"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."

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"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."

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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."

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"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

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"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."

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"I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs."

Age

"I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others."

Thought

"I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with."

Artist

"DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more."

Music

"We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!"

Time

"The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other."

Work

"My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort."

Work

"As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box."

Effect

"For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live."

Example

"I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."

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