Merrell Fankhauser quotes

“There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There are many imitators but very few genuine articles. There is so much more to playing than a fast blur of notes, like feeling and emotion from the soul. It's like punctuating a sentence and knowing when to lay back and not fill up all the space. Those are the things I tried to teach my son Tim when he began playing.”
-- Merrell Fankhauser

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“I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something different. The Space Cossacks, Penetrators, The Fathoms, I really like The Falcons from Canada, Mike Beddoes is a really fine guitar player. I like Nokie Edwards of The Ventures, who gave me a guitar lesson once when we were playing opposite them in 1962 at The Rose Garden Ballroom in Pismo Beach. That's were The Impacts started and got signed to Del Fi in 1962.”
-- Merrell Fankhauser

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“When my band MU landed on Maui in 1973 we were greeted by a wonderful group of peace loving brothers & sisters who we immediately formed a bond with. We had two instant roadies, Spider & Richard, who helped with every move of our musical equipment. We settled into our house on the edge of the rainforest that eventually became a portable studio. We started rehearsing and booked the Lahaina Civic Auditorium for a full moon concert starring MU and a local band The Space Patrol.”
-- Merrell Fankhauser

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“This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.371, 1895.

“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95

“My music lives because of real players.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

“I want to be the best player to ever play this game.”

“I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!”

“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

“It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.”

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”

“I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.”