After moving to the US in 1988 I noticed that I got more calls for bass than guitar. After a while I decided that I needed something more professional than my brother’s old Marathon bass. After seeing Chick Corea Electric Band live in Birmingham, AL, circa 1989, John Patitucci left a deep impression on…

  In early 2006 a copy of a guitar magazine landed on my kitchen table – unusual, since I had been subscribing to Guitar Player Magazine for many years but stopped reading it because most of the content didn’t interest me that much anymore. There was nothing in that sample issue able to convert me…

  I am not quite sure what it is with these added strings. After I aqcuired my first seven string guitar about a decade ago I have rarely played any of the six string guitars in my office. For a while I have been fuzzing around with a Schecter Hellraiser 8. It’s great for writing…