Listening to Music

Wgg: What kind of CD's are you listening to right now?

Scott: Oh, I don't know. I mainly listen to my iPod and the music that's on my computer. So the days of grabbing CD's off the shelf and sticking them in are kind of over for me.

Wgg: What do you have in your musical library that you listen to?

Scott: I've got a huge musical library. Everything from Pantera to Miles Davis - and I'm pretty open to everything. So sometimes I just turn it on and see what's in there. I just hit shuffle and listen.

I bought the new Scofield Live album and I still haven't listened to it yet and I've had it now for over a month. I want to, you know, it's just finding the time to sit down and listen to it.

I'm more likely just to turn on the computer and hit a tune and see what comes on. It could be Ry Cooder, it could be Stevie Ray Vaughn, it could be Miles Davis, it could be Meshugga.

I have no idea what's gonna pop out at me and I kinda like that. I'm kind of influenced by a lot of different kinds of music and I like a lot of different kinds of music.

Wgg: Are you actually able to just listen for the pure enjoyment of it?

Scott: No, I mean I definitely suffer the musician thing, absolutely, I'm always analyzing. Especially Jazz - because almost every time I put on a Jazz record I hear something I don't know. Some sax player plays some lick, some phrase or some concept - harmonic concept that I go, "What the hell was that?" and then I'm more listening to it like, "How can that make me better? How can I get better by listening to that?"

It becomes more of a selfish self improvement thing than just enjoying this guy for what he does. I'm just real curious that way sometimes.

I mean I can still just listen and enjoy more simpler kinds of music. But Jazz is sorta like the one that's harder for me to listen to because there's just so much vocabulary and I'm nowhere even close to scratching the surface of it so everytime I hear somebody play something I just go, "Wow."

Especially saxophone players and I hear other guitar players that I really like play Jazz - Steve Cardinas, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Scofield Or Pat Metheny and I hear these guys play and I go, "Wow, what was that?"