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<<I remember listening to Adrian Belew's "Desire Caught By The Tail" and thinking, "Adrian's got a new Guitar Synth and he wanked around with it and made an album." All but a few tracks seemed thin in the content world... unless you think of them as an album about the GR-300. (not sure if this was the model, but you know...)>> Actually, I believe he used both the GR-300 and GR-700 on that album. I remember reading an interview he did in Guitar World where he said he found out how to make GR-700 do things it wasn't really meant to do. He also played dobro and percussion on that album, as well using one of those boxes with the plastic record inside of it for the laughing heard on The Laughing Man. So it's not all guitar synth "wanking". <<But he stuck with the Guitar Synth and quickly learned how to *use* it, instead of showcasing it's features. >> Actually, he had been using the guitar synths for several years by the time Desire Caught By The Tail came out. He used the GR-300 on his second album Twang Bar King (recently reissued in Japan and available via AdrianBelew.net and Disciplineglobalmobile.com) and King Crimson's Beat and Three Of A Perfect Pair. He may have also used it on Discipline, but I'm not positive if he and Fripp had them at that point. Based on what I hear on those records, I would suspect Adrian already KNEW how to use a guitar synth by the time he got to Desire Caught By The Tail. As to whether or not what Adrian does on that particular record is wanking, I'd have to go back and listen to it again to give you my thoughts therein. ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com