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I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.
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We played with Rush somewhere way early in our career.
- Like
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I like Harvey Mandel.
- Any
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I don't know any American rock bands.
- Never
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I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.
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I'm kind of a goony guy, a dweeb or a geek.
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When I write songs, it's just me and a cassette player - or at least it used to be before smartphones - to quickly record a basic idea.
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If you don't have a great chorus, write a good bridge first. I often do that and find I write good bridges.
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Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.
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Living someplace like L.A. seemed awful to me.
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I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend.
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The only time I have a problem is when I have to get in a vehicle after we play and sit there in a cramped position for a couple of hours to drive to the next place. Then I get super stiff.
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Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.
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I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' and that was the last guitar lesson that I ever took, so I taught myself what I wanted to know.
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If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.
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When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.
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If you can say something special on the guitar, then you're going to perk my ears up. But if you're just gonna run through all the scales, then I can always find something else to listen to.
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Duane Eddy is somebody I wanted to play like. I discovered him before The Beatles, and he totally got to me. He sent me a note back in 1977 and said that he really liked what Cheap Trick were doing. That's one of those 'Wow!' moments, you know?
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I knew the guys in the Allman Brothers way back in the day, before they were famous.
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - those guys were great.
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I love to be the loudest thing in the room.
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I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.
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There's no rush to ever put out a new Cheap Trick record. We put it out when we feel like it.
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Nobody wants to hear long speeches.
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We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.
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In 1977, I had Paul Rivera hotrod six Fender Deluxes for me. At that time, a lot of studio guys in L.A. were using those - not so much live guys but studio guys. They had terrific tone and great technique, and I was like, 'Well, I like having terrific tone even though I don't have any technique.'
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