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Welcome To The Club - song by John Pizzarelli - Spotify

Every guitarist at that time was getting a chorus box and delay pedal, attempting to seem like Pat. And the tunes were great! I liked that record. The New Chautauqua was beautiful, there was 80/81 with Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Michael Brecker, and Jack De, Johnette, I missed out on "American Garage", then Offramp. With the Beatles songs, I was reharmonizing and searching for new ways to play them in my own design. The Metheny music I wanted to record was all complete band tunes as I heard them. In Bucky Pizzarelli tabs , I was reassessing them as solo guitar pieces. I was trying to take them back to square one to imagine how he might have provided them to atrioventricular bundle initially.

I was taking them back to jazz guitar. The challenge was to put them back on the guitar and equate them that way. And if I was going to blow on them, I couldn't do a Joe pass thingno single-note stuff, quick chord, hot lick, some more blowingand Pat currently played all the hot licks on these tunes you might picture. How do I stick in all these little parts? That was the difficulty. Image: Jessica Molaskey/ Courtesy of Ghostlight Deluxe I was attempting to discover the important things that are very important to the listener and be true to those Methey-isms. On"Better Days Ahead", I needed to square off the melody a bit, and there were times when I felt I needed to do what he did. I had all the proper chords
and melodiesa bonanza. I didn't mess with various guitars or amps in recording. I utilized the very same guitar on all of these, my classical seven-string with a really good acoustic pick-up. I recorded it flat into my i, Pad through i, Rig and sent it to Rick Haydon in St Louis. I don't think a solo guitar album would have happened, but for the pandemic. The phone was not going to ring.