Andy Summers

Psychotronic

Psychotronic

Bored Silly
...just played at a small theater near me. I had 2nd row seats right in front of him. As he's one of my favorite players ever, this was a must.
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Afterwards, I went to the stage door to have him sign my flanger, and hopefully chat a bit with him. Yahtzee on both counts. I asked him some deep Police questions that he'd said no one ever asked before.

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I love his playing and tonal palette.

In a 2017 interview about his sound and the use of the chorus effect:
"I created it sort of out of necessity; my mission was 'We're going to play for two hours each night as a trio,' so I wanted to have this fantastic, coloured guitar sound that was different for every song. So, I used the Echoplex, then a chorus, and a few other pedals…envelope filters. As we went on, I acquired more stuff and got a Pete Cornish board, but what was driving it was to invade and push the edge of what the guitar was supposed to sound like, and make it really interesting over a show. So, it wasn't just one straight sound all the time. I could move it around. And it was appreciated by many millions of people (laughs). Of course, it's very tired and a bit 'retro' now; I'm not very keen on it anymore. But in those days it was new, fresh, and exciting."
 
Awesome.

Easily one of the top influencers on the guitar of his time. So many players inspired by his unique playing.

Looks like a one man show - is he looping a lot?
 
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