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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Andy Summers

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Andy Summers
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 31
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More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
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I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.
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I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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