (like me). One of the better aspects of the Internet is getting exposure for some of the guys that have been pushed to the back. CGB was being played on Rock stations along with BB King, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, etc. but, as always, tastes change and someone gets shuffled to the back.
I would love to watch one on Mark May or Tinsley Ellis, two smoking guitarists who got the chops but not the props.
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Saw Gate perform 6 times in the 80's & 90's, he never failed to amaze me. In fact, his famous guitar was a Gibson Firebird non -reverse, with a custom tooled leather pick guard (!!) with a rose and His nickname, GATEMOUTH, on it. His slogan was "I play American music - Texas style" , he preferred not to be called a blues man. I've heard him play Country, Cajun, Pop, Soul and best of all Swing! His fiddle playing was as good as his guitar (he did pizzicato plucking guitar style - the famous guit-fiddle!). He also played viola, piano and until his lungs aged, great harmonica. An American music treasure.
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The man played viola, mandolin and drums and naturally guitar.
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Clarence was a lot like Clark - they could play anything with a string on it.
I saw Clarence once - in one tune,he jumped from a guitar, to a mandolin, to a fiddle, and then did a great harmonica solo.
He could also jump from Blues to country to Jazz like flipping the light off and on.
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Very fun music! I love it
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Wings of Pegasus I found a musician on the Internet! He is a nobody, but the smoothest guitarist I’ve ever heard. This video only has 203 views. 20 or more of them are from me. I contacted the girl that left him a post, and she said he is an artist she knows that lives on Miami Beach. All the photography and art in this video is work he did of his deceased wife Dorian. If you ever want to do a show of nobodies out there, I recommend this guy! Your videos are awesome BTW. ruclips.net/video/a_cnjkb6Uig/видео.html
WOW!! Love it!
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They say his big break came, jumping on stage, impromptu, in relief for T-Bone Walker, (sorry, started writing this before the video ended). That takes some Texas sized jam, y'all! Seen him many times, last one, spotting him offstage, talking to a guy at the counter of Louisiana Music, in the French Quarter, New Orleans. A unique, multi-instrumentalist; fiddle, drums and other instruments.
Love Ole Gatemouth, He was probably the Only blues man too jam on a Rick and man he makes it wail !!!!! Clarence was the man on the scene for "Jump Vlues" in the late 50's and 60's carrying the mantel for Big Joe Turner.... and then on into country blues , jazz and fusion
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I hear a lot of T-bone Walker influence. Very cool swing/jump style blues.
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Clarence was such a great guy. He liked to smoke pipes and had his own pipe tobacco he sold at concerts. Also played fiddle.
This is a cool performance by Clarence, and the band. He seen to be getting into that piece! it wouldn't be the mid 1960s without "Go-Go Dancers" another enjoyable analysis Fil.
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Oh, C'mon Fil! Go-Go girls! I remember that in the 60s the Whiskey-A-Go-Go on Sunset Strip in Hollywood had the best music and the best Go-Go dancers, different time, fun time.
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As good as he was he was always broke. I worked at a radio station in New Orleans and one of the DJ’s was complaining to us about Gatemouth calling him up late at night wanting to borrow money. My dad also vaguely knew him. My dad owned a laundromat in Slidell, Louisiana and employed a black lady to do wash and fold amongst other little Knick knack things and Gatemouth was always hanging around the laundromat trying to get next to her.
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I've had a picture of Gatemouth Brown hanging on my wall in a frame since the 1980s that I cut out of a guitar magazine. He's smoking a cigar, and he's holding that Gibson Firebird that he played for years with the leather pickguard that has his name burned into the leather. It's such a cool picture. I'm sure you could find it on Google. He deserved a lot more fame than he gained because he was a really good blues player who influenced so many people.✌😊✌
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Great video! I have never heard of him. That was a really cool sound!
Would it be possible to give a little run down on different guitars and what makes them different? Les Paul, Strat, Tele, Krammer, Ibanez....the common ones. This may be too big of a subject.
That was a really cool fun song!
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A guitar concerto!
I also saw Ronnie Earl do this song with guitar behind his head!
Man,congratulations for your channel! You really explain things in a great way and full of details! May i sugest 2 guitarrists: Pedro Jóia or the great Carlos Paredes. Even if you don't react,you can always appreciate the great music from both. Cheers from Portugal
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You're welcome! Keep the good work and good music!