“I found with a couple of the right pedals I could go anywhere and sound like me, which has more to do with limited playing skills and the chords that I make than anything else. It evolved from my frustration with being a really fucking mediocre guitar player when I was learning to play. A lot of my friends could play along with records and I couldn’t do that at all. But what I could do was build the shit together and build little fuzz boxes and wah wahs from diagrams in magazines. I would build them inside my guitar to make noises and textures. I was really keen on effects pedals. This was the late ’70s, and I would scrape what money I had together to buy flangers and analog delay pedals. It was a way of making me sound different than anyone else. Everybody else could play better than me, but nobody could sound like me.”
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