Episode 96 of No Guitar is Safe featuring the wildly versatile, prolific, and incredibly inspiring cat.

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My dad started taking guitar lessons when I was like 10, and he would be in there trying to figure

stuff out and I'd be listening to him through the bedroom door and I picked out the melodies and they go dad was this what you're trying to do and he go yeah I think the wrong guy's taking lessons so we couldn't afford two a helicopter. You have some adventures, that's for sure. So yeah, I landed the helicopter over in the valley at the great guitarist's house, Mark Bonilla, at his place.

Went to his home studio.

A lot of you have been requesting Mark, so it was great to finally deliver that.

And he finally delivered a new solo album, which you are hearing.

And Mark's new solo album is called Celluloid Debris, and you can check it out on his website,

Mark BonillaMusic.com. That's M-A-R-C-B-O-N-I-L-L-A.

Ea, like C-A-Sidia. Come on, people.

And I'll be playing some more track from that, and we'll get into this and some of his other stuff.

And also we will get into, of course, the things he has done with the great keyboardist, the late great Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Wow, what a deep relationship they had.

And also Mark's relationship with Ronnie Montrose,

someone I'm also a huge fan of. Wow. I mean, it was really cool. But the other part, too,

was like after this, after this interview, you just never know where these things will take you

when you're doing the in-person podcast interviews, you know. So I go over to his house, we jam out

and that's all great.

And I'm getting to his whole life, man, how he did it, how he became an established film and TV composer and session musician.

And, of course, he's a great singer as well.

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