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==[[Allan Holdsworth’s Untold Secrets + Worthy Quotes (Guitar Player 1990)]]== | |||
Allan focused his attention on the SynthAxe for '''With A Heart In My Song''', his second album of duos with Gordon Beck since meeting the pianist in London in the mid ‘70s. The Things You See, released in 1980, contained intimate, compelling duets between acoustic and electric guitar and piano - sort of a space-age take on a Jim Hall/Bill Evans dialog. Beck is one of the few bebop-based musicians Allan has worked with closely, and the guitarist has had to adjust his approach to suit the slightly unfamiliar territory. "I once worked in a band Gordon had for a while in France, which was kind of hard for me because I was like a fish out of water," he recalls. "But the more I played with him, the more I enjoyed it, because it was a way to check my own progress. At one time I probably wouldn’t have been able to play on it at all, but because of things I’ve learned, I actually felt a lot more comfortable playing and soloing over his changes." | |||
I was really looking forward to a European tour that was supposed to follow the release of my latest album with [pianist] Gordon Beck, '''With A Heart In My Song'''. We were going to go out as a duo and play material from the album, and I was really excited because it was going to be the only tour I’d ever done where I’d only play SynthAxe - I wasn’t going to take a guitar. It was going to be acoustic piano and some synthesizer stuff, with some rhythmic things that were sequenced. The guy from the record company called and told us that when they learned of my involvement, everybody over there said, "Oh, no; that guy’s a rock player." It just put them off. I feel really frustrated by that, because I don’t really see the music I play as rock at all. I mean, I can see its roots, but I think they must just hear the tone; a somewhat distorted guitar sound, and automatically the music goes right by; all they can think is "Oh, this is rock." It’s a weird world. | |||
==[[L’hommage de Jean-Marie Salhani à Allan Holdsworth (Guitaremag 2017)]]== | ==[[L’hommage de Jean-Marie Salhani à Allan Holdsworth (Guitaremag 2017)]]== | ||
