Guitar Player welcomes a gang of Django-style virtuosos including Stephane Wrembel and Mimi Fox to the historic Freight & Salvage for a full weekend of shows and clinics
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year. it s a truly remarkable story. and a decade in which he did things like appearing game of thrones is an executioner. that playing style, almost like he is firing a machine gun rather than playing guitar with the intensity and repetition. musically, is it any good? tt the intensity and repetition. musically, is it any good? it was very influential musically, is it any good? it was very influential at musically, is it any good? it was very influential at the musically, is it any good? it was very influential at the time. - musically, is it any good? it was very influential at the time. dr l very influential at the time. dr feel good are a band who are a bridge between prog rock and punk. they absolutely did not like punk rock and the reason he adopted the guitar style was he wanted to break down barriers with the audience and try to almost be confrontational with them as he was staring at them from the stage, and that is why he influenced so many punks. one of the things that
open up myself nobody knows what s in there if i open up on a daily basis yearly basis the byproduct of own guitar style. legend has it that you played your 1st gig with scorpions in a nightclub and you were 11 years old is that even trip that was actually my 1st concert which is kind of put a remarkable because i forgot about that and i got reminded later it was a twist and turn and it s a ok so then you left scorpions at 17 to go play with u.f.o. and you didn t even speak english at the time had quite a turbulent career with fam really back and forth and yet people still speak of the shanker years with us and i think i think it was what do you remember from that time how do you look back on that period and yeah it was a blessing that i didn t speak english let the duke music do the talking so we were focusing on music number one which was very important. you know
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