If You Can Play Well In The

I'm Not One For Sitting Around Listening To My Own Music, Because I Tend To Cringe And Think That I Could Have Done Better. I Also Suffer From Red Light Syndrome Quite A Lot. I Tend To Narrow My Thinking When The Red Light Goes On To Record. Instead Of Just Relaxing And Playing And Emoting, I Think Of Time Being Wasted So I Won't Take A Chance On Something. Consequently, When I Hear It Back, I Think, "why The Hell Did I Play It So Safe On That Piece Of Music When I Could Have Really Opened Up?" Well, It's Because Of Not Wanting To Make A Mistake.

I Can Do The Old Hand Vibrato Just Fine, But I Like Attacking The Strings.

Sometimes If I'm Not Playing Well On Stage, I'll Purposely Play Even Worse; I'll Tear It Apart, Because I'm So Disgusted With What I'm Playing That I'll Go The Wrong Route: Instead Of Trying To Make It Better, I'll Go The Other Way And Really Make Myself Sound Bad. Which Is A Kind Of A Strange Outlook I Suppose, Really.

A Lot Of Blues Guitarists Play With Only Three Fingers, And They Can't Figure Out Certain Runs That Require The Use Of Their Little Fingers. Classical Training Is Good For That.

I'm Not Into That Keith Richard Trip Of Having All Those Guitars In Different Tunings. I Never Liked The Rolling Stones Much Anyway.