Rusty Zinn Brain

I knew Rusty Zinn through a family member and saw many of his live shows as a result. I always marveled at Rustys ability to pretty much never play the same lick twice during a live performance. His mental musical library must be like some sort of Manhattan high-rise office building. Wtf is that? 

I consider myself to be a reasonable writer and have noticed that I am good at choosing interesting, cool words and can build many different-styled sentence structures. Furthermore, I can carry through interesting viewpoints and ideas in any given note I write. However, I am NOT the Rusty Zinn of writing: Rusty is a powerhouse.

I thought about this recently and realized that Rusty Zinn is rather magical on guitar. His brain is truly organized in a superior way where he is able to put together complicated and delightful strings of colorful musical phrases, ones that seem to have no end. And while hes playing the Blues, everything that he comes up with is steeped in tradition, like hes never off the page. He is in the pocket 100%. 

How does this kind of nature come to be? How can someone have a seemingly endless bag of tricks? Furthermore, how does someone consistently bring a different bag of tricks to each gig, play for hours, not repeat a phrase, and make all the tricks sound so f-ing good together? ALL THE TIME!? Even my guitar hero, Michael Schenker, cannot do what Rusty can do. Wtf is that?

Some people like to entertain the idea (as Jack Black does) that aliens from outer space “live among us”. I am not one to go in for crop circles and healing crystals, but I must confess, there is something to be said about the idea of aliens living among us when one stands before Rusty Zinn playing guitar.

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