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Allan plays chords and a solo on “Forest of feeling”, an instrumental rock tune. The short but sweet chordal part sounds like it was written by Allan. The rest of the tune sounds like a couple of riffs thrown together. Allan solos are nice enough, but drown a bit in the overblown mix. Steve Smith plays a nice drum feature over Allan’s chordal part. Jeff has the guts to do a longer section of trading licks with Allan. | Allan plays chords and a solo on “Forest of feeling”, an instrumental rock tune. The short but sweet chordal part sounds like it was written by Allan. The rest of the tune sounds like a couple of riffs thrown together. Allan solos are nice enough, but drown a bit in the overblown mix. Steve Smith plays a nice drum feature over Allan’s chordal part. Jeff has the guts to do a longer section of trading licks with Allan. | ||
Jeff writes on Facebook, May28th, 2020: | '''Jeff writes on Facebook, May28th, 2020: | ||
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Allan and I were friends, and there’s definitely no ‘dueling’ here, as I’m just a self taught plunker, and Allan is... well.. Allan... | Allan and I were friends, and there’s definitely no ‘dueling’ here, as I’m just a self taught plunker, and Allan is... well.. Allan... | ||
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One thing I do remember well about those times is that Allan hated everything he ever played or recorded, and couldn’t be talked out of it.. | One thing I do remember well about those times is that Allan hated everything he ever played or recorded, and couldn’t be talked out of it.. | ||
Frustrating as hell, as I’ve never seen or heard anyone with his level of knowledge and ability... but that’s just Allan’s humility and self deprecating nature. | Frustrating as hell, as I’ve never seen or heard anyone with his level of knowledge and ability... but that’s just Allan’s humility and self deprecating nature. | ||
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Allan hated the mix, and as I didn’t mix it I agree with him! | |||
(we had fun with him staying here and finding good brew pubs together, but in honesty I had no business even looking at a guitar with Allan here at The Camp..) | |||
I spoke with him after that comment came out and he was super apologetic.. (he didn’t know I didn’t mix the album..) we both had fun making it, but the second mixer didn’t have Allan’s parts up enough in both our opinions. | |||
I’m most happy about the clean harmony intro lines he wrote.. (over Brad Russell’s tapped harmonic bass intro..) which was very difficult to even understand the scalar foundation of.. | |||
Finally years later, (last year?) our pal Steve Vai decided to take it apart and transcribe for me and my curious guitar pals, and if I find Vai’s email with breakdown I’ll share. | |||
What blows my mind even more is the time Allan was staying here and I got a call to put guitar on a Mike Varney project and I asked if it would be cool to bring Allan up to the studio and maybe share the parts. | |||
Obviously, it was a “oh hell yeah” and we played together on a cover of ‘Play That Funky Music’…. | |||
That was a source of many laughs for us for many years!! | |||
Allan was a kind, gentle soul, a reliable man, and good friend. | |||
I miss hearing his voice…. | |||
(he also played some pretty interesting guitar…) | |||
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