You Got It

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I turned out to be much busier as a session player than I expected to be. And despite all best intentions of Carynne’s to manage it for me, guys like Chernwick and some of the other producers couldn’t resist calling me directly, which meant I would then have to call her to make sure she hadn’t already booked something else. It’s funny. When you’re a kid growing up playing guitar you learn to play like all the big players. You imitate everything. Eddie Van Halen, ZZ Top, Carlos Santana, Neil Young, you name it. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t generalize, but that’s what I did. At the time I didn’t expect it to come in handy: it was just something you did. I did. Whatever.

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