What is it about Django Reinhardt’s guitar playing that so hooked you as a young musician?

Starting off as a teenager, I was into rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly. I played in a power trio with a wall of amps that terrorized the whole neighborhood. I loved the blues of Chicago’s Chess Records and the acid groups out of California. I was totally into the hippie thing and as life went on, I got the wanderlust. I traveled to Bruges, Belgium and decid...