Free Form Guitar

Welcome to a new mini-project where I hope to share some thoughts and sounds that I find inspiring from a music and guitar perspective. Beyond that - I'd hope that in my efforts to keep this blog updated (and perhaps interacting with readers) I'll learn a thing or two, which will help justify the time I'm spending writing about music instead of practicing.

To kick things off - I can't think of anything more appropriate than a video of the song that inspired the name of this blog: "Free Form Guitar" by Chicago ...



Whoa. I bet you didn't know Chicago had it in them.

This was recorded a bit before Hendrix at Woodstock - and I still found it shocking when I heard it for the first time 26 years later.

My parents had a cassette tape of Chicago at Carnegie Hall which, despite some bad reviews, I find to be brilliant and I ended up a fan of Terry Kath's guitar playing at a pretty young age. His ability to blend jazz vocabulary with rock energy gives those early Chicago records an edge it is easy to forget about considering their soft rock reputation (which, to be fair, they've earned). You've got to admire the courage of the band (and record label) to have put this music out, on a debut record full of pop hits, no less.

On a closing note, an interview with TK (looking like Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men) with a profound quote at the end:

"Groupies have been around ever since there was musicians"