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Adrian Belew

"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

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"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

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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 had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."

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"I love drums and still play frequently."
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"King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe."
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"I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder."
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"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."
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"I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with."
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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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"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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