I Boil The Strings So They Stretch.

And If I Would Have Taken Lessons I Probably Wouldn't Have Done It, And What Forced Me To Do All This Weird Stuff On The Guitar Was I Couldn't Afford Effects Pedals, I Didn't Have All This Stuff When I Was A Kid So I Just Tried To Squeeze All The Weird Noises I Could Out Of The Guitar, Which Brings Me To Building Guitars.

I Was Just A Punk Kid, Trying To Get A Sound Out Of A Guitar That I Couldn't Get Off The Rack, So I Built One Myself ... I Wanted A Gibson Type Of Sound But With A Strat Vibrato .. I Went To Town Painting It And I Put Three Pickups Back In, But They Don't Work - Only The Rear One Works

Before The Operation On My Left Hand I Wasn't Able To Stretch My Fingers Open All The Way. I've Never Had Very Big Hands, But I Could Do The Splits With Them. Eventually I Couldn't Any More. I Had A Twisted Tendon In My Little Finger That Prevented Me From Being Able To Stretch.

Holdsworth Is So Damned Good That I Can't Cop Anything. I Can't Understand What He's Doing. I've Got To Do This [does Two-hand Tapping], Whereas He'll Do It With One Hand.

Nirvana Was Huge, But It Didn't Appeal To Everyone.