and the days are breezing by
Tom Morello on not chasing gear and creating stuff
"It is my view that the kind of guitar you have, the kind of pick-ups, the kind of strings, amplifiers make no difference whatsoever with the kind of music that you make. [...] Here's the forest not the trees answer for you. This guitar that he's asking about my favorite one. It was horrible and I tried to make it sound great and I was unable to. I switched the neck ten times and the pickups ten times, and the strings and I put little pieces of dead weight on it. It never sounded great to me and I had this amp too that I was just like frustrated with. So one day I went in there and I just, I spent hours fiddling, and finally gave up. I got it as good as I wanted it to sound. I was not satisfied with it. It was not the tone I wanted. I marked the amplifier like this is the best that I can do and it's not what I want. This is the guitar, I set it aside. I'm never going to think about it again. I'm going to use this sound in this guitar to n...