Hey Joe,

What if you had the chance to go hear Hendrix alive... What if this would happen when you were starting to develop your skills in the guitar playing “language”, and you get the opportunity to see him communicate through his “little strat wing”... Would that be amazing and inspiring? Well, you can, then just imagine how I felt when my wife called me the other day and said you would play in my hometown. I’m from the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte (which, by the way, nicely means “Beautiful Horizon”) and I’m eager to be at your concert next Friday. It’s very nice that this is going on right now. After a lot of things going on in my life, I finally could manage to get a cool job (I’m currently working with flight tests for a big Brazilian aircraft factory, and I get paid to fly high in great jet machines and soar through our amazing Brazilian blue skies). Besides, I could finally afford a decent guitar and I think you can understand how it feels to fly through the music... By the way, I wonder if I could get you to sign my new guitar. It would mean a lot to me (imagine if Hendrix could sign yours when you were beginning to learn it, back on the 70s). It’s really something, and I feel privileged. As I started learning the guitar, I cared for listening as much music as I could, keeping an opened mind to the creative and unusual construction of all sorts of music and that’s how I got to your work, which I learned to appreciate, with special interest on how you construct a way to communicate your ideas through the different rhythms, chords and scales, mainly in songs like “Made of Tears” and “If”. I’m an aviation guy and I have a special respect for the landscape, ambience and feel, and this has its reflects on music – tone, soul... In Portuguese, another word for rhythm would be “levada” which means something like “carried away”.