Favorite bands :
Man!!!!! Where do I start? Yes, Screaming Headless Torsos, Helmet, early Jamiraquai, Descendents, Miles Davis, Squarepusher, VH, Zep, Kid Koala, Peter Gabriel, James Brown, All, Eric Dolphy, Dag Nasty, P-Funk, Saosin, DJ Logic 'Trane, Roni Size, Rush, Styx, Brad Meldau, Mastodon, Coldplay, DJ Shadow, Me'Shell, Beatles (c'mon now), Bobby McFerrin, Aphex Twin, Genesis--shit I can keep going ... more later.
Favorite guitarists :
Steve Howe, Fuze, Wayne Krantz, EVH, Vai, Wes, Joe Pass, Benson, Satch, Andy Summers, Pat Metheny, Jim Campilongo, Adam Levy, Tim Miller, Bumblefoot, Rusty, Vernon, Jeff Buckley, John Frusciante (Blood Sugar era), Scott Henderson, Kaki King, David Torn, Pat Martino, Mick Goodrick--another list to come back to.
Well, hhhmmmm, I, uuuuuuhhhh ... *deep breath* ... teach at Berklee College of Music in the Guitar Department, make records with cool people for cool labels like Lava, LNR, RKM; write for kick-ass guitar mags like Guitar Player and Guitar One (well used to), do product demos for companies like M-Audio and First Act, play gigs with guys way better than me on all instruments, and make videos for people to learn things from.
What am I doing here? I tell ya--straight up ... I'm here for you guys. In the form of a video column based on one our all-time favorite subjects: PEDALS. AAAAAAAAAAAnd, in the form of a sporadic video interview series with yours truly cornering some of todays baddest bad asses in an off-the-cuff/shoot-from-the-hip hang exclusively for UG. And that's just the beginning. Hope you dig ...
Here's something from a Blues Fest in Asbury Park, NJ called the Guitarbeque I demolished (in the form of the odd man out) last summer. It features one of my 'regular' trios with Steve Jenkins (Screaming Headless Torsos, Vernon Reid) on bass and Tobias Ralph (24-7 Spyz).
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Here's a hit I did in Boston from that same summer with one of my Berklee Guitar Sessions rhythm sections that features Tony Grey (Hiromi, John McLaughlin) and Lyndon Rochelle (Kif, Esperanza Spalding) during my Guitar Player magazine sponsored clinic series I host at the First Act Guitar Studio.
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The music during the intros are cuts from my solo CD, Solitaire. Check out my MP3 section for some more of dat!
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Chris Buono profile, last updated : July 11, 2008
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