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==Excerpt from Eddie Van Halen interview, Guitar Player April 1980== | |||
GP: Has seeing other guitarists ever inspired a change in your playing? | |||
EVH: Allan Holdsworth -- that guy is bad! He's fantastic; I love him. He’s got a rock sound. I love his solo in “In the Dead of the Night” on the U.K. album. I love the solo in “Hell’s Bells” on One of a Kind. (Drummer) Bill Bruford plays hot on that album. Holdsworth is the best in my book. I can kind of play like him, but it doesn’t fit our style of music. He’s a real artist. He plays a guitar like mine, too. He wears it up high, like a jazz guitar. I could play all that stuff, too, if I played with my guitar up that high, but how would a rock and roll kid look with a guitar up like that? I do have to sacrifice the amount of movement I do onstage for the way I play. I like playing much better on a stool. I don’t do it, though, not even in the studio, because then it would sound like I’m sitting on a stool. | |||
http://www.vhlinks.com/pages/interviews/evh/gp0480.php | |||
==SPECIAL NOTE: EDDIE RECALLS PLAYING WITH ALLAN== | ==SPECIAL NOTE: EDDIE RECALLS PLAYING WITH ALLAN== | ||
