Has it occurred to the CTC team @Troy and @Brendan that there are probably a lot of people who would pay to see a Masters Of Mechanics interview in which Troy is the one being interviewed and somebody else, maybe Brendan, would ask the questions? I would certainly find it interesting.
The idea for this thread came to me just a couple days after I created a thread about Troy’s interviewing style. I wanted to ask Troy if before he discovered pick slanting and was still having trouble executing string changes, did it ever occur to him to try economy picking as a solution since with economy picking there is no need to “escape the plane of the strings” since instead of crossing over the top of a string so you can then pick the other side of the string, you simply continue to move the pick in the same direction (as in sweep picking) which eliminates the need to make the pick “hop” over the top of the string in oder to pick the string on the other side of it. So, back when you were still using stringhopping, Troy, did it ever occur to you to develop the ability to economy pick well and if so did you just find it too awkward of a technique to use as a solution to eliminating string hopping, did the idea of using economy picking to solve the problem just not occur to you, or is what happened during the years before you discovered pick slanting something other than those two scenarios?
After deciding I’d like to ask Troy the answer to the above question, it then occurred to me: “Wouldn’t it be interesting if I or somebody else conducted a full length interview of Troy Grady”? Along with the above question, many other possible questions occurred to me which would serve to fill a good length interview including questions about the mechanics of his particular primary picking style, did he already envision himself starting a company with a company mission statement the same as or very similar to that of CTC’s mission statement while he was earning his degree at Yale, why did he wait to found CTC instead of starting CTC immediately after graduating, does he have any other career goals in the music industry other than what he currently does with CTC, and many more questions which hopefully many more people than just me would be interested in hearing Troy answer.
I envision the interview being like many of the already existing Masters Of Mechanics interviews in the section devoted to asking Troy about the development of his technique and overall playing style but would differ in that a good deal of it would be biographical in nature as opposed to the vast majority of the interview consisting of questions about his guitar playing technique.
So @Troy, is an interview along the lines of what I’ve described above something that you would be interested in doing at some point within the next couple of years if you found the right interviewer for the job and if you thought there would be enough of a demand for the interview for it to be a financially viable project?
This isn’t an exhaustive list but these are some of the best that come to mind:
