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Wayne Kramer

"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

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"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."

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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."

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"I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do."

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"That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs."

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Wayne Kramer
"You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking."

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Wayne Kramer
"If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work."

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Wayne Kramer
"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."

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Wayne Kramer
"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people."

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Wayne Kramer
"As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs."

Music

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Wayne Kramer
"Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything."

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Wayne Kramer
"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame."

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Wayne Kramer
"I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused."

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Wayne Kramer
"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future."

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Wayne Kramer
"When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos."

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