Eddie Lundon

"It started when Garry and I were still at school in about 1976. We used to play anything: Garry used to play a lot of bass then, and I played guitar. The first synthesiser we got was a Yamaha CS10. At the time I was going through a phase of liking Yamaha gear a lot because I had a Yamaha guitar, too - an SG2000. I had it for ages but unfortunately it was stolen recently, though I was lucky enough to get another one that's almost identical."

"We recorded a version of 'African and White' as an independent single that never came out. We did a demo of it on a Portastudio that we'd borrowed from a friend (again), and I remember we also used a DOD Analogue Delay for echo and so on. There was a 24-track studio really near to us in Liverpool that had its own record label, Inevitable Records. The people there really liked the demo and offered us some studio time instead of a cash advance. We re-recorded 'African and White' there with Jerry Lewis of Inevitable producing. That was the first time we'd ever been in a recording studio, and of course it was great fun, messing about with all that flashy equipment."

"Recording was the first thing we did because in those days we weren't very interested in playing live. We managed to get hold of an old Akai 4000 reel-to-reel, which we actually had for ages simply because it was the only thing we could afford. We had very little in the way of effects, just a Wem Copicat that we used on guitar and keyboards."

In this video (from the beginning), you can see him using his red Roland G-505.

"It started when Garry and I were still at school in about 1976. We used to play anything: Garry used to play a lot of bass then, and I played guitar. The first synthesiser we got was a Yamaha CS10. At the time I was going through a phase of liking Yamaha gear a lot because I had a Yamaha guitar, too - an SG2000. I had it for ages but unfortunately it was stolen recently, though I was lucky enough to get another one that's almost identical."

"Unlike a lot of guitarists I don't feel the need to have lots of different guitars for different sorts of songs. I've just got the SG2000 which I'm basically very happy with. I've also got a Roland guitar synth which I used on the first album and the last tour, but I don't use it much now. The sound is just a bit too thin: it doesn't make the guitar stand out enough amongst all the synths. To vary the sounds a bit I use a Roland 555 Chorus Echo and an SDE-2000."

"Unlike a lot of guitarists I don't feel the need to have lots of different guitars for different sorts of songs. I've just got the SG2000 which I'm basically very happy with. I've also got a Roland guitar synth which I used on the first album and the last tour, but I don't use it much now. The sound is just a bit too thin: it doesn't make the guitar stand out enough amongst all the synths. To vary the sounds a bit I use a Roland 555 Chorus Echo and an SDE-2000."

"Recording was the first thing we did because in those days we weren't very interested in playing live. We managed to get hold of an old Akai 4000 reel-to-reel, which we actually had for ages simply because it was the only thing we could afford. We had very little in the way of effects, just a Wem Copicat that we used on guitar and keyboards."