00:00L.A.D. Ladies, A and G.E. Gentlemen, T.H.I. This is Jason Becker, T.H.E. The
00:17S.E.X. Sexiest M.A. Man Alive.
00:26L.A.D. There was nobody better than Adu. He was on another level.
00:31When people would hear him, they'd turn their head and go, what the heck was that?
00:36But he wouldn't just play a Bach piece. He could set a guitar on his lap and play it that
00:40way.
00:41Jason was on his way to becoming a really big rock star.
00:46He's going to just take over the world.
00:51And that's when Jason told us his leg was kind of bothering him.
00:56He just had been limping for a while.
00:58And we finally talked him into getting it checked out at Kaiser in L.A. when he was there.
01:05And that's when all the trouble started.
01:08We believe you've got Lou Gehrig's disease and you have three to five years to live.
01:11I think his answer was, am I going to be able to tour?
01:15Eventually he needed crutches, then a wheelchair.
01:19Then it just got to where he dropped the guitar, he couldn't even hang on to it.
01:24When he was really sick, he was really thin and really pale.
01:27It was a different person.
01:32It never surprised me that if there was a way to keep making music, he would.
01:38His mind frame was, well, no, I just, I have stuff to do.
01:41So I just have to go do it.
01:43And so we created a system to allow Jason to be able, using just his chin,
01:49sort of one click at a time to be able to enter in the notes.
01:53God, he just kept working.
01:55It happened so young and he just still had a life to live and he wanted to live it.
01:59That's when I invented the sign language for him.
02:03Basically it's an eye geometry.
02:05Every letter of the alphabet has two eye movements.
02:09I remember I came to his house and he played this thing for me and I went,
02:13how did you do this?
02:14I was just floored.
02:18I was just floored.
03:07It's a much bigger reason than anybody out there knows why he's still here.
03:14But he's still here.
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