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Scott: In terms of playing guitar, I started playing as a 12 year-old kid and have been playing both professionally or non-professionally since then. Like most 12 year-olds, I started out playing rock. I loved
Hendrix, Clapton, and those guys. Then someone, I forget who, played a Wes Montgomery record and I have been doomed to poverty and obscurity ever since. So much for being a millionaire rock star.
At about that time, I had the opportunity to study under the legendary classical jazz guitarist Cal Collins. Cal was very patient with me, and even managed to teach me a few things.
To make a long story short, I gigged around the country for a few years, eventually settling in Seattle where I started a furniture restoration business and raised a son. My (Gibson) 175 started gathering dust at that point.
I really didn't start playing regularly again until a few years ago. There's not a really big market for jazz in rural Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Missouri. So these days, I've been open to playing what audiences want. The Holistix was formed by selecting the best musicians I could gather together in one spot. We've developed a distinctive style and an unusual but familiar reportoire which is geared to our audience, while still bringing our listeners some incredibly obtuse chords that a lot of musicians would find difficult to master.