Scotty Anderson at NAMM 1986 - Part One

Happy New Year! I hope 2020 has been good to you so far. It’s been a while since I had uploaded a video on YouTube. My late teacher Ted Greene turned me on to so many incredible guitar players, many who happen to play the Telecaster like himself. At one of my lessons with Ted in 1986, he gave me an incredible gift, a VHS tape of Scotty Anderson playing at the NAMM show that year. That was WOW moment for me! I had not known of Scotty nor seen playing like his before! Scotty is the master of double and triple stops, playing double note solos in 3rds, 4ths, octaves, etc. I eventually purchased Scotty’s teaching video titled “Red Hot Guitar” on how he achieves that. I believe it is still available on DVD. I highly recommend it! Like all VHS tapes, being magnetic tape, degrades over time. My goal is to preserve this great video, archiving it into three parts and share it with my subscribers. If you haven’t yet subscribed, please do so. Yes, there’s much more exciting content coming.

In part one, Scotty is working the Yamaha guitar booth, promoting a Yamaha APX1000 model, an acoustic-electric. Apparently, the Yamaha guitar booth is right next to the Yamaha woodwinds booth and, at times, Scotty is competing with flute flurries. NAMM shows get incredibly noisy, but lucky for us, the sound of Scotty’s guitar is amplified and acoustically aligned to the video camera’s directional mic. It sounds really good!

With your help, we got ALL the song titles! Thank you! Next, I need to link/index this list of seven songs Scotty plays here to make it easier to skip to the beginning of each song. Scotty is from the ‘Chet Atkins’ camp, played CAAS at times, so his repertoire is similar to Chet’s. Thanks to Pete, that's Chuck Thompson backing up Scotty on rhythm guitar. I will update this as time permits until all the missing info gets filled in and becomes complete. Consider this a work in progress!

1. Corinna, Corinna
2, Columbus, Georgia
3. Cannonball Rag
4. Manoir De Mes Reves (Django's Castle)
~ Intermission ~
5. Alabama Jubilee
6. Foggy Mountain Breakdown
7. Birth of the Blues

"Scotty Anderson ... he is so exciting to listen to, even more to watch, has a 'million' ideas and leaves other guitar players shaking their heads in disbelief ... If he's not one of the greatest guitar players in the world, nobody is." Ted Greene interview (Just Jazz Guitar magazine, Issue #23, May 2000, page 61)

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