I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
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I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.
By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
In the beginning, I was so inspired by the music. I had the option to make something modern with classic undertones, but I wanted to make something that was exactly like that old sound.
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.
I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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