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This album features Allan, Chad and Jimmy, as well as keyboardist Jim Cox. Around half the tunes are Chad compositions, and they are for the most part energetic fusion, as exemplified by the groovy opener “Holiday Insane” and “Tell Me”, which Allan would perform with his own band. The other half are studio group improvisations, with a freer dreamlike quality. Allan sounds great, but was apparently not pleased with the signal processing added to his tone in the mix.
[[File:Fortyreasons.jpg|200px|right]]"Forty Reasons" is a 1991 album by Chad Wackerman. This album features Allan, Chad and Jimmy Johnson, as well as keyboardist Jim Cox. Around half the tunes are Chad compositions, and they are for the most part energetic fusion, as exemplified by the groovy opener “Holiday Insane” and “Tell Me”, which Allan would perform with his own band. The other half are studio group improvisations, with a freer dreamlike quality. Allan sounds great, but was apparently not pleased with the signal processing added to his tone in the mix.
 
==Track listing==
{| class="wikitable"
|+Chad Wackerman: Forty Reasons ([[Allan Holdsworth Discography|D]])
!
!style="text-align:left;"|Track title
!style="text-align:left;"|Composer
!style="text-align:left;"|Length
|-
| 1
| "Holiday Insane"
| Chad Wackerman
| 7:21
|-
| 2
| "You Came Along"
| Wackerman
| 4:10
|-
| 3
| "Forty Reasons"
| Wackerman, Carl Verheyen
| 7:47
|-
| 4
| "Fearless"
| Wackerman, Holdsworth, Cox, Johnson
| 1:32
|-
| 5
| "Quiet Life"
| Wackerman
| 6:00
|-
| 6
| "Waltzing on Jupiter"
| Wackerman, Cox, Johnson
| 1:49
|-
| 7
| "Tell Me"
| Wackerman
| 5:16
|-
| 8
| "House on Fire"
| Wackerman, Holdsworth, Cox, Johnson
| 1:14
|-
| 9
| "Hidden Places"
| Wackerman
| 4:02
|-
| 10
| "Go"
| Wackerman, Holdsworth
| 1:40
|-
| 11
| "Schemes"
| Wackerman, Holdsworth, Cox, Johnson
| 3:19
|}
 


http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/09/22-chad-wackerman.html
http://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/09/22-chad-wackerman.html
=CHAD ON FORTY REASONS=
==Modern Drummer 1992==
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==Caravan with a drum solo: the chad wackerman interview==
Q: What did the musicians think of doing free improvisations?
CW: They were into it - it was nice. I know I hadn't done it or tried it in years. It was just roll tape; with the exception of one, there were no count-offs, no-one talked about what key we were going to play in, who was going to start... It was truly improvised. The engineer said 'We're rolling'. One piece called 'Go', we thought it would be nice to have a duo. So it was one take and that was the duo. Then it was 'Let's try a trio', keyboards, bass and drums -go' That turned out to be 'Waltzing on Jupiter'. We just picked the ones we thought were the strongest, that would make a nice trade off with the composed things we had.
Q: How did you find the musicians? I've heard of Jimmy Johnson.
CW: He's on most of Allan's records. We had a trio for a long time. That was a band I was obviously very comfortable with, that I always felt was very adventurous. Jimmy was the bass-player for all of his records, starting with 'Metal Fatigue'. I met Allan through John Ferraro, again (laughs). It's always based on clicker friends. Allan had moved to California - they'd done I think one tour in the States. Gary had to go back to London and Allan needed a drummer. He'd been auditioning for a couple of weeks. John Ferraro knew Dave Ball who used to bicycle with Allan and found out that Allan needed a drummer. So Dave called John and said to give Allan a call, and he did. But at the last moment he got another tour, so John called me and said 'Holdsworth needs a drummer'. It usually works like that.
Q: That's probably enough of putting you on the torture wrack.
CW: I don't mind. It was interesting. I always wanted to make a solo album and I always had these guys in mind. I'd love to be a leader, it's tricky to do that and make a living at it, so I don't know if that will ever happen. We'll see what happens with this.
Q: The review in the Wire said that Allan dominated your album.
CW: The music is completely different from Allan's music. I think Allan has as strong a personality as Michael Brecker and you hear Michael on a lot of records. For me, I want the best people I can get and these are my favourites right there.
http://archive.fo/hjcvC#selection-1229.0-6.22
=ALLAN ON FORTY REASONS=
==[[Creating Imaginary Backdrops (Innerviews 1993)]]==
==[[Creating Imaginary Backdrops (Innerviews 1993)]]==


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Really? I don’t know about that! [laughs] You know, that whole album is live. I’m never happy with anything I do like that. It’s a good album. I enjoy '''Chad''' a lot, and I think he did a great job and the ideas he had. But we didn’t rehearse enough though. We got into the studio and recorded it live. I think it’s a good album from '''Chad'''’s point of view, but I’m not happy with what I did on it, no.
Really? I don’t know about that! [laughs] You know, that whole album is live. I’m never happy with anything I do like that. It’s a good album. I enjoy '''Chad''' a lot, and I think he did a great job and the ideas he had. But we didn’t rehearse enough though. We got into the studio and recorded it live. I think it’s a good album from '''Chad'''’s point of view, but I’m not happy with what I did on it, no.


==[[Allan Holdsworth: An interview (Atavachron 1994)]]==
==[[Allan Holdsworth: An interview (Atavachron 1994)]]==
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AH: Yeah, I think so, but that was a record company thing. I don’t think we should get into that... well, I know what you mean. That’s how I felt, yeah.
AH: Yeah, I think so, but that was a record company thing. I don’t think we should get into that... well, I know what you mean. That’s how I felt, yeah.
=Links=
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXYysjBGMMg&list=OLAK5uy_kHYYBECpmRBmBYi5jbcOr6tLKKvO6PWYk
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/650449-Chad-Wackerman-Forty-Reasons
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Reasons
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