Wayne Kramer
Wayne Kramer
Wayne Krameris an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and television composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth30 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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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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The soul of America weeps for the dead youth of this illegal and immoral war. It is time to step up and be heard.
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(Oleg) lives on the dark side of that American dream. He's always next door playing with Nicky because he wants to (be a part of) that family. It's like a Pinocchio story in that he's not treated like a real kid - he doesn't have a real kid's life.
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Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
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To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods to be attractive and welcoming. The primary focus is to improve the quality of life.
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We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.
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We'll gather to address the short-term and long-term plan for the Elco.
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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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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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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.
I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after 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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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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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.