Allan Holdsworth (Melody Maker 1975): Difference between revisions
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"I think it would have been the same whichever way it had been, because if I'd been replacing somebody I think they’d have still been changing their material anyway." | "I think it would have been the same whichever way it had been, because if I'd been replacing somebody I think they’d have still been changing their material anyway." | ||
The only member of the band with who he was familiar before he joined was John Marshall, because he'd played with him on various jazz gigs, though Allan is more of a rocker really. Or, to be more accurate, he is one of a new generation of musical stylists who are influenced by the whole extent of the scene today, rather than any one aspect of it. | The only member of the band with who he was familiar before he joined was [[John Marshall]], because he'd played with him on various jazz gigs, though Allan is more of a rocker really. Or, to be more accurate, he is one of a new generation of musical stylists who are influenced by the whole extent of the scene today, rather than any one aspect of it. | ||
"So many things have happened in jazz and rock," he points out. "Musicians who are growing up now, young guys who are coming in now, they're influenced not by the separate things but by the combinations of things that people have been playing. So what Softs are doing is a new thing really, though what's gone before affects us as well." | "So many things have happened in jazz and rock," he points out. "Musicians who are growing up now, young guys who are coming in now, they're influenced not by the separate things but by the combinations of things that people have been playing. So what Softs are doing is a new thing really, though what's gone before affects us as well." | ||
