I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My main goal was to have something for everyone and not just one sound.
The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.