The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
