In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.
BRIAN ENOA responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation – probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.
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Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the – they’ve had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads.
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Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
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People who are very confident in themselves aren’t hurt by criticism. They make use of it.
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I wanted quite the opposite of that. I wanted them to accent their styles, so that they pulled away.
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I often work by avoidance.
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The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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When I was working with Talking Heads what would happen typically is that they would go out and start playing a track, and I would always run the tape.
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I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.
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Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult
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Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!
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The muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn’t how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They’re using their whole body to make music, in fact.
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One often makes music to supplement one’s world.
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