Occupation: Guitarist Birth: December 31, 1942
Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpape….
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar..
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument..
If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums..
If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger..
I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets….
I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work..
You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody..
It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band..
Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someon….
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too..
The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to get ….
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe..
You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and ….
I think rock records tend to be very expensive..
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards..
'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is….
Commercial record has never interested me. It's amazing I was in a band like The Police that had such phenomenal commercial success. Part of what mad….
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mos….
There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an intellectual response. And an aesthetic response….
To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's ….