I remember being in Australia and hanging out with Ike Isaacs, who has produced some fine artists himself. There are many, many great guitar players and America has their own too. The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia who is actually Spanish. There are people all over the world who are great artists. The shame of that is we miss the rest of the world. I don’t hear that much because I’m in America and they play mostly American artists. I just listen to them because I like the music. PC: Who do you class from today’s musicians who you admire and would think have the potential to become legendary like yourself? There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. GB: I listen to other guitar players, yeah. PC: Do you listen to a lot of other guitarists, study what they do and sometimes even practice their work? For some reason I have found myself going back over things that I thought were together, having to sharpen them up and bring them up to date. GB: I try to practice things that I don’t know to pick up new information. I spend time with my instrument and I think it has really been good for me. GB: When I’m not working I usually put in an hour or two. PC: How many hours a day do you play guitar? I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it so we are doing what comes natural to us. PC: After a 40 year career it must be difficult putting a setlist together for you. As I come down I meet new friends and they all want to be nice to us so we had a nice time. Paul Cashmere: The last Australian trip must have been great for you. To tell the story of a remarkable career, the legend himself George Benson spoke with Paul Cashmere. The latest captures his hit career with Warner dating back to the mid 70s when he grabbed worldwide attention with an album titled Breezin. That was the year he released his first album. To begin at the start of the Benson career we have to go back to 1963. Over a forty year career Benson has succeeded as one of the world’s greatest guitarist and traveled across the jazz, R&B and AC music genres. Few artists have earned the term legend next to their name.