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Jonas Hansson is a unmistakable and nimble-fingered musician/guitarist currently based in Los Angeles, California (U.S.A.) who denotes his playing style as neo-classical with shred and blues mixed, as a music fan can hear on his most recent recording, "Classica".  His workhorse guitar is a Fender Strat (with Floyd Rose, Schecter and Bill Lawrence pick-ups). Hansson has been playing guitar since 1975, and putting it simply, divulges his career objective, "Since I'm doing more than guitar playing and am currently working on my rock musical, I want to see that in the theaters."
When requested to let slip his top choice for an effect for the guitar, Hansson resolutely answered, "Distortion," and then outlined his musicial goals, "As far as "Classica" goes, it was a lot of emotions and inspirations from various sources over a couple of years that made me create this compilation of orchestrations with guitar on top." He maintains a desire to, at some point, study martial arts ("When I was a kid I was into martial arts and I wouldn't mind getting into it again"), and is at the moment listening to his own music. His most important gratification? "When I played live in Tokyo, I realized during a guitar solo that I had a couple of thousand lighters joining me in my solo. That was one of my greatest satisfactions. Also when I was 14, I played in front of 20,000 people in Spain and that kind of made me like what I was doing," he explains without hesitation.
Hansson wraps up by noting long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "Right now we are finishing up the new "Silver Mountain" CD which is a reunion of our first record (with Anders and Jens Johansson along with Per Stadin). Kind of an extension of our first neo-classical power metal record "Shakin Brains"."
Guitar Nine Records visitors have compared the playing style and/or musical approach of Jonas Hansson to guitarists such as Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth and others.
Hansson's discography (available here at Guitar Nine Records) includes one recording project (Mountain Of Power "Mountain Of Power").
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
