More guitar fingerwizards: the fastest fingers in the west

Wow that was fast...

That's what she said!

More guitar fingerwizards: Bob Zabek

Once I had a dream that I was at a party and a guy was there with a guitar.  He laid the guitar flat on the ground and started tapping on it.  The music he made was like techno.  I awoke and immediately went googling to see if someone has done this.  They had.



Bob Zabek had done the tapping thing years ago.  Dig the floral Jem, buddy.

I like this stripped down raw performance better than what he recorded for his album, but I also haven't followed his stuff in years.  He has a whole lot of stuff on youtube now, but gone is the floral Jem.  What gives big guy?  Jem or GTFO.

Remembering the 90s: Joe Satriani

If you haven't heard, Joe Satriani plays guitar in the Dad Rock band Chickenfoot.  But for you kids that don't know; before he starting coming out of the speakers of your dad's Blazer as he drives you home from your baseball game, he was a solo guitarist in the 90s.  One of the original fingerwizard instrumental guitarists.



This is pretty much what life was like in the 90s.  Everyone saw this commercial, but few knew that the song playing was not written for the commercial.  It was just Satriani (or Satch as he is known) trying to capture the spirit of the times.  You see, everyone was happy in the 90s because everything was going great in the USA.  Satch's desire to make the soundtrack of our times was immense.  He even went so far as to record a techno album.  So 90s!  Back when everyone was taking Ecstasy and going to raves.  It is actually my favorite techno album.  Suck on that Moby.



It was the soundtrack to countless hours playing SSX on the PS2.  *sigh*

So now you know.  And just so you know, Joe Satriani has another fingerwizard guitar album out called Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards.  Which, yeah, Joe knows his demographic.  Nerds.



I'll bet old Satch has no idea that there was a movie out with a similar title around the same time.  God bless you Satch.  You keep the dream of the 90s alive.  Keep on writing the soundtrack to people staring at computer screens and toiling away, dreaming of riches far away...

Filler post: Asian guitarwizardary

I am in the process of reinventing my life. I am very busy. I will be calling the shores of the big lake they call mishigami home. Mishi is probably a variant of Gitche and has numerous alternate spellings such as Mitche and means great or mighty. Gami or Gamua means waters.

So enjoy this guitar wizardry from - where else - Asia



Two guitars! What won't they think of next?

This one is for the future Mrs. Booze; Michael Nyman guitarwizardry