So man, it's just kind of nutty how great a guitar player I have on the show for you today, album, Vivid Gristle.

It's very prolific.

He gave me a stack of albums when I visited him in Milwaukee.

I remember when I first heard him, I was chilling with Matt Blackett.

We were at Guitar Player Magazine headquarters. I was back in the San Mateo days.

And this album came across our desks called The Grip.

I'm going to... Sometimes you hear stuff and you just, you're instantly interested.

Turns out Greg is one of the deepest cats on the fretboard I've ever met.

He dives so deep into every approach and just kills it. And also he's hilarious.

I remember Matt Blackett, associate editor at Guitar Player immediately did a feature on Greg, which was well deserved.

And I immediately made him a columnist for Guitar Player magazine.

And oftentimes I would just interview him over the phone to get this content from him

and the stuff that would come straight out of his mouth off the cuff was just amazing. For instance,

one time we were talking about the tritone and he was talking about how the monks in ancient

days found it to be the one interval that was the devil's interval, you know, as it's sometimes

called the flatted fifth. Here's what he said right off the cuff. I just got to read this to you.

He said, when the monks messed with the root in the flatted five, they got the tritone and they deemed

it the tonus diabolicus or the devil's interval. Why? Because they thought it conjured up the spirit

of Satan himself, and in medieval times, the use of this interval was prohibited. But personally,

I think those robe wearing, beer, drinking scalp, shaven sons of bitches were just a tad on the

scyardy cat's side. Wouldn't you agree? They were afraid of the power that would later be unleashed whole scale by Slim Jim Page

and his band of miscreant, known as Led Zeppelin.

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