My name is Pete Fazzini. I'm 25 years old. I'm originally from Chicago, Illinois. I'm
I've been living in San Diego for almost seven years and I play blues guitar in a band called
King Chris Jones.
I discovered blues actually after I'd seen Stevie Ray Vaughn play on a Saturday Night Live when I think I was like 15 or 16.
And after that it was just I fell in love with blues and then I started getting into guys.
Like being from Chicago I was able to have access to Buddy Guy which then got me into Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers stuff.
And after that in terms of teaching myself it just became a game of going out buying the records and listening to it and just trying to copy it as best I could.
And if I couldn't do it the best I could I would just put my own spin on it and just kind of you know improvise a little bit.
Then I found out about these blues jams that go on and the first one I went to Chet and his band hosted and it was a place called the Downtown Cafe in El Cajon.
And I went there and got to sit up on stage and play with them for a while.
And then I met Chad and then all the other members in the band they told me to come back next week and I just started going regularly.
And that's how I met my harmonica player actually and I met one of the blues jams.
So it was a really cool way to meet musicians.
So blues jams.
Or open mics.
It's a good way to meet musicians.
I definitely can relate to any kind of music and dance being very spiritual because I just think it lets people forget about their problems and particularly for me when I'm playing it.
It just whenever I'm like if I'm doing like a guitar solo or something like that where you can just literally just close your eyes and people always tell me that I'm making like weird faces and stuff like that.
And I'm moving my lips and a lot of people ask me what am I saying when I'm up there on stage and I have to tell them I have no idea.
You know because it's just the absence of any thought when you're up there playing music and it's almost kind of like a meditation and I'm totally starting to sound like hippie but whatever.
You know it's awesome and it's just a really really amazing thing.
