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John Squire (guitarist, Stone Roses) : We were signing copies of our single She Bangs The Drum in a Manchester record shop called Eastern Bloc. The owner said we could pick a couple of albums as a thank-you and I picked out a breakbeats album because I liked the cover and I wanted to see what it was all about. That’s where I heard the Funky Drummer loop that we built Fools Gold around.
The construction of that single was completely different to anything we’d written before. It wasn’t something that we had knocked out and arranged on an acoustic guitar, then taken into rehearsals and kicked around with a drummer and a bassist. I just put it on a Portastudio and started playing guitar over it.
The main riff was partly inspired by Johnny Cash’s rockabilly plucking sound, that muted guitar sound you get when you just play on the bass strings.
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The construction of that single was completely different to anything we’d written before. It wasn’t something that we had knocked out and arranged on an acoustic guitar, then taken into rehearsals and kicked around with a drummer and a bassist. I just put it on a Portastudio and started playing guitar over it.
The main riff was partly inspired by Johnny Cash’s rockabilly plucking sound, that muted guitar sound you get when you just play on the bass strings.
(Source : not known)