Joe Gore Interview by Gretchen Menn 

Awesome video. Two of my favorite musicians! Kudos to Ms Menn for letting Joe speak and inform us about the music.

Not going to lie - I clicked on this one just to see if you spoke in it, haha ;)

I feel like the first time I heard Chaplin talking after almost a lifetime of no talking performances. 😂 You are great Joe!

I want to be Joe Gore when I grow up

Gretchen and Joe, I'm so appreciative of this interview. Thank you for introducing me to this fascinating and undiscovered (for me) musical universe.

never heard his voice till now, but ive listened to him for years!

Thank you for this Joe and Gretchen-- wonderful insights.

I spend many enjoyable hours online learning about music and nerding out on guitar tech stuff. That is how I discovered Joe's channel. I know of no one else who contributes more useful and educational information than Joe does. Joe's musical altruism is unrivaled IMHO. I just sampled Joe's 18 song album. It is gorgeous. I am a Joe Gore fan and look for anything he's written so that I can learn even more. Thank you, Joe!

Thank you. Joe and Gretchen.

Joe Gore released an album? And it's music from the 1300s? Hell yeah, sign me up. Listening now on Spotify and it's great so far. Thanks, Joe.

Congratulations, Joe, on your remarkable achievement. I'm very happy you had this opportunity -- that you make so abundantly clear was a treasured one. I truly enjoyed the interview and the overview you give of the music of the 1300's that makes up this recording -- especially the history of the musical structure, i.e. the "strands" of music interplaying as individual lines rather than as parts of chordal blocks. Your description helps me a lot in listening and appreciating a music so "freaky and weird!" It also made me that much more intrigued with this music, as an example of a time nascent with the coming changes of the Renaissance. Perspective in art was less than a century away as was the moving away from allegorical thinking. I can't help but feel a similarity between these changes and the movement from the music you are sharing to a change in how melody and harmony were considered in composition. It's likely I'm erring in much of my impressions -- I'm way out of my depth when it comes to the Middle Ages. But your thumbnail left me wondering about this transition and it's so enjoyable to think about these things. Thanks for that and for the music.

First time I heard you hold forth on what seems to be a favourite topic, Joe. You owe Gretchen a set of strings for making it to the end. /joke I would never, ever diss someone's passion. Great stuff.

Joe ive enjoyed your video presentations. I appreciate your odd electric guitar style. Its so well played. You remind me of a Buster Keaton playing electric guitar. Kudos for your skill and art.

I can't believe you did the Solage piece ! That piece has haunted me ( no complaints ) for years . I'm glad you did a modern instrumentation of it ! Great album !

Been listening to the album regularly for weeks; it’s guitar-hero virtuosic, musically satisfying and beautifully meditative.

My 2 cents: it's a fascinating, sometimes alien, but always beautiful album. The interpretation with modern instrumentation is utterly unique (at least to me), especially against the panoply of "ancient music" recordings that have taken the traditional route. And it comes with extensive "liner notes" with informative and entertaining commentary from Joe. Highly recommended!

Watching your interview and at the same time listening your first record in background , I must say, your passion to medieval music, your history knowledge and thoughts of music and the enthusiasm for how you paint it all together in words, fascinating just fascinating! And that point, "This music comes from ground zero, black plague!" and still were able to produce beautiful music, is astonishing.

Thanks Joe for digging bringing these weird roots of our music back to the surface. As for the plague kinda starting our modern era: There's a magnificent book by Austrian writer Egon Friedell called "Cultural history of the modern era" which is not only deep and insightful but also immensely funny, witty and original. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it to you. It literally starts by saying that the modern era was brought about through the plague. I'd even say, he invented this idea (like many others, too). Anyways, always a joy to listen to you, to Gretchen, and most of all, to your music. Thanks!

Imagine being at a feast in a court in medieval times and hearing this live. It’s amazing. Truly.

Your album has dominated my listening for the last two weeks. Bravo! A lot of times, you like the music of people who are coming from a similar place, and I think this album is support for that. Prior to stumbling upon your album I was listening too Handel Sarabande and had thoughts of early film as a result of watching the movie Hugo. Fertile ground to consider your album . Cheers! FYI - I met you at the LA Amp Sow 5 or 6 years ago and instantly liked you.

I’m buying this album ASAP.

Just paused the video to pop over to bandcamp :-)

This is so disappointin!!! You've gone so long without ever speaking that I fully expected a shrill, hoarse Rumpelstiltskin voice, and then you turn out to have this nice, warm baritone 🤬 Congratulations on your album!

Bit off topic here but if Joe doesn't know then no one knows! I'm wanting to replace PAF pick ups on a Les Paul style with these really great Gibson minibuckers that I've been given & am wondering if anyone has any thoughts or ideas about how to go about this Especially cosmetically with the bigger holes needing to be filled… I imagine bigger pick up mounting rings might be a good idea if they exist?

Will you be touring this album?