Guitar Player

JANE GETTER CAN SHRED

IN THE WORLD OF Jane Getter — a player who can outright shred but hates the notion — “redundancy” is a dirty word. For Getter, there’s no fun in being a retread, nor does she care what’s worked for her in the past, only what works for her now.

The trick is that she’s guided by a muse that instinctually runs the gamut of styles. But if you were to ask Getter, she’d tell you her music is best classified as prog-rock, even though she disdains genre associations. “My taste in music is very eclectic, so my writing and playing reflects that,” she tells . “My approach to combining those elements is organic. It’s what I hear, and

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