“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.” WayUseFatherWrittenStyleProduceLateMachinesCriticsGuitarStartingHatsClarinetSynthesizers Author:Pete Townshend
“Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.” FirstsLittlesHas BeensPurposeSpeakCreativeRocksInvolvedBandBeatsMachinesInstrumentsGuitarDrivenRhythmEtcProgressiveBassEmulateHelmArticulationInstrumentation Author:Justin Broadrick
“I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The guitar is serving the song I'm writing. But I'm learning how to play keyboard better now so that'll start serving the song as well; it'll be another flavor. I'm not going to switch it up with big, fat drum machine beats and real swoopy synths, but yeah...” KnowsWritingWellsRealReasonPlayBigsSongKnow HowBandBeatsMachinesYeahInstrumentsGuitarFatsServingFlavorKeyboardsBetter Now Author:Mac DeMarco
“I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.” SongMistakeHappenedCrazyMachinesGuitarMessFasterGigsAcousticsCover UpsImprovisingNew SongsAcoustic Guitar Author:Violante Placido
“One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on guitars and drum machines in my buddy's apartment, to a bike ride through the parks and up and down the streets all over the city, to the ocean, right into the water. I remember we were swimming outer ways and we got to a certain place where we wanted to see - or I wanted to see - how deep the water was.” WayWantedRememberCertainWaterCitiesOne ThingStreetsOceanMachinesGuitarLifestyleParksSwimmingApartmentBikeUp And DownBuddyNew Zealand Author:Gabriel Mann
“I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.” MadeWantedMastersUniqueToolsMachinesInstrumentsGuitarReally Happy Author:Jamie Lidell
“There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.” TryingSaidSoundMachinesGuitarDrummerSynthesizersGuitar Sound Author:Matt Tong