Joe Pass discusses his decision to play guitar

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Joe Pass discusses his time at Synanon

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Joe Pass discusses his success

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Q: “You must be bothered by the way Synanon changed because it was certainly an effective tool for helping a lot of people in its earliest days but Synanon in the last five years got to be a pretty weird group, didn’t it?”

A: Joe Pass: “Yeah, I don't know very much about what they got into except what I read in the papers because I had separated from them in '64 or '63 and I just read all these articles in the paper. It became ...”

Interviewer: “Personal cult.”

Joe Pass: “Yeah, kind of a big ... yeah, but when it started out, it was a small self-help, help one another. And there were a lot of players like Ronald Ross and Dave Allen and Hampton Hawes and different guys, but I really don't ... I'm not associated with it at all anymore, so ...”