Jeff Loomis: ultimate guitar interview

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04-11-2008:
Jeff Loomis says:
I first initially met Ron in 2005 for the Gigantour; we were on tour with Megadeth. He came out to see us perform and I’ve been a fan of his for a long time. He used to be in a band called Watchtower back in the late 80s and he’s a phenomenal guitar player. And I had just asked him a few years ago if I ever did a solo project if he’d be interested in being on it and being part of it. And he said, “Of course.” And, yeah, these are just musicians that I really look up to there were part of it. I think I’m very fortunate to have worked with these guys.

And everybody knows, the readers should know, that Pat O’Brien, used to be in Nevermore in the 90s but now he’s in Cannibal Corpse. But I’ve always looked up to his playing as well so I asked him and he said, “Hell, yeah, I’d love to be a part of it!”

One of the coolest things on this record is Michael Manring (Ben Harper); this guy is a phenomenal, phenomenal jazz bass player. I’m not really friends with Michael. I’ve never met him personally but Neil Kernon is a friend of his. And he’s like, “God, you know, this section here on “Cashmere Shiv” would be perfect for Michael. So he called him up and he listened to the tune ‘cause he obviously doesn’t live in Seattle where I live. So we sent it to him via email. And I swear to God like the next day we had this track of him exploding on this part and we just looked at each other and almost started crying. We couldn’t believe it; it sounded so amazing. I was really, really fortunate for him to be able to play on my record.
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