![]() ![]() ![]() “The thing is that I also like to have lyrics that are inclusive, that give you space to be inside them, to put your experience on to them, so that they can move through other moments.” Plus you have to jump around and get nipple piercings.” Once you have stacks of Marshalls, you need stacks of people to take care of them. Otherwise it’s mindless thrusting that brings nothing but repulsion. I want the idea and the sound of the idea to intoxicate–not the voltage. But that doesn’t mean that aspect doesn’t exist – you’ve just got to find it.” It’s like when people have real hard, meaningless sex all the time they become insensitive – to me that’s like what the guitar has become. The guitar is a mysterious instrument, but a lot of the mystery has gone or has been hidden. When I first got a guitar I used to put my marbles on it and listen to them rolling down my guitar – that’s more like what I play like now. “I admit it, for a time I delved into the evils of what being a guitar player can bring, what I call the God of Wank syndrome. ![]() ![]() Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.” “Our suffering is peeling off and revealing a brand new skin, a new power. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.” Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. If you let yourself listen with the whole of yourself, you will have the pure feeling of flight while firmly rooted to the ground. “Rentless, endless joy peaking into tears, resting in calmness, a simmering beauty. I don’t see any heart, I just see a lot of chops and whizzkid bullshit, and a lot of damage being done. All I see there is a lot of people who are afraid of what real music is. Fusion or jazz rock just annoys the hell out of me, especially the fact that it’s still here today. He gave me a really deep love of jazz, the stuff where the composition has a seduction to it. “When I was younger I wanted to be Miles Davis. Not dance, not making love, but sacrifice. “The crucifix is a monument to what people really truly want to believe about life – the sick notion that suffering is the ultimate expression of this life. All those blues guys used to tune the G string a little bit sharper, and though that makes it out of tune, it tempers the sound in other ways. I mean, you listen to it – you get it in tune in G and it’s never in tune in E major, and when you get in tune E major it’s not in tune in G. “I’m convinced that the guitar must have been invented in a bar by some drunken Spaniard, some guy who’d just been kicked out of his house. I use loads of tunings and that’s where you get different and interesting tonalitites whilst still being guitar-ish, and simultaneously creating texture and drama.” Then I got really into tunings and that’s how I found my cornucopia. Because of my interest in jazz, modality and harmonies were all things I enjoyed, but playing it on the guitar I just sounded like a complete wanker, some lounge bar guy. Rhythm and melody are the king and queen and it’s all to support the voice – ask Keith Richards, ask Robert Johnson. “It’s all about supporting the voice – any real guitar player should know that. “If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.” Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.” ![]()
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