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	» Bio » Discographie » Sessions und Tourneen » Presseartikel » FAQ FAQ By Emiliano Mammini Could you tell me more about how you got involved with music and your early influences? Before I picked up the guitar I was doing electronics as my first hobby . My first musical influences were quite different on the hand it was The Stones and on the other hand Jean Michelle Jarre . I built myself an guitaramp and got my first Strat copy . After learning from a german instructor book i took a few lessons at a Jazz Guitarist . He thought that i was talented abd so he told me some scales , chords , theory etc ... He wanted me to play Jazz . I followed him for a fwe lessons but than we got into a conflict because i loved to play harder (i played him Deep Purple) and hr didn't like this kind of music ... So i stopped taking lessons ! But with his basics i could listen to the records and pick up the licks bit by bit myself . It was hard work , but also a very good training . So i formed my first band . As we started to play in local clubs and youth houses some other guitar players asked me to give them lessons . I got more and more students over the time and everybody was into something else . From Beatles to Police . Heavy Rock and Funk , so i listend to all kinds of music , which was very interesting and i had to learn it first before i could show it to my students . Again hard work , good training and lots of fun ! With the band we played a mixture of styles from rock to pop to "fake jazz" funk ... i was listening to Deep Purple , The Stones , the who , pink Floyd , Toto , return To Forever and all of this late 80's pop on the radio . I saw you playing in Rimini (Italy) and I was quite surprised from the fact that you are German and you play that incredibly melodic music...full of good taste and perfect sounds. You know, it seems that Germany is very attracted to Metal, Power-Prog music and not in instrumental rock. What do you think about the situation in Europe for musicians like yourself? You know, German Music has different faces. There is the harder side like Scorpions , Accept , Doro Pesch , Nina Hagen and now Ramstein , on the other side there is this bizarre stuff like Kraftwerk , Tangerine Dream ... but even before i played the guitar i liked melodies from songs of the Beatles and the music i was listening on the radio . I think this was always in my head and whwn i was listening to what i was playing , i always liked the more melodic bits . Later i listened also Santana , Neil schon , Gary Moore and my hero Jeff Beck . To find out what makes the guitar really "speak" . I'm doing studio work for many artists like Hazel O'Connor , Culter Beat ... and many German Artists that are not released outside Germany and i was also touring with some German bands like Tic Tac Toe , Purple Schulz , Rainbirds ... but at the moment the electronic dance music is very strong in Germany , that's why i do an instrumental album once in a while to show that the guitar is a beautiful instrument to express myself that can do more than just riffs and noise ! I think after this cold electronic periode there will be some "warm hearted" music again !!! I think we will listening more of this in the future . Besides my work for other people i will work on my own projects and mayby you'll never know you might hear something from me on the radio or on television ... You have done lots of co-productions with different bands and have released two solo albums since 1997. What are you doing at the moment and are you planning a new release? Yeah ! There are two things i'm doing right now . 1-Working on some pop songs this will be only released when it's finished ... But there is no dead line (maybe never ... ah ah ...) and 2-I think i'm going for my third instrumental album . If you want to get the news please check on my website . I planned to do it the next winter . How did your recent tour-clinic with Hughes & Kettner come up? Since my first hobby was electronics i'm not only a guitar player i can also talk to a technician in a way that he accepts me . So H&K asked me to be involved in your designs to give them my experience . I know H&K for many years i also work on some productions with them . I'm part of their designers team . For me it is good to play on some trade shows to see what's going on (like Rimini for example)! I would like to know what you usually use in the studio as well as in a live context. In the studio i use "everything that sound good" . It depends on the music . I have a collection of guitars : Gibson ES 335 , Tele , Les Paul , A Custom Maple Strat and my main Guitar , my 61 strat . Some classic Amps Vintage Fenders , Marshall Plexi 50/100 watt (without Mastervolume) , a H&K Triamp and many footpedals+wah like Old Vox/George Dennis Switch Wah , Small Stone , H&K Replex Delay ... Live i use my Triamp with EL 34 , a 412 Cabinet , an old Quadroverb , my Wha and an all access Midi Switcher . My Guitar is mostly my 61 strat a spare strat , sometimes a Guild Acoustic . What are the three songs of all-time that you wish you would have written?* Ha ... ha ... "Yesterday" by The Beatles , than i wouldn't have to work anymore ! "Hotel California" by Eagles , "Roxanne" by The police , "Whole Lotta love" by Led Zep . What is music for you? And what suggestions could you give to our Italian and American guitarists in order to become better musicians? Music is an international language that everybody can understand . Just express yourself ! Don't imitate to much it's good to learn some musical vocabulary/technique , but i think every person has it's own little story to tell in music . You shouldn't get too confused by all this technique and licks . Be yourself and play it from bottom of your heart !!! Ciao !!!
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