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"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers."
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"You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open."
Eye
"Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows."
Money
"Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s."
Fun
"There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it."
Participation
"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."
Guitar
"If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem."
Time
"Believing in something and being a part of something you believe in and watching it work and coming from it."
Work
"Then I got a gig with an older friend who had the equipment and he played in this bar. They would bring me in the bar through the backdoor and I would DJ in the back room most of the night. Then they'd take me out the backdoor, so I was never really in the bar."
Friendship
"With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot."
Technology
"I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers."
Music
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