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The emergence of Allan Holdsworth as a force to be reckoned with in ‘best guitar player’ stakes has taken a lot of people (myself included) by surprise. Despite having been around the Jazz/Rock fringes of the business for several years this soft-spoken Yorkshireman first came to my attention relatively recently, on the release of '''Gong'''’s Gazeuse album. | The emergence of Allan Holdsworth as a force to be reckoned with in ‘best guitar player’ stakes has taken a lot of people (myself included) by surprise. Despite having been around the Jazz/Rock fringes of the business for several years this soft-spoken Yorkshireman first came to my attention relatively recently, on the release of '''Gong'''’s Gazeuse album. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (Guitar Player 1980)]]== | |||
How did you happen to join Gong? | |||
I had been back in England for a while and got a call from a guy at Virgin Records saying that this band, Gong, was looking for a guitarist. I didn't know anything about them, but I decided to give it a thrash. I really enjoyed doing the album with them [Expresso]. | |||
Were you afforded much musical freedom with them? | |||
Oh, yeah. But it was mainly a matter of playing solos. Very little else was asked of me. I tended to lay out when I didn't have specific parts to play. | |||
==[[Allan Holdsworth (International Musician 1981)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth (International Musician 1981)]]== | ||
