Road Games (album): Difference between revisions

Holdsworth arrived in the United States without guitars, but with a promise of a record contract with Warner Brothers [ed. note: This claim is contradicted by other accounts, which state that Allan got his deal after arriving in the U.S. Given that it took three years for the album to come out, the claim that Allan arrived without guitars also seems contentious]. Eddie van Halen had succeeded in getting the interest of (producer) Ted Templeman and Warners, for a recording with his idol.

- Total disaster! Templeman never intended to let me do my thing, and he immediately wanted to get rid of the rest of the band. Sometimes he was not even there, and it even happened that he would listen to takes on the phone ... We had to record the material twice because he disliked something about the drums. CHAOS.

In the end, there were only enough songs for an EP, and Warners were not keen on releasing it. Allan fought for the rights, and finally, '''Road Games''' was released [ed. note: Again, this account differs from others. The only thing certain is that there was a big conflict between Allan and Warners…]

- Fortunately, the contract was written so that they had to give us a demo recording after doing the album. We did the recording and they obviously replied that they did not like it, so then we turned to a small company called Enigma. We signed with them, and padded out the recordings that were to become Metal Fatigue.

When Eddie Van Halen joined Holdsworth on stage at the Roxy gig and promised to ask Warner Brothers to sign him, it seemed as though the guitarist was well on the way toward a real American success story. But success stories can have a way of getting sidetracked.