![]() My wife says, ‘Can’t you get an assistant?’ I said, ‘What do I tell them to do? It’s all me.’”ĭuring the time of my visit, Cooder had just unveiled one of his finest albums ever, 2018’s The Prodigal Son. ![]() I don’t have little guys who come in at night like elves and take care of things for me. It’s a bit of a mess right now, something the 71-year-old guitar hero simply shrugs off. Cramped with cases, vintage Fender and Standel amps, drums (Joachim may have a point), weird Japanese guitars and, leaning lazily on a rack, two of the most iconic instruments recorded since the ’60s: Ry’s two, endlessly copied, never-quite-finished Fender Stratocasters. We’re sitting in the music room of Cooder’s Santa Monica home. ![]() Ry’s Gear Acquisition Syndrome hasn’t slowed down, and his son would like him to apply the brakes.“I’m his curator,” Ry explains and then adds, with all the parental pride one can muster, “Get this-I got him a set of Elvin Jones’s hi-hat and ride cymbal!” ![]() That’s the dictate Joachim Cooder gave to his father. ![]()
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