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It made a bad instrument worse and I didn’t pursue Charlie’s techniques much longer than I did Stanley Jordan’s (about 3 months each), but it did crack open the door a little wider to my future as an instrument hacker and designer. Thanks again for supporting what I do dad ❤️

lousy instrument was holding me back. Later, in my relatively short “Charlie Hunter phase”, I cut all the frets to 2/3rds and put bass guitar strings in there for the bottom two. This effectively gave me two strings of fretless bass to do my walking-bass-plus-comping-thing.

and how they largely grew from my performance concepts. Big thanks to Ableton and The GRAMMY Museum for putting together such an outstanding event. It was an honor and a privilege to be there!

It will now journey back to Shakey’s hands, and ultimately to another wearer who can benefit from its immense, dare I say, Mojo? Thanks for the outstanding suit Jules!

It has served me well for many years, appeared at many shows, and helped make me the spokesperson for an ad campaign on billboards in Kyrgyzstan (no joke).