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I think they wanted to push my music in a more commercial direction, but I was too stubborn to listen to them so they dropped me after that record. There are only six tracks on it because the record was never finished. It was a miserable period for me. I thought it was going to be great to be signed to a major label, but it turned out to be the exact opposite of what I expected. | I think they wanted to push my music in a more commercial direction, but I was too stubborn to listen to them so they dropped me after that record. There are only six tracks on it because the record was never finished. It was a miserable period for me. I thought it was going to be great to be signed to a major label, but it turned out to be the exact opposite of what I expected. | ||
=Quotes by Eddie Van Halen on Road Games= | |||
==Music UK September 1983== | |||
Weren't you also involved in producing an album for Allan Holdsworth? | |||
EVH: Yeah. We originally scheduled to go in (to record) when I got off tour but I wasn't exactly sure how long the tour would go. Anyway, Allan didn't want to wait, he was climbing the walls. He would only have to wait a month but he didn't want to, so he produced it himself. I think he made a big mistake because Ted Templeman (also scheduled to work on the project) could have made his ideas reach a lot more people. Allan is a fantastic guitarist but needs direction. Everyone does. I'm not trying to be holier than thou because I need it too. It's easy to get one-sided about something and you need an outside person or persons. | |||
==Guitar World 1990== | |||
GW: You were pretty involved with Holdsworth's career for a while there. | |||
VAN HALEN: Yeah, I got him signed to Warner Bros. because I just hated to see this guy who's so amazing selling guitars to stay alive. So I got him signed. I was supposed to co-produce the record with Ted Templeman and Donn Landee. Then I hate to say this-while we were on tour in South America he just didn't wanna wait like two weeks, you know? So he did it himself...and it ended up being just another Allan Holdsworth record. The guy needs direction, you know what I mean? We did a couple of demos before I went to South America, and one of the songs was great. So he blew it, I think. I really think I could have, well, not necessarily pulled him back, but steered him in a different direction, you know? I was just over my friend Steve Lukather's house, and he played me Allan's new record, and I tell you, I couldn't tell the difference between that and his other records. I don't wanna rag on the guy, because he's an incredible player and he's a good friend. I love him. He just needs direction, that's all. | |||
=Quotes by [[Ted Templeman]] on Road Games= | |||
==A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music== | |||
TT: “So the three of us came together for our first production meeting. Allan said, “I have a request. I don’t want you guys in the studio with me. Well, I want you guys to produce me but not be in the studio while I’m recording.” Ed looked panicked. He had talked this guy up to no end, and now he has made a totally insane request. So I told Allan, in my most diplomatic tone, that I wasn’t sure that was going to work for us.“ | |||
TT: “Ed then asked how Allan expected him to play on the record if he wasn’t going to be in the studio while Allan recorded? Allan then said, though he’d apparently been open to the idea initially, that he didn’t want Ed to play on the record.” | |||
TT: “After Allan left, Ed and I were both out of sorts. “Ted, what the fuck are we going to do?” I told Ed I’d try to talk some sense into him. Ed said, “Can you believe this guy? He’s nuts!” All we could do was shake our heads and laugh, because, honestly, it was so off the wall all you could do was laugh.” | |||
After this meeting, the situation turned even worse: | |||
TT: “He fought me every step of the way. We clashed on everything from his band lineup to his musical direction. My job as a producer was to expose his abilities to a wider audience and to sell albums for Warner Bros. He seemed to have no interest in doing any of the things that I thought might get us closer to that goal.” | |||
TT: “I left Holdsworth to his own devices in the studio much of the time, because working with him was so difficult. Warner Bros. released the project as an EP called Road Games. It sank without a trace upon release.” | |||
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