Peter Banks
Peter Banks
Peter William Brockbankswas a British guitarist. He was the original guitarist of the progressive rock bands The Syn, Yes, Flash and Empire. The BBC's Danny Baker and Big George often called Banks "The architect of progressive music"...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth15 July 1947
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I tend to throw everything into these pieces and I don't want to do that, I've kind of burned myself out on that.
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biggest problem with that gig was that we had to play two sets. So we would play, come off, get changed, dry off... it was incredibly hot in there, it was about 120 degrees. The guitar just wouldn't stay in tune.
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Every day people call to tell us how much they love the product, ... We've already established a number or retail outlets and many, many satisfied customers.
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I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.
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I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!
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There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
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Yeah, there seems to be and there's the Internet thing which I would like to do. It's really just a question of fitting everything in.