The Sixteen Men Of Tain (album): Difference between revisions
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"We played everything together. But it used to be that you’d go into the studio and be terrified that you might play something you liked, but somebody else would hate their track so you couldn’t use it. So now I just go in there and let what happens happen. Usually I just keep doing it until the other players get it dead right. And if I like what I’ve played I’ll keep it, if not I can do another solo." | "We played everything together. But it used to be that you’d go into the studio and be terrified that you might play something you liked, but somebody else would hate their track so you couldn’t use it. So now I just go in there and let what happens happen. Usually I just keep doing it until the other players get it dead right. And if I like what I’ve played I’ll keep it, if not I can do another solo." | ||
==Allan Holdsworth (NPS Radio transcript)== | |||
PH: If I listen to the new album and I listen to some of the stuff that you’ve done previous, now, I see that you’ve come to a completely fresh area. There are not many guitar players I can listen to now and say it’s comparable to. You’ve always had your own style but now you’re in a different space, you can hear that... | |||
AH: Well I’d like to think so, it’s just to do that learning thing and making any musical progress, trying desperately not get stuck, and the desire and that longing to continue. I always follow my heart, I never follow my head - I mean I do that in basic life anyways, that’s why I’m always in trouble, haha - but that’s just the way I feel about it, and with this album, particularly after I played with Gary Novak and Dave Carpenter, and I knew Dave Carpenter played acoustic bass, and I knew that I was trying to refine this electric guitar sound and I felt this would be a really good backdrop for me to write some original music for, and have the intensity in the music, but have a slightly different texture to it, you know, softer kind of feel. And I liked the way it turned out. I wasn’t sure, you’re never sure, but when I went away from it after I’d mixed it - cause mixing drives me nuts, you hear it so much you can’t hear the music anymore - but then by the time it was mixed, and then I didn’t listen to it for awhile, when I went back to it, I heard the music again and it was alright. | |||
PH: Did you go out on the road first with Gary and Dave? | |||
AH: Yeah we did 2 tours of Europe and some gigs in the States before I recorded it, but when we came back off the tour I didn’t have a record deal - I lost my record deal -so, my manager loaned me the money to pay the guys to play on the record so I could document it, cause I felt like, you never know where these guys are gonna go. In fact, Gary went off on the road with Alanis Morrissette, so it was a good decision, and I wouldn’t’ve been able to get him, so the beauty of it was we’d done the playing live, then we went into the studio and they came down and did it on the weekend - and luckily I have a studio at home - so we did Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I recorded, and then just basically shelved it, until such time as I’d gotten a record deal where I could finish it. But I’m really glad that I did that, because I knew that there was something about that group that I liked, and I also knew that Dave Carpenter, although he played electric bass on most of the tour, was playing acoustic bass, and I thought that would just be a little icing on the cake – and I think it was. | |||
==[[Allan Holdsworth interview (Abstract Logix 2004)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth interview (Abstract Logix 2004)]]== | ||
