Satch drove mainstream acceptance of guitar musical pieces achieving a mythical status in the players community. I reminisce fondly of my introduction, and appreciation of Joe S.
The FM station I listened to while in grad school had a Sunday night program called "Close Enough for Jazz"; that's how I discovered Satriani, Pat Metheny, and several other great musicians.
I saw Eric Johnson open for Rush, back when Rush still had openers. He was phenomenal.
The FM station I listened to while in grad school had a Sunday night program called "Close Enough for Jazz"; that's how I discovered Satriani, Pat Metheny, and several other great musicians.
I saw Eric Johnson open for Rush, back when Rush still had openers. He was phenomenal.
I never realized instrumentals weren’t songs. Dylan said a poem is a naked song.
I like Dylan's way of thinking about it too, although I'm not sure that all poems can be set to music. Several of E. E. Cummings' works come to mind.