Who’s next, Tommy?  Ok. No more bad puns as we enter our concluding weekend of celebration with International Guitar Month (IGM).

If you are a player you’ll dig this... Jimi Hendrix would have been 70 this year and Guitar Player magazine has the maestro as its cover subject for the May issue.  A lot of what Jimi did has not been widely heard from across the pond but you will on this week’s Croude--his BBC sessions.

True story.  I was having dinner recently with a good friend and running down the list of guests on the Croude during IGM (International Guitar Month).  My pal, an acoustic guitar player asked what Dave Hunter’s specialty was?  I paused a second, then said everything!  It sounds like hyperbole but when i spoke to the author/musician/editor by phone recently, I joke about how one man could amass so much guitar knowledge and still be under 200 years of age? 

Back in the late 1970s, I worked in the diamond district of of NYC. At first it seemed exotic. Then daily tedium set in so badly I found myself taking lunch breaks a block down on 48th street to save my sanity--the music street as its known. At the time Electro- Harmonix had a great showroom. Cool and dark on blistering Manhattan days, it was like stepping into a time portal with untold treasures of guitar effx boxes.

Never say never... but our mix this week is generally sprinkled with great in-studio performances by Chris Lucas, Laura Ann Singh and husband & wife virtuosi Rusty and Susan Farmer. Yes, this is part II of International Guitar Month. Last week we kicked off our month long celebration with Mike Molenda, ed-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, now in its 45th year.