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"The best guitar player I’ve heard in maybe my entire life is floating around now, Pasquale Grasso. This guy is doing something so amazingly musical and so difficult.Mostly what I hear now are guitar players who sound a little bit like me mixed with a little bit of Sco and a little bit of Frisell, using a couple of amps onstage with a little bit of delay. Then they say they don’t listen to me or Sco or Frisell; all they listen to is Grant Green. I kind of go, “Really?” (laughs) What’s interesting about Pasquale is that he doesn’t sound anything like that at all. In a way, it is a little bit of a throwback, because his model – which is an incredible model to have – is Bud Powell. He has somehow captured the essence of that language from piano onto guitar in a way that almost nobody has ever addressed. He’s the most significant new guy I’ve heard in many, many years. That’s exciting for me."
-Pat Metheny
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01-07-2017 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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I hesitate to use the term "best" for anything but I can't think of anyone better applying most criteria.
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Originally Posted by pkirk
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I googled and found the interview NSJ cited
Pat Metheny | Vintage Guitar(R) magazine
it's a good read. It's mostly oriented towards his guitar collection, but there are a few interesting tidbits about music there too.
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Originally Posted by unknownguitarplayer
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Originally Posted by jbromusic
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The guy is astounding.
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One word "virtuoso"
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Originally Posted by NSJ
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well my opinion of pat metheny just went through the roof
the first time i heard pasquale grasso it was obvious to me he was the best guitarist i had ever heard
but i'm a bud powell and charlie parker freak
(i hope that does not make me too unusual)
the technique is invisible despite making every one else seem like a guitar-klutz - its got NOTHING to do with the technique. he has made pure be-bop come to life on the guitar
after the first improvised chorus of this blues i knew everything had changed
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Originally Posted by Groyniad
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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"When I was about nine in Lee’s Summit, I was still into baseball and throwing rocks at girls at that point."
that's funny, that's what I used to do......I'm glad it worked out for him.....
"I had a paper route throughout those years, and I told my parents, “I think I want to get a guitar.” For them, that was like, “I think I’m going to join the devil worship church down the street. Is that okay?” They said, “No, you’re not. You’re not going to play electric guitar.” So that made me really want to do it."
Excellent!Last edited by Eric Rowland; 01-07-2017 at 05:38 PM.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
His LH is just sick; probably from his CG studies.
I'm gonna call the Immigration Bureau to get this boy deported back to Italy where he belongs; America is having enough self-esteem problems with having just elected a man with the brain of a cockroach...
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Good grief. There are as many people visible in the audience as there are on stage. In New York! I'm not surprised when that happens here (Minneapolis- St. Paul) because there's less than half as many people to begin with. But jeepers. Players of this caliber and no audience; it's tragic!
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Well, of course he takes off on Art Tatum's famous version of Yesterdays--still the best ever performed, in my opinion. PG swings it more after the intro, showing the influence of the later beboppers.
Converting stride piano into guitar is devilishly difficult. He makes it look easy.
(I've commented elsewhere that this live version by Tatum is note-for-note identical to his studio recording, which is interesting for someone so renowned for his virtuosity in jazz.)
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Apparently, Pasquale also teaches counterpoint, as applied to the guitar. I'm all videoed and booked out for a while, but that is the one video/book I would not even remotely hesitate to pick up.
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Originally Posted by sgcim
What is CG?
Anyhowdy I call that LH "spider fingers". Damn!
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Originally Posted by pkirk
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
Or Computer Graphics.
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Originally Posted by Groyniad
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
i'll go check it.. and bring some people too.
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Originally Posted by BigDaddyLoveHandles
In fact, maybe there's one worse thing, when they address some public person by their first name, like I'm supposed to know each and every Peter, Jane, or Joe.
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