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Hey there and thanks for listening. It's episode 142 of No Guitar is Safe, the guitar show, where guitar heroes

plug in. And plugging in today, Sid Jacobs, a true hero of mine. He's been blowing my mind

since 2009 when I first moved to L.A. and met him and several other great players. I mean,

there is no shortage of truly world-class players down here. And

Sid is absolutely one of them. Every time I'd sit down with Sid, man, it's like he opens up

portals to understanding new viewpoints on harmony, on melody, on counterpoint, on chord progressions,

on feel that I didn't even realize we're right at my fingertips.

It's great to have a guru open your eyes.

Sid has a true love for all things guitar, and you're going to fall in love with some of

these things he's showing you today.

It's funny.

Friends might think that he's a jazz cat because, well, you know, when he discovered West Montgomery

at age 16 or so, I don't know, teenager probably, he went deep and he's like, wow, there's more

to this than those rock scales. Like, there's a lot more to just learn. I can't just grab it on the

first listen off of a record. So he's been diving deep and all that.

He has fantastic books that you can check out on like 251s and jazz phrases and a book

on the music of Bill Evans applied to guitar.

But yeah, interestingly, Sid's first love was, well, probably Burl Ives, he told me.

Right as I was wrapping up the mics, he told me his first thing he ever listened to was Burl Lives. I think that was when he was between the ages of like three and four, maybe five,

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