As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly.

The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.

A rainbow is a storm's masterpiece.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

As a musician usually music is your way out.

One simply turns to the ideological vending machine, and out comes the prepared formulae.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.