Guitar

“With my buddy Caden And his now wife, MK And my wife and I, Julia And I brought my guitar And was just playing some songs And Caden has like the best ear Of anyone I know He's like an A&R That's not Doesn't work in A&R And he heard Cole And he's like, please sing it again”

“for anything. I was just like, this is my outlet. This is my passion. I love playing guitar. I'm just going to pick it up and write. I had no reason to do that, but I wanted to, because that was just what I was so passionate about. Kind of like the bakery, like she wants to bake some fucking cakes.”

“a team of people who would maybe tune my fucking guitar before I go out there. And then you've got to negotiate because one of the fucking guitar techs has had to leave. So we need to get a new guitar tech.”

“and a little like melody for the chorus. Can I hear about it? Yeah. He's way better at playing it on guitar. So I'm probably gonna butcher it. Also, I haven't played it in so long.”

“I mean, there was a guitar in the back side of the room, and I'm thinking, okay, John motherfucking Bellion, okay, right? Gestured to a guitar, hey, you know, explain how he did. And he looked at it and he said, I don't know how to play that thing.”

“You're like, oh, I can get down to this party. You know, it's a good time. So I got that. Forget the lyrics. I remember. Yeah. I think, I think it's, yeah, I think it's sometimes the way that it's played on the guitar. You're playing different like minor chords and stuff like that. Um, but I like to lean into that. Like, I feel like. I love listening to music like that.”

“And I just, I've always wanted to do it. You know, I mean, since I was 11 years old when I first saw and held my first guitar, that was what I wanted to do. And really, it's kind of centered around playing guitar, although that's not what I'm necessarily known for, but that's what I enjoy the most, you know.”

“For what? What happened? I didn't show up anymore. I discovered the guitar. And I had a serious depression when I was a kid. I still deal with it. But I was failing in the only arena that was available to me at the time, which was school, you know, with friends in school and work and all that, school work.”

“And I just wasn't doing well and it was really dragging me down. And I discovered the guitar started staying away from school because I couldn't face going to school. But, you know, instead of playing video games and getting stoned, which wasn't available to me at that point, I was reading Robert Bloch and August Derlef and great writers because I loved horror and playing the guitar.”

“His name was Pete Watson. He was the leader of the band. I was a guitar player in the band. I wasn't a lead singer or anything. And he must have gone somewhere where we didn't go on the days off and picked up something.”

“I was the guitar player in this band. It was like a four-piece band. And I arranged this version of Eleanor Rigby that was, to me, now it sounds like Black Sabbath, although I'd never heard Black Sabbath back then.”

“they didn't pick him that he broke the band up. So I was a free agent and they said, well, you want to join us because our guitar player is leaving. So I said, okay, so I wore the pink thing for a while and I said, this has got to go. You couldn't deal with pink? Yeah. There's photos and it's horrible.”

“It's pretty bad. So I pushed them more because Led Zeppelin was on the horizon. I pushed him more into the guitar. You know, I've got to play guitar, and I wanted the guitar to be kind of the center of the thing. So I pushed him into a much heavier thing. And this Elna Rigby was our first really big hit that we had over there that I arranged.”

“You got to go solo. Why did she say that? I don't know. She just thought it was the next step for me. She thought getting back in another band and being the guitar player was, she said, she thought I had more to offer, more going for me and a better career if I went solo. So I released this Speak to the Sky song that I wrote for my mommy.”

“What's that? It's weird that rock and roll has kind of faded. I never thought the guitar would kind of become uncool. I thought once we got through disco, where it would just in the background, and suddenly there was ACDC, and you're going, oh, so God, the guitar is back.”

“Because there was disco and there were ballads on the radio. They didn't know what to do with a guitar-based pop record. So they finally released it. And that the whole DJ thing happened. What was the single that they released?”

“And in the middle of the show, the guitar tech brought it out to me and I smashed the shit out of it like this. Oh, wow. And Roger lost his shirt. He got, oh, my, he thought it was the real one.”

“You know, I kind of gravitate towards that. I've got to be doing something. And it was like I take a guitar to the beach. We go to Bora Bora, and I take a little guitar when I sit on the beach, because I can't just sit on the beach. It feels like kind of wasted time.”

“I was nervous. I was a blues band. I mean, I kind of was raised, my guitar playing was based on, you know, because of Clapton and all those guys, was based on a lot of the blues players, B.B. King and, you know, all the early players.”

“And she had a boyfriend there, and I would try and chat with her. I never really had chat with girls. That's one of the reasons that the guitar really helped there. I never could go up and go, hey, babe. I was not that, I was never that guy. So, um, and I tried to talk to her, and she had nothing, didn't want anything to do with me because she had a boyfriend.”

“It's interesting how many great musicians learned on their own. Yeah. Like Hendrix. Hendrix taught himself to play guitar. That's why he played it upside down, left-handed. He just made it work. Yeah. Yeah. Just figured out how to do it on his own. It's really interesting how, like, with, you know, when you just get an instrument and listen to other people use it and”

“play guitar, sing, drums, bass. So I'll bring in demos that totally created by you. Yeah, just sounds, they sound finished, you know, it's like, okay.”