Submitted by Jimmy Galloway The year was 1988. My friend Max brought over a 90m cassette tape. On one side was Breakfast in the Field, the other side was Aerial Boundaries. I just started playing guitar 2 years earlier, learning Jimmy Page, Chet Atkins and Mark...
The Hollow Arm (David Powell)
Submitted by David Powell – I had the privilege of helping a friend produce a documentary about the harp guitar called “The Hollow Arm,” which includes a segment about Michael Hedges…
Meeting Michael on Oracle ’97 Tour (Ricardo Sweatt Rodriguez)
Submitted by Ricardo Sweatt Rodriguez "I had the great privilege of spending time with Michael a few weeks prior to his passing. I received him at the airport in Houston on his Oracle tour in October 1997. We spent time in his hotel room talking (& smokin-out) and...
There are no rules (Wiley Hodgden)
Submitted by Wiley Hodgden – In the summer of ‘97, I took a road trip on HWY 1 from Mendocino down to San Diego, hitting all parts of California…
Meeting one of your guitar heroes (Tom McVey)
Submitted by Tom McVey I worked as artist liaison at a venue back in the early/mid 90's and Michael played twice during my tenure. I would always request working his shows so I could meet and talk to him. I was first 'introduced' to him in 1988 via a friend's copy of...
My first decade with Michael Hedges
Michael and I first met in 1969 when I was a senior in high school and he was a sophomore.