ROGER
"In Burma, I made extensive use of two effects, both custom made for me in the early '80s by producer Lou Giordano. The Vacu-Fuzz (a Big Muff on steroids) and The Vacu-Trem (a tremolo unit on steroids - this unit can tremolo so fast that it actually amplitude modulates and it sounds like I'm playing three or four chords 1/16th step apart from each other...).

20 years ago I used a 50-watt Marshall amp in Burma.

"I'd been using a Strat in early Burma work, but, no matter what I did, the feedback and sound folded directly back into Hendrix (a God in my book), and I wanted to make my own mark. The Lead I came out in 1980, brand-spanking new. No one else had used it so it was like a virgin for me - love and lust at first touch. The only other player that I knew of to use one was Pat Place from the Bush Tetras.

I started using the Strat at the first recent Burma rehearsals, but it just didn't sound/feel right, so I switched to a Lead I with a Seymour Duncan by the bridge. I also use a junky '60s Kay hollow-body electric: it's s_ _ _, really, if played normally. But I use three low E strings for the bottom three strings, and three G strings for the top three strings (tuned to a G#), so it has a sound that is very interestingly rich and the junkiness of the guitar is overcome by simplistic unorthodox barring. Amuses me to no end. I use the same guitars in the studio as live."

[collected from MMR Magazine, Sept. 2002]