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I started playing guitar in the surf era and wanted to play like my heroes the Ventures. In the late sixties put the output of a small Silvertone amp directly into a bigger Silvertone amp and had some nice distortion, trying to emulate Jeff Beck. A friend showed me how to take the guts out of a Gibson Fuzz stomp box and replace them with the guts of a portable tape recorder, - again looking for that nice sustain. This same friend built me a box, which I called my ‘crazy box’, which I used in ‘Listen', the band I was in in England from 1970 to 1973. I took up classical guitar in England which I think helped our band win the first ever Melody Maker rock contest (because we gave some relief to the judges' tired ears by starting with an acoustic number). I didn’t play as much popular music as I would have liked for much of the 70s until my senior recital where I wrote some originals for a big band with a string quartet and horn section. Recording-wise: Two track portables in the sixties, four track Teac in the 1970s. When I got to Japan in 1981, I got an eight track Teac and an old broadcast mixer, then a 16 track Ampex, then a 24 track MCI, and 32 channel Quad Eight board for my home studio. Sooooo glad to get rid of that analog stuff and transfer everything to ADATxts and eventually to computer. Suits my way of working much better. Still working on bringing back some of those old tracks to life. There are a couple from the eighties I recently added to my soundcloud account. (see link below) Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch https://soundcloud.com/ed-durbrow http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/