mudshark

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There's something about the camaraderie of engineers that's very similar to musicians, especially guitar players. Guitar players are like a clan. We love each other no matter how we play the guitar. There's just some unspoken thing, which all guitar players have in common. We'll hang out together even when we're not playing, and we have a feeling for each other, like a brotherhood. I don't think one saxophone player ever talks to another sax player away from the gig, but guitar players are a very close bunch, and I found it to be the same with engineers. So in the garage, we had musicians creating, we had engineers creating, and everything married because we were all in it together. And you couldn't have planned it because trying to plan it would've killed the creative chemistry. It was a very special thing that happened there, because it had to happen. - Les Paul, except from LES PAUL: IN HIS OWN WORDS

Bill Frisell on guitar; Naked City was one of many John Zorn lineups.