Chords for Joe Bonamassa talks about Danny Gatton

I met this guitar player named Danny Gatton.
_ _ And he kind of was the first guy to really take me under his wing.
I was about 11.
And Danny had this really cool thing about him where he would,
you know, he had this little nonchalance about him.
He was a very unassuming guy.
He was like my guitar teacher, you know?
So he listened to me play.
He goes, like, son, you know something about the blues,
but you don't know anything about jazz.
You don't know anything about early rock and roll.
Like, you know, I'm talking about like Gene Vinson and the Blue Cats
and, you know, the big bopper I know is Presley and stuff like that.
So I'd sit in his Winnebago, you know, the nights that I would sit in with him. _
_ _ _ _ And it was like he would show me this stuff that would [E] _ go_
_ So like, it'd be like the riff of the Weet Club, you know?
I'd see him on the weekends in D.C. and stuff like that.
So he's like, how about this, kid?
And he'd go_
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[Gm] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] I'd go back to my cassette tape and I'd be like, wicked.
[Bb] I'd go home and I'd practice and practice and practice.
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_ _ [C] _ _ [G] I'd [N] go, I've got the riff.
Come back the next week, he goes_
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[B] _ _ _ _ Okay. _ _
[N] Then I think I made him mad one day.
_ _ Because I was like, you know, at that point in time,
I was probably the most balanced kid in show business
because I had chips on both shoulders, you know?
_ And he goes, [Bb] well, [Gm] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] you can do that.
_ _ _ _ _ And my double stops were bad.
Literally, 9 shows in 11 days, I wore my nails off.
So, a little sloppy.
I don't charge him in the States.
_ So I was like, we're going to do that.
And it worked and worked and worked and worked and worked and worked [Bb] and worked and worked.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [N] Something like that, you know?
I just would sit there and it worked and worked and worked until I had it.
So, _ that was my relationship with Danny Gap.
Then he would let me sit in with him at the place he was playing.
And that was like my_
He's like my guitar teacher.
But he was just my friend Danny.
And you don't realize how lucky I was.
I didn't realize how lucky I was until ultimately,
you know, he was _ dead and gone.
And I miss him a lot because there have been several people in my life
that have been really super influential.
One guy, Danny Gap, who I just mentioned.
And the other guy's named Tom Dowd.
And Tom, for those who don't know him,
he was one of the founding members of Atlantic Records.
He produced everything from Otis Redding Blue to every Allman Brothers record
to Dizz Ray Dears and all that.
Layla. _