Always With Me, Always With You

If you were to describe your sound, how would -?

I'm kind of immune to it, you know
I don't really know what it is, I'm always listening to and thinking about it
More in the line of the composition of it
And if I'm connecting with the emotional experience that provided the inspiration for the song
The sound of the guitar to sound like the feeling

And then other people tell me what I sound like, and I can kind of agree with it
But I think of it more like I really don't want a sound
I want to build a catalog of guitar sounds that are sort of like the way Hendrix did
He would write songs, and from song to song on a record, the guitar would sound different
Even within one song, he would have many different sounds
Representing these different feelings that would come at you over the speakers

And I thought that was just fantastic
And when I went back to other players that had one sound
And they played it song after song, record after record
I was instantly bored, I didn't like that sort of self-promotional message
That, you know, this is the way I sound
And, you know, rubber-stamping all the songs

So I try to stay away from that, I force myself to change my sound
Throw out the old amps in the boxes and get some new ones
Because they are, you know
Anything that makes a different sound for me is like an open door to my soul
When it comes to music