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to make the guitar sound a little bit like a voice or a violin or like a trumpet. An electric guitar is a natural born synthesizer anyway. Before we had synths, guitars were doing that as far back as The Rolling Stones doing “Satisfaction.” When I first heard that as a kid in the early ‘60s, I thought “oh, what are they doing getting in trumpets? What’s going on here?” So the illusion was complete. Guitar is good at that sort of stuff. It’s very adaptable. You get a lot of different sounds. Steve Howe]. The [self-titled 1986 album] has just been re-released along with the live album in o