Captured

CAPTURED features legendary guitar god, Dick Wagner in the last album he released before his untimely passing on July 30, 2014.

Dick Wagner, known as the Maestro of Rock, helped define an era in rock history by playing lead guitar or writing songs for Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, Nils Lofgren, Peter Gabriel, Meat Loaf, Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr, Guns & Roses, Hall & Oates and Tori Amos, and dozens of others.

Captured, a two-hour double album, Wagner s first since 2009, features an intimate and personal side of the virtuoso rarely seen by his fans a moment-in-time jamming privately on guitar. Captured embodies a genre of musical styles rarely seen from the Maestro of Rock -- inventive and improvisational jazz and blues.

Most of these tracks are one-take, live performances, recorded in my living room just my restless, reckless, everyday jamming by myself, for the very joy of playing from the heart on those six magic strings, Wagner says. Captured is an invitation to look through this window of sound into my personal writing and playing sessions... just me and my guitar. It s my musical thought process caught on tape.

If I wanted to categorize this music, I would place it under Soundtrack of the Life of a Guitarist.