what am I doing.
are we going down this path again?
are we going down this path again?
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...