Click here to see all of the previous posts! The July, 1989 edition of Guitar Player was one that, on the whole, didn’t really yield much of interest upon revisiting it. The cover story on Jennifer Batten was very good, but that was about it (though an interview with Neal Schon right before…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! The June, 1989 edition of Guitar Player is an interesting one to revisit: on the one hand, the issue devotes 25 pages to a comprehensive look at the state of the art in digital signal processors. This might have been a valuable service to…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! The April, 1989 edition of Guitar Player doesn’t stand out in my memory–I’m sure that I read it, but except for the interview with Miles Davis’ bass player Benny Reitveld I can’t remember the rest. That said, upon re-reading it for this month’s…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! In January of 1989 Guitar Player told us who its readers thought were the greatest guitarists (mostly the people featured in the previous year’s issues), but two months later they decided to tell us about guitarists that most people had not yet heard of. This is…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! The February, 1989 issue of Guitar Player was chock full of interesting content. If I remember correctly, I spent a lot of time reading the articles by Frank Gambale, Sonny Sharrock and Mick Goodrick to try to learn about improvisation, but re-reading the issue shows that…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! The January, 1989 issue of Guitar Player marked a return to form; after several months of lackluster issues that don’t really stand out when re-reading them today, the industry standard publication kicked off a new year with a very solid issue. While the annual Reader’s…
On Wednesday, November 29th I drove out to Charlottesville, Virginia’s delightfully charming Jefferson Theatre to see the first concert of the most recent leg of the Richard Thompson Electric Trio’s U.S. tour. It was the first time I’d seen Thompson in person since 1999, and my amazing wife had bought me a front…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! October, November and December 1988 were very busy times in my life, and guitar wise, they were packed with exciting developments. I made friends with more guitar players than I’d ever known before, all of whom exposed me to music I’d never heard,…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! September 1988 was the most consequential month of my life: I moved away from home to attend Hampshire College, where I met my future wife and (importantly for this blog) tons of guitar players who expanded my musical horizons and opportunities. The…
Click here to see all of the previous posts! August 1988 was the last month I spent at home before moving to college where my life changed forever. I still spent my time working at a Caldor store in Warminster, PA and nervously throwing up whenever I dwelled too much on the thought of moving…