"Stockhausen was a major force. He was the kind of person that restructures a given musical vocabulary and comes up with something completely original, and that’s the kind of force that motivates and inspires me. Two examples within the jazz tradition would be Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman – but Jimi Hendrix did a similar thing coming out of a rhythm and blues tradition. I think he’s one of the greatest innovators in modern music, and I can’t imagine a single genre that hasn’t benefited from his work. He was a great guitar player, but it was also his sound, man." -Bruce Eisenbeil
"One technique that I like is a kind of fast remolo, which Django used a lot…not just on single note lines, but also on chords – I could really move things around through the range of the guitar." - Bruce Eisenbeil
( We interrupt our regular programming to bring you something a little more Avant Garde...Coleman's free jazz actually still sounds quite swinging compare to the others...Cecil Taylor playing free form but composed of little melodic phrases and moves from atonal to melodic and back, Stockhausen and Totem is very out there...Number 9 anyone?...well Hendrix needs no introduction! - Ed)
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