Marc Rizzo: premier guitar interview

News:
24-03-2009:

You shred with the best of them but what I like about your playing is how you incorporate a bit of flamenco in what you do. That’s really cool, where did it come from?




A couple years back I really got into listening and playing flamenco. I was really influenced by The Gypsy Kings and Paco De Lucia. That probably just stems from listening to Al DiMeola and tracing back his influences and the Friday Night in San Francisco CD. I think this was all during the era when Nu-metal was big -- ten to twelve years ago. Nobody was really into solos anymore, so I really got into pursing flamenco. It became my outlet for musicianship since nobody was into solos at the time.

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