I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.
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.
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
I've always toured solo acoustic.
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.
I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
My sound is super hybrid; the acoustic sounds are there and the electronic sounds are there.
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.