PJJ Episode #16 - Guitar Talk with Dan Balmer #2

Show Notes: 52 minutes@160kbps (63MB) - August 22nd, 2005. Guitar Talk with Dan Balmer #2. We get into Dan's ideas on the Creative Process, Truth in Music, Composition and more. This is a very good episode, and one of many that we plan on doing with Dan and other amazing players. Dan shows us how he thinks about creating music, talks about how Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane affect his creative process, and why he doesn't try to impersonate any of his heros. We recorded this at his home studio on the new equipment. I'm going for higher sound quality for you guys, so this one is at 160, and is a little bigger file, but worth the download.

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