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‘'''Dick''' '''Knight''' was the first guy to modify a Stratocaster type guitar for me, but what I love about the Charvels is the neck dimensions which make it an incredibly comfortable guitar for me to play. I play the Yamaha 335 type guitar over in the corner, I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s a pretty good guitar. | ‘'''Dick''' '''Knight''' was the first guy to modify a Stratocaster type guitar for me, but what I love about the Charvels is the neck dimensions which make it an incredibly comfortable guitar for me to play. I play the Yamaha 335 type guitar over in the corner, I don’t know what it’s called, but it’s a pretty good guitar. | ||
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When I was with Tony Williams, I bought a Fender Stratocaster. It wasn't a very old one - about 1973. I took it back to England and had Dick Knight make me a neck. He did all my guitar work along with his son-in-law Gordon. It was a maple neck with an ebony fingerboard. They do absolutely marvelous work. I'd always come out of there with a grin from ear to ear. The neck was quite big - an inch and three quarters at the nut to two and a quarter at the body, and it was quite chunky; it transformed the sound of the guitar. Those were my chisel days. I started hacking guitars up like crazy – I put a couple of humbuckers on a Strat, and I really liked the way it sounded. I always thought it would sound good. I had to sell that guitar too, which was painful. I actually sold it just before we came out to the States to a guy who put the original pickups back on it. I was dumbfounded — he missed the point, but one man's meat is another man's poison ... I played that guitar from Gong through UK. | |||
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Then, about a year ago, Ibanez said they would be interested in making a guitar to my specific design. So, we took all the things that I’d learned over the years, including the time in England, when my ‘main man’ was '''Dick''' '''Knight''', along with his son-in-law Gordon, and they were marvellous to me. They gave me greatly reduced bills when I wasn’t working, and '''Dick''' helped me experiment with different woods. One of the things I found was that I loved the sound of light guitars. | Then, about a year ago, Ibanez said they would be interested in making a guitar to my specific design. So, we took all the things that I’d learned over the years, including the time in England, when my ‘main man’ was '''Dick''' '''Knight''', along with his son-in-law Gordon, and they were marvellous to me. They gave me greatly reduced bills when I wasn’t working, and '''Dick''' helped me experiment with different woods. One of the things I found was that I loved the sound of light guitars. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth Remembers | ==[[Allan Holdsworth Remembers:"In The Dead Of Night" (Guitar and guitar shop 1999)]]== | ||
"That’s one of my quirks: I can remember all the gear I’ve used right back to the very first band I was in, to the point of every single amplifier and guitar on every single track. The guitar I used on ‘In The Dead Of Night’ was a stock Fender Strat with a custom neck made by a great guitar builder in England named '''Dick''' '''Knight''' that was fitted to that instrument. | "That’s one of my quirks: I can remember all the gear I’ve used right back to the very first band I was in, to the point of every single amplifier and guitar on every single track. The guitar I used on ‘In The Dead Of Night’ was a stock Fender Strat with a custom neck made by a great guitar builder in England named '''Dick''' '''Knight''' that was fitted to that instrument. | ||
