Joining the band on the new album are a number of mentors and collaborators, including Derek Trucks (who plays guitar on “Self-Hatred”).Cavaleri idolised his dad's guitar skills. When he was seven, the Starlight Foundation found a way to grant a very sick boy an almost impossible wish - to jam with his ultimate guitar hero Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits. I had to practise and practise and practise." "All of a sudden I've got this fire to get up and deal with the lumbar punctures or whatever it was. Years later he would realise the Fernandes guitar Knopfler gave him that day was the uniquely personal one he had used for the Love Over Gold album. And when I went to bed, I'm thinking about playing that guitar and when I wake up I'm playing that guitar," Cavaleri says. When Cavaleri returned from London, everything changed. The amiable cute kid, the freakishly gifted child was in demand. A regular on Hey Hey It's Saturday, the Midday Show, a darling of the print media. "It brought so much joy to my life to play on those TV shows," he says now.īut to this day: "Those two words - guitar prodigy - still makes me cringe."Ĭavaleri on tour with Diesel and Jimmy Barnes. They started with playing small blues clubs in the US and did a segment for CNN that was repeated on an hourly loop. Michael Jackson saw it and got on the phone. "I didn't really get what a big deal it was to be signed to Michael Jackson's MJJ label or even to perform with him," Cavaleri says. "I just didn't understand it until years later."Īllegations of child abuse against the singer also emerged later but Cavaleri only had positive interactions with him.
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