On February 12th, Tuesday, 2013 at 9PM (ET) Jason Becker via @jasonbeckerfilm was the sixth #GuitarChat guest on Twitter.
A Q&A with the director of “Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet” will be up the same day.
The chat with Jason will be archived on this page after February 12th, 2013.
A. Read about how #GuitarChat works here B. List of future #GuitarChat guests
Our Topic - The documentary “Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet”
BIO (excerpt from Wikipedia)
Jason Eli Becker (born July 22, 1969) is an American neo-classical metal guitarist and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Mike Varney-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988. Cacophony broke up in 1989 and Becker began doing solo work, having released his first album Perpetual Burn in 1988. He later joined David Lee Roth‘s band and recorded one album with him. However, Becker’s success was hampered by his then-diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and he was given three to five years to live. In 1996, Becker eventually lost the ability to speak and now communicates with his eyes via a system developed by his father. Despite his disability, he continues composing by using a computer and has since released Collection, a “best of” album of his favorite songs and three new songs.
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