In the 90s, MTV introduced their popular "unplugged" series where 80s artists performed their studio tracks in a live acoustic format. I was a big fan of those shows. R2025B is my version of that for the R2024B studio guitar jams.

This brings the experiments I began last year full circle; all of the tracks I put out in 2024 have now been covered in this 'unplugged' acoustic format.

I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I've enjoyed making them!

Forty plus years ago Jay and I started holding weekly jam sessions to help each other become better guitarists. We'd start with a warmup, playing some simple arpeggios to get the fingers nimble. Then we'd listen to a section of a song off a record featuring a cool guitar part we both wanted to learn. Then we'd play just that section of the song, again and again, until we could both drop in and "double over" it correctly. Then we'd play it some more, but without the record, until we could easily free style around the basic structure. We covered a lot of musical ground in those sessions including material from Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, The Scorpions, Boston, .38 Special, The Doobie Brothers and many more.

For whatever reason, I recently had the realization that we, and many other guitarists of our era, had actually created a new art form with these guitar based "jams". The only problem was the radio and record execs of the time didn't want anything to do with them (and still don't).

So, I decided to share a sampling of how those jam sessions actually sounded on R2024B. I hope they find some welcome among fans on this platform who are still into guitar driven music. Long live rock!