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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: What can we say about Andy Summers, one third of

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Speaker 2: the Police the band.

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Speaker 3: He's been voted as one of the greatest all time guitarists.

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Speaker 1: By Rolling Stone, and why not have a listen to

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Speaker 1: some of these This.

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Speaker 4: Is Andy More Andy.

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Speaker 1: And we're thrilled to say here he is.

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Speaker 5: Well, hello, it's good to here.

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Speaker 1: That's a big deal. One of the greatest guitarists of

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Speaker 1: all time.

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Speaker 2: Do you know who you're surrounded by in that in

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Speaker 2: that category, Well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, most of them an't very good.

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Speaker 6: Actually, I don't advertate these things too seriously because I

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Speaker 6: could name another lot more guitarist that Rolling some would

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Speaker 6: not know about, didn't put in the thing and really

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Speaker 6: are much greater than many of the wants.

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Speaker 3: Sure, are you the kind of guitarist who has always

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Speaker 3: got a guitar in your hand if you're at home,

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Speaker 3: are you sitting guitar? Well?

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Speaker 5: No, I like that, I mean yeah, I mean I do.

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Speaker 6: It's sort of like a part of my body practically.

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Speaker 6: And I walked into a shop. Here's some guitar stuff,

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Speaker 6: but all the usual Vender's, Martins and all that, and

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Speaker 6: then there was this new, weird looking little guitar with

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Speaker 5: Thingy on it, and I picked it up. Oh my god,

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Speaker 5: that's magic, and I bought one.

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Speaker 6: It was in bright yellow, and I went straight on

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Speaker 6: stage that night and news did the show with that.

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Speaker 5: Then I thought, well, I've got to have another one.

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Speaker 5: I've got to have a backup for this.

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Speaker 6: So I went back to the next day and they

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Speaker 6: brought out this beautiful sort of surf green one. So

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Speaker 6: I've got two of them. So on this tour I

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Speaker 6: just did. It was a bit indulgent on that side

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Speaker 6: of things, but you see the bugs now left.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you got rid of the bug. How many

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Speaker 1: guitars do you have? Then?

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Speaker 5: I know one hundred and fifty two hundred or something.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's because I look at guitar, said Willie Nelson.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at Willie Nelson's acoustic guitar, and he's

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Speaker 2: had that for a thousand years and he's played it

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Speaker 2: so much it's actually worn out.

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Speaker 1: He's worn through the front of the guitar.

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Speaker 2: So I guess a big question to become monogamous with

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Speaker 2: your guitar, do you have one that like I know

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Speaker 2: Sting's got his base that he's headed for a thousand

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Speaker 2: years or do you just flip through the guitars.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's so many relationships.

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Speaker 6: It's a very good point because yeah, I've got all

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Speaker 6: these things, and I get given a lot by the way,

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Speaker 6: you know, like I just find just gave me a

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Speaker 6: beautiful news strat and I get given them and I've

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Speaker 6: done worked with like for instance, Fender, Martin and Gibbson

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Speaker 6: they all made Andy Summer's guitars, which is very nice

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Speaker 6: and you know, of course one feels very flattered that.

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Speaker 5: They would do that for you.

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Speaker 6: And you know, so I've acquired the number that I've

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Speaker 6: got over a period of years. I'm more about being

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Speaker 6: a musician and playing.

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Speaker 5: More than I've going to have that fifty eight. Let's more.

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Speaker 5: That's not really me.

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Speaker 3: Jones and I probably about twenty years ago went to

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Speaker 3: your photography exhibition in Sydney.

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Speaker 1: It was extraordinary.

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Speaker 3: And have you always when you don't have a guitar

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Speaker 3: in your hand had a camera in your hand?

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Speaker 6: Well, quite often that is the case, you know, because

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Speaker 6: I go on tour and of course I take my

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Speaker 6: likas with me. I used two m tense color one

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Speaker 6: and the black and white one. A few lenses, and

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Speaker 6: you know, I'm very happy to be out. You know,

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Speaker 6: if I'm on the stage and I'm hanging around or

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Speaker 6: other day off, I start thinking about photography a bit

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Speaker 5: So, yeah, it's present in my mind.

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Speaker 6: The point of this show is finally, after all these

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Speaker 6: years of doing both things, I finally brought them together

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Speaker 6: in one show.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean so tell us about the show?

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Speaker 6: Well, it is I think you would describe it as

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Speaker 6: a multi media you know.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's a big screen. I show various quite exotic.

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Speaker 6: Sequences of photography, so that in our play, say, it's

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Speaker 6: six minutes of visual imagery, and I've worked out a

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Speaker 6: new sort of guitar thing to do with it, and.

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Speaker 5: So I know what I'm going to do.

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Speaker 6: And that really comes down technically to the guitar pedals

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Speaker 6: that guitarists use. And I know what I'm going to do,

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Speaker 6: so I have a setup for each song.

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Speaker 2: Do you find that some guitarists get a bit obsessed

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Speaker 2: with their pedals sometimes when I'm watching a show you

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Speaker 2: pedal and you see the lead thing.

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Speaker 1: You go, okay, mate, you know, let's just let's just

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Speaker 1: get on with it, let's crack on do Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Well that's the same, you know, sort of nerdy mindset

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Speaker 6: that people get thousands of guitars, they're not really players.

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Speaker 6: And you can get the guys who just get so

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Speaker 6: involved in the pedals, but they aren't really producing much music.

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Speaker 6: Music's about learning called scales, harmony, time, all this rhythm.

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Speaker 5: That's music. Now you've got all these funny effects.

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Speaker 6: You can make sure it won't necessarily make you sound great,

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Speaker 6: but they'll give you an effect.

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Speaker 5: So you've got to find your place with it.

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Speaker 1: Because it's like that threat thing you know that Peter

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Speaker 1: Frampton used to use.

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Speaker 2: I forgot what to because that sounds good but it

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Speaker 2: looks really weird.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it's a good look.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, Frampton sort of stakes his claim with that

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Speaker 6: particular thing quite a few years ago, not for me.

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Speaker 2: Well, and Sting because he toy with different various instruments.

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Speaker 2: Did he like I remember he tinkered with a theoremon

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Speaker 2: and stuff like that. Did you ever think Sting just

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Speaker 2: stick with the bass, mate?

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Speaker 5: I might have, but in much more vulgar terms, I

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Speaker 5: won't go there.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So We're not going to see you with sort

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Speaker 3: of a one man band lined up with a hat

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Speaker 3: and drums and a whistle.

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Speaker 6: They going there, I mean in the show, I mean technically,

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Speaker 6: I actually use a few backing tracks, so it's a

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Speaker 6: ninth variety. I mean, I get a standing ovation every

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Speaker 6: single night.

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Speaker 2: So well, naturally, you're in one of the biggest supergroups

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Speaker 2: in the world, and you're one of the best guitarists

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Speaker 2: in the world.

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Speaker 1: Naturally the show is going to be pretty good. Andy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I mean, you know, it's a challenge because

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Speaker 6: you've got to get up there on your own. I

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Speaker 6: don't have bas and drums behind me or anything, but

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Speaker 6: I do use a little bit of backing track.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had a situation where Sting and Stuart

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Speaker 2: are in the crowd watching you, watching your show, unknown

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Speaker 2: by you.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I bet they are because they're jealous and

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Speaker 6: they want to know why I'm so much greater than now.

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Speaker 1: It's naturally obvious to me. Andy, it's so great to

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Speaker 1: talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Get your tickets for an evening with Andy Summers now

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Speaker 2: at ticketmaster dot com.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was lovely to talk to you. Thanks so much. Child, cheers,