[Rick Lee]

Oh, 1984 is another much overlooked one because of its commercial success. Girl Gone Bad, House of Pain and Top Jimmy are just amazing. I don't find the harmonic tapping stuff difficult at all. I have the intro to Mean Street down pretty well. But man, the solo in that song and especially the intro to the solo are very tough. The Atomic Punks did that last time I saw them and Lance so crushed it. I have to learn the intro to that solo. Soooo cool. WTF was Ed thinking when he came up with that one?

I got the Live Without a Net VHS when I was 15 and I spent much of the next summer sitting in front of the tv with my GK and Kramer Focus 5000, learning every single note of that concert solo. That's how I really figured out Cathedral and the intro to Mean Street, though I like the album version of Catherdral much better.

Last night I was playing Spanish Fly on my nylon string and had forgotten how much of a stretch the end of that one is. HTF did he come up with that and then get so much sounded out of a nylon string? His wrists have to be made titanium to do that stuff. I feel arthritic when I do it.