Never one to blow his own nose, lead guitar player Ted Nugent points out: "I listen to myself and I go, 'Who is this guy?' The speed, the dexterity, the weird note configurations – you won't find these anywhere else. I'm constantly moved by my playing." Further west, ideally. (P36)

Dave Bristow suggests a remarkably concise display for the forthcoming Yamaha CX5 computer: "RIGHT, SO YOU KNOW HOW TO WORK ME AS A PROGRAM. SO WHAT? WHAT CAN YOU DO?" That way, computer buffs will shy away (with luck) while computer buffoons can get on with making music. (P16)

"A lot of brilliant bassists do all that popping stuff, but they're stuck with it," explains Marlon from Fashion. "When it comes to doing something else, it's: 'We'll have to get a fretless player in to do this...' So it's really valuable being versatile." (P76)

Joke from Andy Summers, in the depth of Arny's Shack studio in Bournemouth: "Did you know Arny wrote to Frank Sinatra to see if he could do his next album? And Frank wrote back and said no, you can't. And did you know Frank can't spell?" (P42)

Gary Moore gets a freebie: "When I went to Japan last year a radio station said, 'If you come to visit us we'll give you a guitar.' So I said, 'OK, you can make it one of those vintage Strats.' So they bought me one." What is it: when you need, you don't get; when you get, you don't need? (P66)

Honeybone finds a word for Colbert's handwriting: "On the minus side, FORTH has been called a write-only language, meaning that it is virtually unreadable." (P27)

"Some chord books tell you how to barre the basic C chord. Some medical books show you how to break bones before resetting them." Thus spake Billy "Workout" Jenkins in his new series, "Restructuring The Body". (P32)

In the search for synthesis. Summers sees sense: "At one point I was thinking of getting the Synclavier because the Roland guitar synth does interface with that, but it's an enormous outlay of money, like buying a studio it's big, big, big... Sting's got one."