As a teen, just starting out on guitar, I was quite obsessed with Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucia, any player with a “d” in the middle of their name…but also the likes of Robert Fripp, Mike Oldfield, Alan Holdsworth, Andy Summers, Nile Rodgers, Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, and, of course, Alex Lifeson. I’m not sure whether any of their techniques ever trickled down into my finger tips, but here’s an instrumental that has some vague elements of those players here and there…
Music and production by Dave Bradley
Guitars, bass, percussion programming dB
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Incidentally, that graphic is a sketch of Al Di Meola from the cover of his Elegant Gypsy album “crystallised” and “twisted” in my graphics software…