The photo on the right was taken on the set of Cold Case at some point during the production of the show’s 4th season. To celebrate reaching the milestone the cast apparently gave 200 custom-made Epiphone guitars to the crew. Exactly when this happened is not clear but it was published on the Epiphone website in February of 2007. That photo and a close-up of the guitar are in the Gallery. The image popped up in a search for references to Kathryn and guitars, based on a vague memory of Kathryn being pictured with one.
This was a nice chance to look back at an event not previously dealt with on KM UK, and post the photo, but it is actually a digression from the real point of this post. I get distracted by the pretty pictures 
Echoes And Dust, a London-based music news and review site which specialises in a “particular dark corner of Indiedom”, has today (7th Feb 2014) published an interview by Andrew Rawlinson with guitarist Monte Pittman. I have to plead ignorance of such things but in the guitar world Monte is a bit of big deal. He’s probably best known for writing, performing and touring with Madonna after meeting her through her (then) husband Guy Ritchie (not to be confused with yours truly ). They met when Monte taught Guy to play guitar.
In the interview Andrew asks Monte about his famous third student and if he’s ever taught anyone else famous:
Monte Pittman: His assistant, Nathan, got my number and let up lessons for “his boss”. When I left for the first Madonna tour I did, I had 55 students in circulation. I taught Kathryn Morris who later went on to star in the show “Cold Case”. I taught Catherine Keener and Dermot Mulroney. I taught Brad Pitt. Those are a few that immediately come to mind because they were so cool to me. I gave Dido a guitar lesson once.
Insert your own joke about a second one being key
The phrase “later went on to star in… CC” tells us something about the timing but not much. Could it have been for her short (and cut shorter) role in the Spielberg movie AI?
Monte recently released a new solo album called The Power Of Three.
You can read the whole article on the Echoes And Dust website here.
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