|  By
Cornbread
Greg
Koch @ Fazio’s
{8/29/05 | St. Louis, Missouri}
 Hal
Leonard Guitar Workshop Tour 2005 hosted by
Greg Koch. Koch is not only fluent with the
Telecaster, he is an artist/clinician for Fender,
bandleader, studio musician, Guitar One contributor
and co-authored Hal Leonard Guitar Method. Who
better to lead a guitar clinic, after all? Greg
Koch did write the book, and the second, and
the third, etc. Greg plays his own combination
of bluesy-country-funkafied and rock and he's
probably one of the best chickin’ pickers
around.
Greg
played to a packed show room at Fazio’s
Frets & Friends in Manchester, Missour,
easily equal to the crowd of a Stones concert
or the original Woodstock some 36 years ago.
The clinic was filled with plenty of chickin’
pickin’ and Greg’s quirky, razor
sharp wit. Koch is a graduate from the University
of Wisconsin, where he majored in Music Theory
and beer. He credits his style from the influence
of Albert Lee and Mark Knopfler, Jimi Hendrix,
Cream and T-Bone Walker.
What
is chickin’ pickin’? It’s
when the thumb plucks dead and pop same string.
Sounds great on guitar. I tried it on bass –
not pretty.
 We
heard some Johnnie B. Goode, Dire Straights,
Blues In A, Merle Travis, Jazz For My Father
and an instrumental little ditty from his soon
to be released CD “Four Days In The South”.
Greg
played through a Fender Cyber Twin and used
a Diabolical Gristle Tone Manipulator Pedal.
Read more about Greg at his site www.gregkoch.com.
Visit Fazios at www.faziosmusic.com
and if you are looking for a unique 40th birthday
gift for yours truly they have a really nice
Suhr four string bass (see photo)… ?
Ciao'
for now, peace.
Peter 'Cornbread'
Cohen, CBP
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Cornbread@STLBlues.net ~
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