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Wayne Kramer

I was a little ahead of him b...

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

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Wayne Kramer

If you put this in the contex...

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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Wayne Kramer

Aesthetically, we were enormo...

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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Wayne Kramer

When we first met, I was tryi...

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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Wayne Kramer

As time went on, we formed a ...

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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Wayne Kramer

You get on the radio by writi...

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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Wayne Kramer

We played together for so lon...

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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Wayne Kramer

It wasn't a class system wher...

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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Wayne Kramer

When I first started playing ...

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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Wayne Kramer

Drugs, sex, booze, all the st...

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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Wayne Kramer

When we first started playing...

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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Wayne Kramer

It created kind of a problem i...

It created kind of a problem in the early days because if you didn't play the kind of music that they were playing on the radio, you couldn't work.

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Wayne Kramer

Not what we were hearing on th...

Not what we were hearing on the radio but you had to search it out.

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Wayne Kramer

It was about a lot of heat and...

It was about a lot of heat and energy, like the music of James Brown, black gospel music.

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Wayne Kramer

We later became articulate eno...

We later became articulate enough to define it as music that was real visceral.

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Wayne Kramer

We gravitated to a certain kin...

We gravitated to a certain kind of material, like the music of Chuck Berry and instrumental records and certain records that had a... what we'd call... 'high energy'.

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Wayne Kramer

We were struggling how to lear...

We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

Wayne Kramer 64 quotes
Wayne Kramer

When we first started playing ...

When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet.

Wayne Kramer 64 quotes
Wayne Kramer

My step-father was from the So...

My step-father was from the South so we had a guitar laying around and music was part of the day-to-day routine.

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Wayne Kramer

His father was from the South ...

His father was from the South and most Southern homes have a guitar laying around.

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