Why did you leave Procol Harum?
On Broken Barricades I was starting to spread my wings a bit, and I was getting more into writing songs. Obviously, if you write a song, and you’re a guitarist, there’s going to be more guitar in it. That was the beginning of me leaving the band; I was fascinated by being able to write music for the guitar. On Twice Removed From Yesterday, a song such as “I Can’t Wait Much Longer” has a slow, pulsing, ethereal sound. How did you get that? That’s just a Univox Univibe [vibrato/phase unit] that does it. On the LP I also had an Arbiter Fuzz Face and a 100-watt Marshall with two 4x10s which had a very good sound until they got knocked out, and then they went very dead. Whereas with the 12s, the more you play them the better they sound. Do you prefer a tube or a transistor amplifier? Tubes, definitely. You can’t get a transistor amp to sing, it’s only tubes that will do that. Are you using an Echoplex on “Hannah” [Twice Removed From Yesterday]? No, that’s just the backing guitar and the lea
