One of my favorite guitarists ever is Eric Gales. He is a super human guitarists with incredibly clean ripping technique, a funky sense of time, and a jazzy chordal sensibility. In researching John Page Guitars, I came across this video of him jamming with Greg Koch, who is absolutely amazing in his own right. Their styles are different, with Gales being very funky and jazzy, while Koch being a lot more country with the chicken picking and Travis style... but they both overlap in the blues.
This is the first time I've been blown away by two guitarists, improvising with each other, in a long time.
In fact, the first time I was ever absolutely blown away by two guitarists improvising off of each other (and the last time before the above video) was when I saw Al DiMeola and Paco DeLucia playing Mediterranean Sundance. I was about 13 years old at the time, eating a frozen pizza, and I was staring so intently at the TV that I bit my tongue. But the video below was hugely influential to me, and still is. Though I haven't developed nearly the harmonic knowledge nor clean technique of these guys, it is nonetheless a milestone that I would love to achieve.
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