tell me, when you finally came to meet in person, what your first impressions were? I was really just...I mean he's been such a big figure in my life for fifteen, sixteen years, or however many years. And there's a lot of mythology around Jason you know, and so he was kind of this mythical, this legendary figure. And, even though I'd spoken to him on the phone, though email and stuff, it was still like he wasn't even real. And Dave Lopez, his friend who organized the benefit show at the end (of the film) he was like "Wow, people can fly from all over the world and see him and see that he's real" and that was it. It was like wow, he's real . He's this very mythical figure so it was very strange for me to see him. 1) Because of that and 2) because I was like: wow this project is real, you know like there's no backing out now . Not that I wanted to back out but it was just...that it was really happening, we were in San Francisco making a film about Jason Becker, finally. It was really surreal and his back was to us because we came through the back door so, just seeing him there it was...yeah it was very odd. I mean it wasn't that odd for my crew because, whatever, they only knew about him for a couple of months, in the lead up to pre-production in the