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Allan Holdsworth: Guitar, guitar synth | |||
Gary Husband: Drums | |||
Chad Wackerman: Drums | |||
Mac Hine: Drums on "In The Mystery" | |||
Jimmy Johnson: Bass | |||
Gary Willis: Bass on "The Un-Merry-Go-Round" | |||
Alan Pasqua: Keyboards on "The Un-Merry-Go-Round" | |||
Paul Williams: Vocals (1, 4) | |||
Paul Korda: Vocals on "In The Mystery" | |||
=Allan Holdsworth: Metal Fatigue (1985)= | |||
After releasing "Road Games", Warner severed the contract with Allan. However, one of the stipulations of the contract was that Warners would fund a demo for a second album. Allan used that opportunity to record a large portion of the tracks for "Metal Fatigue". Jeff Berlin had left the band, and Jimmy Johnson was recruited as a new band member. Gary Willis also contributed on one track. Gary Husband and Chad Wackerman split the drum duties, while Allan presumably programmed "Mac Hine" himself. Allan's old friend Alan Pasqua makes a guest appearance. Paul Williams sings on two tracks, while Paul Korda contributes lyrics and vocals to "In The Mystery". This would be last album to feature Williams, and vocals would only feature rarely on future releases. | |||
Even with the large number of musicians involved, "Metal Fatigue" is a surprisingly cohesive album. But it straddles a rare kind of musical landscape. The title track is a rock song in format, albeit with very fancy chords, and a short yet blistering guitar solo. "Home" is a delicate instrumental with Allan's last recorded acoustic guitar solo. "Devil Take The Hindmost" is all-out instrumental jazz-rock, with one of Allan's signature solos. "Panic Station" is a pop tune in format, but with a bass solo. "The Un-Merry-Go-Round" is a long instrumental suite, which has jazz and rock elements, but which also belies Allan's inspiration from classical music in its form and some of its harmonies. "In The Mystery" wraps up the album with another bright pop tune. | |||
It is the instrumental tracks which are best remembered, and although it was probably completely natural for Allan to juxtapose pop tunes with instrumental jazz-rock, this would be the last album to try to fuse these disparate styles. | |||
"Metal Fatigue" was released on the independent label Enigma. Allan had misgivings about the music industry overall, and record companies in particular. Enigma would not interfere with the creative process in any way, and they had reasonably good distribution. However, they did not have the financial muscle to promote the albums. With such an eclectic album, it would probably be hard to promote anyway. But Allan did not profit from his releases. | |||
=Quotes on "Metal Fatigue" | |||
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AH: Oh sure! I enjoyed that record. Actually that was a funny thing because the Road Games thing wasn’t going very well and I was signed to Warner Brothers and they were trying to get me to do a bunch of stuff I didn’t want to do. They never told me before they signed me, but after the fact, because the way that the contract was written, they had to, in order to get rid of me, they had to give me the opportunity to make another demo so that they could refuse it, so they knew that they were going to refuse it, but the contract stated they had to pay for the demos the demo was '''Metal Fatigue''', and they turned it down. | AH: Oh sure! I enjoyed that record. Actually that was a funny thing because the Road Games thing wasn’t going very well and I was signed to Warner Brothers and they were trying to get me to do a bunch of stuff I didn’t want to do. They never told me before they signed me, but after the fact, because the way that the contract was written, they had to, in order to get rid of me, they had to give me the opportunity to make another demo so that they could refuse it, so they knew that they were going to refuse it, but the contract stated they had to pay for the demos the demo was '''Metal Fatigue''', and they turned it down. | ||
==Links== | |||
https://threadoflunacy.blogspot.no/2017/08/17-metal-fatigue-1985.html | |||
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