Quotes by Wayne Kramer - Page 1

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Symptom
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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Ahead
Awhile
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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Movement
Fused
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If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
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Detroit
Booming
Context
Nightclub
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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
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Aesthetically
Economically
Unfortunately
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As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
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Chuck
Neighborhood
Time Music More
Played
Berry
Number
Formed
Learned
Rival
Ventures
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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Teen
Depressing
Musician
Spending
Teenager
Life My Life Rest
Factory
Opened
Otherwise
Possibilities
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Juvenile
Delinquent
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
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Guitarist
Pride
Rhythm
Second Rate
Technique
Great Pride
Solos
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Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
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Booze
Sex
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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Instruments
Perform
Early Days
None
Struggling
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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Lame
Saved
Standards
Material
Stretched
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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
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Acid
Bunch
Records
Blended
Styles
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You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
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Dilemma
Radio
Anywhere
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