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With Hall & Oates: G.E. Smith — "Call me a contemporary commercial pop-rock guitar player."

Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, February 1986

"IF THERE'S anything worth writing about me, it's that I'm a guy like most of the people who read Guitar Player," insists G.E. Smith. "I'm from a small town out in the country. I'm not the best musician in the world. I'm not a great sight-reader, and I'm not a lot of things you'd think I'd have to be. But you persevere; you hang in there, and you've got a shot — everybody's got a shot. To me, that's the most important point about my existence as a professional guitarist."

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