Saxophone: Difference between revisions
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Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger?
| Cymbiosis: I understand if your family could have afforded it you would have had a saxophone instead of a guitar when you were younger?
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Holdsworth: Yeah, that’s what I really wanted—to play saxophone.
| Holdsworth: Yeah, that’s what I really wanted—to play '''saxophone'''.
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Cymbiosis: Why was that?
| Cymbiosis: Why was that?
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Holdsworth: Well, I just loved the saxophone. It was the sound. I think people are first attracted to music and then to specific sounds within it. I also liked violin later. But at the time I liked saxophone more, because it was on most of the records that my dad had. He was a jazz player and had a lot of jazz records.
| Holdsworth: Well, I just loved the '''saxophone'''. It was the sound. I think people are first attracted to music and then to specific sounds within it. I also liked violin later. But at the time I liked '''saxophone''' more, because it was on most of the records that my dad had. He was a jazz player and had a lot of jazz records.
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Cymbiosis: So you had things like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw?
| Cymbiosis: So you had things like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw?
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Cymbiosis: And that’s what moved you into electric guitar?
| Cymbiosis: And that’s what moved you into electric guitar?
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Holdsworth: When I got my first electric (which was just an acoustic fitted with a pickup), I didn’t start out trying to make the guitar sound like a saxophone, or anything like that. It just evolved over a number of years. It’s only now that I realize that’s what was happening subconsciously. All these years I’ve really wanted to make a different sound than I was making. | Holdsworth: When I got my first electric (which was just an acoustic fitted with a pickup), I didn’t start out trying to make the guitar sound like a '''saxophone''', or anything like that. It just evolved over a number of years. It’s only now that I realize that’s what was happening subconsciously. All these years I’ve really wanted to make a different sound than I was making. | ||
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