Allan's influences: Difference between revisions
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"Practice," came the frustrating reply. "I love the effects you can get with it. The first person I heard who used it in an interesting way was Jimi Hendrix. Well, it seemed interesting at the time, but afterwards you realized that it was similar to the way most people used it. Then, when I was with Tempest, I heard Ollie Halsall use it, but in a more controlled way than Jimi Hendrix. So I started experimenting myself, and after a while I realized that I was doing things that I hadn't heard anybody do. Using a tremolo arm makes it very expressive - it takes it somewhere else from having just frets, where all the notes are laid out for you like a keyboard. | "Practice," came the frustrating reply. "I love the effects you can get with it. The first person I heard who used it in an interesting way was Jimi Hendrix. Well, it seemed interesting at the time, but afterwards you realized that it was similar to the way most people used it. Then, when I was with Tempest, I heard Ollie Halsall use it, but in a more controlled way than Jimi Hendrix. So I started experimenting myself, and after a while I realized that I was doing things that I hadn't heard anybody do. Using a tremolo arm makes it very expressive - it takes it somewhere else from having just frets, where all the notes are laid out for you like a keyboard. | ||
'''("James Marshall Hendrix: Undisputed Master of the Electric Guitar", published in Guitar World, September 1985)''' | '''[[James Marshall Hendrix: Undisputed Master of the Electric Guitar (Guitar World 1985)]]''' | ||
'''[("James Marshall Hendrix: Undisputed Master of the Electric Guitar", published in Guitar World, September 1985)''' | |||
ALLAN HOLDSWORTH about Jimi Hendrix, 1985 | ALLAN HOLDSWORTH about Jimi Hendrix, 1985 | ||
