I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked.

Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4 1954 in Mount Vernon New York) is an American improvisor guitarist and banjoist. Ichigo replies "Who's that?". [citation needed] He was also influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention.

Chadbourne is referenced in the popular anime series Bleach. 5 Cable FM in Calgary Alberta. He then studied other genres including blues country bluegrass free jazz and noise—eventually synthesizing all those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own.