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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."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
Explore more quotes by Alvin Lee
"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics."
"Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it."
"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up."
"We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised."
"It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end."
"He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!"
"The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird."
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