Bad Asteroid is merely one set of surprises amongst an entire catalog of such music.Wow! I was today years old when I first heard this! Absolutely incredible. Those guys are having so much fun. I had no idea where the song was going. It was funk, jazzy, rockin all in different places but also held together.
I saw them in Sacramento on their last tour. There were probably 200-ish people...Maybe 30 people will show up. 29 guys and one of them whose girlfriend had no choice but to be there.
They’re very aware of music theory, even if they didn’t take formal classes in it. In this video Govan is using many different ways of building and releasing tension and his choices of chords are really nice. It’s a higher form of music, more intellectual than visceral, but it still hits me the same way. He’s like Stravinsky and Coltrane if they played guitar.I saw them in Sacramento on their last tour. There were probably 200-ish people...
The ratio of male to female was (expectedly) high - probably higher than what you wrote
However, that has does not diminish the music.
Either you like it or you don't... I love it. It moves me.
This is not music for the masses, that much is certain!
I've never listened to anyone who is a master of so many styles and can blend them so effortlessly and extemporaneously.I saw him in an intimate setting some years ago. I said to him after the show: "you are the greatest guitar player in the world". And I meant every word of it.
Hearing that, for sure.I think he was clearly influenced by Jeff Beck as well.