If and Punishment Farm. He left Eugene by 1986 to join up with Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists project on the East Coast. In the usual Crimson tradition of esoterica, he performs on instruments called the Chapman Stick and the Warr Guitar, which are very much like the bass. Both have the range of a bass and guitar, and both are designed for tapping rather than strumming or picking. Gunn explains of the Warr guitar, which he helped develop.
Most guys are strummers.
I'm a tapper. Their fingers danced lightly on the neck and pick-up areas and many in the audiences of his solo shows spent more time staring at these minute movements than at the musicians themselves. Compared to going to school in Eugene, his life must certainly now be a lively one - even compared to the often surreal surroundings of that last vestige of rampant hippiedom. But Gunn is now on the farther walls of many of the world's most cutting edge projects. His time in Eugene had its moments, however.