Falling Through Time: Joe Gore Revisits His Classical Roots, Part 1 of 2

Joe Gore in his home studio in San Francisco.

When I started played guitar as a teenager in the late 1980s, long before the internet made it easy to learn virtually anything about the instrument in any style, I eagerly anticipated the arrival of each new issue of Guitar Player magazine at my local newsstand. I bought the magazine specifically for Joe Gore’s “Global Guitar” column, which introduced me to a world of music far beyond the shredding and hair-metal styles that were at their peak at the time, and instilled in me a sense of curiosity about unconventional approaches to the instrument in general.