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"Cisco's Blade" and the following track, "True Solid Grace" were written for a Dennis Hammil movie called "Stomping Ground" and were originally done with horn parts. We changed it to feature the guitar and featured Russ Freeman who played two beautiful melodic solos.
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See above.
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The blues is part of the culture of the electric guitar. Jimmy Vivino practices 'unsafe' unprocessed guitar, played clean through a Fender Super Reverb with 4 x 10's and even does a Bigsby dive-bomb in the solo! He is a truly authentic blues guitarist.
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This tune is named after John Abercrombie's two cats, Monk and Spring, and captures the unique Jazz style of this legendary player.
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This tune allowed us to capture some of those traditional single coil country sounds.
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This song takes us back to our roots and has the kind of groove that guitar players love to play over, plus an interesting twist on the four chord. As usual, Al Pitrelli plays something we wouldn't expect.
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After doing an endless stream of slick pop tunes, Nick Moroch needed to let loose with some unrestricted "Trash".
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Al Pitrelli wanted to play on something that was not the heavy metal he usually plays. We chose this tune to feature Al and Michael Cummings and contrast their completely different approaches to playing over these changes.
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Tom Doyle is the co-designer of our model CD/1, a master luthier and an incredible fingerstyle picker. We are very honored to have him contribute a track to this CD.
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This song was composed for a very special person going through some rough times. It is a great instrumental and works well to demonstrate the modern electric guitar. It was great to hear Russ Freeman 'burning' at the end section.
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Ravi asked what the CD project was lacking and I asked him for something that featured some of his rhythm guitar work. He put down the basic drum and bass tracks with his sequencer, asked me to complete the tune and write a melody. We completed this one afternoon of spontaneous insanity, hence the name, "Spontanity'.
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This song was written on the first playable MC/1 prototype in early 1993 and is named after the philosophy and approach that was used in designing our guitars.
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The Jim Pin Band has been playing this song every Monday night since 1982 and at every Brian Moore clinic. It is only appropriate to include it in this collection of tunes.
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John Abercrombie has been experimenting with the piezo sound and wanted to play something outside of the scope of what he has been doing with his current jazz trio.
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