“You’re hanging out with your hero, then they go, ‘Okay, cool. Now pick up the guitar and show us what you got’”: Virtuoso Luis Kalil recalls the time he met – and played for – Jason Becker, at the shred icon’s house

Jason Becker remains an active figure in the guitar community, despite his decades-long struggle with Lou Gehrig's disease, which ended his ability to play.

He regularly welcomes virtuosic visitors to his home, and young progressive titan Luis Kalil – who grew up idolising the Cacophony guitarist – was one of his most recent guests.