One of my favorite guitarists that I learned about in the early 80’s was Phil Keaggy. 

Keaggy is an American acoustic (pick & finger-stylist) and electric guitaristist (blues/rock stylist) and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed…

Growing up in New York in the 1970’s, I had a lot of exposure to great music that was being played on our NY radio stations, one being a Jazz station that always played a wide selection of jazz stylings…

While I was a teenager learning how to play guitar in the 70’s, I was an avid reader of Guitar Player Magazine and Circus Magazine, a rock music publication featuring a lot of great articles and photos of the major…

I first heard Jan Akkerman In the early 70’s on a cool & comical instrumental rock tune called “Hocus Pocus” performed by a Dutch band called Focus. At that time the song had a lot of radio airplay on both…

My musical influences run a wide range of musical styles from Rock to Indian Music. I believe there is so much value to be gotten and learned from in so many different diverse musical influences. As a matter of fact…

Santana is one of my earliest musical influences. I was exposed to his music during a visit at my Dad’s apartment as a kid when I was first learning to play guitar. His emotion-filled melodic guitar solos helped me to…