It was getting very stodgy. I was getting so depressed by ’65 because I was 10 years too late to be around the Gene Vincent, Cliff Gallup thing, and I bitterly resent that. Yeah, well that’s not necessarily a good thing. It’s like taking a bit of vanilla ice cream and pouring something else over it to cover up the vanilla. You either like vanilla or you don’t.

I mean, you can make it better with chocolate sauce, but it’s not right when you try to put another flavor in.

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Buchanan pioneered expressive playing techniques like creating tone and volume swells by manipulating his guitar’s control knobs. Interview with Carmine Appice". DMME.net. May 2000. Archived from the original on 12 July 2015 . Retrieved 29 March 2017.I didn’t like the ’60s and ’70s basically. I hated them. The mid ’60s were okay, because every day was a hurricane in the Yardbirds and I could afford to look at it with contempt; around me were a lot of things I had nothing to do with, like flower power and awful things like flared trousers. Strings/tuning: Unknown (probably Ernie Ball Super Slinky .009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042)/standard