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Interview Bruno Fabrigues for Cool Night – Bruce Gaitsch by 10/02/2009

INTERVIEW COOL NIGHT – BRUCE GAITSCH by 10/02/2009You are part of our favorite guitarists with Michael Landau and Steve Lukather, What is yourfeeling about Mike and Luke?

Wow. I am incredibly honored to be in the same sentence as

Mike

Luke

. Both of them playrings around me. I was the guy that stared in awe of

Luke

on stage in

Toto

when he was 16. Hestill amazes me with his energy and the passion that is so obvious in his playing. He is agenius...simple and pure. Now

Mike

is another type of animal…though he can amaze with hisflash and brilliance, to me...he shines in the studio and left to his own devices. No one can dowhat he does....his parts and planning of his first basic track are worthy of Stravinsky or thegreat French film composer

Gabriel Yared

. There is a song called "Heavenless" that I wrote withDutch rock

star Ilse DeLange

. On her CD "Clean Up". The band was

Vinnie Colaiuta

Neil

Stubenhaus

Greg Phillinganes, Michael Landau

on electric and me on acoustic. What Mike didon one stereo pass would take other guys 20 years to do if they could ever think of it much lessplay all the parts and sounds that he did in one 5 minute live pass. We only got to play that songonce in the studio. That's what you hear on her CD and it's perfect. I listen to it often to remindmyself of

Mike

’s genius. He is the real deal.

When did you get start playing guitar?

When I was 8 years old. My father taught me to play.

You have worked on several albums with Richard Marx (nine of his and many others he hasproduced including the new George canyon CD recorded at Richards home studio in 4 days.)Timothy B. Schmit. (Just the two I produced) How did you meet these two artists?

I met

Richard

when he was just a kid in Chicago singing commercials for his dad. I did sessionsin Chicago for 10 years and worked for

Richard

’s dad a lot. So we met in the studio and he wasmy first co-writer. We have been friends for over 30 years now. I love the guy.

Interview Bruno Fabrigues for Cool Night – Bruce Gaitsch by 10/02/2009

Timothy

I met when he and I started writing for his 2nd solo CD. We connected with

WillJennings

who wrote the lyrics and we had a great time making the record and doing the TVshows for promotion of the 1st single "Boys Night Out" I was even in the video for the secondsingle...a great guy who still lets me know when

the Eagles

will be in town and gets me ticketsand passes.

In France, you were discovered by the Madonna’s hit "La Isla Bonita". How did you getinvolve in this classic Pop/Rock album "TRUE BLUE"?

I wrote "La Isla Bonita" with

Madonna

and

Pat Leonard

Pat

and I were friends from the Chicagosession days and we had a little work studio in Pats basement. He was working with the

Jacksons

and was trying to write something different for

Michael

. He was stumped on a bridgefor a little Latin thing he was working on and I went over and heard what he had and sang himthe bridge. It took 3 minutes. Luckily for us

Mr Jackson

wasn't interested in the music so at myurging Pat sent it to

Madonna

in China while she was filming Shanghai Surprize with

Sean Penn

.She wrote the words and when she got back we demoed it in our little studio and as they gotmore songs for the record I was playing on the demos and so when they made the record I waslucky enough to be asked by

Pat

to recreate my parts. It didn't hurt that I was one of the onlyguitarists

Madonna

knew in LA. That's how I got to play on the

Stephen Brey

compositions.

Your musical journey is really varied, between your sessions work, the King of Hearts periodand your solo career. What is your prefered period and with your experience, what youprefer now to do?

I am a very lucky man. All of the periods have always over lapped.

The King of Hearts

recordwas recorded while I was working with

Richard

on his music and

Pat

on the

Madonna

"Like aPrayer" record. In LA it was a magical time. Great music being made that was very successfulworld wide. My solo projects came about because of my writing with so many wonderful peopleand sometimes the music didn't make their new record so I had these gems sitting around. I stillam doing many things, playing, writing and recording with The Emotional Rex (

Kelly Keagy

and

George Hawkins JR

) playing live with

Peter Cetera

and

Harry Shearer

, recording for myfriends

Nicolas Peyrac

and

Cy Curnin

here in my home studio. I am looking forward to writingmore with Ilse, playing live with

Janey

in Europe, writing and recording and playing with

BillChamplin

when we both have the time. I love all of the aspects of my musical life and I preferto do what ever comes my way. It is never boring.

Have you some recent news about Tommy Funderburk, Have you keep the touch with him?Tommy

and I try to get things started every other year and for some reason nothing happens.He is very involved with his label out in LA and I wish him well.

In addition of your guitarist career, you also compose. Where do you find all yourinspiration?

When I write guitar music the inspiration comes from the guitar and my mood…when I writesongs with artists I am inspired by the mood, and the co-writer. When you find a great co-writeryou hold on to them…the magic is amazing. Ilse and I have written 50 songs...all of them aregreat. Some greater than others but all are from a very cool place. They capture the time and

Interview Bruno Fabrigues for Cool Night – Bruce Gaitsch by 10/02/2009

place of the writing…I love that.

In France, no news about you since your last solo album "SINCERELY"? What have you doduring all these years?

I have been playing live a lot more than I used to and I love it. The gigs with orchestra for

Cetera

are a blast and a challenge. I have been doing that for 6 years now. GO to Allmusic.comand look at my credits…the list continues…

The Harry Shearer

anti Bush gigs were incredible funand what a great band. Check him out at HarryShearer.com.The last couple years

Janey

and I have been focusing on her new CD as well as the new BossaNova Hotel record each of them were at least 2 years in the making.

Can you tell us more about the making of the "SINCERELY" album? It is a tribute to theMcPherson guitar?Matt McPherson

asked me to do a CD for his label. I was thrilled and I got to do it my way. Hisguitars are the finest acoustic guitars ever made. There is no argument. So I wrote the songsand recorded them in a matter of a couple weeks. His guitars inspire me everyday. Yes it is atribute to how great one acoustic guitar can sound. My highest compliment was when I played

Matt

himself the 5.1 mix (still unreleased) at

George Massenburg

’s studio here in Nashville.

Matt

cried...he had never heard his guitars sound so great on a recording.

Howard Levy

and

Janey

add so much to the musicality of the recording.