As promised (or threatened ), here’s the latest video. This cover of Chicago’s cool old ballad, “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”, is an online collaboration between Owen Vickers, his lady, and me.

I tried to hair-metal it up slightly – hence the bandana the clean rhythm guitar with heaps of open high E and B strings over all the chords, and the dirty rhythm under the second prechorus and chorus. My solo – at 19 seconds/4 bars short – is the teensiest I’ve played in a long time. It was actually rather fun. I couldn’t just noodle away as I might usually, so I ended up putting in some open-voiced triad things a la Eric Johnson, and some string-skipping silliness a la Paul Gilbert/Shawn Lane (probably more senor Pablo).

It was fun getting together a full song – and great having Cara sing – so you don’t have to put up with my vox Also check out Owen’s mega-cool solo 8)