February seems like a long time ago now. It was a long time ago.
Ten months ago I posted an item about an interview done with legendary guitarist Monte Pittman for the Echoes And Dust website. In answer to a follow-up question about his famous students Monte said that he had taught Kathryn to play the guitar. You can read that article, with a link through to the interview, here.
Yesterday (9th December) the France-based Radio Metal website published an interview conducted by ‘Spaceman’ with Monte. It covers a lot of the same ground as the E&D piece, which is not entirely surprising as it was done around the same time. Quite why Radio Metal has waited so long to run it is not clear. It is only at the end of the article that the delay is mentioned, though references to Monte’s new album, The Power Of Three, which came out in January 2014 do give it away a bit.
The reason for posting here on KM UK is, of course, another mention of Kathryn.
Are you giving guitar lessons to other pop stars?
It comes and it goes. I’ve been living and teaching in L.A. for fourteen years now, so there’s been a lot of people. I can’t think of anything that just comes to mind. I’ve seen so many people I’ve forgotten more than I can remember. Some of them became famous after I taught them. There’s one girl, Kathryn Morris, that used to take some guitar lessons from me, and then years later, she was on the TV show Cold Case. Some people just wanna learn to play guitar for fun, or just to have another skill. It’s not that they want to be the best guitar player in the world, for a lot of people I’ve met and a lot of my students, they just wanna be able to play a couple of chords, “Wish You Were Here” or something like that.
Kathryn must have stood out in Monte’s mind for him to mention her in two interviews like this. I’d say it’s meaningful as in the E&D interview he name dropped the likes of Brad Pitt of all people! The less discreet amongst you might point out that in neither answer does Monte comment on Kathryn’s ability 😛
You can read the interview on the Radio Metal website here. Being a French site there is a version in the native language.
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