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Leo Kottke

I have always thought of myse...

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

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Leo Kottke

I was two and a half and my f...

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.

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Leo Kottke

I was required by Capital to ...

I was required by Capital to release one every six months and the fastest I could do with all my touring was every nine months, and it would spook me every time because I never had what I needed and I really didn't want to do covers.

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Leo Kottke

We spent a lot of time on tha...

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

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Leo Kottke

It is not a mystical thing, h...

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

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Leo Kottke

There are nights when you can...

There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

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Leo Kottke

I do have a library of events...

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

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Leo Kottke

The bulk of my set is instrum...

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

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Leo Kottke

When a record company looks a...

When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.

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Leo Kottke

That was when I found out tha...

That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.

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Leo Kottke

With all these great (guitar ...

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

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Leo Kottke

Yeah I do and I don't mind, i...

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

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Leo Kottke

I think that open tunings are...

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

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Leo Kottke

It was a kind of paralysis yo...

It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.

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Leo Kottke

I'm not subject to their rise...

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!

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You can't really tell what th...

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

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Leo Kottke

I will literally open my mout...

I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

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Leo Kottke

I was taking a nose dive some...

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

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Leo Kottke

It depends on the time of the...

It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.

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The principle element in a pe...

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

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