Rick Beato and Greg Koch talk about jazz and blues

[Herbie]

I just started watching Rick Beato interviewing guitar giant Greg Koch. Yes, he is BIG!

I have not seen it all but they start with talking about Koch's jazz influences. Interesting.

[Hep To The Jive]

Greg is the funniest guy, that one really cracked me up... playing at slower speed haha

[ruger9]

I don't know how he folds his gorilla hands over the neck! Look at how long his fingers are when he makes complicated chord shapes LOL. And his stretch... wow.

Koch is funny, alot of humor (his personality) in his playing. I fell into him when he was doing Fender demos, his Koch Marshall Trio stuff is really good... not as goofy and esoteric as his solo stuff.

[Oscar67]

I first became aware of him doing clinics for Fender at the Frankfurt Musik Messe. So long ago… I walked into the booth and my jaw still hasn’t recovered. Been following him ever since. I’m glad that Beato gave him extra exposure. He deserves it. That being said, there’s a lot of repetition between this interview and some other recent ones (such as his visit to TPS). And it’s just a tad too obvious that he’s pitching his sig gear.

[Herbie]

Yeah, towards the end it goes to the normal stereotypical "tell me about Your new record" genre, but there is a lot of interesting bits before that.

I was a bit disappointed that Beato did not ask about the second important question after the music questions: where comes Greg Koch's verbal vocabulary?

I think that he uses funny words that rare musicians – nor anybody – use. Has he read a lot? What? Horror stories?

His comical gestures remind now and then about Steve Martin's manners, I think they are funny.

[AllanAllen]

I heard him on a podcast talking about jazz and acoustic blues with Joel Patterson, another midwestern guitarist. Then I checked out one of his live streams and it was a song with lyrics about looking for Bigfoots poop and a dimed fender 25r distortion tone... not what I was expecting at all

[MarkRhodes]

Greg mentions Mike Irish, who posts here from time to time.

[Herbie]

I heard him on a podcast talking about jazz and acoustic blues with Joel Patterson, another midwestern guitarist. Then I checked out one of his live streams and it was a song with lyrics about looking for Bigfoots poop and a dimed fender 25r distortion tone... not what I was expecting at all

Hmm… this sounds a bit like Frank Zappa kinda humor!