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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:"In The Dead Of Night" (Guitar and guitar shop 1999)]]== | ==[[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. | ||
