How did the California Guitar Trio (CGT) get its start?
The CGT met in Europe in 1987 during a series of guitar courses taught by Robert Fripp. We toured for about 2 years with Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty guitarists. In 1990, near the end of the League project Bert (Lams) invited Hideyo (Moriya) and myself to come to his house in Los Angeles and begin working together. We formed the CGT in Los Angeles in January of 1991. Originally it was going to be a quartet with another guitarist named Steve Jolemore, who was unable to join us at the time because of health concerns. How would you explain CGT’s sound to someone who has never heard CGT before? I generally tend to be quite vague: Instrumental Acoustic Guitar Music. I might get into the explanations of the different influences, the Classical, World, Surf, Jazz and rock. It is difficult to really describe, because I don’t really think that we have much to compare to. And I don’t really like putting labels on things. Explain CGT’s songwriting process? The compositions can come about
