Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.
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I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
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