Stephen Mareches has two albums in the can that he has yet to release. We are looking forward to hearing what he has cooked up. 

"I had been heavily inffluenced by Jeff Beck as a guitarist. Really thought that Jeff played slide guitar all the time, then discovered that had been for short period of time after a motorcycle accident. So I learned a bunch of his riffs with an Ernie Ball short steel slice on the ring finger and three fingers doing the riffs. Like Jeff, one night during a performance I dropped my pick on the floor and from then on played with fingers and not the pick which took things to a whole new level. 

My close friend the fabulous Graphic Artist William Webb was my main influence to actually become a decent electric guitaritst. He invited me to set up my amp and practice in the studio below his apartment until I got to where I wanted to be. We had read an article in Psychology Today about an experiment for learning how to ride a unicyle. One group practiced an hour a day, they learned in one month. Another group practiced two hours a day, they learned in three weeks. The third group practiced until they learned to ride the unicycle, it took them 8 hours. 

So I began practicing four hours and day for the first few days, then that extended to twelve hours a day over two weeks. By that time I could play just about anything I could think of, and the experiment got me to where I'd been dreaming of playing improvisations on electric slide guitar. I had begun playing some of Beck's riffs but then transitioned to scales, blues scales, chromatic scales, and then different figurations so that I could improve improvisational playing. 
Without Bill's influence I doubt I would have ever reach that level of playing.