The Beauty Of The Band Was You

I'm Obsessed - Not Just Interested, Obsessed - With Folk Music, Street Music, The Parallels Between A Country's Street Music And Its So-called Classical And Intellectual Music, The Way Certain Scales Have Travelled Right Across The Globe. All This Ethnological And Musical Interaction Fascinates Me. Have You Heard Any Trance Music? That's The Thing.

You Know What You Can Gain When You Sit Down With The Moroccans. As A Person And As A Musician. That's How You Grow.

I Feel Aleister Crowley Is A Misunderstood Genius Of The 20th Century. Because His Whole Thing Was Liberation Of The Person, Of The Entity, And That Restrictions Would Foul You Up, Lead To Frustration Which Leads To Violence, Crime, Mental Breakdown, Depending On What Sort Of Makeup You Have Underneath. The Further This Age We're In Now Gets Into Technology And Alienation, A Lot Of The Points He's Made Seem To Manifest Themselves All Down The Line.

I Suggested Back In 1980 To Do A Chronological Live Album, But There Wasn't That Much Enthusiasm For It.

The Guitar To Me, From The Classical/gut-string Guitar Right Through To Hendrix, Et Cetera, Has All The Range [of Sound]. Within Those Six Strings It Is Incredible What One Can Get Sound-wise. It's Just Down To Imagination, Really.