From the time I saw Mike Campbell play the solo in the Tom Petty video
“You Got Lucky” and Roland Orzabal play his Strat on “Shout”, I have
been enamored with the guitar. While most people say that it was Jimmy
Page or Steve Vai that did it for them, I have these two lesser known
guitar players to thank for drawing me in to the world of guitars. What
was it exactly? I don’t know. Maybe it was the emotion that those two
solos evoked. Though neither one were technically difficult, to this
day I still can play them in my head with great enjoyment. I was, and
still am, a bit shy of performing, so I realized early on that I wasn’t
going to go tour the world in a rock band. Read more…