“The Yamaha keyboard was one of the first multi-phonic synthesizers that you could play more than one note on and it had this blast patch that you know Tommy used on everything. I really hate that sound. It infested and infused that period for me. I could never understand why such a wonderful musician would love to make that sound on purpose and do it all the time on every song.” – Scott Thunes, 25 January 2012
The complete interview with Scott can be found in Andrew's book Frank Talk: The Inside Stories Of Zappa's Other People (Wymer UK, 2017).
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Photo of Scott with the Idiot Bastard taken by John Campbell at London’s Roundhouse in November 2010.