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Wayne Kramer Quotes
American
-
Musician
April 30, 1948
Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
Wayne Kramer
Anything
Cause
Were
Symptom
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
Wayne Kramer
Night
End
Rock
First
Beatles
Lame
Saved
Standards
Stretched
Band
Bands
Before
Could
Material
Out
Played
Playing
Pretty
Really
Started
Were
Working
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
Wayne Kramer
You
Your
Writing
Radio
Dilemma
Able
Anyone
Anything
Anywhere
Because
Being
Could
Get
Had
Hear
Learned
Own
Play
Songs
Thought
Wanted
Were
Without
Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.
Wayne Kramer
Music
Sex
Want
About
Awful
Booze
Cause
Had
Idea
Learn
Most
Other
Problem
Stuff
Top
Wanted
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
Wayne Kramer
Work
You
Culture
Economy
Booming
Context
Detroit
Nightclub
Bands
Could
Everybody
Had
Jobs
Put
Where
Whole
When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
Wayne Kramer
People
Writing
Own
Us
Early Days
Instruments
Struggling
Able
About
Any
Days
Early
First
Had
How
Idea
Learn
None
Our
Perform
Play
Playing
Really
Songs
Started
Were
Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.
Wayne Kramer
Success
Future
Music
Band
Aesthetically
Economically
About
Any
Successful
Unfortunately
Were
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
Wayne Kramer
Me
Hate
Nothing
Expression
Fused
Fusion
Ever
Means
Movement
Really
Where
We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
Wayne Kramer
Today
Long
Together
Who
Acid
Blended
Styles
Bunch
Even
Got
Hear
Our
Played
Point
Really
Records
Sometimes
Sure
Too
Took
Where
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
Wayne Kramer
Great
Better
Pride
He
Great Pride
Guitarist
Rhythm
Second-Rate
Solos
Technique
Class
Guy
His
Play
Role
System
Took
Where
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
Wayne Kramer
Music
Time
More
Play
Berry
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Formed
Neighborhood
Rival
Ventures
Bands
Different
How
Learned
Number
Played
Songs
I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
Wayne Kramer
Ahead
Matter
Little
Him
Awhile
After
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
Me
Together
School
Someone
Delinquent
Juvenile
About
Around
Asked
Band
First
Guys
Knew
Met
Other
Play
Played
Put
Trying
Wanted
Who
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
Wayne Kramer
Life
My Life
Teen
Rest
Depressing
Factory
Opened
Possibilities
Teenager
Become
Could
Idea
Musician
Otherwise
Real
See
Some
Spending
Up
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