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Scott Hughes is a dynamic and expressive musician/guitarist currently based in Portland, Maine (U.S.A.) who denotes his playing style as instrumental rock/fusion, as a music fan can hear on his most recent recording, "Brown Bag".  His workhorse guitars include a Fender Strat Plus Deluxe and a Kubicki "Mutt" Strat. Hughes has been playing guitar since 1985, and unreservedly relates his career objective, "To continue releasing my own CDs, teaching privately, and maybe even do a gig now and then! I'd like to think a career in music can be just as lucrative as any other field, if you go about it the right way."
When asked to disclose his top choice for an effect for the guitar, Hughes purposefully responded with, "For myself-distortion, for the listener-beer (both make me sound a lot better)," and outlined his musicial goals, "To keep improving and learning about styles I'm not familiar with. There's always something more to learn and incorporate into your own style." He keeps open the possibility to, at some point, study piano, and is at the moment listening to Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, Steely Dan, Charles Ives and Aquarium Rescue Unit. His most important gratification? "Teaching. Having a kid start out from square one, and really seeing them progress is one of the coolest feelings," he muses confidently.
Hughes winds up by mentioning long-term and forthcoming endeavors insightfully, by saying, "Currently teaching full time, and writing material for the follow up to "lapse", hopefully for a late '98/early '99 release."
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Vol. 17, No. 2: Feb.-Mar. 2012
