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Sure. I got a gig with a punk band and fingers wouldn't cut it.

I play unplugged because I got sick of the buzz from amplifiers. Can't stand it! It cleaned up my technique a lot because every little buzz and click is right in your face.

Miles Davis thought Buddy was great. Buddy did an album with McLaughlin. So yeah.

There are some Mahavishnu sound board recordings available today that are tremendous. A lot better than their official recordings. I saw the Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy band, it was great. I like Little Feat's Tripe Face Boogie. In the 21st century there is Gentle Hearts, who are/were...

Jimmy Blanton Still the best in many ways.

Harvey Brooks played on Bitches Brew, which could be the best selling jam ever. I think it is the best, too, and it is all based on Harvey's unique lines.

How about the first rock tune in an odd time? There's the Grateful Dead's Viola Lee Blues, which has some dropped beats. March 1967. There's probably something from the fifties.

Don Quixote's theme (whatever the title is) is in 5/4. It sounds so smooth its hardly even noticeable. Emilie Autumn's The Key is in 7/8 and is just the opposite: tense as can be. It's a powerful nailbiting effect.

There are maybe one hundred of them. There is a list on Wikipedia. My fave might be Manic Depression, which is in 9/8. My fave odd time musicians are drummer Senri Kawaguchi of Japan at age 16, who is the only person to equal Billy Cobham of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which was the best at...

On Youtube there's a Japanese girl playing YYZ live on a Stagea organ. Her version of Carry On My Wayward Son is even better. There's an eight-year-old Japanese-American girl from Las Vegas who plays YYZ on drums. Neil Peart praises it.

I heard a guy playing through both a SVT and a 306. Awful. Must have had wicked phase cancellation. And imagine carrying all that stuff around!! Surely the worst tone per pound ever.

Paul Chambers for melody. Ron Carter, Charlie Haden for tone. Stanley Clarke for lines. Dave Holland for Conference of the Birds. Jaco you know already. Neils-Henning Orsted Pedersen has just about perfect intonation. There are a ton of good players nobody has ever heard of too.

I have read an eyewitness report of Tork playing a song in the wrong key.

Mio Akiyama of K-ON! The session guys who play for the Ho Kago Tea Time Band are fantastic.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first album I ever bought. I must have listened to it 500 times.