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fingers, you’ve got the strings. You’ve got the fretboard and you’ve got the amp, and in many
people’s cases, lots of pedals, but I don’t use lots of pedals, personally.

BiTS: So how do you vary the tone and that sort of thing?

RK: Turning up and down on the volume and winding the tone up and down on the tone controls

on the guitar. I do have an overdrive pedal and a wah wah, but that’s it.
BiTS: Okay, that’s absolutely fascinating. I saw Roy Buchanan, many years ago, who was a man
who had magnificent control using the knobs, which I guess is what you’re aiming for as well.

RK: There’s nothing worse than playing with people that turn up full on and it doesn’t change.
It’s so undynamic and it’s so exhausting and if you’re in that musical situation yourself, if I find
myself in that musical situation and it’s my turn to take a solo and they don’t turn down, it’s
horrible.

BiTS: Oh, yes. I can see that. Absolutely.

RK: Does your head in. You’ve got no space to think. So that’s pretty bad playing, I would say,
if that happens. So we turn up and down all the time. I turn up and down all the time, even
within the context of a few bars, just to emphasise a note or whatever. Just dynamics.

BiTS: Do you do a lot of practice, Rob?

RK: I do, yes. As one should. I practise every day.

BiTS: For a specific period of time or just noodling?

RK: Not for a specific period of time. You start practising rather than hopefully just noodling
and as soon as you feel a little bit tired or you just need to stop for a bit, then it’s best to stop
because you won’t be getting anything out of the practice at that point onwards.