What kind of electronic devices?
I get a lot of cool sounds out of an Epilady. It uses a spinning wire — almost like a guitar string — to rip the hair off a woman’s legs. I place it over the pickups and control the speed of the motor by keeping my thumb on the coil. I got the idea from Dave Navarro, who I once saw perform a solo with a vibrator when he was in Jane’s Addiction. I thought that was so cool. And then I started listening to German industrial bands such as Einsturzende Neubauten who use crazy stuff on their instruments to take their sound to another place. So I’ll buy a bunch of toys, rip the guts out, and use the motors to make some noises. You also use alternate tunings. I use dropped-D because I like to have an evil tone, and I can get a lot of weird sounds and textures by simply moving my fingers around. After I had been playing dropped-D for a while, I started doing dropped-B, and then, on the song “Parabola,” I tried dropped-B/E. It’s normal 440 tuning, but the E string is dropped to B and the A str
