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David Bagsby
He has studied under Jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan. His music encompasses progressive/symphonic rock, humanly impossible rhythmic hierarchies, translated nature recordings, acoustic guitar works.
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David Bagsby: Transphoria
by AAJ Staff
Nine tracks running 1:22 to the 14:32 gem, “Where Reason Steps”, offer zany, spacedout, twistedly rockish, Zappaesque works of strong guitars, adept synthworks, decent percussion, and apt bass. Fans of guitardom will remember Vai’s Flex-able and Ron Thal’s The Adventures of Bumblefoot, each offering peppy, fun-rock, tongue-in-cheek, melodic-riffage, and general guitar abandon. There’s plenty of that early on here but Bagsby go much further creating fully augmented and orchestrated compositions with warped synth snippets and extended side-trips into extreme whacky-ville ...
read more"Nice to know someone is still making interesting music" Kerry Livgren (Kansas)
"I think he does some great stuff." Dave Stewart (Bruford/National Health)
"the outer fringe of progressive rock" Titus Levi (Keyboard Magazine)
"Wonderful, excellent work" Mike Keneally (Zappa/Steve Vai)
