[HN Gopher] After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat...
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       After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got
       his groove back
        
       Author : CapitalistCartr
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2021-11-04 10:20 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | SubGenius wrote:
       | Martino was amazing. He had some of the wildest "lines". You can
       | think of an improvised guitar solo as a series of small
       | blocks/lines with breaks in between to think, or just rest your
       | fingers. Martino's lines just keep going on and on, similar to
       | John Coltrane. Or Allan Holdsworth.
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       | Here's Martino playing John Coltrane's Impressions. It's so
       | tastefully played.
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrdbS2spkQ
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       | My personal favorite is his record Baiyina. It's very trippy,
       | full of odd-time signatures, sitar-like drones, tabla etc.
       | Recorded quite early in the fusion era too.
       | 
       | The Live at Yoshi's record with Billy Hart and Joey DeFrancesco
       | is fantastic as well. Pat Martino at the top of his game playing
       | with a very tight rhythm section.
        
       | frereubu wrote:
       | For those like me who wanted to see the MRI, and were frustrated
       | that it wasn't in the article, it's here: https://ars.els-
       | cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S18788750130123... It's pretty
       | spectacular. From a Google Images search that lead to this
       | article -
       | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18788... -
       | but presumably showing Google more images than normal visitors
       | who aren't logged in.
        
       | macintux wrote:
       | (2015)
       | 
       | He passed away a few days ago. RIP, quite a poignant story.
       | 
       | Enjoying this live performance from 1975:
       | https://youtu.be/lNZbyjsggbw
        
       | DoreenMichele wrote:
       | _On Monday, Nov. 1 2021, Martino died after suffering from a
       | chronic respiratory disorder. He was 77.
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       | Martino recovered from surgery with a significant portion of his
       | brain and memory gone, but his guitar skills intact._
       | 
       | I used to run a discussion group for people with neurological
       | quirks. The details of how the brain works and the strange
       | exceptions you wouldn't predict are endlessly fascinating.
        
         | BLKNSLVR wrote:
         | I personally think that Oliver Sacks' "The Man who Mistook his
         | Wife for a Hat" should be required reading in school for
         | providing an understanding of how seemingly illogically our
         | logic engine works.
         | 
         | It's made me more understanding of 'how people work', and as a
         | result has helped me deal with difficult people in a less
         | combative manner.
        
           | DoreenMichele wrote:
           | I've heard good things about that book but never read it.
           | There's a lot of weird things out there that many people have
           | not heard of. Face blindness. Synesthesia. Time "blindness."
           | 
           | And people who have those kinds of problems sometimes don't
           | know they aren't normal. If they do, it's often not in their
           | best interest to tell you.
        
         | ford_o wrote:
         | Tell us more.
        
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       | xavriley wrote:
       | An aspect of Pat that I don't see discussed much is that he had
       | absolute pitch according to various comments I've seen online.
       | 
       | I'd be very curious as to whether that was affected by the
       | surgery. I think it would also have helped him with the
       | remarkable recovery as well.
        
       | civilized wrote:
       | Did he lose his skills due to a problem in his brain and then get
       | them back when it was removed? Or did he just have brain surgery
       | and it took him a while to recover?
        
         | pohl wrote:
         | _Martino had been performing until a hemorrhaged arteriovenous
         | malformation caused a "near-fatal seizure" in 1980. This left
         | him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of his career
         | or how to play the very instrument that made him successful.
         | Martino says he came out of surgery with complete
         | forgetfulness, learning to focus on the present instead of the
         | past or what may lie ahead. He was forced to learn how to play
         | the guitar from zero._
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Martino
         | 
         | Also check out this documentary:
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         | https://youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2FyXZwg9E
        
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