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I Remember You Would Record A Guitar Part, And We Would Have To Sit There For 15 Or 20 Minutes Waiting For The Computer To Process It. You'd See The Little Wheel Spinning On The Computer, And You'd Be Praying That The Hard Drive Didn't Crash And You Didn't Lose The Performance.

The Only Way I Was Allowed To Play Was By Convincing Bands To Let Me Do A Few Songs While They Set Up. That Went On For Years.

I'm Always Looking For Older Equipment And Ways Of Recording, But You Can't Escape The Fact That It's All Going To Be Digitized And Reduced. I Do Think Music Sounds Better When It's On Tape And More Simply Recorded. I've Been Arguing With People For 10 Years About Tape Versus Digital, And I Believe Tape Is Absolutely Essential In Getting The Sound That's Conducive To The Enjoyment Of Music. I Wonder If It's Going To Go Back To That. Sometimes I Think It Has To. As Music Becomes More Computer-based, It's Lost Some Emotional Impact.

There Are Plenty Of Minutemen. People Willing To Be Minutemen. Where Are The People That Want To Be George Washington? Where Are The Benjamin Franklins? Where Is Sam Adams? Where Is John Adams?

Just Out Of Curiosity, I Wonder What Makes Music Or Culture Or Taste Go In Certain Directions. Who Knows What The Forces Are Behind It.