Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
I tried playing electric for awhile and it just didn't work out. My reflexes are centered on the six string acoustic. I just played the electric too hard and it sounded awful, so I gave it up.
I've always been fond of acoustic music.
So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
The acoustics seem to get louder
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
