the way ray took some time away from guitar following the breakup to explore other instruments and techniques and different sides of production/mixing, and then 'rediscovered' guitar and clearly focussed on fingerstyle playing and bluesy techniques for a while, and now he's honing in on precision picking jazz-style and has been working away at learning cliffs of dover for months and is considering taking lessons...and just a few months ago he was on stage four nights a week playing all the solos he wrote in his twenties bigger and better (and better again!) than ever before just for the joy of it, all the while chatting to other career musicians backstage about how mastery of your instrument matters so much less than playing it with feeling and making other people feel something...this guy is completely offline, any work he's put out has been self-released and the definition of a passion project, he's constantly writing music and learning more and more about what he can do with guitar with no intention of getting money or public praise from it - no intention of anything besides doing it. we're so lucky when we get to experience his playing but there's something so admirable and comforting about the knowledge that even if we don't see it for ourselves, he's still doing that shit! he's writing music with his kids and mixing songs and experimenting with new sounds and techniques and instruments just because! like...ray is one of the most incredible rock musicians out there but the most inspiring thing about him is how much he just genuinely truly loves his craft!! fuck!
Quick little 8-page mini zine about Ray Toro's Session guitar I made yesterday!
I was inspired by @mcrzines' project and their list of prompts. I know very little about guitars but wanted to learn how to better draw them, so I looked at @raytorosaurus' 'session guitar' tag for images and info (thanks!!)
If anyone wants to download this to print for yourself, I put it on itch.io for free: https://vogelobre.itch.io/ray-toro-session-guitar-a4-mini-zine
The scan is a little cut off, sorry about that, but apart from that it should print nicely on an A4 page (hopefully), and here is a tutorial for how to make it into a book: https://youtu.be/21qi9ZcQVto