Guthrie Govan, Nili Brosh, Jon Finn: live gig and interview

Spotted over at markmcguigan.com

Wonderful Slippery Thing, 939 Cafe, Boston MA. Guthrie breaks a string near the end.

Guthrie Govan & Nili Brosh with Jon Finn Band

Plus... I could not recall posting this

GuitarMessenger.com: Guthrie Govan

IC: How was that album recorded? I understand you did it in bits and pieces.

GG: It took a long time. It was a very painful… [laughs] labor. I recorded various bits of it a number of times. The whole album was the idea of Cornford Records – it was those guys who nagged me into doing the album, and persuaded me that someone might want to hear it. The ears of the operation belong to Jan Cyrka. Some of these guys perhaps know Jan Cyrka – he’s a tremendous guitar player from back in the 90’s, known for doing something along the Steve Vai lines, but more lyrical and melodic – that’s mad stuff. Jan is more in the production line of things now, and he’s the guy who runs the bluesjamtracks.com company.

Jan has titanium eardrums – he hears everything. So we recorded the drums in a drum studio, then the guitars, and he said: ‘The drums don’t sound good enough.’ So he wanted to record those again. So we did, and they sounded great. Then all of a sudden the guitars didn’t sound good enough. So finally we said: ‘Fuck it!’ Can I say that? That’s what happened. I’m just telling it like it is. [laughs]

Finally, what happened – Richie Kotzen ... was a friend of Cornford. He had a lovely studio in LA, so we went there. They’ve got a great live room, Neve Channel strips, lots of guitars. Here’s a little bit of trivia for you: that was the last complicated album that will ever be recorded at that studio.

The full interview