Pink Floyd
The Wall (1979)
“That album was a paradigm shift for me. Back then, in the early Eighties, I was mostly into punk rock, like the Ramones, and I dabbled in a little Robin Trower and Black Sabbath here and there, but The Wall just shifted everything for me. I saw The Wall movie in ’82, before I really knew the record, and it was so overwhelming on the senses that it started getting me into the songwriting aspect of music and not just the one-dimensional rock and roll that I was into at the time. Everything that Pink Floyd encompassed on The Wall—the sounds, the textures, the storyline—changed everything I thought I knew.
“I started playing acoustic guitar after that, learning different types of things and not just beating the E chord to death like I had been. It amazed me that it was Pink Floyd’s 11th album and that they could still be that prolific after all that time. It was very inspiring to me.”
“You wanted me to come on your track and do something in a Spanish style. I thought, ‘I have to show him how I do it on the whole guitar’”: Marcin shows an astounded Will Smith his virtuosic guitar technique
“I probably hauled in 20 guitars. I listened to the record top to bottom, turned to him and said, ‘It doesn’t need anything’”: Jeff “Skunk” Baxter on the one studio session where he lugged a ton of guitar gear – and didn't use any of it
