“You can give him a ukulele and he can make it sound like a Stradivarius.”

— Bob Ezrin

Regarding David Gilmour <br class="br"> Guitar World article on Bob Ezrin by Alan Di Perna, Feb. 1993 http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/ptr/pfloyd/interview/cc.html (url accessed on October 16, 2008)

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