bill_frisell warmthofrelease If I'm going to speak on the beauty and the genius of Joe_Pass on virtuoso (while wholeheartedly agreeing with raze on his kind words about my first true musical hero Knopfler) then it's only right that I should shower some praise onto Frisell while he's still with us. To praise him as a creator, as a collaborator who's played with and for a mind blowing amount of talented artists, as a teacher and mentor, as a genre bender and a genre blender, as someone who can tell an entire story with just song titles and instruments, as someone who has one of the most overwhelmingly consistently and almost embarrassingly incredible discographies of all time. He is a legend in my eyes. Comfortably and permanently in my top 5 favorite guitarists of all time. I am so grateful to have been able to see him perform several months ago and I got more than my money's worth. I got a truly unique and entirely irreplicable musical experience from a man who I admire as highly and sincerely as anyone. Blues_Dream is my favorite, the East/West live album is my other favorite, I have 20 other favorites, but you really can't go wrong. His discography has more great choices than an entire freezer aisle full of Ben_and_Jerrys and Haagen-Dazs flavors. There is no one who uses loop pedals and echo effects in a better way. Not to mention how masterfully he works the basics of tone, reverb, creating atmosphere with the arrangements around his playing, and the playing itself from the note choices to the soloing to the interpretations of pre existing melodies. He is a mastermind with a midas_touch and there is almost no point of comparison. He's a unicorn and he's a role model and his music will live in my heart for as long as my heart lives. 250302 ... raze my introduction to bill's artistry was his peerless playing on david sylvian's cracked little ninety-second beauty "dobro #1". then i heard what he did to madonna's "live to tell", and my brain and heart exploded at roughly the same time. i'm not sure i can add much to what you've said here, except to nod in vigorous agreement and say: (a) so incredibly cool that you got to see the great man live, and (b) "ghost town" is one of my all-time favourite albums by anyone. the title track never fails to move me. but every single song is an atmospheric gem. 250302 what's it to you? who go blather from