Bruce Gilbert (born Bruce Clifford Gilbert, 18 May 1946, Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, and a pioneer in the experimental noise scene.
He studied art in a British school and found a niche in the budding avant-garde music scene in late 1960s England. Gilbert's experimental inclinations in his musical tastes later influenced his guitar playing in Wi...
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Bruce Gilbert (born Bruce Clifford Gilbert, 18 May 1946, Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, and a pioneer in the experimental noise scene.
He studied art in a British school and found a niche in the budding avant-garde music scene in late 1960s England. Gilbert's experimental inclinations in his musical tastes later influenced his guitar playing in Wire. While in Wire he was known as the most experimental member of the group.
Although not properly trained as a guitarist, he provided much of the experimental guitar heard in most Wire songs with distortion pedals and other effects.
Gilbert explains how he became a member of Wire; "It all came about by accident. I was working as an AV technician in charge of a small studio at Watford college. I was fiddling about as usual, making strange tapes with one of the students. We were planning to do a Tangerine Dream-ish sort of thing, but more...
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