Steve Vai was stunned when he heard him. Joe Bonamassa says he’s reinvented guitar.

Steve Vai was stunned to hear it.Joe Bonamassa said he reinvented the guitar. Al Di Meola said it would “take a lifetime to catch up.
”Meet Matteo Mancuso, the young player who is light years ahead of us.
When it comes to improvisation, Italian fingerstyle fusion master Matteo Mancuso leaves the world’s best players in the dust.
It was just before the pandemic hit in 2020 that I happened upon a KZbin video by an Italian funk-fusion trio named the Snips.
The initial hook for me was the fact that they were playing The Chicken, the funky Pee Wee Ellis tune that Jaco Pastorius had adopted as a set opener for his Word of Mouth big band in the early 80s. As Jaco’s biographer, I was naturally curious about their version.