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I play guitar.

Have done for ages...
... well, about a third of a century.

Recent years my thing has been to do it using a loop pedal. I'll play some chords and loop them, live, then maybe layer some bass and percussive sounds to give a nice wallpaper-like backing to improvise over, all using the same guitar.

As for style, I think it's cool if you've got one.

I'm pretty into improv as an ethic. I generally dislike things which have been too thought through and practised because I think it kills the spirit; it all gets closer to bureaucracy than music.

I also love guitars and all things about them. I started learning about how they're put together when at school, made my first solid body before leaving school and I'm still fascinated with the qualities of wood and techniques of construction as well as what all this does to the final sound. A sensual science.

Guitar making is the nearest thing to creating life that human endeavour has managed.

Stuff DNA and Frankenstein, it's the tonewoods.