Quote Originally Posted by ssully View Post
His first major interview was with Guitar Player mag in June 1981...I used to have a scan of that somewhere....in it he says that slapping the intro to '5G' was basically just a joke for him. Live, on the One of a Kind and Gradually Going Tornado tours in the US, he would spin it out into an outrageous crowd-pleaser chopsfest.
I might still have that issue in a box in my basement. Not sure if it was in that article, but I had a transcription of the 5G intro. Crazy combination of slapping, tapping, whackng the strings with the left hand, etc. I could kinda sorta almost play it.